The family emigrated at the turn of the century, moving from the Lower East Side to East Harlem to Brooklyn.
There was almost no information about how it all began, about the generation that had emigrated at the start of the 20th century.
Pavía emigrated at the accession of Amadeus as king of Spain (December 1870) but returned after the collapse of the First Republic and the restoration of Alfonso XII (December 1874).
Robert Lincoln Weiss was born in Haverford, Pennsylvania in 1923, the son of a Hungarian Jewish couple who had emigrated at the end of the Great War before pro-Fascist persecution swept through Hungary.
The Jameses: A Family Narrative (1991) was conceived on an epic scale, telling the story of the descendants of William James, who emigrated at the age of 18 from Co Cavan, Ireland.
In 1920 Asch emigrated at the age of 13 with his family to the United States.
Despite one method requiring much more information, both methods provided robust estimates for when individuals emigrated at the start of natal dispersal.
In 2004, 1632 individuals were sampled; among them 37 were dead or had emigrated at the time of the survey and 32 could not be traced, and 1255 participated in the survey (80.2%).
In 1989, 1309 individuals we sampled; among them 58 were dead or had emigrated at the time of the survey or could not be traced, and 1081 participated in the survey (86.4%).
Although we are unlikely to be able to irrefutably pinpoint when an individual emigrates at the start of natal dispersal from tracking data alone it is important to develop methods that can accommodate species and individuals with more complex patterns, and in this way get us closer to the true point at which an individual emigrates.
The registry has only been in operation for 13 years; however, AML has a high mortality, so the follow-up period was complete for a large proportion of the patients (77.3% of patients were dead or had emigrated at the time of data withdrawal).
