There's also the case in which people's family were English-speaking immigrants. I mean, I think you covered that in your options, but the results could be deceptive if what you're looking at is how many of us are the children of immigrants.
My family go back along various paths to (we think) Anne Bradstreet, the first woman published in the colonies. Then there are the Scots who came over thanks to Flora McDonald in the 1740s to make a New World kingdom for Bonnie Prince Charlie, who preferred Paris to North Carolina--and who can blame him? The Hunter brothers came in the late 1800s but married into older lines. I think that was my great-great-grandfather and his siblings and they were the last immigrants.
My mom recently got her family bible from my uncle and that's been fascinating. There's a letter tucked into it from a relative fighting in the Civil War, along with various other interesting tidbits.
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Date: 2009-02-09 06:13 pm (UTC)My family go back along various paths to (we think) Anne Bradstreet, the first woman published in the colonies. Then there are the Scots who came over thanks to Flora McDonald in the 1740s to make a New World kingdom for Bonnie Prince Charlie, who preferred Paris to North Carolina--and who can blame him? The Hunter brothers came in the late 1800s but married into older lines. I think that was my great-great-grandfather and his siblings and they were the last immigrants.
My mom recently got her family bible from my uncle and that's been fascinating. There's a letter tucked into it from a relative fighting in the Civil War, along with various other interesting tidbits.