Do you have relatives in the New/Old World?

[viper37]

Out of curiosity to check the migrant  links languishians have.

Some definitions.
Relative (I'll go as far as brothers and sisters of grandparents)
New World(Americas and I would say Oceania)
Old World (Europe/Asia/Africa)

For myself I got two great aunts at the side of my father's grandmother who migrated and now live in Florida with the advent of the Internet in the 90's we got in contact again.
One nephew at my father's side is trying to start up a gaming company in California and married an US citizen so won't return.
Another nephew moved last year to Charlotte,  North Carolina on a tourist visum and under job leave.  He's going to marry his Colombian gf who has American citizenship. Unemployed at the moment and if it doesn't work out plans to come back to Belgium.

I had an aunt living in Switzerland for a while, but she's been back for a few years now. I'd hoped she stayed there though.

[Josephus]

I got cousins, an uncle (mom's brother/his kids), and second cousins in Old World (Malta)

[Razgovory]

No.  There's like five generations between me and anywhere in Europe.

[Caliga]

Nope.  Many generations removed from Europe now on both sides of the family.

In Princesca's family, her dad's cousin has exchanged letters with a very distant German relative, mostly related to genealogy stuff.

[Malthus]

I got cousins, an uncle (mom's brother/his kids), and second cousins in Old World (Malta)

Heh it always astonishes me that Toronto has its own ethnic Maltese neighbourhood up in the Junction. It just seems odd that such a small island had enough people come here to make their own ethnic enclave. 

As for me, I have a brother in the UK (the other is in the US). My ancestors all came to the NW a long time ago - on my father's side, they were Puritans who settled in Mass. (there is still a museum there with my family name on it!) before moving north to Nova Scotia in the 18th century; on my mother's side, they came over before WW1 (in fact, it is unclear from exactly where: my great-grandmother spoke Polish, Russian, German and Yiddish - and had papers from Austro-Hungary and from Russia ... ). Smart move, that.  No doubt I was related to all sorts of Jews from that part of the world, but long ago lost all touch with them - plus they must have mostly died in WW2.

[Syt]

What astonishes me about Malta is that they seem to cope with only 10 or so family names among them.

[Barrister]

Close-ish relatives in Canada and Australia, more distant ones in USA, Malaysia etc etc

I would imagine it is a similar story for many British families. Which is why the interpretation of the word migrant as being somehow critical surprises me.

Yep, Canada and Australia for me too.

I'm related by marriage to Paul Henderson, the Canadian ice hockey player who scored the winning goal against the USSR in the 1972 Summit Series at the height of the Cold War.

  Tell me more.

[Monoriu]

What astonishes me about Malta is that they seem to cope with only 10 or so family names among them.

I've read somewhere that 25% of Chinese share like 5 family names.  There are over a billion Chinese...

[Valmy]

Nope. Being descended almost exclusively from people from whatever I am allowed to call the British Isles that will not offend the touchy assholes from Ireland, I have no immigrants recent enough.

And the most recent immigrants I am descended from are Irish Catholics in the 1870s who did a fantastic job killing any and all links to the old world. For example they forbid their children from learning or speaking the...um...whatever I am supposed to call the language formerly known as Gaelic that was commonly spoken in County Donegal at the time. The only thing that was left was devout Catholicism but that ended with my father's generation.

[Barrister]

Nope.  I go back about 5 generations on both sides of my family.

[Brazen]

  Tell me more.

Not that close, he married my dad's cousin's daughter. I've met the second cousin and her husband and they're all a bit evangelical born again, as is Paul by all accounts. Between all that nearly dying business. 

[Grey Fox]

I don't think so, no.

[Josephus]

What astonishes me about Malta is that they seem to cope with only 10 or so family names among them.

I've read somewhere that 25% of Chinese share like 5 family names.  There are over a billion Chinese...

Quite a few less Maltese. 

[Pedrito]

Old Worlder, and all the known relatives I know of live in Europe.

I think a couple of distant cousins may live in the USA, but I'm not sure.

L.

[Syt]

I think a couple of distant cousins may live in the USA, but I'm not sure.