Maternal Grandmothers side came here from Ireland in the 1910s.
Maternal Grandfathers side was here before the Civil War.
One side of my dad’s family immigrated here from Germany in the late 1700s, while another side came over from a now extinct former USSR country in the early 1900s.
The last ancestor I had born out of the US was one great-grandfather. The other lines go back at least two generations more.
My maternal grandmother’s (her surname was Kasson) first known ancestor arrived in the colony of Conneticut back in 1722. That family bred like rabbits. That first guy and his wife had eight kids, and for at least two generations after that was the norm for the descendants.
This guy, John Adam Kasson is a very distant relative. I figured it out once as third cousin five times removed. The closest ancestor we share is that first guy and his wife(Adam Kasson and Jane Hall Kasson) who came here in 1722.
On the paternal side legend had it that my grandparents came here with 2 sons and left a daughter behind with her family in Germany and my father being the first born here. According to ancestry.com that was a bit of hooey and so far 4 generations back (as far as I have went) have been born in the USA.
On the maternal side 20-40,000 years and 3 maybe more generations. Found out that one great-grandpa was listed on various Censuses as Mulatto and from the South, then Canada before marrying a Native woman who had family on both sides of the border and settled in Minnesota.
My cousin on my dad’s side did extensive research into this. For the lulz, I looked up my father, to his father, to his father, up the line patrilineally until I got to the man whose birth was in Germany and whose death was in the New World. He came c. 1756.
On my Dads side, quite a few, at least five, may be more.
I thought I answered this thread already, but must’ve been another one.
Father’s side: Both grand parents born in Europe.
Mother’s side: Not Mayflower, but one of then next few ships. Got a DoI and Constitution signatory in that line.
It’s a three-year-old zombie so there’s a good chance you did answer it previously. I did too, and needless to say nothing has changed - I’m still a zeroth-generation American.
I know it’s a zombie. I went back and looked for earlier posts by me and couldn’t find any.
I’m not sure of the actual number of generations, but my earliest ancestor left England in 1643. I don’t know the exact year he arrive in the colonies (either 1643 or 1644) If one assumes a hair less than 25 years per generation, that would come out to 15 generations.
I suspect that most of my early ancestors came either as indentured servants, or as religious “refugees”
Our family historians have not found anyone that entered the US after the early 1800s. However, I do count my (some number of greats) grandmother who was born in Austin Colony and was therefore a Mexican national. She didn’t go through customs when Texas transformed itself from part of Mexico to an independent country to a state of the USA. So I consider myself to be partly Mexican!
Most of my great-great-grandparents immigrated here, except for one set of great-grandparents. However, one set of great-great-granparents were from Canada, so who knows how long they’ve been in the New World?