Where Did Your Ancestors Come From? Check Out These Immigration Quotas

Our nation is having a tug of war about immigration. Most of us have some knowledge about the nationality of our ancestors.

President Herbert Hoover, in 1929, issued Proclamation No. 1872. With Congress, he set these nationality quotas. The text in red indicates nations that were limited to 100 immigrants per year.

Limits of 100 for: Afghanistan, Albania, Andorra, Arabian peninsula, Armenia, Australia, Bhutan, Bulgaria, Cameroon (British), Cameroon (French), China, Danzig,  Egypt, Ethiopia, Iceland, India, Iraq, Japan, Liberia, Liechtenstein, Luxemburg, Monaco, Morocco (French and Spanish Zones and Tangier), Muscat (Oman), Nauru, Nepal, New Zealand, New Guinea, Palestine, Persia, Ruanda and Urundi, Samoa, San Marino, Siam, South Africa, South West Africa, Tanganyika, Togoland, Togoland (French mandate), and Yap and other Pacific Islands.

Other nations were allotted: Austria 1,413; Belgium 1,304; Czechoslovakia 2,874; Denmark 1,181; Estonia 116; Finland 569; France 3,086; Germany 25,957; Great Britain and Northern Ireland 65,721; Greece 307; Hungary 869; Irish Free State 17,853; Italy 5,802; Lithuania 386; Netherlands 3,153; Norway 2,377; Poland 6,524; Portugal 1440; Rumania 295; Russia 2,784; Spain 252; Sweden 3,314; Switzerland 1,707; Syria and Lebanon 123; Turkey 226; and Yugoslavia 845.