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re: Where did your family immigrate from and when did they come to this beautiful country?
Posted on 6/29/22 at 11:01 pm to Ghostface_Killa
Posted on 6/29/22 at 11:01 pm to Ghostface_Killa
Grandma came from Iceland in the 50s after my grandpa was stationed there in the military.
That’s about all I know 100%. The rest I assume German and Irish.
That’s about all I know 100%. The rest I assume German and Irish.
This post was edited on 6/29/22 at 11:03 pm
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Posted on 6/29/22 at 11:03 pm to Ghostface_Killa
My grandmother's family on my mom's side immigrated from Bavaria in the early to mid 1700's. They immigrated because they got tired of armies marching through their land and stealing all their crops to feed themselves. 
THey were here before the Revolutionary War, helped Washington Survey the Alleghenies and the land west of them, then fought with him in the REvolutionary War.
They settled in what is now West Virginia, built the first Lutheren Church West of the Alleghenies, and are still in the Ohio River Valley of West Virginia.
She took a job as a nurse for the army, accepted a job in the Panama Canal Zone, and that's where she met my Grandfather, whose family immigrated from Ireland to Buffalo in the 1890's to 1910's( conflicting reports here.)
His Dad and Uncle arrived in Buffalo, became cops, hated the winters, and saw an ad for police openings in the new Canal Zone. They accepted and moved to Panama, where they raised their families.
My mom and her siblings were raised in Panama, and came to Louisiana because my mom had two choices for college: Louisiana or Florida schools. That's where the ships came into port. She chose LSU, then transfered to Charity Nursing, where she met my dad who was in LSU Med at the time.
The rest of her siblings followed the eldest. My grandparents moved to Louisiana after retirement to be near the family.
My dad was born and raised in Metarie. His family were a bunch of Dagos who immigrated to NOLA in the early 1900's.
We grew up being Sicilian, and taight to be proud of that fact. When I was 34 we picked up my brother for the family Easter part. He is in to geneaology and history. He gets in the car and the first thing he says is "Did y'all know we're not Sicilian? Apparently we're Sardinian Jews. We fled religious persecution from Sardinia to Sicily."
My response was "Ok, First: That has to be the only time in the history of the world anybody ever fled to Sicily. Second: Make sure I'm in the room when you tell everybody."
THey were here before the Revolutionary War, helped Washington Survey the Alleghenies and the land west of them, then fought with him in the REvolutionary War.
They settled in what is now West Virginia, built the first Lutheren Church West of the Alleghenies, and are still in the Ohio River Valley of West Virginia.
She took a job as a nurse for the army, accepted a job in the Panama Canal Zone, and that's where she met my Grandfather, whose family immigrated from Ireland to Buffalo in the 1890's to 1910's( conflicting reports here.)
His Dad and Uncle arrived in Buffalo, became cops, hated the winters, and saw an ad for police openings in the new Canal Zone. They accepted and moved to Panama, where they raised their families.
My mom and her siblings were raised in Panama, and came to Louisiana because my mom had two choices for college: Louisiana or Florida schools. That's where the ships came into port. She chose LSU, then transfered to Charity Nursing, where she met my dad who was in LSU Med at the time.
The rest of her siblings followed the eldest. My grandparents moved to Louisiana after retirement to be near the family.
My dad was born and raised in Metarie. His family were a bunch of Dagos who immigrated to NOLA in the early 1900's.
We grew up being Sicilian, and taight to be proud of that fact. When I was 34 we picked up my brother for the family Easter part. He is in to geneaology and history. He gets in the car and the first thing he says is "Did y'all know we're not Sicilian? Apparently we're Sardinian Jews. We fled religious persecution from Sardinia to Sicily."
My response was "Ok, First: That has to be the only time in the history of the world anybody ever fled to Sicily. Second: Make sure I'm in the room when you tell everybody."
This post was edited on 6/29/22 at 11:06 pm
Posted on 6/29/22 at 11:04 pm to Ghostface_Killa
William Fitzhugh
Birth
9 January 1651
Bedford, Bedfordshire, England
Came over early 1670's
Posted on 6/29/22 at 11:16 pm to Ghostface_Killa
They were on mayflower on one side and were Huguenots on the other, (1600s) and all were significantly involved in American Revolution, and multiple signers of DOI, etc. Only the indians and Vikings, maybe Knights Templar have been here longer
Posted on 6/29/22 at 11:24 pm to TutHillTiger
Fathers side: 1750, from Germany to Amsterdam, then SV Osgood to Phili. Then NC, Mo, Tx, Fl.
Moms side: 1850, Germany to NOLA, Mo.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 4:21 am to Buck_Rogers
quote:
your family probably immigrated from many different places
my family did not immigrate here.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 4:24 am to Ghostface_Killa
Maternal, Germany. Paternal, France. Long enough ago that I don’t know German or French.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 5:29 am to Ghostface_Killa
Germany on father's side
Melchiore was his first name. Hired as a mercenary Hessian soldier by the British. Got here and flipped sides after six years and was labeled a Tory.
Ireland on my mother's side
She was the first in 1961 to enter the states from her family's side.
I am not leaving this country.
Melchiore was his first name. Hired as a mercenary Hessian soldier by the British. Got here and flipped sides after six years and was labeled a Tory.
Ireland on my mother's side
She was the first in 1961 to enter the states from her family's side.
I am not leaving this country.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 5:34 am to Ghostface_Killa
Dad's side. Germany/ireland, 1900s. Mom's side, nova scotia/France. 1700s.
This post was edited on 6/30/22 at 5:35 am
Posted on 6/30/22 at 5:39 am to Loup
from Sicily in the 1910's on Paternal side. I don't have the information for Maternal side.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 5:47 am to auzach91
Maternal - England to Virginia in the 1740s.
Paternal - Germany to Canada in the 1940s.
Paternal - Germany to Canada in the 1940s.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 5:53 am to Ghostface_Killa
My father's family originated in the small town of Essenheim in southern Germany. Two brothers immigrated to what was then Colonial America in the year 1737. They arrived in the colonies in October by way of Philadelphia and settled in what is now Loudon, VA.
Fun fact: our patriarch's son fought in the Revolutionary War and served in the same regiment as future Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall.
Fun fact: our patriarch's son fought in the Revolutionary War and served in the same regiment as future Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall.
This post was edited on 6/30/22 at 5:55 am
Posted on 6/30/22 at 6:00 am to HeadSlash
Sicily, late 1890s/early 1910s
Same. Are we related
quote:
ain't no going back. An earthquake destroyed the town.
Same. Are we related
Posted on 6/30/22 at 6:04 am to Ghostface_Killa
The only one I have any real data on would be the 1750s from the Canary Islands.
Our families oral tradition would have lead me to believe that part of my family migrated here around 16,500 years ago via the Bering land bridge but 23&me indicates that bit of DNA no longer exists in my genome. My mom still has trace amounts, though.
Our families oral tradition would have lead me to believe that part of my family migrated here around 16,500 years ago via the Bering land bridge but 23&me indicates that bit of DNA no longer exists in my genome. My mom still has trace amounts, though.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 6:05 am to Ghostface_Killa
Ireland in the late 1880s.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 6:05 am to Obtuse1
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This post was edited on 1/6/23 at 9:42 pm
Posted on 6/30/22 at 6:41 am to Ghostface_Killa
France, in 1751. They were trying to escape the Age Of Enlightenment...all that thinking was to exhausting. They just wanted to work the land, dammit!
Posted on 6/30/22 at 6:45 am to nealnan
Grandparent from each side from Germany and the other from France, between WWI and WWII.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 6:50 am to Ghostface_Killa
Africa.
Sometime in the 16 or 1700s maybe.
Sometime in the 16 or 1700s maybe.
Posted on 6/30/22 at 6:56 am to Ghostface_Killa
France, 1800's?
This post was edited on 3/31/24 at 8:32 pm
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