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In reply to the discussion: So, my maternal grandparents immigrated from the Ukraine [View all]Brother Buzz
(36,412 posts)17. Heinz 57 mongrel
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Most of my roots were well established in America before the revolution and were grandfathered in on that citizen stuff. My Grandmother had the only immigration story to tell: Her father, the remittance man, was born in England, raised in Northern Ireland, then wanderlust struck and he took off for Australia, then western Canada, then Oregon, then California; Grandma said he was a well read drunk.
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Germany...both sides. Every non-native American family was from immigrants at one time.
libdem4life
Jan 2013
#1
Mother from Canada,father Irish but family here for 3 generations when I was born.
virgogal
Jan 2013
#4
I'm ancient. My mother came in the 20s and my father's family were Irish famine immigrants.
virgogal
Jan 2013
#30
Most of my ancestors arrived in America before the Revolution; 13 generations on both sides.
Spider Jerusalem
Jan 2013
#20
My fathers side (step father, all I know) came over from England end of 1600's early 1700's.
okaawhatever
Jan 2013
#24