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In reply to the discussion: So, my maternal grandparents immigrated from the Ukraine [View all]Spider Jerusalem
(21,786 posts)20. Most of my ancestors arrived in America before the Revolution; 13 generations on both sides.
The earliest of them was at Jamestown a few years before those Pilgrims showed up in New England. My most recent immigrant ancestor (and one of three who arrived after the Revolution) was a great-great-grandfather who came over from Ireland during the famine. My ancestry is mostly English, Irish, Scots and Welsh(about 85% of my ancestors were from the British Isles), and also French Huguenot, Dutch, and Palatine German.
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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