America is a country of immigrants. This means that all citizens of America can trace their families back and have a least one immigrant ancestor. America is a unique empire compared to other empires, such as the English or the Romans. These empires took over other countries to get their population and had people involuntarily be under their control. But in America's case people came to America by choice and did so because of the prospect of a better life. The people that did decide to come here must of have been very brave. They would have to leave everything behind them and in some cases people even left their families behind. Why would someone ever take that risk? Because even when they got to America they did not, in most cases, have a job waiting for them. It was a huge risk and I have an enormous amount of respect for anyone that took the risk. I am grateful that Noller great grandfather took the journey with his family from Germany so that his family could have a better life.
By the way, these are not really my own German ancestors. Their names are Julia and Ben. That is all we know about them. That, and they do seem to be someone else's German ancestors.
