Poll
Question:
residence?
Option 1: Self
votes: 1
Option 2: Parent(s)
votes: 1
Option 3: Grandparent(s)
votes: 4
Option 4: Great Grandparent(s)
votes: 4
Option 5: Great-Great Grandparent(s)
votes: 2
Option 6: Great-Great-Great Grandparent(s)
votes: 1
Option 7: Great-Great-Great-Great Grandparent(s)
votes: 1
Option 8: Older
votes: 0
Option 9: Unknown/Aboriginal
votes: 3
And around when did they arrive? confuseddood;
if you're not entirely certain but have some idea, take a guess
My great great grandmother was from Germany and came over after ww2. I am not sure for anyone else and I am not even entirely sure on that lol
My great grandparents, which is known as Hermann, I think one side of the old country.
i think we'd have to go very far back to find my most recent immigrant ancestor
like "settling in new france" far O_0
Most recent was my great great grandparents, who came right after WWI, from Germany.
At the time of WWII they still had relatives that they communicated with in Germany. In order to avoid being drafted intothe European theater and forced to fight the Germans, mygrandpa volunteered for the Navy, in order to fight Japan rather than Germany.
lol it's so much more recent for me
my parents immigrated from south america in like the 80s :'(
Quote from: Tectrinket on February 05, 2012, 03:21:19 PM
lol it's so much more recent for me
my parents immigrated from south america in like the 80s :'(
Ah-hem. SocksDood;
self awdood;
Quote from: ikanaide on February 05, 2012, 03:24:54 PM
self awdood;
I put that option there just for you. giggle;
Once upon a time I want to be independent immigrants, and begin again in the New Territory
I'm not sure, but I think my maternal grandfather's parents emigrated from Germany shortly after World War I.
i think my maternal great-grandmother is the most recent if you go by years. she immigrated during the 1930s from germany.
Great grandmother and grandfather both came from Denmark separately. I'm not sure when though. They were both young adults, so probably around the 1910s or so.
my grandmother on my mom's side came from french colonial morocco and my grandmother on my dad's side came from west germany
Quote from: Snowy on February 05, 2012, 04:43:10 PM
I think it's my great-great-great-great grandparents from both sides of the family when they decided to flee Europe during WWI.
One of my grandparents was being drafted into the Russian army so he cut off his big toe to escape it. sillydood;
Does your family age faster than usual? Or are they rabbits?
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.
My grandpa is English. He came over here and got drafted to go fight in Korea. Good times n_u
My dad's parents came from Calabria.
grandparent who was in italiano fascist army in ww2
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