When did your ancestors come to America

[Quasar44]

Mine were around 1900
Don’t know exact date

They came from Yiddish Central Europe

 

[protectionist]

From Denmark in 1929.

 

[EvilCat Breath]

Some came here in some dim prehistoric time and became the Iroquois. One outlier Brit came in 1622. On my mother's side my grandmother's family came in mid 1700s as Russian Jews. They settled in Georgia and became proud Confederates. My Grandfather's family came in late 1800s as German Jews. They settled in Chicago as Damn Yankees.

I say that my ancestors owned slaves. My Iroquois ancestors owned slaves and ate them. My Jewish ancestors owned slaves and didn't eat them.

Grandma and Grandpa wedding picture

 

[two_iron]

Irish potato famine of 1850ish... they landed in NY and ended up in Hartford, CT.

Fuckin' yankees.

 

[ThunderKiss1965]

1800's from Scotland.

 

[Quasar44]

From Denmark in 1929.

Denmark is one of the nicest countries on earth

 

[Quasar44]

1800's from Scotland.

Dude what’s up with Scottish guys always being so big and super strong

 

[protectionist]

Denmark is one of the nicest countries on earth

Lots of beautiful islands. Cold right now though. Glad I'm in Florida.

 

[protectionist]

Denmark is one of the nicest countries on earth

For a country of small size, it has contributed an extraordinary large number of inventors and scientists.

 

[westwall]

Mine were around 1900
Don’t know exact date

They came from Yiddish Central Europe

One quarter came about 9 to 10 thousand years ago. The rest came in around 1650, and 1790.

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

My family came to America in the 1840's from Holland.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

My family has been here since about 1607

 

[tyroneweaver]

Mine were around 1900
Don’t know exact date

They came from Yiddish Central Europe

both sides came around 1850. Dutch and English became part of the Mormon migration to Utah

 

[DudleySmith]

Dude what’s up with Scottish guys always being so big and super strong

They were mostly herders and ate lots of meat and dairy and fish. Higher protein diets in northern climates. Same with the Norse and other Scandinavian peoples. In the U.S. westerners, especially Texans, were noted for being taller than average; lots of beef eaters out West and in the Southwest. I remember going to Canada when I was 16, on a canoe trip out of Ely, Minn. and noting how short Yankees were on average everywhere we went north of Oklahoma. North American WASPs were taller on average and lived longer prior to 1820, when the waves of immigrants caused lower wages and poverty to increase among the descendants of the original settlers. The wealthier nobles in Europe averaged 2 to 5 inches taller than the average half starved peasant over many centuries. Going by the size of old armor suits, the peasants must have been nearly dwarves.

 

[DudleySmith]

Ours were all here by the 1690's, Dutch, English, and Huguenot, and later married Irish, Germans, and Jews and a couple of Cherokees thrown in. One relative was a 'Colonel' and formed the first cavalry regiment in Tennessee, for the North. A lot of these were formed in various states, but later absorbed into Union units. Even Alabama had a cavalry regiment formed that went North to fight for the Union. Found that from an old now defunct genealogy site online back in the late 90's. Most of the recent mutts tended more to German and Spaniards and Jewish Grandparents on my father's side.

 

[JOSweetHeart]

I honestly don't know. I just know that I am part German on one side of my family and part Cherokee Indian on the other side.

God bless you always!!!

Holly

P.S. I was also told that I would've had a different last name if either my grandfather or great grandfather had not changed it.

 

[Care4all]

Long before we were the united states of America...1690-1710 from England, to Virginia with a land grant from Lord Graineville....then to North Carolina for 10 decades farming and a watermill that first ground grain then became a lumber mill....

then on to Georgia , when the four great Uncles and great grandpa received land grants for pay for their enlistment and service in the Revolutionary war!

Then the family began to split, some stayed in Georgia and others moved on to Alabama, and others to Texas before Texas became a State....


It's taken me about 6 years to research all of that on Ancestry.com and other genealogy sites...

 

[luiza]

When did your ancestors come to America​

I am blessed because they never did and the chance of my present family moving in that direction is zero .

I neither look or am that stupid.

 

[Care4all]

When did your ancestors come to America​

I am blessed because they never did and the chance of my present family moving in that direction is zero .

I neither look or am that stupid.

So, are you happy in your own country? How has it blessed you? What makes it better than America?

 

[SweetSue92]

Mine were around 1900
Don’t know exact date

They came from Yiddish Central Europe

On my mother's side, they came before the Revolutionary War, from England, and I have ancestors that fought for the Patriots. My aunt is a member of the Daughters of the American Revolution.