Immigration happened sometime during the Middle Ages from Sweden, so quite a few generations ago.
Poll: How many generations removed are you from immigration?
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#82I'm about 8 generations on my father's side removed from immigration. And about 6 on my mother's side. At least as good as any of us can determine. A few of the records are incomplete on my father's father's father's father's mother's side.
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#83> a willingness to pick up and leave your comfort zone completely
This is another bias. For many people, such as myself, immigration is not "leaving one's comfort zone". For some it might even be their comfort zone.
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#8410 or 12, but that is only because I am in the U.S.
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#85First Nations (Native American) on my father's side (so, 1,000?) — and 4 generations on my mother's.
please excuse my ignorance: why the choice of "first nations" as a name vs "native americans" ? I can imagine why other wordings can be considered bad, but as a non-american I'm unaware of negative/imprecise connotations to the latter expression.
It's a Canadian thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Nations
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#86My mom is a Canadian immigrant to the U.S. (fled as a young teenager).
I found out a few years ago that I am technically a Canadian citizen as well (they passed a law granting citizenship to people born of Canadian parents, regardless of the location of their birth). This will hopefully make my long-term eventual moving to Vancouver easier.
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#87I 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 Chin…
I've always been amused by family trees in the old world.
I was born in brazil but my great grandfather came as a war refugee fron Sweden (he had two brothers: one stayed in Sweden and the other fled to the Us). At that time there were refugees from all over europe arriving in latin america so it is very common where I live for someone to bear family names from 2 different countries (my wife has german and portuguese last names, for example).
Hence it is very difficult to trace our family trees past a few generations (although my family was very lucky to find relatives living in the Us and Sweden recently).
Re: Poll: How many generations removed are you from immigration?
#88Well, that's certainly the hardest poll question I've ever seen on HN. Let me get back to you.
I think for the purpose of that question you are immigrant yourself (left your comfort zone and moved for unlimited time).
It's funny. I first answered "3" because that would be the correct answer if I were in my home country. Then I recalled that I've been living in Japan for 8 years, so I'm a sort of immigrant and should answer "0".
The thing is, Japan is far from being an immigrant country like US, Canada or Brazil. For instance, you don't automatically get permanent residence even if you're married to a Japanese citizen. Even ethnic Koreans who were born here, have Japanese blood and speak only Japanese have a different status. There's no such thing as anti-discrimination laws, etc.
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#894 I think.
Parents (West) Dutch. Grandparents (South --> West) Dutch. ^Grandparents (South) Dutch. ^^Grandparents (South) Dutch. ^^^Grandparents German/Belgian/Dutch
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#90My parents got a book documenting my family tree back to the end of the 16th century, which was the first moment someone with my surname was mentioned anywhere. So that means that my family has been Dutch for at least the past 400 years.