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Through ellis island with a name tag on that said vus, so all the desce descendants were called theis. Thats how he got his new name in the new country. Yes. Thank you all very much. [ applause ] everyone who can will join us tomorrow morning. Its going to be in the Russell Senate office building, and the instructions are on the piece of yellow flyer outside. Look forward to seeing you tomorrow. Things in cleveland are getting back to normal now that the Republican National convention has come to an end. Donald trump and his campaign were still in the city as early as friday for an event where...

Introducing people for this symposium. I have to say that about a year ago when we had our last conference, chuck and i sat down and with jillian berk wits here from Ohio University press because she publishes the books that come out of these series, we sat down and talked about what should we do next year. We thought, lets go a little bit off of the chronology because we had been doing civil war and reconstruction and the lead up to the civil war for now more than a decade. And we thought we needed a break. And i said, well, immigration is always an interesting issue. And little did we know h...

I mean, my grandparents had their naturalization papers framed on the wall. And i suspect that was very common for hundreds of thousands and indeed millions of immigrants who became citizens and were fiercely proud of becoming citizens because it gave them a place of belonging and gave them a place to be where they were. Thats my point. You have to have a concept of citizenship as well. If you go backwards if American History, is there always the concept of citizenship in the colonies . Theyre not kcitizens per se. Yeah, they are, i mean, and thats why in 1740, theres an imperial law for insta...

Of course. Just saying. Yeah, yeah. Well, actually though, not entirely because inheritance rights would affect there are places where you could not inherit land if youre not a citizen. And so a widow might not be able to inherit, if somebody writes a will and writes you in, you have to inherit the land. There are substantive issues for women as well. A lot of citizenship issues they couldnt naturalize. There was one question over here. I dont really have a question. Its more of a little amusing anecdote. Several years back i met a fellow named dick theis and he explained his ancestor from eli...