How many generations down a New Yorker are you?

[Airborneguy]

I wasn't born here, but that was due to military service so it shouldn't really count. My father's father was born here, so definitely 3rd but possibly 4th. I do not know if his mother was born here (no one knows much about her as she died young). His father was not, he was born on the ship on the way over from Armenia. My kids were born here so they are 4th.

More importantly, my entire NYC-line has always lived on Staten Island. We can bemoan the Brooklyn invasion proudly.

[Merrily Gather]

Well, if we're counting ancestors who immigrated through there then 7th - 8th generation for me through various family members on both sides. Other than that I don't have any other claim on it that I know of. I only rencently discovered this about my family tree in the past three years and that was partly because this forum made me interested in if I had any connection. Besides JFK being my first generation immigrant husband's point of entry.