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1. I recently did a post like this
Thu Feb 21, 2013, 02:48 PM
Feb 2013

and it was really a fun thread - until I got too busy to keep up with it. I was hoping it would live for months!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10022281433

How did you get here? [View all] loyalsister Feb 2013 OP
I recently did a post like this Control-Z Feb 2013 #1
Sorry I missed it loyalsister Feb 2013 #8
Nah. Yours is going great! Control-Z Feb 2013 #27
I didn't post much back then loyalsister Feb 2013 #39
All ancestors on mother and father's sides came from Ireland and England RebelOne Feb 2013 #2
Ditto dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #16
All of my ancestors settled in the North, RebelOne Feb 2013 #54
On The Hercules in 1635. DURHAM D Feb 2013 #3
My history knowledge starts much later loyalsister Feb 2013 #12
England DURHAM D Feb 2013 #15
My parents left the Soviet Union shortly before Hitler invaded Light House Feb 2013 #4
That's awesome that you kept your Russian Language loyalsister Feb 2013 #6
Thanks. Light House Feb 2013 #9
How did they get out of there during a war? (nm) Elwood P Dowd Feb 2013 #10
They fled just before Hitler invaded. Light House Feb 2013 #13
My ancestor was a pirate who accepted a French amnesty Recursion Feb 2013 #5
Ancestor? loyalsister Feb 2013 #21
Oh, sure, but that's my paternal great-great-etc. grandfather who first came here Recursion Feb 2013 #24
That sounds similar to my family loyalsister Feb 2013 #37
Aaron Burr BainsBane Feb 2013 #90
"Sinners in The Hands of an Angry God" loyalsister Feb 2013 #107
for sure BainsBane Feb 2013 #110
An ancestor on my father's side was Edward Teach (Blackbeard). RebelOne Feb 2013 #55
My grandmother and mother crossed the border from Canada to steal cleaning jobs. Tierra_y_Libertad Feb 2013 #7
My parents came to the U.S. in 1949 LiberalEsto Feb 2013 #11
How interesting. DURHAM D Feb 2013 #17
I wish they could have but my mother died in 1975 LiberalEsto Feb 2013 #72
Amazing loyalsister Feb 2013 #23
Well, it helped that they both spoke fluent English LiberalEsto Feb 2013 #74
Great story loyalsister Feb 2013 #81
Latvians, Lithuanians and Hungarians do pretty much the same stuff LiberalEsto Feb 2013 #89
Mother's side...Bohemia/Germany/Ireland SoCalDem Feb 2013 #14
My dad’s paternal ancestors were English and emigrated frogmarch Feb 2013 #18
My maternal relatives came here as indentured servants. It seems America has written them out Romulox Feb 2013 #19
True loyalsister Feb 2013 #31
Not real history BainsBane Feb 2013 #91
Late 19th century--Mother's side: French/German Father's side: Irish/German ScreamingMeemie Feb 2013 #20
Well, the Bay Colony gave my 11th grt grandfather land in Lynne, MA that he thought was crap... HereSince1628 Feb 2013 #22
On my mother's side, octoberlib Feb 2013 #25
My Father's parents from Slovenia. My Mother's grand-parents from Ireland. lamp_shade Feb 2013 #26
My ancestors left Europe for one reason or another Spider Jerusalem Feb 2013 #28
boring family ancestry. All Scotland, England and Wales. CTyankee Feb 2013 #29
It could be worse loyalsister Feb 2013 #45
Growing up in Texas I remember hoping that maybe some of my forebears were CTyankee Feb 2013 #51
My dad takes a sort of romantic pride in our Native American ancestry loyalsister Feb 2013 #108
All English and Welsh here. Shrike47 Feb 2013 #62
when my daughter studied theatre in Dublin her Irish friends said she looked so Irish! CTyankee Feb 2013 #73
Remember the Alamo Blue4Texas Feb 2013 #30
I know descendents who are Mexican American LeftInTX Feb 2013 #34
We already had land grants Blue4Texas Feb 2013 #38
I missed TX when I listed territory gained in the war loyalsister Feb 2013 #43
True in Texas too Blue4Texas Feb 2013 #46
Interesting how there is considerable evidence of positive effects of knowing more than one language loyalsister Feb 2013 #49
Great thread Blue4Texas Feb 2013 #53
Thank you loyalsister Feb 2013 #65
My paternal grandparents are survivors of the Armenian Genocide LeftInTX Feb 2013 #32
Has there been any public admission of that genocide? dixiegrrrrl Feb 2013 #68
Not by the Turks LeftInTX Feb 2013 #71
I was just watching the movie America, America about Turkey and the WCGreen Feb 2013 #92
Sounds like a very good movie LeftInTX Feb 2013 #98
TM runs it a couple of times a year... WCGreen Feb 2013 #105
Standby on Braniff Air jannyk Feb 2013 #33
Wow - Braniff loyalsister Feb 2013 #41
Braniff Ron Obvious Feb 2013 #47
Our flight was almost empty too jannyk Feb 2013 #69
Russia, France, Spain. JaneyVee Feb 2013 #35
European.... OldDem2012 Feb 2013 #36
My mother's grandfather came to Ellis Island from Italy. Jennicut Feb 2013 #40
good thread JustAnotherGen Feb 2013 #42
Thanks! loyalsister Feb 2013 #44
My paternal grandfather came from what was then Austria-Hungary in 1914 at 13 years old independentpiney Feb 2013 #48
It's been hard to track down. MyshkinCommaPrince Feb 2013 #50
England, Ireland, Scotland as far as we have genealogical records. northoftheborder Feb 2013 #52
On a plane from Germany in 1985, so I'm right off the (flying) boat, I guess Blaukraut Feb 2013 #56
Right before the end of the Cold War loyalsister Feb 2013 #60
No, necessity. Hubby was in the Air Force and got an assignment back to US. Blaukraut Feb 2013 #67
Great grandparents came from Poland, Ireland and blueamy66 Feb 2013 #57
Slave ship, Immigration from Greece (just guessing/it was rape), and as a WWII war bride tblue Feb 2013 #58
Well my ancestors were kidnapped from the homeland Chisox08 Feb 2013 #59
I once saw a bumper sticker that said loyalsister Feb 2013 #64
+1 Blue_Tires Feb 2013 #85
On a DC-6. hobbit709 Feb 2013 #61
This message was self-deleted by its author pipi_k Feb 2013 #63
Croation grandpa jumped ship, joined US Army Jersey Devil Feb 2013 #66
My Dad's side came here before the American revolution sufrommich Feb 2013 #70
Cornish also on my Dad's side Freddie Feb 2013 #101
It's nice that distant relatives now can sufrommich Feb 2013 #102
on my mothers side Broken_Hero Feb 2013 #75
That's quite a hike your dad took to find your mom loyalsister Feb 2013 #76
Mothers side of the family Lebam in LA Feb 2013 #77
Funny you should ask....... wandy Feb 2013 #78
My American dad, whose ancestors arrived from Holland and other parts of Europe Cleita Feb 2013 #79
citizenship complications... loyalsister Feb 2013 #84
Ireland, England, Spain, and Cherokee liberal_at_heart Feb 2013 #80
Both sides of my family came in 1710 ..... oldhippie Feb 2013 #82
My Dad was born in Czechoslovakia and came here in 1929 livetohike Feb 2013 #83
Asian land bridge eons ago along with some French Canadian Irish in the 1800's. catbyte Feb 2013 #86
Mayflower BainsBane Feb 2013 #87
Thanks for the rec. loyalsister Feb 2013 #94
On my mothers side... WCGreen Feb 2013 #88
My ancestors were Quaker and came over with William Penn. Blue_In_AK Feb 2013 #93
Message auto-removed time 4 me to fly Feb 2013 #95
It's about ancestry loyalsister Feb 2013 #96
Message auto-removed time 4 me to fly Feb 2013 #97
Fairly recently. KamaAina Feb 2013 #99
All of my family came from Ireland, Italy, and Spain... a la izquierda Feb 2013 #100
I am a originally a New Yorker and the Dutch and English side of my smirkymonkey Feb 2013 #103
It's interesting what people learn when they do that research loyalsister Feb 2013 #104
Puerto Rican... Benton D Struckcheon Feb 2013 #106
"All of the above makes the point that the US ain't the only melting pot" loyalsister Feb 2013 #109
Famine Irish chieftain Feb 2013 #111
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