# Another immigrant poll **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 15, 2011, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180 "2011-07-15T21:48:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bb73d2/32.png) [@Sleeps\_With\_Butterflies](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sleeps_With_Butterflies)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 8:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/21 "2011-07-16T08:57:25Z")
My mother and her family came from Italy when she was a teenager. My paternal grandmother and her family came from Ireland when my grandmother was 9. My paternal grandfather’s family came from Sweden many generations ago ---
**Author:** ![Becky2844](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/91b2a8/32.png) [@Becky2844](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Becky2844)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 9:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/22 "2011-07-16T09:28:41Z")
well, how smart are you, huh? what thesis are we covering now…basically, " " (forget) you. my “ppl” came from many different countries. and they all came here legally. for your information I’ll use the catch-phrase “Scotch-Irish” which means pissed off for you asking. ---
**Author:** ![dangermom](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@dangermom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dangermom)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/23 "2011-07-16T15:46:46Z")
> [@CanvasShoes](#): > > You just reminded me I want to go on that genealogy website. There’s just GOT to be a pirate or scoundrel somewhere in my bloodline. 😃 You can have some of mine; I’ve got plenty to share! ---
**Author:** ![nashiitashii](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7c8e57/32.png) [@nashiitashii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nashiitashii)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/24 "2011-07-16T16:16:59Z")
> [@VunderBob](#): > > Scandinavia is not a country, you idiot. No, but the cluster of countries that it makes up are distinct from other parts of Europe culturally. 😛 I wasn’t entirely sure what to do with “left Odessa in the early 1900s” so I picked “Central Europe” as the other half of my ancestry. ---
**Author:** ![BetsQ](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/fbc32d/32.png) [@BetsQ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BetsQ)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/25 "2011-07-16T16:41:06Z")
My grandfather was born in Canada. However, my great-grandfather was from Kentucky and my great-grandmother was from Scotland. I’ve selected Canada, even though it was only a brief stopover. ---
**Author:** ![RedWood](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f08c70/32.png) [@RedWood](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RedWood)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/26 "2011-07-16T16:46:02Z")
Four grandparents: Mom’s Mom: born in Norway Mom’s Dad: born in Denmark Dad’s Dad: born in Sweden Dad’s Mom: conceived in Italy, born in California I said Italy and Scandinavia… and the Italian culture was so strong that it dominated my childhood. ---
**Author:** ![Troubles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Troubles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Troubles)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/27 "2011-07-16T16:57:11Z")
I came to the US from Saudi Arabia in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/28 "2011-07-16T19:14:11Z")
Ireland, to escape the famine. (However things got a little confusing when I noticed many of my Irish ancestors had German names or Ashkenazi names.) ---
**Author:** ![pullin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c57346/32.png) [@pullin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pullin)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/29 "2011-07-16T20:31:39Z")
Most recent was from Ireland. Around 1845. (Escaping the famine, as above) ---
**Author:** ![Lynn\_Bodoni](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e47c2d/32.png) [@Lynn\_Bodoni](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lynn_Bodoni)\ **Post date:** [July 16, 2011, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/30 "2011-07-16T22:54:54Z")
> [@](#): > > Obviously, I couldn’t include every possible country among the choices (especially when some of our ancestors came from countries which don’t exist anymore.) So I tried to be reasonable in grouping countries together. My apologies in advance to anyone who is offended because their ancestral homeland wasn’t mentioned by name. My father’s parents came from Sicily, and they would be offended by your question, as they always said that they were NOT from Italy. However, that’s what I checked off. My mother’s ancestors mostly came from the British Isles, but that was some generations back. ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 17, 2011, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/31 "2011-07-17T17:53:22Z")
Part Sicilian, Norwegian, Welsh and Irish - with a wee bit of Native American way, way back. ---
**Author:** ![Scubaqueen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c0e974/32.png) [@Scubaqueen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scubaqueen)\ **Post date:** [July 18, 2011, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180/32 "2011-07-18T15:41:16Z")
I chose the UK because my ancestry is pretty one-sided. On Mother’s side I’m Irish, English, Scot and French. I’m also fifth-generation American, which means I’m eligible for the DAR. By comparison, on Dad’s side, we’re barely here. 😃 His father arrived from Germany in the early 1900s. Dad spoke German (with an American accent) before he spoke English, I’m told. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/another-immigrant-poll/589180.md?page=1)