How recently did your family arrive?
 

Most recently: My father's grandfather immigrated from England.

Least recently: My mother's sister was in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

My mother's Father came here in the early 1920s from Austria
and her Mother came here around the same time from Russia.

My father's parents came from Germany and were complete idiots who passed that onto their sons and the less said about them, the better, other than the nicest thing anyone in his family ever did was die.

Since you're interested, all my ancestors came from the British Isles before the Revolution, as far as I'm aware.

I managed to mix the blood up a bit in the next generation though.

1628 & 1913

Paternal - English great grandfather and German great grandmother.
Maternal - Irish great grandfather and American Indian great grandmother



I don't know when my ancestors arrived. It would be interesting to find out.

My lineage is too varied to answer accurately, but I DO know that S.Janney was on the boat of and employed by William Penn. (Dad's side)

I had 4 ancestors on the Mayflower in 1620.

Also, my brother just married a Canadian like 5 years ago. So some members of my family just got here.

Both sets of grandparents came over at the same time.

1978. All of us.

Though we have been accused of being 'wetbacks', I arrived on a 747.

Aren't you South Asian?

I presume you mean in America: January 2001.


The rest of my family are still in the UK, no idea when our ancesters arrived there or where they came from

Waiter, I will have the Enchilada platter and 2 tacos..... and a Chinchilla!

My great-great-grandparents were full-blooded Shawnee.

My dad's side came from Switzerland. Late 1800s.

And whatever else is mixed in there.

You win.

Get offa mah land!

Crud, we lost that a long time ago!

:)

My Grandad and siblings came over to England some time in the 1930s.
My Dad's family... pretty much indigenous by 'Merkin standards.

My dad's family came back to England in the 1940s; they went out to India in the late 18th century (paternal side) and to Africa a few decades later (maternal side); the African branch then moved to India around 1910ish. Dad's surname is old Cornish, I believe; and prior to going out to India they were from somewhere in the South of England.

Mum's family are, on one side, northerners going back many generations, and on the other side, a mixture of Irish and Jewish. No idea of the dates or periods that either Jewish or Irish ancestors came to England. I do know that Mum's maiden name is a very old saxon name. And apparently the northern branch of the family had their roots in lower gentry.

Oldest transplant I know of was a convict in 1802 -waayyy back by Aussie standards. I don't know the most recent, but almost certainly pre-1900. Our family migrations are literally in time immemorial, but that isn't as long as it sounds.

Three of my five parents first visited your planet about 472 Tarcene years ago, but I don't know where they landed because the continents were different then.

Those same three stopped by again 13 Tarcene years ago (Tarcene time-keeping is non-linear) and, for a laugh, implanted me in the belly of some young bride.

Dad's side - 1700 from Scotland via Ireland.

Mom's side - 1700's from France via Canada. French-speakers even to my own generation. My cousin spoke (Canuck) French before she ever spoke English.

@ HLJ - was waiting for that one - Outstanding sir - Give yourselves a pat on your backs.

Dads's family were Cornish of silver and tin mining stock and earliest dates (so far) mid 1700s, they came up to Gloucestershire to mine coal when the tin stopped just before and after the last war.

Mum's were a long line of people in service, domestic not military, gardeners and grooms in Gloucestershire and Somerset, laundry and sewing maids.

One branch of each family headed to the new world in mid nineteenth century settling in Boston and Washington State area, while yet another to Australia, Noth West somewhere.

All blue eyed blondes as far back as we can see so presumably Norse not Celt.

"Over to England" from where?

Ireland.

Mum's family name is Doyle.
Pointless trying to trace it any further back because it's such a common name.

I did see my family last year. So I would have to say that they arrived last year, and then they left.

My father's family came from Stoke-on-Trent, England.

Mom's parents came from Scotland and England in the 19teens, Dad's parents came over during the Great Hunger. (fuck you England)

My wife's dad's family settled Belchertown, MA and a bunch of them were living in Fort Saybrook, CT before the revolutionary war.

Her mom came over from Chermany in the swinging 60's

Ahh, no wonder she's so cool. Pete too.:thumb:

My mother's side came from Sweden, through Germany.

Sentiment returned SN

I thought you are Irish

My most resont ancester that I have found came over form Spain about 5 generations

My earliest must have crossed the ice bridge from present day Russia into present day Alaska

Yeah, but bigots don't usually care which version of brown skin you are wearing. They just pick their favorite slur and sling it at you.

They aren't too discriminatin' in their discriminatin'.

:yum: Caramel Pie.

May I see your papers? :eyebrow:

:bolt:

signed
Jan Brewer

Sorry I helped ask for papers its in my blood [jk] sort of my parents came here in the '50s from Germany.:blush: But my grandmother married a gentile. No swastikas in my family tree.:headshake

Bit of a swim, wasn't it?

We were in Camp Pendleton for about a year then came to the mainland in '76.

the swedes came in 1890's.
the scots came in 1850's.
the dirty stinkin injuns were always here.

I didn't know Camp Pendleton is an island.:confused:

Geez, could've just tell me straight. I was only 5 then, got no idea where that place was. All I could remember from the adults were the two words "Camp Pendleton." Thought it was an island. Felt desolated enough -- slept and ate in tents and used outhouses. I vaguely remember bushes in the lower lands and we were told not to stray to because there were snakes. Anyways, we settled in Santa Monica where it felt like civilization. :p:

Because of your response, I googled Camp Pendleton. I had thought we stayed in Guam. :p:

BTW I missed the wink off the last post, it reads far more aggressively than I meant it to!

No, I'm 100 % British, and count myself English.
After all I have never lived in Ireland, neither has my mother and 3/4 of my Grandparents were English.

I would if I could move my arms.

OK then, Doyle. fuck you :D

5, excuses, excuses.:p:
A few years back I visited the neighborhood I lived in until 3. That huge backyard between the rows of houses, the one that was too far to walk to the neighbors... is about 50 feet. :haha:

Hey, being only 5 then is a damn good excuse! :D :lol: Seriously, I don't remember much from that age. :p: I know someone who remembers stuff when he was 3. Impressive. As for childhood memories, ever remember something tasting really great but it just doesn't seem so good 20 something years later? ehehhehehe......I guess some things are best kept as memories. :p:

On my mother's side, one set of my great grandparents came from Luxembourg in 1890, the other set came from Sweden in 1888 and all became farm families up in Minnesota.

My dad moved here in 1948 from England with my mother where they were married after the war.

1820 Paternal side was a failed brewer in Ireland...pause for effect... 184ish Maternal side came in the coffin ships during the famine.

Failed brewer in Ireland?? How??

I was wrong - my earliest ancestor arrived in chains in 1792. European settlement only began here in 1788.

There has been a fair bit of white-washing of my family but a quick look at his descendants would suggest a bit of fox in the hen house syndrome.

A failure to con-municate?

1608. From Scotland.

These are places, not times. That is all.

It was not a famine, holocaust denier.

Actually it was.
famine
▸ noun: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
▸ noun: an acute insufficiency

That fact that it was engineered and intentional doesn't change that it was a famine.

I would suggest a failure to leave the cork in the bottle.

Actually, it wasn't:
from a wikipedia article on The Great Hunger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)
From an article I read at this collection, http://www.thegreathunger.org/
"In the worst year of 'the famine' Ireland exported 880,000 pounds of butter to England under armed guard..."

You can hardly call it a famine if there is plenty of food. The problem stemmed from England's handling of the situation.

My bad. Genocide is a better word for it.

yeah well, gotta keep the paddy population down or they drink all your beer and beget more gingers.....

All of my ancestors came here from Russia in the 1920s-1930s. Before that, they were in Germany until the early 1700s. Before that, they were probably somewhere near the Gauls. I can trace my line back to the 1300s.