would you mind sharing your family ancestry ?

Question

who
WHAT
when
WHERE
why
HOW

to UNITED STATES


I REALLY AM INTERESTED HEARING ABOUT THE DIFFRENT JOURNEYS AND ADVENTURES

Answer 1

My great grandparents arrived in Ellis Island in the early 1900's.
They left Europe to start a new life, to be free. My great grandfather kissed the ground here everyday of his life. They all became citizens, and spoke English. They farmed this great country. The reason they left was because my great grandfather was an aristocrat and my greant grandmother was a peasant. It was against the law to marry her, so they left with only the clothes on their back and came here. My great grandmother had piercing blue eyes. She has passed those down to one child in every family of ours. All the rest of us have brown eyes.

Answer 2

My grandmother was a Hungarian that was placed in one of Hitler's concentration camps. She married an American soldier after the war and they had two children before she left Hungry. Three years after the war she came to the United States with my grandfather, uncle and aunt. She received her American citizenship in two years (if the story has been told right to me, she is no longer with us). She and my grandfather settled in his hometown where they had four more children including a set of twins, one of which is my mother. My mother married (and later divorced, her high school sweetheart) they had four children, one of which is me. I am now married and the mother of three, and live about twenty minutes away from where my grandmother and grandfather lived when they were alive.

My roots are Hugarian and Swedish and my husband is German and Irish.

Answer 3

Nordic-Aryan blood . Great Grandfather born in Berlin in 1911 joined the Waffen SS in 1929 , served in the Geheime Staatspolizei (Gestapo , Hitler's secret police) as a Captain and served till the end of the war , was put on trial at Nuremberg for war crimes in 1947 , was found not guilty and moved to America soon after due to the collapse of the German economy

Answer 4

On one side, my grandfather left Germany in the 1920's at nine years old with his mother and twin brother. His brother died on the boat, his mom died a few days after they arrived. He made the trek from New York to the midwest all by himself to get to his uncle's house. His uncle took care of him until he was about 15, then he started his own farming operation, gained citizenship, married his sweetheart from church (who was born here), and they started their family.

On the other side, my great-great-grandmother came to the US from Norway between 1900 & 1905. She moved to Iowa and got married in 1912 and had three sons. Two died in WWII. One became my great-grandpa.

Answer 5

Simon Bannan in 1835 from Ireland to Philadelphia by boat for reasons unknown - but probably related to job opportunities.

Answer 6

My g-pa's(on my moms side) parents migrated here from Czechoslovakia.He was born here.
My g- ma on my moms side is hispanic,but her mom died during childbirth and her dad split after that,so she doesn't know too much about her ancestry.
My Dad doesn't know a whole lot about his ancestry either,he tells me he is 1/2 german and 1/2 Irish.But there's no telling.

Answer 7

I am of Mexican ancestry, born in TX as my mother before me, in fact I have traced my family tree in TX from before TX was part of the US, and honestly If I could look further, there is no doubt I would find ancestors from that region from before TX was part of Mexico.

Answer 8

My mom applied for a greencard when she was 17. Left Canada to live with her father in Detroit. Not very exciting. ;)

Answer 9

Native American, Cherokee.

Answer 10

Scandinavian ancestory. American born.