Exactly how long has your family been in America?My ancestors first came to what is now Louisiana in 1720 as some of the first settlers of New Orleans. After that, some Acadian exiles (Cajuns) from the 1750s. Mostly of Norman stock with some Alsace-Lorraine Franco-Germans.
>>489079528How long can Americans typically trace back their family origins, since it seems quite common with you folks? Here it depends, the most distant ancestor I know of was a guy who lived in 1700
Japanese side came to Hawaii in late 19th century. White side has been in North America (Montreal) since the 1600s.
>>4890795281638 first Irish ancestor
Dude by the 1700s you'd have motherfucking 32,000 ancestors . Let's say a generation is 20 years, that your family on average had their first kid at age 20. 1720 is 15 generations ago.2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great-grandparents, 16, 32, 64, 128, 256, 512, 1024, 2048.... all the way to 32,000.
>>489080037I'm fortunate my French-Canadian grandfather was a genealogy enthusiast and had compiled two thick volumes of genealogical lore for us later plebs.From just my own experience, most Americans can't even say what their great grandparents were up to. They don't know history let alone genealogical history. It's an old art that moderns have no time for -- they are too busy masturbating to gay porn and tiktok.
This is literally my ancestor
>>489080037My grandfather has a book one of his cousin wrote back in the early 1990s where he basically traced their dad and moms line back to their first decedents who came to America in the early 1700s before it was even the United States.
