From where did your family come when they immigrated to the US?

[La_Serpiente]

Poll question: From where did your family come when they immigrated to the US?

From where did your family come when they immigrated to the US?

[JHB]

1. Ireland & Germany

[Ksec]

2. Moms side Brit -Dads side German

[david_vincent]

3. How about a "mutt" entry

for those of us who could legitimately vote for more than one of these?

[CBHagman]

21. Yes, please.

One option for the Promenadenmischling!

[pansypoo53219]

23. yes!

because you do not have a
german/norweigan/french/russian/english/native american/irish box.

[Skidmore]

42. or a box for

english/irish/scottish/dutch/german/french/italian with smidge of iranian

[dreissig]

92. Racial Purity

Even joking about human mongrels makes me cringe. This whole thread, especially the word "mutt", plays on a racist theme.

[Hawkeye-X]

4. Eastern Europe

My paternal grandfather was from Satre, Rumania
My maternal grandfather was from Poland

My maternal grandmother was a US citizen, but her parents are Russian immigrants
My paternal grandmother was from Hungary

[asjr]

5. family

Going way back on maternal side--Russia, Poland, Sweden
Paternal side--Scotland, Ireland

[rucky]

65. Eastern Euro-Mutt

Russia, Poland, Hungary, Austria

[chimpymustgo]

6. Ah, don't forget: not everyone had the luxury of immigrating to America.

nt

[Melinda]

13. Immigration was not a "luxury" for everyone, either.

My paternal grandmother lost her only children while immigrating to this country.,.. and my family left behind many others within the family that died under the Bolsheviks, not to mention to famine and disease.

No, immigration was not close to being a luxury - at least not for my paternal grandparents.

[MrMonk]

20. Not everyone's ancestors were immigrants

Some millions were carried in forcibly.

[chimpymustgo]

22. Compared to be kidnapped and crammed into a slave ship it was.

nt

[Melinda]

7. Hey - where is the Heinz 57 choice?

Germans from Russia paternally (Immigrated under Catherine only to escape Bolsheviks) and Scottish/English/French maternal ancestory.

I can't pick just one - sorry!

[Silverhair]

52. Yes, I'm part Souix, part British, part Scott. n/t

[kanrok]

8. Whatareya Prejudiced?

What happened to Eastern Europe? Poland, baby!

[SahaleArm]

9. What's the difference between Southern Asia and South Asia?

> Southern Asia or Pacific Islands
> Central Asia, South Asia, or Middle East

[La_Serpiente]

10. South Asia

Is like India, Afghanistan, Pakistan.

Sorry, I forgot to make it Southeast

[SahaleArm]

14. SE Asia also includes Burma, Thailand, Malaysia, ...

Singapore, Indonesia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and the Philippines.

[soothsayer]

11. eastern europe--Poland, Austria

Why are we relegated to an 'other' category?

grrrr

[La_Serpiente]

12. Which one would you like to be in?

in the Russia and the Orient or in Northern Europe and UK? I figured Russia might do because the language is more closely related.

[brook]

15. Ireland.

Scotland and England.

[Malva Zebrina]

16. Yeoman

who were here in the early 17th century and who held meetings in their rural barns to support the revolution. They were guides to Washington's troops as they travelled up the Hudson. The were guides to Washington and to Lafayette--I enjoyed visiting the old cemetary in Tarrytown, of the headless horseman fame and seeing my ancestors names on those ancient tombstones. There is also a restored tavern there that has been maintained by the sons of the revolution. Pride. Then there was the young and pretty, Magdelena who came here from Czechosovakia on a ship with only a shawl around hershoulders, and a coffee can filled with her most valued possessions whatever they were. She lived to be in her late eighties--and produced fifteen children--that's right--fifteen loyal Americans , most of whom were raised above their humble coal mining background to gain college degrees.

[JohnKleeb]

17. Me

Northern and Western Europe on my Dad's side(Irish and German)
Southern and Eastern Europe on my Mom's side (Slovak and Slovenian)
So I got the best of both worlds, I am told I look more Eastern then I do Western if this is so, thats sweet, I like looking more eastern. Now the two families may be polar opposites in many respects like well my dad's family is more white collar and my mom's is more blue collar, my dad's family has been here since pre civil war to at the latest 1880's and my mom's has only been here since the early 1910's but both families are Catholic and as Democratic as they get and I enjoy being with relatives of all sides. I love being a mutt :).

[CBHagman]

18. A combination.

My maternal grandparents came from what was then Hungary. Mom grew up speaking Hungarian.

On my father's side, two great-grandparents came from Sweden, and four great-great-grandparents came from Ireland and possibly England. I'm still doing the research! :-)

[Padraig18]

19. I'm naturalized

Born in Co. Westmeath, Ireland, and came to the US in 1994. :)

[Capn Sunshine]

24. Spain in 1700's

but they were Germans..... I wonder what that makes us.
por supuesto, hablamos espanol. nicht sprechen ze deusche.

[slackmaster]

25. About 80% German, 10% British, rest other Northern European

My mom does geneaology. She says about 60% of the ancestors of Causcasians living in the US are German.

[0rganism]

26. Mutt -- English (colonies), Native American, Russian/Prussian (e 20th)

You really need a "mutt" entry up there.

[dreissig]

91. Mutt Entry

Having a "Mutt" entry would suggest racism. In fact, mutt jokes are racist, as though there are mongrel humans.

[bitchkitty]

27. On mom's side -

Sweden and Ireland. On Dad's side, Ireland (and Africa if what my old aunt used to say was true).

[sleepyhead]

28. mixed

Russia and Rumania! Although I do identify more with the Rumanian side (Gypsy blood and all)!

[BlackVelvetElvis]

29. Other, overall

My father's family comes from England (1630's) and German (1740's). Old southern families.
On the other hand, my mother's family is a motley crew: Irish, Native American and African. They were so much more interesting.
My sister and her kids get their beautifully colored skin, hair and eyes from mom's family.
I take after my father.

[FrenchieCat]

30. I emigrated myself

From Paris! Why I did it, I don't know???????

I was young at the time and America was still America and not Germany under the BushReich!

However, I will be going back shortly unless my nominee gets the nomination, because otherwise, we lose.

I don't want to wait until the general election if the general's not in it. Afterall, I want to beat the Exodus. I'll be settled by the time the imigration rush hits...right around Nov 3rd 2004.

[Skittles]

31. NORWAY

on my dad's side. My mum didn't really immigrate - she's still a Brit. :D

[ninkasi]

32. I can only guess...

I've done some genealogical research, along with some cousins, and the answer is, we don't really know. We do know that our families have been here since the 1600's, and that they came from Northern England, Scotland, Ireland, Wales, and some from Switzerland.

Other than than, I'm a fifth generaion Texan, myself, and before that, the families came from South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia. We have been here a long, long time, and that's one of the reasons I bitterly resent Republican snots trying to question my patriotism when I oppose Chimp's fascist policies.

[Woodstock]

33. Dang, why didn't you put Europe all in one category

Why break it apart?

The way you broke it up was tough for a Scots/Irish/Italian to choose.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

34. Other...

Mom's side of the family:

***3 German lines arrived in 1714, 1717, and 1719 to form the Germanna Colony in Virginia;

***2 Italian lines arrived in 1773; went to work at Monticello to develop vinyards for Thomas Jefferson;

***At least 4 lines of English and Scots I've traced back before 1780.
===============================
Dad's side of the family:

***At least 4 lines of Scots-Irish. One line left Scotland about 1550 to work farms on Inishowen Peninsula, County Donegal, Ireland where the English had run off the original Irish owners. They left Ireland in 1730 and landed in Philadelphia where they worked their way down the Great Wagon Road and fought in the French & Indian War. They crossed into Kentucky about 1810 and never left.

***At least 4 lines of English dating back to their arrival in the Virginia colonies about 1750 and earlier.
================================

I've traced some of these lines all the way to the Pacific...some were killed while travelling by wagon train, some died building the railroad, a small group was among the earliest Mormons to head West.
================================
A true "melting pot". :grouphug:

[IranianDemocrat]

35. Iran.

.

[SahaleArm]

41. You don't say

:)

[kskiska]

36. A mixed bag

Grandparents on my father's side came from Hungary.
Grandfather on my mother's side fled Armenia when the Turks massacred most of his family.
Grandmother on my mother's side – 1/2 Irish, 1/2 German. Haven't determined yet when they arrived in this country.

[REP]

37. Wales, Scotland and Lithuania Primarily

Starting in 1590; last one (father's father) in 1917.

[Robin Hood]

38. Romania.

My mother married a wife abusing american WASP businessman in the mid seventies and that's how I got here.

[bucknaked]

39. My father's came from Ireland. My mother, and indigenous Arizonan (hopi).

...and yes, I'm a very well-engineered drunk. :p

[BrotherBuzz]

40. So where does...

an Englishman born in Ireland (orange), raised in Australia, relocated to Canada, moved to Oregon before it was a state, married, then finally setteled in California really immigrate from? How about a great great grandfather that was born in an English embassy in Spain (English marine/guard father and Spanish mother), raised in Spain and England, apprenticed in the English navy until he later joined the US navy and setteled in California when Captain Farragut developed Mare Island. Where did he immigrate from? How about another side of the family that setteled in America in 1620 (yeah, one of those Mayflower things), way before the founding of the United States? On a reach, are they native Americans? We're all from somewhere but I'm pretty much a mixed bag, a mutt, because my family came from all over the place. I consider myself and my culture nothing more then American, for what that's worth. I can only vote once in your poll, and I can't decide...We need a mutt Choice.

edit for spelling: Ausrtalia?

[grasswire]

43. england, england, england, england, england...

...with just a couple of dutch and welsh. 98 percent of my family lines arrived in MA or CT between 1620-1635 (yeah, Mayflower pilgrims John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley Howland). Another line comes from the famous early New Amsterdam beauty Annetje Jans, who owned a great deal of lower Manhattan and whose estate was never passed to her heirs. Argh! If I owned a fraction of the property my ancestors once held along the Connecticut River, the Atlantic shore, and on Manhattan, I'd be building DU a retreat there and be able to finance a presidential campaign for Will Pitt. =:-0

[BrotherBuzz]

47. I'm decended from the proud 'strangers'

John Alden (well, Priscilla Mullens, too) and George Soule, and yes, I wish I had some of the orignal land holdings, too! But on a technicality, didn't a great number of the Mayflower passengers emigrate from Holland because they were English separatists living there in exile? I know Priscilla's family was one.

[janx]

80. Most of the Mayflower passengers, Separatists, went to

Holland for awhile.

(Francis Cooke descendent here.)

[LuCifer]

44. ok, here goes

my mom was 1/2 English and 1/2 Scot/Spaniard...that's the easy part!
my dad, ugh, lemme stop and think on this one...ok, his grandfather, that would be my great granddaddy, was 1/2 Cherokee, 1/4 Senaca (I hope to hell I am spelling this right, I really DO NOT want to piss off my ancestors! Hey, it's 4:30 AM! I'm amazed I'm still awake!) and 1/4 Shawnee. My dad is also part Scot, Irish, German, English, and Dutch. Possible Spanish too. So, as you can see, I am without a doubt, an All America Mutt! And ya know what is really ironic? I can't speak a damn bit of Spanish!!!!! I FLUNKED SPANISH 2 HIGH SCHOOL! Thankfully, for Summer School, I got my old Spanish 1 teacher who DID NOT suck like my Spanish 2 one did! And I can't speak no Native language either. Sorry!

Lu Cifer, proud Palm Beech KKKounty Stumadent...NOT

PS My great-great-great uncle (I hope I have the correct number of "greats" here!) was...a man by the name of Jesse James! Frank James would be my great-great-great grandfather (lucky me!) and on my mom's side, I am directly related to president James Buchanan...he had a wife ya know...oh crap, he DIDN'T! Ooopsy.

[Don_G]

45. Father's Side: French & Indian

Since 1670; Mother's side: English and German.

[SoCalDem]

46. Mutt here... Bohemia,Germany, Ireland, Cuba, France,Spain

:)

[joanski01]

48. Both of my parents were

born in Poland. I am 100% Polish and a proud one at that. And it wasn't a luxury that their parents emigrated here. They were sort of rounded up to work in the coal mines for much less money than the current workers were getting, and I imagine great promises were made to them. When my grandpap got off the boat, they told him he had to register Republican or no job. I don't know if he did it or not. If he did, he never voted that way. Our family has been Democrats from Day 1.

I don't believe my father ever forgave his father for bringing his family over here. In Poland, his mother's family owned land and her sisters worked in the palace -- something like that. Here they worked in the fricken coke ovens and coal mines.

[laruemtt]

49. all four grandparents

came over on a boat from sicily to ny late 1800s. proud wop here, as my beloved daddy always said.

[Sapphocrat]

62. Paisan!

One set of great-grandparents from Sicily, one set from Piemonte, the third from near Naples.

The fourth set? No idea who they were. My great-grandfather was Portuguese, sent (alone!) to "the new world" by his family when he was nine, and after an adventurous journey around the Cape and around Hawaii, was put offa da boat in Half Moon Bay, California. Taken in by a farming family, he grew up as their ranch hand, met and married a nice Portuguese girl... and never got the hang of English.

All arrived between ca. 1895 and 1901. No papers, no birth certificates, and no ship records -- although all the Italians definitely came through Ellis Island.

Proud wop here too -- even if my compadres é comadres tend to mutter "half-breed" when they hear I'm part Portuguese. :)

P.S. Actually, my daddy seldom said "wop" -- he preferred "dago." :D

[JNelson6563]

50. Aye, t'was the famine dontcha know?

Ah the Irish, you just can't kill 'em all! ;-)

Julie

[dbt]

51. Semley, Wiltshire, England on Dad's side

(aka "Fuck Cromwell, we're bailing out") and Famine Babies, whose parents died on a Coffin Ship, on Mom's side. Then there were the Cherokee and Tuscarora women along the way who proved irresistible to some of my great-great forebears.

Little Feat pegged me many years ago:

I'm mixed up, I'm mixed up
And don't you know I'm lonely.
I wish the world would get offa my case
And get on one of its own.

:smoke:
dbt

[radfringe]

53. Germany and Italy

my father's side were from Silesia region of Germany (became part of Poland after ww-2) - family started coming over between 1926-1928

my mother's side were from northern Italy. My grandfather was here after ww-1, returned to Italy, got married and came back in 1932. My mom was born the day after the boat docked. Grandfather was originally from Torino (Turin), and grandmother from Monte Grosse d'Asti

[Palacsinta]

54. 1/2 Transylvanian

(I only have one fang, but I can move about during the day, thanks to sunscreen! :9), and the other half is bits and pieces of England, Ireland and Prussia, God help me.

[NicRic]

55. 100% Italian !

My Grandparents one both my Mothers and Fathers side came from Italy in the early 1900's ! My Fathers ,Father owned a small Italian resturant in Chicago ,my Mothers Father also was self employed with a small slip cover company ,making slip covers for funiture, I was named after my Mothers father ,and guess what I own a small slip cover company in the S.F. Bay area !
Take Care, NicRic

[FDRLincoln]

56. Arab/Northern European mixture

Dad's side: Dutch/English
Mom's side: Palestinian Arab, with some Greek mixed in.

[ElsewheresDaughter]

57. Ireland, Germany, France, Syria

[chookie]

58. From the shadows of the Carpathian Mountains

Slavonia (now part of Croatia), near Hungarian border

Father German

(That makes me half Untermensch, half Ubermensch)

[TahitiNut]

59. Just another reminder ...

There are many Americans (and DUers) who don't regard the manner in which their ancestors came to America as, even euphemistically, "immigration."

[MrSlayer]

60. Italy and Germany

Second generation German American on Dad's side, third generation Italian American on Mom's.

[arewethereyet]

61. Scotland

and thats not part of England to me.

[Panda1]

63. Technically, England

Both of my parents are Irish, Clare and Tipperary.
I was born in England.
I'm 100% Irish by blood, 100% American by choice.
And I want my country and my planet back.

"We're all in the same boat now." quoted often by CMB

[Rhiannon12866]

64. My dad's family was from Ireland

and my mother's came from Poland, but, since it was before World War II, their papers said that they came from Russia. The eastern part of Poland was considered part of Russia until 1945.

[Scott Lee]

66. Alba and Cymru (Scotland and Wales)

Hence the horrid smell in my grandma's kitchen when she made blood broth.

[Hogarth]

67. Ireland and Wales

Vote Quimby!

[grasswire]

68. well, here's a followup question

What nationality would you seek out for a partner? Aren't some men better suited to relationship/marriage than others by virtue of their culture?

[JohnKleeb]

69. start a thread on that!

:) not a bad idea, I know you meant it for Serp but I will give you my feelings in what I look for in a girl and if ethnic blood matters. I personally prefer personality and such but culture is neat too, like I am very proud of my ethnic culture, I have on my list to visit those countries, ethnic aint important but it would be neat say, one of my better friends here at DU who I mostly chat with is 100% of somethin that I am nearly, and you know I mostly dont find people as ethnic as me but my friend is very much so like that and its neat. Its not a bad thing in my book in looking for a girl or a friend in general even, I wouldnt put it at the top of my list in what I look for but if I found it in someone I looked for, I would be pleased.

[grasswire]

75. I was thinking this....

...if such a high proportion of Anglo-Saxon males are republicans, maybe the chances of a liberal woman finding a compatible man would be greater by picking men whose family came from Europe, Eastern Europe or other areas. The women I know whose partners are of Hungarian stock are mighty happy, for example.

[Hogarth]

70. Good Memories

My grandmother (to whom I speak in prayer from time to time) was a Clancy. My grandfather was English (Wales, with the name Williams).

We lived in a small town, and Grandma went to the Catholic church every morning to play the organ. She gave me piano lessons in the apartment above the downtown family business--it was called the "Dairy Bar." There were ceiling fans and a soda bar always ready to crank out lemon phosphates for a nickel apiece.

In the back of the place there was a freight elevator ....

But now I'm just prattling on. They're good memories, though.

[Rhiannon12866]

71. They sound like good memories

Feel free to prattle on. It's interesting, at least to me. My grandmother operated a small grocery store that my grandparents started during World War II. I never knew my grandfather. Anyway, old family stories can be fascinating.:-)

[JohnKleeb]

72. Yeah I agree

They are interesting. :hi: Good to see my big sis is still up because remember, we have plan to talk later.

[elperromagico]

73. Germany, Ireland, England,

et cetera ad infinitum.

[leftofthedial]

74. Irish, German, Scottish and Native American

here

[Lurking Dem]

76. Escaped Morocco with their lives.

But not the family fortune.

[TankLV]

77. Ukrainians emigrated from the Austro-Hungarian Empire

It is now the Ukraine.

Were sent by my great grandparents (both sides - met and married after emigration) to avoid being caught up in Crimean War and raping German soldiers. The village was obliterated by that war. Same old story for that region.

[Syn_Dem]

78. Thailand

n/t

[LizW]

79. Scotland (n/t)

[janx]

81. Heck if I know. The first ones came ar the the time that

grasswire's did. When you go back over four hundred years, it's hard to keep track of who was diddling whom.

Also, if you put France and Germany in two different categories, what are Huguenots supposed to do?

On edit: You didn't put them into two different categories. My apologies! I just can't get a grip on these distinctions, that's all...

[Mass_Liberal]

82. Dad's english

got citizenship here only a few years ago. He came here alone from Birmingham, England. Mom's side of the family came here from Russia a long time ago.

[Blue_Tires]

83. west africa n/t

[tjdee]

84. I don't know--they were kidnapped and made someone else rich.

So in that way, I was robbed of meaningful heritage. I can't just claim the entire continent of Africa, there are some really distinct cultures there. That's why I sometimes have a problem with the term "African-American". The Italians and the Swedish aren't lumped together, for instance.

I have no idea.

Uh--wow, what a downer, I know. Carry on, LOL! :)

On the upside, though, I do know that part of my family came from Scotland as well--he married someone he met on one of the Caribbean islands, and I kind of know about them...

[BigBigBear]

85. 7/8ths Irish

1/8th Spanish

[alarcojon]

86. Ecuador in the house!

If Bush is reading this, it's in South America

B-)

[GreenArrow]

87. other--big ol mutt

On my Mom's side, almost entirely from Germany; on Dad's side there is Welsh, Irish, Scottish, English, Danish, Dutch, French, German, and two different tribes of American Indians--Monacan and Cherokee. The Monacon connection goes back to 17th century. My aunt is a genealogist and has spent many years documenting our family's heritage.

[NoPasaran]

88. Austria-Hungary when we left . . .

Just a few years before World War One. Three of four grandparents came through Ellis Island--- a very emotional place to visit.

SInce then the "Old Country" has been a part of Poland, then the Soviet Union, now Ukraine.

[absolutezero]

89. northern and southern europe

my mom's fmaily came over form germany/ireland/england sometime before the revolution ( i think some were on the mayflower) my dad's family came from spain/italy in the late 1800s

[nemo137]

90. co. cork, co. antrim, york, lancaster, germany, and unknown. n/t

[youngred]

93. Well

Germany, France, Belgium, Wales and England. strictly NWEuropean

[maveric]

94. Ireland and Sicily.

Dad was Irish, Ma is Sicilian.
Never a dull moment growing up in my house.