Which of your ancestors was the most recent immigrant to your current country of

Started by Kalahari Inkantation, February 05, 2012, 02:59:33 PM

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residence?

Self
1 (5.9%)
Parent(s)
1 (5.9%)
Grandparent(s)
4 (23.5%)
Great Grandparent(s)
4 (23.5%)
Great-Great Grandparent(s)
2 (11.8%)
Great-Great-Great Grandparent(s)
1 (5.9%)
Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparent(s)
1 (5.9%)
Older
0 (0%)
Unknown/Aboriginal
3 (17.6%)

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bluaki

It's mostly a guess, but I voted for great-great-great and believe it's (at least on my mother's side) probably not off by more than one generation either direction. Like I mentioned in the other heritage thread, I don't know anything about my father's and whenever I think of "my heritage" I tend to only consider my mother's side.

YPrrrr

My grandpa is English. He came over here and got drafted to go fight in Korea. Good times n_u

Mando Pandango

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kougraducky

My great grandparents on both sides were from all over.
My maternal great grandmother was from Ukraine and left for New York when the pogroms against the Jews happened there (she was like...14) Her parents were dead, and she lived with a family friend. The family had another friend, who became my great grandfather. He had had a family in Austria before the Nazis took power, so he left Austria to come over here and get his family out. By the time he had gotten the money, they had been taken to the concentration camps and gassed. My great grandmother's second husband, or the one I new because my by-blood great grandpa died of meningitis, was a foreign goods trader before the Holocaust, so he bribed his way out of the camps and made his way to Canada, where he quickly learned his English was not as good as he had thought. He ordered a ham sandwich at a restaurant and got a slice of apple pie.
I don't really know too much about my maternal grandfather's parents, except they came from...Germany, I think? German Jews.
My paternal grandfather's mother and mother was fresh off the boat Irish from the Potato famine...but her husband's family was here from Prussia as mercenaries in the Revolutionary War dating back to the late 1700's...
My great grandmother on my paternal grandmother's side was from the Czech Republic...We don't know much about her husband because he was a bigamist who stole her money and ran away

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