Are you of Immigrant Descent?


Are you of Immigrant Descent?  

66 members have voted

  1. 1. Are you of Immigrant Descent?

    • Yes
      49
    • No
      17
  2. 2. If so, when did your family migrate?

    • Pre-1760
      12
    • 1840-1880
      10
    • 1910-1920
      10
    • 1960-1980
      6
    • Other
      28


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Technically, isn't pretty much everyone of "Immigrant Descent" if you go back far enough?

I mean, I'm 100% English (NOT European) and yet my name is of Saxon origin, so...

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My grandmothers family came from Italy to England in the 19th century, my grandad from N.I. in the 20th, thats my fathers side.

My mothers side her father French Canadian, her mother Welsh.

My time line can be traced back thousands of years around England, Wales and Cornwall, so I am not an immigrant, my grandmothers and grand fathers are 18th century and 19th century migrants.

I am English to the bone.

I am English by birth, choice, culture and heritage.

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Yup, but pre 1970. We all are in the UK!

that's what I was thinking, What are we Saxon or Norman or Roman or *gasp* French?

I've been told I got a Roman nose. That means big nose right? How sweet. :p

edit : actually I just looked up Roman nose. I haven't got one. I got a straight nose actually. :D

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Technically, isn't pretty much everyone of "Immigrant Descent" if you go back far enough?

I mean, I'm 100% English (NOT European) and yet my name is of Saxon origin, so...

Yeah, my mothers side of the family came over to ireland from Denmark in the 12th century, but i think it's safe to say i'm 100% Irish.

/k

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Actually, I'm pretty much a mixed bag of ancestry.

My great-grandmother on my mom's side is Iris (my mother's mother's mother), my great-grandfather on my mom's side is French (my mother's father's father). My Mom's Dad's Mom is Native American and so is my Mom's Mom's Mom.

On my father's side, it's pretty much the same thing, except there is a bit of german, scot and british in there too.

And all my ancesters moved from different parts of the world to Canada, except those that were native-americans or "First Nations"

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Mothers side is from France & Ireland and Fathers side is from Luxembourg. My moms side goes WAY back to the first fur traders in the americas and my fathers side goes back to the late 1800's if I remember correctly.

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I live in America, so yeah. My German ancestors came over a little after the Civil War and started intermarrying with the former slaves. My Irish ancestors came over during the Potato Famine and started intermarrying with the others.

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Yep... My ancestors came to the US from England in like 1640. I had a great(x6 or something) grandfather who was a captain in the Revolutionary war (and Virginia Militia).

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