My family has been in what is now Canada since not long after our family was forced out of Scotland by the English. I myself am 7 generations removed from immigration.
Poll: How many generations removed are you from immigration?
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Re: Poll: How many generations removed are you from immigration?
#32I would guess at least 40 - I'm Scottish and I was raised in small village where part of my family had been for about 400 years. However, another part came from Orkney and the last mass immigration there was probably by the Vikings in the 8th or 9th centuries.
[Edit: Of course the reality can't be as simple as that - I have a slightly Asiatic appearance that is fairly common in the part of Scotland I am from - a Chinese doctor once thought I was Chinese (much to my amusement and his horror at potentially causing offence). I'm hoping for something interesting like a Orcadian Hudson's Bay man marrying an Innuit and returning home with his family... or something like that.]
Re: Poll: How many generations removed are you from immigration?
#33All of my great-great-great-great-grandparents were immigrants, except the one that was Native American.
Correlation does not equal causation, though, so your poll won't prove anything, even though right now it looks like you're losing, with as many >=5 responses as 0.
Re: Poll: How many generations removed are you from immigration?
#34Interesting experiment. Please report your findings when you're done.
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#35My great great great grandfather came to the US from Dublin. Since he was a Campbell, somewhere back in his line someone undoubtedly came from Scotland, but we've not been able to track it.
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#36My family put together our genealogy in the early 1970's, so this one is easy: 5 generations.
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#37I have traced all 16 of my great-great-grandparents and more than 20 of my 3G grandparents, and I haven't found evidence that any of them were born outside North America. But I agree with the commenter who said that it doesn't matter to my own entrepreneurial or adventure-seeking tendencies. I think one or two generations might have an actual effect, but beyond that you're just playing with statistics.
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#38I'm an immigrant! I win!
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#39I am 3, but my kids are 1.
Re: Poll: How many generations removed are you from immigration?
#40One of my grandparents was an orphan, so on one side, the paper-trail ends there.
On my mother's side of the family, we go back to the 14th century french nobility, so I'm not sure how I should look at it, since back-then - the country where I currently live (Belgium) didn't even exist.
So - very tricky question!