Facebook Follies of Friends and Families

[Razgovory]

This guy was one of my ancestors.  Seems I'm related to George Bush.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nathaniel_Foote

[Barrister]

A little surprised at the big numbers you guys are throwing out, but I guess I'm being parochial in my thinking.  The Canadian prairies were settled starting around the 1890s, and that's when the big wave of immigrants came over.  But yes by that point the US was over 100 years old, New France/Quebec had not only been settled but been ruled by the British for 150 years.

[derspiess]

Yeah I was frankly very surprised to see how many of my ancestors came over in the 17th century. If I am descended from you and you are not Irish, you probably came over in the 17th century or early 18th century. Even the Germans.

Ditto (except for the Irish part).  My most recent immigrant ancestor came over from Scotland around 1790.  The bulk of my immigrant ancestors seem to have come over between 1660 and 1720.  Interesting to see the patterns of what parts of Europe they all came from, where they settled, and where they migrated.  So many similarities (and still only one 2nd cousin marriage!)

[derspiess]

A little surprised at the big numbers you guys are throwing out, but I guess I'm being parochial in my thinking.  The Canadian prairies were settled starting around the 1890s, and that's when the big wave of immigrants came over.  But yes by that point the US was over 100 years old, New France/Quebec had not only been settled but been ruled by the British for 150 years.

Before I dove into my family history, my assumption was that probably about half my ancestors got here in the early to mid-18th century and the rest sometime in the 19th century.  I think a lot of that is due to how I learned American history from an early age.  In school we covered Jamestown and Plymouth in ridiculous detail, then mostly skipped to the French & Indian War, with maybe a small bit of coverage of the Salem Witch Trials in between for fun.  So I never really thought much about the migrations that took place during that less-mentioned period.

[Habbaku]

My ancestors mostly come over with this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Cullmann :pickelhaube:

[garbon]

I think my most recent immigrant relative was in 1904 or 5. Oldest is William Bradford.

[Eddie Teach]

Would it be too pedantic to point out that every country outside east Africa is populated by the descendants of people who came from somewhere else?

Yes.

And why didn't you pick up your gun and fix Georgia instead of moving here? 

Why didn't you fix Maryland?   

My hometown is in Florida. Guns are shockingly ineffective against insects and humidity.

[derspiess]

My ancestors mostly come over with this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Cullmann :pickelhaube:

You '48 Germans are troublemakers 

On the other hand you brewed a lot of good beer and effectively built my city

[Syt]

My ancestors mostly come over with this guy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_G._Cullmann :pickelhaube:

Another example of someone who should have picked up arms and ... oh, wait.

[The Brain]

My ancestors didn't leave their homes. They stood their ground.

[Richard Hakluyt]

If we go back 14 generations then we each have 16k ancestors in that cohort; with some ancestors appearing more than once of course. Time to stake your claims to be native Americans and get some of that casino loot 

[Valmy]

If we go back 14 generations then we each have 16k ancestors in that cohort; with some ancestors appearing more than once of course. Time to stake your claims to be native Americans and get some of that casino loot 

While I have taken no DNA tests I have zero evidence I am descended from any native Americans. That ancestry is actually relatively rare over here.

[Barrister]

If we go back 14 generations then we each have 16k ancestors in that cohort; with some ancestors appearing more than once of course. Time to stake your claims to be native Americans and get some of that casino loot 

In Edmonton it's not uncommon to have native ancestry, or even of course to be (mostly) fully native.  But there's none of that "my great-great-great grandmother was Cree" silliness, again because settlement was fairly recently.

[derspiess]

If we go back 14 generations then we each have 16k ancestors in that cohort; with some ancestors appearing more than once of course. Time to stake your claims to be native Americans and get some of that casino loot 

While I have taken no DNA tests I have zero evidence I am descended from any native Americans. That ancestry is actually relatively rare over here.

My DNA says no.  So no wampum for me

[derspiess]

If we go back 14 generations then we each have 16k ancestors in that cohort; with some ancestors appearing more than once of course. Time to stake your claims to be native Americans and get some of that casino loot 

In Edmonton it's not uncommon to have native ancestry, or even of course to be (mostly) fully native.  But there's none of that "my great-great-great grandmother was Cree" silliness, again because settlement was fairly recently.

Growing up in Appalachia, a majority of the kids I knew had a grandmother that was "full blooded" Shawnee/Blackfoot/Cherokee/etc.