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« Reply #25 on: July 12, 2016, 12:35:30 AM »
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« Reply #26 on: July 12, 2016, 12:47:44 AM »
Only my father.  My mother was born in Canada.  (Though she left at a pretty young age, and so doesn't actually know anything about hockey.)
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« Reply #27 on: July 12, 2016, 01:49:58 AM »
Mom born in Massachusetts, dad born in New Jersey.
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« Reply #28 on: July 12, 2016, 01:19:24 PM »
Both born in Iowa.  Me in the distant lands of Kansas City, Mo.
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« Reply #29 on: July 12, 2016, 01:32:35 PM »
Yes, even in the same district/county - but not the same city.
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« Reply #30 on: July 12, 2016, 03:30:19 PM »
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« Reply #31 on: July 12, 2016, 03:41:44 PM »
Same.
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« Reply #32 on: July 13, 2016, 09:22:23 AM »
Quote from: Poo-tee-weet? on July 12, 2016, 01:49:58 AM
Mom born in Massachusetts, dad born in New Jersey.

Those are two different countries right there.  Smiley
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« Reply #33 on: July 14, 2016, 06:24:05 AM »
Yeah, they were both born in Ohio
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« Reply #34 on: July 14, 2016, 09:51:24 AM »
Yes. You have to go a few generations back in my ancestry to find a non-American.
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« Reply #35 on: July 14, 2016, 06:22:29 PM »
No, and not in the same country as each other.
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« Reply #36 on: July 14, 2016, 09:41:51 PM »
One of them.
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« Reply #37 on: July 14, 2016, 11:08:43 PM »
Quote from: Poo-tee-weet? on July 12, 2016, 01:49:58 AM
Mom born in Massachusetts, dad born in New Jersey.

So no.

ETA:  Grumps kind of beat me to that joke.
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« Reply #38 on: July 14, 2016, 11:25:35 PM »
Yep! Mom was born in CT, dad in IL
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« Reply #39 on: July 17, 2016, 03:52:45 AM »
Yes, although my dad was born in a different state. I was born in California, like my mom, her mom, and even her mom. What I do know is that my grandma's grandma (i.e. my great-great-grandmother was born in Victorian England and moved to San Francisco shortly after the 1906 earthquake). I'm fairly sure my dad's maternal side hasn't been in this country nearly as long, as I know my dad's maternal grandmother was primarily fluent in Slovenian and died fairly early of Alzheimer's (at least 10 years before I was born).

To expand upon the question here, all of my grandparents were also born in the United States. It is at the great-grandparent and great-great-grandparent level that things become more complicated. I am fairly certain that no ancestor of mine was in the United States prior to the 20th century.
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« Reply #40 on: July 26, 2016, 01:57:35 PM »
No, certainly not.
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« Reply #41 on: May 28, 2019, 11:16:53 PM »
 
Quote from: TDAS04 on July 10, 2016, 01:08:20 PM
I included the last option since borders change.  How would a German-born person answer if his parents were born in German parts of present-day Poland prior to WWII?

Anyway, option 3 for me.  My mom was born in Iowa, but my dad was born in British India.  He was born in Lahore, which is in present-day Pakistan, and when he was a baby, his family had to flee to Indian Punjab after the partition of 1947.

Wow, I'm half Punjabi half white too! Other fleeing direction for my family though, but my dad was born a few years after partition in Faisalabad (Lyallpur). My mom was born in Ufa Bashkir SSR Russian SFSR USSR. And I was born in Dallas so option 2 for me. What part of Indian Punjab did they end up settling in?
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« Reply #42 on: May 28, 2019, 11:54:43 PM »
Mom was born in California, dad in Wyoming, me in Nevada.
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« Reply #43 on: May 28, 2019, 11:59:37 PM »
Mom was a child of the suburbs... dad was a child of the corn (nebraska)
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« Reply #44 on: May 29, 2019, 12:08:17 AM »
Yes, but both of my mother's parents were born in Italy.
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« Reply #45 on: May 29, 2019, 12:19:46 AM »
Yes
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« Reply #46 on: May 29, 2019, 12:26:10 AM »
Yes.
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« Reply #47 on: May 29, 2019, 12:33:09 AM »
Both in Chicago, and neither ever wanted to go back there except my dad to visit family.
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« Reply #48 on: May 29, 2019, 06:51:42 AM »
Nope.

I was born in France, my dad in Louisiana and my mom in Michigan.
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« Reply #49 on: May 29, 2019, 07:01:21 AM »
Dad was born in Puerto Rico. Mom was born in Alaska.
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