Myth: 3 Brothers Came to America | Ancestry Academy | Ancestry

If you listen to enough family stories, you will hear the one about the three brothers who came to America and each went in a different direction. And there is usually one that is never heard from again. Let's debunk that myth!
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[@catzanddogz7517]

My grandmother told me her father-in-law and his sister split up when they arrived in New York from Ireland but I found them living next to each other in Nebraska in a 1900 census.

[@kylaburke5827]

AHAHAHAHA This story was in my family too and of course all evidence showed this was not true. Our family story was that three brothers left Spain and two went to Puerto Rico while the other went to Cuba. I never imagined this story was also making the family lore rounds with U.S. immigrant ancestors!

[@nancypine9952]

I'm glad to have clarification of why this can be considered a problem. I have two brothers and a cousin who all emigrated (but not together; the cousin came later) and settled near each other. I'm descended from all three of them, with full documentation by professional genealogists. I also found a number of cases of two brothers who settled near each other, again, with clear documentation. I hadn't realized the myth involved one brother moving to a different part of the country.

[@user-qz7gv3qv5i]

Yes, my family came togather with thier brothers and only went to diffent county, and a uncoming name and finds another person far away with same surname. Their was so many people coming to America and changing their names..before judge do a very good search, or you will fallow the wrong line.

[@MasterTMO]

There is one that was attached to one of my ancestors as well, but it turns out I'm actually descended from a Shimer who came to America *before* the 3 brothers. To my knowledge, my Shimer branch is not related to theirs. A DNA test hasn't shown a relationship between us, although it may just be too far back to see.

[@Cyberlucy]

In my case we know the three brothers story is actually true. We have the documentation and the DNA

[@AncestryUS]

I don't that is true -- but it is often a myth that people create when they start to run out of documentation and records to follow.

[@Cyberlucy]

Oh yes! I has another three brothers story in my tree as well that was definitely false.

[@nolanmcbride5653]

My family's version says it was seven brothers.

[@mdaly724]

There were 4 brothers and a sister in one of my lines. All moved in the 1630s but they didn't so much as fan out as go where they were given land. All well documented too. I have not, however, seen it on any other line. Whole families, sure, but not just brothers.

[@lynurb58]

Why does the one brother look like elon musk? Lol

[@acatzr800]

More often than not, I find this to not be a myth-- Take Campbells for instance. Many immigrated to NY from Scotland from 1780 to 1800, but close cousins had been in Kentucky for some 30 years already because the British gov't shipped them (Jacobites) to the states as punishment. I have some Eastern European ancestors whose adult children immigrated a few years before the parents did and they all ended up at different major cities. Another family landed in NYC and within 5 years, one sibling went to Philadelphia, another to Arkansas, and yet another to California (all chasing wives and fortune). Still more of my Scottish ancestors left a smear of settling down from central NY through Ontario to Michigan. Perhaps I'm the exception to this myth, but the premise seems a little shaky!