At Trump rally in Phoenix area, I was told by a supporter of the president to "get the hell out of..

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50. My family has both kinds of stories.

But I agree that it's the stories that are more interesting than how long ago they came or whether they had titles.

On one side were the political refugees from the German Empire. It's fascinating (to me, anyway) why and how they escaped. The very condensed version is that g-grandpa, who was a military officer, took a stand for democratic reforms under a kaiser who promoted those reforms because he (the kaiser) had a British wife. That kaiser died and his son totally opposed reforms. Charged his father's supporters with treason.

G-grandpa's friends warned him, got him false documents for a family vacation, and g-grandpa went to Sweden with his pregnant wife and their 3 toddler children. From Sweden to Britain, then to the US, where my grandfather was born 2 weeks after their arrival. (Anchor baby - LOL)

On the other side of the family there were colonial Puritans, but not from the Mayflower. I found some stories about them, too, like the one called "the Old Indian Fighter" in the French and Indian Wars, whose ggg-granddaughter married a Native American.