Straight back paternally, my ancestor came over in 1640. I think it’s 15 generations, but I don’t have the data right here. At least all but one of the ancestors on my fathers side back 5 generations were born in America. I’m not sure about the other, though that’s at least 4. On my mother’s side, I can’t really trace. I know both her grandparents were born here and at least 3 of the greats.
My Mom’s parents came over from Sweden in the 1910’s. Actually, her father came over sometime during 1910 and worked for the passage money and sent for her mother. Her mother got here in 1915. She was pregnant about 4 months before the birth of her first daughter! No wonder. Long ass time to wait. It is kind of cool to only be a second generation 'merican on Mom’s side.
Dad’s side is more convoluted. He’s not really sure and I really can’t find any records…yet. (There was a name change there, I think.) But I think it was the end of the 19th century for both my Dad’s parents.
So…relatively early and pretty cool!
I don’t know how many generations, but we’ve at least traced our family back to the mid 1800s. We’re primarily Scots-Irish in ancestry, and all we really did was find out how our last name changed over time.
No idea how long my family has been here on the paternal lineage (i.e., my surname). My father’s mother’s surname goes back, in the U.S., to a cousin of the Archbishop of Canterbury (who died in 1694). The exact date of John Tillotson’s arrival from England is not known, but the first reference to him here places him in Rowly, MA in 1639. According to a genealogy a family member gave me in high school, which is pretty much the same one a never-met, very-distant cousin posted online and referenced above, my father’s mother’s family name originated from a Norman named Richard de Tilston (born c. 1096), and the earliest reliable ancestor was Nicholas de Tilston (born c. 1276). No such research/document exists (as far as I know) for my family with my surname.
My mom’s family can be traced back to 17th century Massachusetts. My dad’s parents immigrated from Poland, and Dad (b. 1941) was the first one on that side to be born in the US.
My mother’s side arrived in Massachusetts in 1628.
On my father’s side many generations before the white Europeans even found the place.
Yes, from England. Dunno, got any Huntingtons in your family tree?
The maternal grandmother who helped raise me said she was “Scotch Irish”–so her line could go back a ways. Her late (by the time I knew her) husband’s mother was born in Ireland–perhaps his father, too.
My father’s parents came over from East Galway around the turn of the last century. Separately–they met & married here.
One side is easy. All my g-grandparents on that side were born in the old country and came over as young people.
The other side is messier, but generally most lines go back 7-8 generations but several go back 10 generations to very early settlers in New Amsterdam and Virginia. Coming up on 400 years.
My paternal grandparents and my maternal great-grandparents all came from Poland in the early 1900s. So from Dad’s side, I’m second generation American, and from Mom’s side, 3rd generation. I guess that made me Version 2.5! 
Three of my grandparents were born overseas, in the disparate locales of Edinburgh, Kiev, and the outskirts of Warsaw. I have a Revolutionary War ancestor through the fourth grandparent.
Mother’s side: 1620 (Mayflower travelers)
Father’s side: 1842, from Germany
USA-Born: 2/4 grandparents (ca 1870), 2/8 great grandparents, 1/16 great great grandparents. Direct descendant from a ca. 1720 immigrant.
My earliest American ancestors arrived in 1630. I’m 15 generations removed from them, IIRC.
My most recent was my grandmother, who arrived in 1905.
One of my ancestors signed a warrant for 25 acres of land in 1759, which I own and live on over 250 years later. It’s been in the family the whole time.
And another one here whose ancestors pretty much all arrived in 1630. Not sure how many generations it’s been.
Don’t see any Hungtintons on the list. Feltons and Sargents mostly.
Some of my European ancestors have been here about 14-15 generations. My mother’s first ancestors came to Virginia from Scotland around 1620 and my father’s came from England shortly after the Mayflower.
I’ve got Montauk ancestors too but I have no idea how many generations they go back.
It depends on what you mean by recent immigrant. When I was growing up, there were few people my age who were immigrants themselves- but nearly everyone I knew had at least one foreign born parent or grandparent. That parent or grandparent may have immigrated many years before - for example , my immigrant grandparents came here as adults about 40 years before I was born and some of my friends had parents who immigrated as children nearly 20 years before my friends were born. So it wasn’t really a case of recent immigrants moving to a neighborhood with a lot of recent immigrants when I was a kid. It may have been that the children of immigrants tended to remain in the same neighborhood as their parents , but I have the impression that remaining in the same neighborhood where you grew up is more common among native New Yorkers than it is in either the rest or the country or among those who moved to New York from somewhere else.
My direct paternal line (father’s father’s father, etc.) goes back to Jamestown, in 1609.
ETA: I’m going to check that. I think it was actually a few years later.