When did your ancestors come to America

[sparky]

1914....
Gramps was fitted for a uniform shortly after he got off the boat

and then sent back on one

methinks the first english he learned was duck...

~S~

 

[Natural Citizen]

My European roots arrived in 1626 in what is now Virginia.

But the savage in me live here long time. Ahhh wooo wooo woo woo wooo wooo wooo...

 

[DudleySmith]

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...

Some of mine came in through the Carolinas as well. Mostly sea traders running the West Indies and Bahamas to the colonies to England triangle.

 

[DudleySmith]

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.

No need to when the U.S. saved your asses several times just in the 20th century alone.

 

[DudleySmith]

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.

We had family that fought on both sides, England in the north and rebels in the south., which I always found odd since southern culture was alwasy more 'English' than the case in the northern tier, with the mid Atlantic a mix.

 

[Moonglow]

Mine were around 1900
Don’t know exact date

They came from Yiddish Central Europe

1700 to civil war

 

[hjmick]

Mayflower on one side, around 1911/1912 on the other.

 

[August West]

My father came here from what was then Czechoslovakia in 1921 when he was 4 years old. (Slovakia today). My mother`s parents came here from the same place. The only thing my father remembers from that country is having dirt floors.