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My mother and all my ancestors on her side of the family were born in Lithuania. Me my dad and my grandmother were all born in North Dakota. My grandfather was born in Minnesota. My great grandfather was born in Maryland. My great grandmother was born in Ontario.
I was born and raised in California, but my parents came from the side of the U.S. My father's U.S. ancestry, starting in the late 1800s, was New York and New Jersey. My mom's U.S. ancestry, starting in the 1600s, was Virginia and North Carolina at first, then Georgia and Tennessee, and then Alabama and Florida.
So, my ancestry stayed in the Eastern Seaboard and Dixie until my parents decided to move to California. I've always felt a bit left out not having ancestors involved in the major westward migrations across the country's midsection, but I have found some cousins whose family line experienced that.
Most immigrated to America centuries ago....Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia mostly (several in Carolina)....then mostly settled in Virginia, Kentucky, Pennsylvania and Indiana primarily....
then spread out all over the United States over time. I think we might be gypsies!
My early ancestry is almost exclusively tied to Rhode Island and Massachusetts,primarily within the 50 miles between Providence and Boston. The only other area in the US where my direct ancestors lived was a branch in NYC that included a set of 3rd great grandparents and a great great grandfather. The great majority of my extended family still lives in the RI and Mass area with some scattered elsewhere, including a niece that lives in NYC. I guess after coming from Europe, the family has for some 175 years stayed pretty much close to the areas where they first settled after crossing the Atlantic.
Me born and raised in California, mother and father also born and raised in California. Mother's father and his family from Pennsylvania (colonial ancestry) and New York. Mother's mother and her family from Utah (Mormon settlers). Father's father and his family from Iowa and Western Pennsylvania, father's mother and her family from Ohio.
It's fun to think of US states as ancestries, in which case I'm pretty mixed up lol. Would be interested to hear if anyone here has multiple generations of family who stayed in the same state or region since forever.
I'm pretty close. As mentioned in this thread, if you are talking about US States, all of my ancestors save one 4x greatgrandfather (I may have said 3x in the first post by mistake, going by memory here) and probably his wife have only lived in Maryland. All of my colonial ancestors were in Western Maryland, or on the Mason-Dixon border by the Revolution, and my immigrant ancestors, the last of which came in the 1890s, immigrated right to my home county, Allegany.
That one 4x greatgrandfather was a Virginian who moved to Missouri than to Allegany County after the Civil War. We don't know his wife's name for sure, he was a widower when he moved here, but we think she was a Virginian too.
I should add I have a great-great grandfather who was an immigrant that only stayed briefly in Allegany County before moving to PA as a young man. He was not married to my great-great grandmother, so she and the baby stayed here. He was a DNA discovery.
Would be interested to hear if anyone here has multiple generations of family who stayed in the same state or region since forever.
Thinking about this, my grandfather's ancestry is very close to this. His entire ancestry is colonial and settled in Pennsylvania. His mother's side did go to Ohio for a few generations, but then came back to PA. His father's side settled in Berk County PA in the 1700s (from Germany) and never left, my grandfather was born in Berks County.
One grandfather came with his parents from Germany to Minnesota. One set of great-grandparents settled in Minnesota after farming a bit in Illinois after coming from Germany. The other sets of great-grandparents came south from Canada into Minnesota after arriving from Ireland and Finland.
I left Minnesota and continued on west till I hit the Pacific. I'm not a fan of Minnesota.
none.
there were no states back then,
and there was no USA, either.
There were colonies that became states though.
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