How recently did your family arrive?

[Tulip]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

5, excuses, excuses.
A few years back I visited the neighborhood I lived in until 3. That huge backyard between the rows of houses, the one that was too far to walk to the neighbors... is about 50 feet.

Hey, being only 5 then is a damn good excuse! Seriously, I don't remember much from that age. I know someone who remembers stuff when he was 3. Impressive. As for childhood memories, ever remember something tasting really great but it just doesn't seem so good 20 something years later? ehehhehehe......I guess some things are best kept as memories.

[chrisinhouston]

On my mother's side, one set of my great grandparents came from Luxembourg in 1890, the other set came from Sweden in 1888 and all became farm families up in Minnesota.

My dad moved here in 1948 from England with my mother where they were married after the war.

[Griff]

1820 Paternal side was a failed brewer in Ireland...pause for effect... 184ish Maternal side came in the coffin ships during the famine.

[ZenGum]

Failed brewer in Ireland?? How??

I was wrong - my earliest ancestor arrived in chains in 1792. European settlement only began here in 1788.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by ZenGum

Failed brewer in Ireland?? How??

There has been a fair bit of white-washing of my family but a quick look at his descendants would suggest a bit of fox in the hen house syndrome.

[xoxoxoBruce]

A failure to con-municate?

[Gravdigr]

1608. From Scotland.

[Flint]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

How recently did your family arrive?

Most recently: My father's grandfather immigrated from England.

Least recently: My mother's sister was in the Daughters of the American Revolution.

These are places, not times. That is all.

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by Griff

1820 Paternal side was a failed brewer in Ireland...pause for effect... 184ish Maternal side came in the coffin ships during the famine.

It was not a famine, holocaust denier.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Actually it was.
famine
▸ noun: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
▸ noun: an acute insufficiency

That fact that it was engineered and intentional doesn't change that it was a famine.

[Griff]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

A failure to con-municate?

I would suggest a failure to leave the cork in the bottle.

[squirell nutkin]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Actually it was.
famine
▸ noun: a severe shortage of food (as through crop failure) resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death
▸ noun: an acute insufficiency

That fact that it was engineered and intentional doesn't change that it was a famine.

Actually, it wasn't:
from a wikipedia article on The Great Hunger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Famine_(Ireland)

Christine Kinealy, a University of Liverpool fellow and author of two texts on the famine, Irish Famine: This Great Calamity and A Death-Dealing Famine, writes that Irish exports of calves, livestock (except pigs), bacon and ham actually increased during the famine. The food was shipped under guard from the most famine-stricken parts of Ireland. However, the poor had no money to buy food and the government then did not ban exports

From an article I read at this collection, http://www.thegreathunger.org/
"In the worst year of 'the famine' Ireland exported 880,000 pounds of butter to England under armed guard..."

You can hardly call it a famine if there is plenty of food. The problem stemmed from England's handling of the situation.

[Griff]

My bad. Genocide is a better word for it.

[monster]

yeah well, gotta keep the paddy population down or they drink all your beer and beget more gingers.....

[kerosene]

All of my ancestors came here from Russia in the 1920s-1930s. Before that, they were in Germany until the early 1700s. Before that, they were probably somewhere near the Gauls. I can trace my line back to the 1300s.