Margaret was born in 1892 in Doumenia, Greece. She came to this country seeking the freedoms and opportunities that she believed American women possessed and to escape an arranged marriage. Her educational background consisted of three years of junior high/high school, but upon her arrival in New York in 1917, she learned to write the English language. When she finally did marry and bore three children, she continued her education through their textbooks, homework and materials from the public library. She delighted in her work as a suffragist and became a citizen early on so that she could utilize her precious right to vote. Margaret died 1968 in Cleveland, Ohio.

1. Ask people in your family about your last name. See how far back you can trace it.
2. What nationality or nationalities are in your family? Ask you mother and her family, then ask your father and his family. Make a family map consisting of all the countries that your ancestors have come from.
3. Think of reasons that people would leave their birth country and decide to move to another country. What would make you leave your country?
4. Pretend that you are an immigrant and that you are writing the story of your life. Include:
• What was life like in your birth country?
• Why did you decide to leave?
• Where did you go and why?
• What was it like to go to a country where you could not speak the language? How would you communicate? How would you get a place to live, food and work?
• Do you think your immigration adventure would be exciting, scary, sad, happy or lonely?