STORM2K

Who was your first ancestor that you know of who arrived in the US and maybe came thru Ellis Island? What was your relationship with him, where did he choose to live and what trade or job did he do when he got here?

the first people in my family to come to the US were my parents in 1959, a month before i was born. My father was in diplomatic service and my mother was a doctor.

I did a family tree and traced my ancestors back from Nova Scotia. They settled in SE Louisiana. And they were known as the "cajuns". My great-grandfather on my mom's side came from Spain. I don't know too much about my dad's side except that they are of Irish and of English decent. My paternal grandfather's biological father walked out on him when he was only 2 years old. And was never heard from again, so it is nearly impossible to look up my true ancestors from that side of the family. Yet, we still carry around his last name.

6th generation Pinellas county FL on my mom's side. Scottish and English descent I believe...not sure when they arrived. Dad's side...My grandmother was born in Edinborough (sp?), Scotland, grandfather in Prince Edward Island, Canada.

I am descended from a German Baron who gave up his Barony(fool!!hehe)to marry a commoner. We have it traced back to the probable castle in Germany or what used to be Prusia. My Great, great, gradfather or his father(can't remember which without it in front of me)came over and ended up in Indiana and Missouri farnimg, where till several years ago some of the family still farmed. Descenedants on this end still live in MO and NB among other places.

My father's side was out of Scotland. We have that traced back to the farm in Southern Scotland in the early 1500's. Not exactly sure when they came over, but they came through Canada and ended up in Anacortes Washington owning and running the huge paper mill/ logging operation there. Still have some of those realtives in that area too.

I have a family member who did all the research...and if my fathers family would have stayed in England, I'd be a Dutchess....hmmm "to the manor born"......

Someone on my mom's side of the family traced our family tree back to the 1600's in Prussia. I don't remember who or when our immigrants came through Ellis Island, but I know that they did. We are a mutt when it comes to ethnic backgrounds.

The first in my family to live in the US is me....and even then I am not a citizen but a "legal alien."

The first to be born here is my 1 year old son who is half American and half English.

On my fathers side..grandpa was from Sicily and my grandmother was from Calabria(Italy). My mother was a native born Czech. As far as I know my grandfather was a merchant seaman who jumped ship in New York in the early 1900's..probably around 1915. He would be the first in my family to live in the US.

i was born in a test tube. the sperm and egg may have been alien life forms from the planet theta epsilon 3. my parents croaked in the roswell saucer crash and the govt preserved the egg and sperm in a frozen state. i escaped after birth and now i seek revenge and world domination and will zap people with evil rays

rainstorm wrote:i was born in a test tube. the sperm and egg may have been alien life forms from the planet theta epsilon 3. my parents croaked in the roswell saucer crash and the govt preserved the egg and sperm in a frozen state. i escaped after birth and now i seek revenge and world domination and will zap people with evil rays

That explains everything

Don't quite know to be honest......I DO know ONE relative, he was a horse thief and hung in a town in Texas and now the town is named after him, "Denton" Texas.........yup, that was my uncle, he rode with the Sam Bass gang!

Dennis

My grandfather (mother's father) came over from Italy through Ellis island in the early 1900's.

My father's ancestors were all here since the beginning of America. They're all English, Scottish or Welsh. I have a HUGE genealogy book that was written in the beginning of the 1900's by one of my father's ancestors (on his father's side). My father's mother was born in Salem, Massachusetts and his father was born in Rhode Island.

My grandfather's father came to Kentucky in the early 1900's from Salzburg, Austria.

My grandmother's great-great-grandparents were possibly slaveowners (oh joy! ). I can't get answers beyond the fact that relatives on that side of the family were here before the Civil War...everyone changes the subject.

I need to ask my aunt on my dad's side about everyone before my paternal grandparents.