americans/canadians, when did your ancestors arrive in the americas? (reply if you know specifics please) ((i am just being nosy because i love you all and wanna swap juicy family lore))
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Replying to @lenofi
definitely a range from 1492 - 1865 to present. My American ancestors settled pretty early, whereas my Canadian ancestors are more from the 19th c. to 20th c.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
so a nice long history of folks dippin their toes in. i personally long for finding some unknown european relative who came over early enough to be part of historical events other than like wwii!
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Replying to @lenofi
definitely have a lot of ancestors who were in the civil war, and I think possibly the revolutionary war. But I do have one AfAm ancestor, but I know nothing about his parentage which makes me think he was an enslaved person, or his parents were. He lived in New Hampshire.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @lenofi
and his daughter, who was my ancestor too, she got into legal trouble for something but I can't recall what off the top of my head. But the two of them had a boarder who was an enslaved man who remembers being stolen from his home when he was a child, I think he was interviewed
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @lenofi
about his childhood, I found something about it in a very old book ages ago.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip @lenofi
my most interesting European ancestor was my gr-gr-grandmother (I think) who emigrated to Canada at 16 from Scotland, was a maid, had a child from wedlock, her husband (not the father) died from a brick falling on his head, and she ran a brothel and died in a prison hospital.
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she was great. She tried to make her way for a poor Scottish woman and she did it. My mom gets mad at me for saying it's awesome because her life was sad too, but she did what she could to survive. And I think that deserves respect.
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