How many different countries were your great grandparents born in?

[Mr. Morden]

How many different countries were your great grandparents born in?  For simplicity, use modern international borders to define different countries, so as not to have to pull out pre-WWI maps.  (Though I guess many of the young folks here wouldn’t have great grandparents born before WWI.)  Or if you really want to use international borders as they existed at the time, fine.  Go ahead.  I leave it up to you decide how to count the constituent pieces of the UK.

For me it’s 5:

3 born in Canada (all in Ontario)
2 born in the US (one in Chicago and one in Milwaukee)
1 born in the UK (in Cornwall, England)
1 born in Germany (in Westphalia)
1 born in Norway

[Hammy]

All four great-grandparents on my mother's side were born in the US (of Irish, German, Scottish, Dutch ancestry) and all four great-grandparents on my father's side were born in Campania in Italy (their families originating from Sicily.)

[Classic Conservative]

4; 3 of which were born in Sicily and one was born in Marche.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Just Italy.

[sparkey]

7/8 USA (2 KY, 2 MO, 1 AL, 1 IA, 1 TX)
1/8 UK (1 Wales)

[RI]

All from US.

[Lexii, harbinger of chaos and sexual anarchy]

2 Germany
2 Peru
1 Argentina
1 Argentina, or maybe Italy (?)
1 Venezuela
1 France

[pikachu]

All were born before Partition, so two using modern borders, one if using pre-Independence ones.

[Sumner 1868]

4 born in the United States
2 born in Ireland
1 born in Britain
1 born in Sweden

[LLR]

Four:

Lithuania
Poland
Romania (2x)
USA (4x)

[Spamage]

2:

1-Germany (Westphalia)
7- United States (Minnesota, Illinois, Oregon (X4), Wisconsin)

[NeverAgain]

All from US.

^^^

The question really is what if your grandparents were born on the border?

[100% pro-life no matter what]

All born in America (4 PA, 2 NC, 2 SC).  My mom's dad's family has been in North Carolina for centuries.

[Bakersfield Uber Alles]

7 in the US
1 in Canada (Prince Edward Island)

That makes me one eh-th Canadian.

[angus]

How many different countries were your great grandparents born in? 

I don't know.  I do know that each of my four grandparents were born in a different country, and none were born in the United States.  I'd guess 4 for my great grandparents but I don't know for sure since I can only trace my lineage back to the four immigrants who came to the US.

I do know that both of my parents were born in the US.  I actually have their birth certificates.

[Intell]

4 in Nepal, 2 in Previously Nepali Territory in India, 2 in India on the border of India-Nepal.

[Mr. Smith]

2, USA and Italy

6 born in the USA (4 in Arizona, 1 in Kentucky, idk the specifics of the other), 2 born in Italy (Calabria and around Naples specifically)

[Crumpets]

One was born in France, the rest were born in the US as far as I know. One was born en route from Russia, but still on US soil. I don't know much about my paternal grandmother's parents, but I think they were born here as well.

So 2, to the best of my knowledge.

[nclib]

I've been told where each of my grandparents' parents emigrated from (each of my grandparents had their parents born in a different country, and none in the US) and it's likely that that's where they were born.

4: Russia, Italy (Sicily), Latvia, Poland

As for as I know those were the international borders at the time and I don't know how/whether those are borders today.

[parochial boy]

4 in the UK (3 in Scotland and 1 in Northern Ireland)
2 in Switzerland (Geneva)
2 in France (Brittany)

[Torie]

All were born in the US, but one, so that makes two countries. The most recent immigrant was one of my great grandfathers who moved to Brooklyn from Montreal in the early 1870's. I know via the Sarah Wildes connection (a Salem witch), that one ancestor and his wife (William and Abigail Averell) moved to Ipswich, MA in 1637. The details of all of my other ancestor immigrants are unknown, lost in the mists of time. The Dunn clan, my surname, pop up in Mathews County, VA around 1750, but nobody has any idea when they first arrived, and probably never will. The record keeping down there is sketchy, and all the real estate records were burned in Richmond (where they were sent for safe keeping during the Civil War) in 1865 when the Yankees moved in. All that are left are some tax records.

[Mr. Morden]

All in the US. The most recent immigrant was one of my great grandfathers who moved to Brooklyn from Montreal in the early 1870's.

Am I missing something here?  The question was how many countries were your great grandparents born in.  You said that yours were all born in the US, but then in the next sentence said that one of them immigrated to the US from Montreal.  If one of your great grandparents was an immigrant to the US from Canada, then wasn't he born outside the US?

[Torie]

I missed the word "great." So the erratum has been corrected. Thank you.

[Mr. Morden]

I missed the word "great." So the erratum has been corrected. Thank you.

Ah, no problem.  Btw, I just recently found out that (assuming records are correct) one of the Canadian branches of my family tree has a sub-branch that extends back to the Dutch settlement of New Amsterdam.  So the earliest direct ancestor of mine to be born in North America was born some time between 1640 and 1642 in what's now NYC, and she lived most of her life in whatever the settlement was that's now Kingston, just down the river from you in Hudson.  While she was born around 1640, I don't know what years the respective families of her parents immigrated from Europe, so I can't say whether I can match your 1637 date or not.

[Türkisblau]

2 from Wales (Methyr Tydfil, from Irish who immigrated for work)
2 from Ireland (County Cork, only town we know of is Skibbereen)
3 from the American South (Mississippi, Louisiana, and Arkansas)
1 from California (San Mateo)

That makes 3 countries (4 depending on what you consider the South )