American people, help !!!!!?

Question

This is for one of my classes, which is called “American Culture”. My homework consists in asking American people to answer the following questions in order to know a little more about the early years of the U.S. and its first inhabitants. The questions are:
1. What nationalities were your ancestors?
2. When did your ancestors immigrate to America?
3. Does anyone in your family still speak the language of the old (original) country?
4. Does your family maintain contact with any relatives in the old country?
5. What family customs or traditions from the old country do you observe

Answer 1

1. English...from Kent & Sussex [mother's side]; German from Hamburg [father's side].
2. Mother's family immigrated in 1910; father's family got here around 1840.
3. Obviously mother's side are all English-speakers, and the descendants of the German side have been English speakers since the Civil War.
4. I maintain contact with cousins in England...nobody left in Germany except the most remote sharers of the patronym.
5. My mother observed Guy Fawkes Day [of all things!] and made a 'Guy' for the front doorstep when I was a kid. We kept Twelfth Night too [church thing plus took our Christmas tree down that day] ...and we made trifle for dinner parties or holiday treats.... Oh yes, Royal family doings were slavishly followed in the newspapers and on the telly...and my grandmother absolutely worshipped Lord Louis Mountbatten, who she said was the handsomest man in the world.

Answer 2

1. English, Irish, a little French, and a very small part German Jew.
2. The English in the early 1600's, the Irish in 1905 (my grandmother).
3. No.
4. No.
5. None, except for the commonly held ones that came from our English ancestors.

Answer 3

1. Sweden, England, Scotland, Ireland, Whales, Netherlands, Germany.
2. Around 1611 was the earliest I know of, most recently was around the 1880's are 1890's.
3. Not since my Great Grandmother passed away in 1996, she understood some Swedish from her parents who were the most recent immigrants in the family.
4. Not really, too distant. I think my Great Grandmother had a little bit of contact though.
5. Don't really have any customs, but Grandma Great made really good Swedish rye bread and these sweet rolls called boulas (I guess if you call cooking a tradition that would be it).

Answer 4

Greetings! I'm happy to answer that:
1. I'm of Italian & German descent.
2. My ancestors came to the United States in the late 1920s, from both sides of the family.
3. My Grandmother speaks a bit of German (because my Grandfather was a translator for the US army), and some of my relatives on my Dad's side do speak Italian, but they're very distant relatives.
4. No, no one does maintain contact with relatives in Germany or Italy.
5. I wish we embraced more of our original customs or traditions, but we really don't. The only thing we continue to do is cook some German and Italian recipes. I'm trying to learn both German & Italian, but it's a long process.

I hope your class goes well. :-)

Answer 5

1. African (don't know what country), native American and British I assume, they brought us here and because my great grandfather was a Quaker.
2. No immigration - dragged in shackles in the 17th - 19th century. Also came from Asia, probably in the 14th, 15th or 16th century (native american)
3. No, we were *taught* to speak english.
4. No, couldn't tell you where in the old country they are. Or where the old country is.
5. African customs permeate black American life, from food to music, to celebrations and customs. Watered down some, of course.

Good luck with your assignment!!!

Answer 6

1. English and Hugonaut (french indian)
2. English immigrated on the Mayflower Hugonaut came down from Quebec. 1620 and around 1700.
3. We all still speak English and only my grandfather spoke Canadian French but he passed in 1954.
4. I KNOW of a few relatives in England but we don't communicate with them and I do not know any of my French relatives in Canada.
5. We grew up eating a LOT of traditionally English meals---boiled meats, yorkshire pudding, blood pudding, scones, and teas... I truly don't remember ever eating anything at family gatherings from the French side... We also had a traditional English Christmas celebration growing up...

Answer 7

my wife's if German, Irish,American Indian,Jewish,Canadian Indian,and a few others.. her people came over in the early 1900. they were Jews and they were running the Irish part were looking for a better life.. the American Indians were already here.. only the Jewish part of her family still speak the language.. but only when they are with family. #4 no.. no contact.. #5.. lots of customs on the Jewish side the food holidays songs.. the American Indian side she has looked into and is trying to find and learn about..

as for me i never know who or what my mother or father were.. i only know of about my adopted mom and dad

Answer 8

1. Mom was Finn, Dad was English and Scotch.
2. Their parents all immigrated here in the late 1800s, I think.
3. Mom spoke only Finn until she got into school. Got into lots of trouble with the kindergarten teacher because she wouldn't obey when teacher gave orders in English. Spoke Finn with her friends all her life.
4. no.
6. some recipes are still cooked in my house. The rest is all lost. Husband & I built our own traditions together.

Answer 9

1 - Irish, English, Scottish, Spanish, German, Dutch, Italian, Native American.
2 - The vast majority I have no idea; but some came over in the last century
3 - No
4 - No
5 - None

Answer 10

English and Irish
1765 (Tories)
Yes
Yes
Celebrate most Irish holidays and keep some of the superstitions of the old country.