Thu Feb 21, 2013, 02:38 PM

How did you get here?

To the US, I mean.

My Ancestors are mostly European, particularly Irish. No white man- no me.

Some of mine were already here, and the people and culture are beginning to feel the genocide committed by invaders.

Others were brought here to be bought and sold.

And other people have ancestors who were invited - not very politely. Because we took the territory that is New Mexico, Arizona, and part of California during the Mexican American War.

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111 replies	Author	Time	Post
How did you get here? (Original post)	loyalsister	Feb 2013	OP
I recently did a post like this	Control-Z	Feb 2013	#1
Sorry I missed it	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#8
Nah. Yours is going great!	Control-Z	Feb 2013	#27
I didn't post much back then	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#39
All ancestors on mother and father's sides came from Ireland and England	RebelOne	Feb 2013	#2
Ditto	dixiegrrrrl	Feb 2013	#16
All of my ancestors settled in the North,	RebelOne	Feb 2013	#54
On The Hercules in 1635.	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#3
My history knowledge starts much later	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#12
England	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#15
My parents left the Soviet Union shortly before Hitler invaded	Light House	Feb 2013	#4
That's awesome that you kept your Russian Language	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#6
Thanks.	Light House	Feb 2013	#9
How did they get out of there during a war? (nm)	Elwood P Dowd	Feb 2013	#10
They fled just before Hitler invaded.	Light House	Feb 2013	#13
My ancestor was a pirate who accepted a French amnesty	Recursion	Feb 2013	#5
Ancestor?	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#21
Oh, sure, but that's my paternal great-great-etc. grandfather who first came here	Recursion	Feb 2013	#24
That sounds similar to my family	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#37
Aaron Burr	BainsBane	Feb 2013	#90
"Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God"	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#107
for sure	BainsBane	Feb 2013	#110
An ancestor on my father's side was Edward Teach (Blackbeard).	RebelOne	Feb 2013	#55
My grandmother and mother crossed the border from Canada to steal cleaning jobs.	Tierra_y_Libertad	Feb 2013	#7
My parents came to the U.S. in 1949	LiberalEsto	Feb 2013	#11
How interesting.	DURHAM D	Feb 2013	#17
I wish they could have but my mother died in 1975	LiberalEsto	Feb 2013	#72
Amazing	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#23
Well, it helped that they both spoke fluent English	LiberalEsto	Feb 2013	#74
Great story	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#81
Latvians, Lithuanians and Hungarians do pretty much the same stuff	LiberalEsto	Feb 2013	#89
Mother's side...Bohemia/Germany/Ireland	SoCalDem	Feb 2013	#14
My dad’s paternal ancestors were English and emigrated	frogmarch	Feb 2013	#18
My maternal relatives came here as indentured servants. It seems America has written them out	Romulox	Feb 2013	#19
True	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#31
Not real history	BainsBane	Feb 2013	#91
Late 19th century--Mother's side: French/German Father's side: Irish/German	ScreamingMeemie	Feb 2013	#20
Well, the Bay Colony gave my 11th grt grandfather land in Lynne, MA that he thought was crap...	HereSince1628	Feb 2013	#22
On my mother's side,	octoberlib	Feb 2013	#25
My Father's parents from Slovenia. My Mother's grand-parents from Ireland.	lamp_shade	Feb 2013	#26
My ancestors left Europe for one reason or another	Spider Jerusalem	Feb 2013	#28
boring family ancestry. All Scotland, England and Wales.	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#29
It could be worse	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#45
Growing up in Texas I remember hoping that maybe some of my forebears were	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#51
My dad takes a sort of romantic pride in our Native American ancestry	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#108
All English and Welsh here.	Shrike47	Feb 2013	#62
when my daughter studied theatre in Dublin her Irish friends said she looked so Irish!	CTyankee	Feb 2013	#73
Remember the Alamo	Blue4Texas	Feb 2013	#30
I know descendents who are Mexican American	LeftInTX	Feb 2013	#34
We already had land grants	Blue4Texas	Feb 2013	#38
I missed TX when I listed territory gained in the war	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#43
True in Texas too	Blue4Texas	Feb 2013	#46
Interesting how there is considerable evidence of positive effects of knowing more than one language	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#49
Great thread	Blue4Texas	Feb 2013	#53
Thank you	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#65
My paternal grandparents are survivors of the Armenian Genocide	LeftInTX	Feb 2013	#32
Has there been any public admission of that genocide?	dixiegrrrrl	Feb 2013	#68
Not by the Turks	LeftInTX	Feb 2013	#71
I was just watching the movie America, America about Turkey and the	WCGreen	Feb 2013	#92
Sounds like a very good movie	LeftInTX	Feb 2013	#98
TM runs it a couple of times a year...	WCGreen	Feb 2013	#105
Standby on Braniff Air	jannyk	Feb 2013	#33
Wow - Braniff	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#41
Braniff	Ron Obvious	Feb 2013	#47
Our flight was almost empty too	jannyk	Feb 2013	#69
Russia, France, Spain.	JaneyVee	Feb 2013	#35
European....	OldDem2012	Feb 2013	#36
My mother's grandfather came to Ellis Island from Italy.	Jennicut	Feb 2013	#40
good thread	JustAnotherGen	Feb 2013	#42
Thanks!	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#44
My paternal grandfather came from what was then Austria-Hungary in 1914 at 13 years old	independentpiney	Feb 2013	#48
It's been hard to track down.	MyshkinCommaPrince	Feb 2013	#50
England, Ireland, Scotland as far as we have genealogical records.	northoftheborder	Feb 2013	#52
On a plane from Germany in 1985, so I'm right off the (flying) boat, I guess	Blaukraut	Feb 2013	#56
Right before the end of the Cold War	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#60
No, necessity. Hubby was in the Air Force and got an assignment back to US.	Blaukraut	Feb 2013	#67
Great grandparents came from Poland, Ireland and	blueamy66	Feb 2013	#57
Slave ship, Immigration from Greece (just guessing/it was rape), and as a WWII war bride	tblue	Feb 2013	#58
Well my ancestors were kidnapped from the homeland	Chisox08	Feb 2013	#59
I once saw a bumper sticker that said	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#64
+1	Blue_Tires	Feb 2013	#85
On a DC-6.	hobbit709	Feb 2013	#61
This message was self-deleted by its author	pipi_k	Feb 2013	#63
Croation grandpa jumped ship, joined US Army	Jersey Devil	Feb 2013	#66
My Dad's side came here before the American revolution	sufrommich	Feb 2013	#70
Cornish also on my Dad's side	Freddie	Feb 2013	#101
It's nice that distant relatives now can	sufrommich	Feb 2013	#102
on my mothers side	Broken_Hero	Feb 2013	#75
That's quite a hike your dad took to find your mom	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#76
Mothers side of the family	Lebam in LA	Feb 2013	#77
Funny you should ask.......	wandy	Feb 2013	#78
My American dad, whose ancestors arrived from Holland and other parts of Europe	Cleita	Feb 2013	#79
citizenship complications...	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#84
Ireland, England, Spain, and Cherokee	liberal_at_heart	Feb 2013	#80
Both sides of my family came in 1710 .....	oldhippie	Feb 2013	#82
My Dad was born in Czechoslovakia and came here in 1929	livetohike	Feb 2013	#83
Asian land bridge eons ago along with some French Canadian Irish in the 1800's.	catbyte	Feb 2013	#86
Mayflower	BainsBane	Feb 2013	#87
Thanks for the rec.	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#94
On my mothers side...	WCGreen	Feb 2013	#88
My ancestors were Quaker and came over with William Penn.	Blue_In_AK	Feb 2013	#93
Message auto-removed	time 4 me to fly	Feb 2013	#95
It's about ancestry	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#96
Message auto-removed	time 4 me to fly	Feb 2013	#97
Fairly recently.	KamaAina	Feb 2013	#99
All of my family came from Ireland, Italy, and Spain...	a la izquierda	Feb 2013	#100
I am a originally a New Yorker and the Dutch and English side of my	smirkymonkey	Feb 2013	#103
It's interesting what people learn when they do that research	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#104
Puerto Rican...	Benton D Struckcheon	Feb 2013	#106
"All of the above makes the point that the US ain't the only melting pot"	loyalsister	Feb 2013	#109
Famine Irish	chieftain	Feb 2013	#111

Response to loyalsister (Original post)

Thu Feb 21, 2013, 02:48 PM

Control-Z (15,681 posts)

1. I recently did a post like this

and it was really a fun thread - until I got too busy to keep up with it. I was hoping it would live for months!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022281433

How did you get here?

1. I recently did a post like this

8. Sorry I missed it

27. Nah. Yours is going great!

39. I didn't post much back then

2. All ancestors on mother and father's sides came from Ireland and England

16. Ditto

54. All of my ancestors settled in the North,

3. On The Hercules in 1635.

12. My history knowledge starts much later

15. England

4. My parents left the Soviet Union shortly before Hitler invaded

6. That's awesome that you kept your Russian Language

9. Thanks.

10. How did they get out of there during a war? (nm)

13. They fled just before Hitler invaded.

5. My ancestor was a pirate who accepted a French amnesty

21. Ancestor?

24. Oh, sure, but that's my paternal great-great-etc. grandfather who first came here

37. That sounds similar to my family

90. Aaron Burr

107. "Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God"

110. for sure

55. An ancestor on my father's side was Edward Teach (Blackbeard).

7. My grandmother and mother crossed the border from Canada to steal cleaning jobs.

11. My parents came to the U.S. in 1949

17. How interesting.

72. I wish they could have but my mother died in 1975

23. Amazing

74. Well, it helped that they both spoke fluent English

81. Great story

89. Latvians, Lithuanians and Hungarians do pretty much the same stuff

14. Mother's side...Bohemia/Germany/Ireland

18. My dad’s paternal ancestors were English and emigrated

19. My maternal relatives came here as indentured servants. It seems America has written them out

31. True

91. Not real history

20. Late 19th century--Mother's side: French/German Father's side: Irish/German

22. Well, the Bay Colony gave my 11th grt grandfather land in Lynne, MA that he thought was crap...

25. On my mother's side,

26. My Father's parents from Slovenia. My Mother's grand-parents from Ireland.

28. My ancestors left Europe for one reason or another

29. boring family ancestry. All Scotland, England and Wales.

45. It could be worse

51. Growing up in Texas I remember hoping that maybe some of my forebears were

108. My dad takes a sort of romantic pride in our Native American ancestry

62. All English and Welsh here.

73. when my daughter studied theatre in Dublin her Irish friends said she looked so Irish!

30. Remember the Alamo

34. I know descendents who are Mexican American

38. We already had land grants

43. I missed TX when I listed territory gained in the war

46. True in Texas too

49. Interesting how there is considerable evidence of positive effects of knowing more than one language

53. Great thread

65. Thank you

32. My paternal grandparents are survivors of the Armenian Genocide

68. Has there been any public admission of that genocide?

71. Not by the Turks

92. I was just watching the movie America, America about Turkey and the

98. Sounds like a very good movie

105. TM runs it a couple of times a year...

33. Standby on Braniff Air

41. Wow - Braniff

47. Braniff

69. Our flight was almost empty too

35. Russia, France, Spain.

36. European....

40. My mother's grandfather came to Ellis Island from Italy.

42. good thread

44. Thanks!

48. My paternal grandfather came from what was then Austria-Hungary in 1914 at 13 years old

50. It's been hard to track down.

52. England, Ireland, Scotland as far as we have genealogical records.

56. On a plane from Germany in 1985, so I'm right off the (flying) boat, I guess

60. Right before the end of the Cold War

67. No, necessity. Hubby was in the Air Force and got an assignment back to US.

57. Great grandparents came from Poland, Ireland and

58. Slave ship, Immigration from Greece (just guessing/it was rape), and as a WWII war bride

59. Well my ancestors were kidnapped from the homeland