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many a good man (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 12:50 AM Original message |
Where were yoiur great-grandparents born? |
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LostInAnomie (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 12:53 AM Response to Original message |
1. All in the US. |
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denbot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 12:59 AM Response to Original message |
2. My maternal Grand parents were from Eastern Arizona, and Western New Mexico |
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Kali (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 01:28 PM Response to Reply #2 |
27. one of my maternal great-grandmothers was born in SE AZ too! |
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denbot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:54 PM Response to Reply #27 |
64. My Great Grandmother and Gramma were from the Morenci area. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 09:49 PM Response to Reply #2 |
58. Now THAT'S an impressive ancestry! |
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denbot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:57 PM Response to Reply #58 |
65. Thanks. |
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Starbucks Anarchist (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 01:03 AM Response to Original message |
3. India. |
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anneboleyn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 01:23 AM Response to Original message |
4. England, Germany, and Scotland. (that I know of -- the others we are unsure, but likely England) |
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onestepforward (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 01:54 AM Response to Original message |
5. all U.S. |
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LeftyMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 02:17 AM Response to Original message |
6. Paternal side: 2 Austro-Hungarian Empire (the part that's now Hungary) |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
7. Wales, Wales, Iowa, Iowa, Russia, Russia, Lithuania, Poland |
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laylah (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 04:36 AM Response to Original message |
8. I do believe |
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sarge43 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 06:27 AM Response to Original message |
9. I know very little about most of them, so educated guess |
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vadawg (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 06:48 AM Response to Original message |
10. no idea exactly were, depended apon the season really |
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MorningGlow (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 06:57 AM Response to Original message |
11. All 8: Sicily |
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Chan790 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:17 AM Response to Original message |
12. Me: |
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Glorfindel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:20 AM Response to Original message |
13. Two in Buncombe County, North Carolina |
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hippywife (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:24 AM Response to Original message |
14. Northern and Southern Italy. n/t |
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Spider Jerusalem (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:54 AM Response to Original message |
15. Father's grandparents: two in Washington DC, two in Georgia. Mother's: all in Kentucky. |
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av8rdave (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:03 AM Response to Original message |
16. More than likely a farmhouse |
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The Velveteen Ocelot (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:05 AM Response to Original message |
17. Wisconsin, Ohio and Nebraska. |
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Moondog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:08 AM Response to Original message |
18. Two in Philadelphia, two in Boston, two in Scotland, two in England. n/t |
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rurallib (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:26 AM Response to Original message |
19. gotta guess here |
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undeterred (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
20. At home. |
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AwakeAtLast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:45 AM Response to Original message |
21. Wow, I have to think about that |
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dana_b (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:55 AM Response to Original message |
22. not sure of all of them |
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cherish44 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 12:28 PM Response to Original message |
23. Dad's side: Kentucky and Illinois, Mom's side: Chicago |
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AngryAmish (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 12:42 PM Response to Original message |
24. All in Ireland |
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elocs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 12:50 PM Response to Original message |
25. On my mother's side it would likely be NY where I was born. |
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SoxFan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 01:02 PM Response to Original message |
26. Grandparents all born in Ireland |
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michreject (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 02:29 PM Response to Original message |
28. 2 from Ireland |
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SidneyCarton (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 02:35 PM Response to Original message |
29. here they are |
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GCP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 02:38 PM Response to Original message |
30. All in the UK except for 1 Irishman |
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azmouse (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 02:47 PM Response to Original message |
31. All but one was born in Berks Co, PA. |
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CBR (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 03:14 PM Response to Original message |
32. They were born in... |
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cloudbase (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 03:17 PM Response to Original message |
33. Same place as my parents. |
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Nikia (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 03:18 PM Response to Original message |
34. All in US |
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TheCentepedeShoes (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 03:34 PM Response to Original message |
35. All in US |
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livetohike (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
36. All eight grandparents were born in the Austro- Hungarian Empire |
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NNadir (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 04:29 PM Response to Original message |
37. Two in Germany, one in Austria (but had a Hungarian name), one in Scotland, the rest in the US. |
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Call Me Wesley (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 04:37 PM Response to Original message |
38. Italy and Switzerland. |
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bif (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
39. All in Poland |
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nickinSTL (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 05:17 PM Response to Original message |
40. I'd have to look it up, but I think they were all in the US |
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tabbycat31 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 05:21 PM Response to Original message |
41. all in the US |
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deoxyribonuclease (206 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 06:09 PM Response to Original message |
42. All in Taiwan |
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madamesilverspurs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 06:26 PM Response to Original message |
43. On one side, Denmark. |
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Bucky (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 06:49 PM Response to Original message |
44. Arkansas, Missouri, one from Tennessee |
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Louisiana1976 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 06:57 PM Response to Original message |
45. The Philippines, Italy, Germany, Maryland, and Massachusetts |
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MrScorpio (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 06:59 PM Response to Original message |
46. Alabama! |
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ShenandoahAspen (367 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 07:02 PM Response to Original message |
47. the Carolinas. |
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greendog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 07:49 PM Response to Original message |
48. Kingdom of Hannover(2), USA(6) |
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kwassa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:03 PM Response to Original message |
49. well he fought in the Civil War as part of the First Maine Cavalry |
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BlueCollar (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
50. Burma/Scotland/England..n/t |
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bigwillq (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:22 PM Response to Original message |
51. Italy (nt) |
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maryellen99 (342 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
52. Ireland and Hungary |
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merh (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:34 PM Response to Original message |
53. Poland |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 08:40 PM Response to Original message |
54. My mother's father was born in NYC; her mother was born in Boston. Irish Catholics |
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femmocrat (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 09:20 PM Response to Original message |
55. All were from Czechoslovakia. |
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carpetbagger (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 09:31 PM Response to Original message |
56. Brooklyn, Albany, Sweden and Scotland. |
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Odin2005 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 09:38 PM Response to Original message |
57. My paternal gt-grandparents were born in Grodas, Norway. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 09:51 PM Response to Original message |
59. Four in Norway, two in Germany, two in Latvia |
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ashling (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 10:14 PM Response to Original message |
60. 1 in Alabama |
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MrMickeysMom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 10:24 PM Response to Original message |
61. All Southern Italy |
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704wipes (966 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
62. Germany, Ohio, Illinois, Minnesota |
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Skittles (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:11 PM Response to Original message |
63. England and Norway |
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tigereye (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sat Aug-29-09 11:58 PM Response to Original message |
66. Ireland, Canada and the Alsace |
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donheld (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 12:00 AM Response to Original message |
67. I haven't a clue |
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trackfan (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 12:19 AM Response to Original message |
68. All in Apulia, I think. |
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sakabatou (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 12:20 AM Response to Original message |
69. I only know 2 and that's Lithuania |
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Rhiannon12866 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 02:10 AM Response to Original message |
70. Okay... |
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proteus_lives (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 02:46 AM Response to Original message |
71. Indiana and North Carolina. |
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Sebastian Doyle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Sun Aug-30-09 02:51 AM Response to Original message |
72. One of my grandfathers was born in Hong Kong |
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