You can find out where the majority of the Drumpf families were living before they immigrated to the U.S and learn where to focus your search for foreign records. Immigration records can tell you an ancestor's name, ship name, port of departure, port of arrival, and destination. from the New York Passenger Lists.
Sea Turtle History. The oldest fossils of turtles were found in Germany and date back 215 million years, during the Triassic period. 1 They are among the oldest fossils of four-legged animals and one of the Earthâs most ancient creatures. These ancestral turtles had completely formed shells and lived on land, in marshes.
General American usage agrees; turtle is often a general term (although some restrict it to aquatic turtles); tortoise is used only in reference to terrestrial turtles or, more narrowly, only those members of Testudinidae, the family of modern land tortoises; and terrapin may refer to turtles that are small and live in fresh and brackish water, in particular the diamondback terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin).