The family, originally called "Micault", had immigrated to England as French Huguenots several generations earlier.

His parents had immigrated to Brazil from the Veneto region of Italy only two years earlier, and so he spoke Venetian as his first language.

Ms. Singh, 27, came to Brooklyn from Jamaica when she was 12 to join her mother, who had immigrated a few years earlier.

Her boyfriend had immigrated to the United States from Greece by himself a few years earlier, so Ms. Sedaris was in charge of his recovery.

Gallant came to the United States in 1945 and rejoined his sister Flora, who had immigrated from France several years earlier.

He spent the summer of 1893 with his family in the Czech-speaking community of Spillville, Iowa, to which some of his cousins had earlier immigrated.

After she and her mother moved to the United States, in 1981, her uncle, who had immigrated some years earlier, pressed her to concentrate on computers.

He and his older brother Michael had immigrated from Ireland more than 15 years earlier.

It was fortunate that a German family who had once lived on their property and had immigrated earlier were now in New York, and there he stayed.

He was a member of an old family of peasants who had immigrated two centuries earlier from Westphalia.