Migration Record: US Arrival Documentation

Migration records document the Ferrero family’s departure from France and arrival in the United States in 1907. This is the critical biographical boundary for the dating argument. Ellis Island and FamilySearch records capture the entry of European immigrants to the United States during the early twentieth century and support verification of the migration timeline. The 1907 migration date is the fact that makes the 1920–1930 catalog dating structurally implausible. For a portrait sitting to have taken place in Paris between 1920 and 1930, Blanche Denise would have needed to return to France during that period. No such return is documented. The migration record is treated as an established fact in this dossier.