Fred Lynchさんのイラストまとめ

“They travelled in the steerage with their neighbors for a week long Atlantic crossing into the unknown. Fearing another famine, the British charity had created what they sometimes referred to as a “deportation”
- Read the whole story at Urban Sketchers: https://t.co/NaQzYp8lgB

My current project is to draw where my immigrant ancestors lived. Often the houses still stand long after, with new #Immigrants Many locations are by factory buildings and railroad tracks. If a house is gone, it is now likely to be an empty lot, a parking lot, or a highway.

We worked side by side for almost two hours, but we did not work together. From time to time, he would walk over and silently look over my shoulder to check on my sketching progress. Then he'd walk back to resume his job. Read More: https://t.co/JbcYaCGq61

A drawing from #Porto #Portugal host of the #UskPorto2018 Symposium. This is the church of San Pedro, which served the fishing community for centuries.

Ancestry & Immigration Series: The Rhode Island State House -one immigrant ancestor who walked the esteemed halls of the State House was Johanna Cashman Ivers from Cork, Ireland. In 1915 she held the position of “janitress” I trust that she served her constituents well.

Chain Links:
When looking at old censuses, I found other immigrant family members not just in the same cities, but sometimes on the same street. The more I dug into old documents, the more I uncovered a web of associations.
Read the story here: https://t.co/XjFVOgysa3

"I’m an artist making a drawing of this place where my immigrant ancestors lived back in…”
The man cut me off mid-sentence with an “I don’t care what you are doing.” He made no eye contact, he looked straight ahead out the windshield." Read here: https://t.co/WBwVXfwmuM

Over the years, things eased a little, but the Colburns remained remote in the Lynches’ lives. They existed mostly though my grandmother's mythic stories of her relatives from the wilds of River Philip, Nova Scotia.  Read the good parts here: https://t.co/VJg6pB1Gpl

As I drew the view from what would be the back of the house, I tried to imagine the first impression Daniel O'Connor might have had of his new home, in 1893. It certainly wouldn't be one of spacious skies and amber waves of grain. Rather, of soot, screeches and stink.

Ancestry #5: Daniel O'Connor moved his growing family to #Providence, from Chelsea, MA in 1915 to work in the huge US Rubber plant just down the hill. He and his wife Kate (McMahon) were immigrants, from Cork City. By this time, they had seven of their eventual ten children.