Spin Off - Ancestry Thread

[ZachnElli]

I believe I'm 4th generation on both sides. But my dad's grandparents came from Canada (French, my maiden name is French) and I don't know when my ancestors got to Canada. My DH is also 4th generation, except for his great grandfather who was Native American, so I don't know what that makes him, lol. That's quite a story, Native American impregnating a teenager straight off the boat from Ireland. His great-great grandparents raised her (his grandma) as their own, but her real mom told her the truth and snuck her to see her dad when she could. She was born red-headed, green-eyed and lots of freckles, so know one knew. Quite a story his grandma told us!

 

[Lintasare]

I am third generation on my maternal grandmother's side and my father's side. Both my grandma and my dad's parents were first generation. My grandmother's parents came from Germany and my other side from Poland. On my maternal grandfather's side I have no clue. We have traced his family back to an Irish family in Colonial Williamsburg, they owned a tavern.

My dad is really into geneology and has traced my Irish side way back. Apparently one of my ancestors was a teacher in the court of Charlemagne. How cool is that?

 

[ncmickeyluvr]

13th or 14th generation here in America sounds like a little too much. I traced mine back 7 generations to the 1640s. 6 or 7 more generations would mean they were here in the 1300s or so. I don't think we had immigrants here that early. At least not as permanent residents. We had Native Americans and explorers. I just looked and I have mine back 13 generations which is 1475. But that is in England where there were some pretty good records kept. Just a thought.

I have a book right here in front of me that lists my husband as the 13th generation in his family and the first generation coming here in 1714.

 

[AlleyKat]

How long has your family been here?

Since 1620.

 

[suejai]

Both of my parents are from Germany and came over in 1960.

DH's family, on his paternal side are Acadian and came over from the French canton in Switzerland in the 1600's. On his maternal side they came over to New England on one of the ships that sailed after the Mayflower. His greatgrandfather came to Canada from New Hampshire in the early 1900's or late 1890's.

Edited: Have to make a correction, DH's ancestor, Major Simon Willard, came over in 1634, which was 14 years after the Mayflower.

 

[Inigo]

On one line, I'm the 13th generation in America, which means my kids are the 14th. I've got a couple 12th generation, three 11th generation. My most recent ancestors to come to America did so in the 1760s.

 

[MomofKatie]

On my mom's side, I am 4th generation on both sides. All 4 of my mom's grandparents came over from Italy and Belgium (late 1800's).

My dad's side is more complicated. My Grandma is German- she was 3rd generation, so I am 5th. My grandfather was English, and his ancestors came over in the mid 1600's. My dad researched the geneology, and found I am of the 11th generation of his paternal line.

 

[stacy347]

I'm first generation on my mom's side (she was born in Holland and they moved here in 1956).

My dad's side goes way, way back right here in the US ~ lots of Native American from the paternal grandparents (Blackfoot Sioux from Grandpa and Cherokee from Grandma, along with some Polish, French and other stuff tossed in for good measure ).

 

[arminnie]

13th or 14th generation here in America sounds like a little too much. I traced mine back 7 generations to the 1640s. 6 or 7 more generations would mean they were here in the 1300s or so. I don't think we had immigrants here that early. At least not as permanent residents. We had Native Americans and explorers. I just looked and I have mine back 13 generations which is 1475. But that is in England where there were some pretty good records kept. Just a thought.

I can go back 5 generations on my mother's side just in this state (~1860). My cousin(5)'s children (6) have children (7) who are grown adults (almost ready for 8). So that's 7 generations in only 150 years.

My dad's family goes back to the 1600s, and they were from England. My mother's family was from Scotland, but I don't know when they got to the US just when they got to Arkansas.

Had anyone had a DNA study done? My brother did (I think it has to be done by a male in the family). A tiny bit of American Indian but pretty much Northern European which is what I would have expected.

 

[PlainJane]

I have no idea, except for the small portion of me that's Native American (And then all I know is that there would be quite a few).

 

[Piglet4Ever]

Not sure how many generations it works out too, but one side of my Dad's family has been here since the 1600's two of my ancestors were Governors of the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the other side since the mid-1800's. On my Mom's side the late 1800's and early 1900's, so I have both sides of the coin.

 

[blana]

Both maternal & paternal can trace back to Revolutionary Days. Don't really know how many generations back it would be.

 

[blana]

13th or 14th generation here in America sounds like a little too much. I traced mine back 7 generations to the 1640s. 6 or 7 more generations would mean they were here in the 1300s or so. I don't think we had immigrants here that early. At least not as permanent residents. We had Native Americans and explorers. I just looked and I have mine back 13 generations which is 1475. But that is in England where there were some pretty good records kept. Just a thought.

I'd say you were in a family that had children late. Just taking (2010-1640)/7 generations, leads to 53 years per generation. Whereas, if a 20 year old had a child, who had a child at 20, etc, you're only looking at ~140 years, so mid 1800s. So, people having children young could be 13th generation if they came over in 2010 - (20)*13 = 1750. Or somewhere in there.

 

[MsLeFever]

I had an ancestor on "The Fortune" which was the second ship that the Dorchester Company sent - after the Mayflower in 1621.

On another branch, my grandmother who was Jewish, escaped from Russia in the 19teens.

 

[Geoff_M]

I am the 10th great grandson of Samuel Fuller, the physician on the Mayflower. However, I have other Nth great grandparents from other European countries that arrived here as late as the early 19th Century.

 

[laurie31]

My Dad's ancestor, Edward Beason, came from Enland in 1687. I don't know how many generations, though.

My Mom traced her family back to her 6th great grandfather, who lived in North Carolina in the 1770s and fought in the Revolution. We haven't been able to go back further than him. His name was William Martin. That would make me the 8th generation since then.

DH's brother is very into geneology and has traced their family WAY back. We found out that Geoffrey Chaucer is my girls' 16th great-grandfather. DH's great-great grandfather came here (to this city) in 1813; my girls are 7th generation residents of our city. I don't remember when exactly the family came over here, though. I'd have to get the book out and look - lol.

 

[legalsea]

I am the 10th great grandson of Samuel Fuller, the physician on the Mayflower. However, I have other Nth great grandparents from other European countries that arrived here as late as the early 19th Century.

Strangely enough my revered Mayflower ancestor, Gerald Mathers (known as Beaver) Legalsea, wrote of Samuel Fuller in a fragment of a letter that has survived the years. To wit: “I also burked some goodly coin of the realm from that goat-headed psyhic (sic) that lorded over me the other day by telling me that the spirits in his cabinet were for medicinal purposes and not for my ungodly pleasures”. I believe that ‘burked’ was an old expression for borrowed.

Indeed, Beaver Legalsea was quite honored onboard the Mayflower. The captain even wrote a letter back to England in which he was mentioned:

“That deveil Beaver Legalsea entered upon the ship in England wearing just the clothes on his back, yet upon disembarking at Plymouth he had verily twelve large containers heavy with goods. He hath the cheek to tell me that the containers had been ‘delivered to me during the voyage while thou was asleep drunk’ and then flipped me a coin and told me to ‘get that *** Fuller to drag them to shore’ for him.”

 

[MUFFYCAT]

My father came from Poland and mother from England.

my DH family are all New Yorkers from the. mid 1800's.

 

[Aisling]

I'm a first generation from both sides: father born in Turkey and mother born in Norway, so no interesting Mayflower connections to me.

 

[ZephyrHawk]

I am 3rd generation Russian, 3rd generation Austrian (although it wasn't Austria at the time) and umpteenth generation German and everything else.