Just curious!
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My moms side is Native American. On my dad's side, my great-great-great grandparents were immigrants in the 1860s.
DHs great grandparents were all immigrants!
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My family has been here for a while (great grandparents came here), but we still very much have an immigrant mentality... I think it comes from generations concentrated in small tenement apartments in Brooklyn with lots of immigrants. Helps keep perspective! (If you go far enough back, I do have relatives that came here in the 1800's. I would say that side of the family is probably the least like immigrants...)
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My parents came to the US after the Fall of Saigon, so I'm 2nd generation. Hard to believe they've been here longer than they were in Vietnam!
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Hmm. My great-grandparents on my mother's side immigrated here from Germany. My great-grandfather on my dad's side (my grandfather's father) immigrated from Ireland, but his wife (my grandfather's mother) was Native American, as were my paternal grandmother's parents. So 4th generation from one side, 4/5 on the other? Does that make sense, lol?
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I was born in China and immigrated here when I was 3. We grew up very poor, 3-4 families living in a tiny 2 bedroom Chinatown apartment. I think that is why I am so darn CHEAP! LOL Even now that I think DH & I are solid lower middle class I still am cheap/frugal with things.
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Mix of 3rd and 4th generation. My grandmother was from Korea and came over after the war, but my grandfather was born here, but his parents were German.
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@HabesBabe: My parents have been here longer than they were in Korea too! They went back for the first time in 30 years last year and they felt like total foreigners.
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My family has been here forever!
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I don't know how to classify myself. I have always identified as second generation, but my paternal grandparents owned a house in the US, my father attended high school and college in the US, but my mom came after they were married.
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Nope. Looking at my 4 grandparents:
Maternal Grandmother- both her parents were born in the US, don't know farther back but I assume they were here a while because they were very "american" (so 4+ generations)
Maternal Grandfather- all his grandparents (i.e. my great-great grandparents) were born in the US, don't know farther back. (5+ generations)
Paternal Grandmother- We have records back to the 1650s. Most of that generation was born in the US, although a few were born in England and had their kids born in the US. (10/11+ generations)
Paternal Grandfather- My great grandparents immigrated as teenagers and my grandpa was born here. (4th generation)
So basically at least 4th generation, but mostly much more than that.
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My grandma was 1.5 gen to the US. My dad was 1.5 gen to the US. (my grandparents moved to S.A., had him, came back). I immigrated to Canada as an adult.
None of us have had our children in the country of our own births.ETA: 3 of 4 grandparents were born abroad. 1 of 2 parents were born abroad.
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My nanas parents came over from Italy in the 1900s. I'm the third generation Italian-American to be born here (my nana, then my dad, then me).
I'm not entirely sure when my moms dads family came from Ireland. My pap was really into ancestry for awhile & traced us back to the 1500s, but I'm pretty positive even his great-grandparents were born in america
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5+, but then I am from England, living in England
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My fam and Mr P's fam are both Native American. We have other influences obviously, but they've been here so long we don't even know about them. Mr has French, I have German.
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On my dad's side my great-grandparents came here from Russia and Poland. On my mom's side we have relatives that came over in the 1600s and fought in the Revolution. There's even a state park around here with a landmark named after them :).
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Well, my dad's grandfather came over from Germany in the early 1900s. Others came over in the late 1800s and early 1900s from Ireland and Sweden. The rest of my family has been here since the 1600s (Dutch, English, French, Spanish).
ETA - many parts and streets of Brooklyn and Queens are family names.
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On my mom's side, I'm a 4th generation from Ireland.
My dad's family has been here for a much longer time.
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I'm a 2.0er but my older sister is a 1.5er.
ETA: Wait, my sister came over when she was 7. Does that mean she is a 1.0 or 1.5er?
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I'm the 1.5... I moved here when I was 13 from HK.
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@bluestriped bee: I think that still counts as 2... I generally view 1.5ers as fluent in both languages and still considers the first country "home"!
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I know both sets of grandparents were born here, and I'm pretty sure my great grandparents were as well. I know we have Native American blood on my mom's side, however my Great Grandma said she would take it to her grave on how and she did, it was obviously a family scandal back in they day.) I need to find his stuff out, it interests me.
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I have no idea what generation I am, honestly. I know my grandmother's grandmother wasn't first generation, so it's older than that. I know nothing about my mother's bio father's side, and my father passed when I was little and he had no living members at the time, so there's very little info there. I basically know nothing about my bloodlines.
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Not sure what my math would be. My dad arrived in the US before I was born but my mom was 3rd generation American. Now, my DH, son and I are immigrants/expats in another country, but my daughter was born here.
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FIRST GEN!
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I think I'm confused - I thought 1st generation are those that are foreign-born and immigrate to the US...like my parents who were born, raised and married in Korea but moved to the US and became citizens. And any children they had that were born in the US become the 2nd generation. And any kids they has in Korean and came over to the US as a baby/child is somewhere in the middle and classified as 1.5 generation.
I'm 1.5 generation - I was born in Korea but came to the US before I was 2 years old
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@mrs. wagon: isn't 1st generation those the immigrates as an adult and 1.5 those that immigrated as babies/kids?
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@sandy: an immigrant comes to a country after they are born.. I'm not positive on where the line is for 1.5 generation since it's not really an official thing?
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3rd!
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My husband likes to brag that he married "Mayflower Material" since his family missed the boat LOL
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Both sides of my family have been here for a while, with the exception of my grandmother who came here from Poland when she was a young child (5 or 6). All my other relatives came from Ireland.
On my dad's side, the earliest relative came over as an indentured servant for Andrew Carnegie.
On my mom's side, we're not entirely sure the date they came, but it was before the civil war, since one of the family heirlooms we have is some great-grandfather's discharge papers from the union army
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Most of Mom's side has been here since erm, slavery.
Dad came to this country as a teenager. -
3rd! My mum's parents came from England and Ireland and my dad's parents came from Austria. Both my parents were born in Canada, as was I.
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Right now, 1.5-ish. Came here as an adult, LO was born here and has citizenship. But, unless something dramatic happens and we decide to stay, we'll go back home where I am second generation on my mum's side and many, many generations on my dad's side, and LO will be a dual citizen.
Its sort of strange to think about because I'm a non-immigrant alien but after seven years have pretty strong ties to the US, whereas my daughter will likely have no memory of where she was born but is a citizen. Global/ex pat identities are interesting.
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Both my parents are first generation. They were born in Taiwan and immigrated in there 20's. I am second generation
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I came to America when I was 4 months old!
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@Mrs. Jacks: Out of curiosity, what is immigrant mentality?
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My dad's family has been in America so long that we've lost our lineage. Don't even know where we are from. England or Ireland we think. I'm AT LEAST 5th generation and probably much more than that. I know my great great grandparents were born here but that's as far as ancestry.com will take me.
My mom's fathers side of the family is Native American. I'm 1/16th I believe...but I don't look like it and we never associated with them so we lost all traditions.
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@Mrs. Polish: work hard, usually in the trades, no vacations or extras, still speak the mother tongue, sacrifice everything for the next generation, extended family is everything... Large families. (I'm the first person on either side of my family to go to college).
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@bluestriped bee: @mrs. wagon: I would actually label bluestriped bee's sister as a 1.5-er... I thought they were only considered 2nd generation if they were actually born in the states.
I'm 2nd generation. Both my parents immigrated from Taiwan post college and attended grad school in the states. They've been here since their mid-20s, and both speak excellent English and Chinese.
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