In what century did you ancestors immigrate to the U.S.?

[Platypus]

Migrendel is a Lowell.

[Hitchabrut]

Options 9 and 10

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Chose:
Mother: 1700-1750
Father: 1800-1850

But I could pretty much check the pre-1492 AND every box from 1600 through 1950, because I have ancestors who came here during all of those periods:

Native Americans
Early New-England Colonists
Late Colonial Southern Scotts-Irish
Southern Ante-bellum Jews (yes, they really existed).
Scandanavian, c. 1870
My Jewish grandmother, who escaped Nazi Germany for America in 1936.

[Beefalow and the Consumer]

Anyone here know if their family came over the on the Mayflower? Or perhaps with John Smith and settled Jamestown? I know Migrendel says he is a member of the "Mayflower Families" as they are called. If you dont know you really should research your family as I have done. You can really find some interesting things.

I once went out with a girl who was a direct descendant of Roger Williams (Founder of Rhode Island Colony).

My great grandmother is a Hale - direct descendant of Nathan Hale's brother.  So I know I go back to colonial times in some parts of my mom's family.  There are rumors in the family that we have some Mayflower lineage, but I find it unlikely.  It doesn't help that we have no contact with my maternal grandfather's family whatsoever.  And the fact that when my grandfather was born, his father was 57, kind of messes up our link to past generations.

If anyone knows anything about a Steven Grant Forbes, born 1865 to a John Wesley Forbes, I would be quite grateful.

[DaleC76]

The only one I know for sure is my Cherokee side.

[12th Doctor]

Well, with my mothers side, the Germans came over in the 1680's-1720's.  The Irish 1820's-1840's.  And I don't know my real father, so it is hard to say there.  I don't count that side of my family anyway.

[bgwah]

Heh, I bet there are hundreds of people who have the same ancestors who were among the earlier colonists!

On my dads side, if I follow my last name, they moved here in 1727, to North Carolina (although may have briefly been in Pennsylvania).

My moms side, I don't know. I think mid-late 1800's is most likely, so I'll go with them. I don't know very much about my mom's family. I think they moved to Montana.

As for Washington, I suppose I'm a little Yakima Indian (not much...), so going that way my familys been in Washington for probably thousands of years? My first white ancestors didn't move here until 1853. The first ones with my last name moved here before 1899 but I don't know the exact year.