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TDAS04
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« on: July 10, 2016, 01:08:20 PM »
« edited: July 10, 2016, 01:39:34 PM by TDAS04 »
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.
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« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2016, 01:13:03 PM »
« Edited: July 10, 2016, 01:16:17 PM by Kalwejt »
Same country, same city, same Warsaw Pact Tongue

My grandparents, though, were each from diffrent parts of the country, although places they were born in are still within our borders.

- Maternal grandmother: Świętokrzyskie Mountains
- Maternal grandfather: Warsaw
- Paternal grandmother: Marki (currently pretty much the same metro area as Warsaw)
- Paternal grandfather: Sejny (close to current border with Lithuania)

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?

My parent's friend is such a case. He was born in 1947 pretty much on the new Polish-German border. He was born on the Polish side, but it was later to become German side due to further corrections.

My Arabic professor, who's Syrian, used to say he was one "by accident", since he was born on the Syrian-Iraqi border and "it could have gone wither way".
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« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2016, 01:14:34 PM »
Yes; Massachusetts and West Virginia.
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« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2016, 01:14:58 PM »
Yes. Although some extreme AIM types and sovereign citizen loonies would probably argue that they were not born in the same country they lived in and served as my legal residence when I was born.
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« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2016, 01:17:17 PM »
Nope. Both of my parents were born in Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union. I was born in New York City.
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« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2016, 01:26:25 PM »
Same city for my mom. Different country (and about 1000 kilometers South) for my dad.
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« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2016, 02:19:30 PM »
Yep, but both are from New York.
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« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2016, 04:00:01 PM »
Same county for my Mom (she was born about 2 miles Northwest of where I was born), whereas my Dad was born in the UK.
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« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2016, 04:20:39 PM »
Quote from: I did not see L.A. on July 10, 2016, 01:26:25 PM
Different country (and about 1000 kilometers South) for my dad.

You mean Libya?
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« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2016, 04:25:42 PM »
Only my mother.
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« Reply #10 on: July 10, 2016, 04:30:52 PM »
Quote from: Kalwejt on July 10, 2016, 04:20:39 PM
Quote from: I did not see L.A. on July 10, 2016, 01:26:25 PM
Different country (and about 1000 kilometers South) for my dad.

You mean Libya?

Basically yeah. The southernmost tip of continental Italy. Tongue
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« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2016, 05:17:14 PM »
My mom was born in America, but my dad was adopted so I'm not sure if he was.
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« Reply #12 on: July 11, 2016, 10:56:09 AM »
Yes. Both my parents and all my grandparents were born in the state and country as me.
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« Reply #13 on: July 11, 2016, 01:21:46 PM »
Only my mother, my dad was born in Greece.
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« Reply #14 on: July 11, 2016, 01:33:46 PM »
Same city, same voivodship, same country, same partition, same continent.

But other district. What is funny my grandmother from father side was born few kilometers from place where my other grandmother was born (and my one grandfather lived). Recently my mother started to make some deep research on her mother family side and actually since XIX century they used to live in the same area. My mother was first to born in big city/some other place than countryside in one particular region as for my grandmother family.
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« Reply #15 on: July 11, 2016, 02:08:10 PM »
Unfortunately, no. But, fortunately for me, I was lucky to grow up outside the spectre of Soviet oppression.
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« Reply #16 on: July 11, 2016, 02:12:06 PM »
Yes, but all of my grandparents were born in Europe. My mom's mother was born in Dublin to Anglo-Irish parents, my mom's father was born in Germany to Dutch-German-Czech parents, my father's father was born in Italy to Italian parents, and my father's mother was born in Slovenia to Slovenian parents.
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« Reply #17 on: July 11, 2016, 04:09:21 PM »
Pure blood Murican
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« Reply #18 on: July 11, 2016, 05:44:33 PM »
I have to go back to great-grandparents born in the 1800's to find ancestors born outside the US.
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« Reply #19 on: July 11, 2016, 05:47:35 PM »
My mom and me were born in the same neighbourhood, but two diffrent hospitals.
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« Reply #20 on: July 11, 2016, 06:02:01 PM »
Nope! I'm born here, they're both born in Sweden
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« Reply #21 on: July 11, 2016, 06:18:02 PM »
Yes, both were born in New Jersey
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« Reply #22 on: July 11, 2016, 06:30:05 PM »
no, my father was born in West Berlin and my mother in a tiny European country, one of my grandparents was born in Buenos Aires though
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« Reply #23 on: July 11, 2016, 08:34:29 PM »
My mother is from the same town I was born in. No idea where my dad was born.
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« Reply #24 on: July 11, 2016, 09:08:57 PM »
Both US, both Illinois!
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