Recently became interested in geneology and was just wondering how long some of you/your families have been in the US. Do you know where they came from?
2007-02-15 11:57:23 · 27 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Immigration
Thanks for all the intersting answers. I'm just starting to do research and am fascinated/frustrated by the process.
Mare, I would have posed the question in geneology but believe it's relevant to this section also....and think the immigration section gets far more looks/answers.
2007-02-15 16:24:11 · update #1
I also did not ask the question with any political agenda and appreciate most folks staying away from that aspect of it.
2007-02-15 16:26:57 · update #2
My ancestors were here already, I am Native American my tribe is Ni Mii Pu also known as Nez Perce. My family as given a borrowed last name 3 generations before me so it hasn't really been that long. I was born 40 years after Native Americans were "granted" the status of Americans.
2007-02-15 12:27:27 · answer #1 · answered by already_enuff_spice_in_this 5 · 4⤊ 0⤋
My ancestors came over shortly after the initial English settlement at Jamestown in 1636, they were members of the lesser Irish gentry so they had a pretty sizable plantation farm along the James River southeast of what is today Richmond before heading to the Waxhaws region of North Carolina, east of Charlotte. Sometime before the Revolutionary War they lived along the western frontier (the Appalachians at the time) after the serving in the Revolution they headed west to Tennessee where we've been ever since.
2007-02-15 12:39:39 · answer #2 · answered by Mr. Pibb 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I will not answer this question here, only because its in the forum of the immigration and lately things of personal questions seem to get thrown back in our faces (no offense to you) there is a genealogy section in here to have asked that question..again no offense to you but alot of us have gotten burned on this before. And just in case to protect those that have answered:
OK, yes, my ancestors came from somewhere other than North America. So did yours. So did everyone Else's, in fact —including those of the Native Americans.
No matter where you live in the world, in fact, you have an ancestor from somewhere else.
In other words, every nation is a "nation of immigrants;" the slogan is meaningless and certainly no basis for public policy.
Just because a policy was appropriate in the past does not mean it is necessarily eternally good. That my ancestors were immigrants is irrelevant to the formation of a prudent public policy today.
If my ancestors were pioneers, am I constrained to advocate expansionism?
2007-02-15 15:03:40 · answer #3 · answered by 69Stang 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yes, I'm 5th generation American...
1852 England
1885 Northern Ireland
1892 England
1910 England
2007-02-15 12:01:22 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
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2016-10-02 05:20:40 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, my mom's maternal side came from England before the Revolutionary War. (Part of that family actually defected to Canada at the outset of the Revolutionary War and are still there.)Her paternal side came from Ireland some time in the 1800s. Part of my dad's paternal side came from Germany at the beginning of the 19th century. The other part is Cherokee. On my dad's maternal side, I have no idea. It was impossible to get a straight answer out of my dad's mom, who died before I was born.
2007-02-15 12:09:32 · answer #6 · answered by The_Cricket: Thinking Pink! 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Yes, and I am quite proud of my heritage. I am a mix of a Germans who came over in the 1870's with a talent for opera singing and beer-making. Unfortunately the family brewery was torched by prohibitionists so the beer-making came to an abrupt end. Another segment was a small group of dutch Boers who came from south africa to escape the Boer War, we believe they were tied to the DeBeers family and was ostracized by them for associating with local Zulu tribes (dad's side). My mother though is english and I have an appropriate variety of briton, scotch and irish blood.
Love geneaology, it's great to see your origins and try to research them as far back as you can go. I've made it about as far as the napoleonic era (german) and the reign of tudors in the english branch.
2007-02-15 12:08:56 · answer #7 · answered by Fred K 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My ancestors came to The US from Ireland during the Potato Famine during the mid 19th century.
2007-02-16 08:15:30 · answer #8 · answered by wyldfyr 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I sure do. My mom's side left Lincolnshire (Grantham), England in 1796. My dad's side left Leicestershire (Eaton), England in 1811. Both sides arrived in New York City.
I used the free LDS website and the free UK Birth/Death/Marriage website to track them down. There's a lot you can do on the web for free.
2007-02-15 13:03:23 · answer #9 · answered by Yak Rider 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mine from Ireland and Wales in the late 1800s.
2007-02-15 12:05:39 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋