Texas Generations Poll (Dallas, Corpus Christi, Denton: college, live in, to move)

[High_Plains_Retired]

It depends on which ancestors you are talking about since you have two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, sixteen great great grandparents, thirty two great great great grandparents and so on. For me, some of these were in deep east Texas by the 1830s. My grandparent of namesake came at the start of the Civil War.

[TexasReb]

Originally Posted by High_Plains_Retired

It depends on which ancestors you are talking about since you have two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, sixteen great great grandparents, thirty two great great great grandparents and so on. For me, some of these were in deep east Texas by the 1830s. My grandparent of namesake came at the start of the Civil War.

Naturally this is a hard numbers fact, so in many instances it stands to reason there are going to be branches that came to Texas from different regions. HTLove asked the same question and I should have said it in the OP. Anyway, so far as ancestry goes, you have the option in this poll of choosing multiple answers, so you could pick, say, southeast and mid-Atlantic both if the numbers were fairly evenly divided. OR...if a noteable majority came from one region (even though there might be a handful outside of it), then pick the one where clearly most came from. There are no absolute rules; just use your own judgement on it.

[CptnRn]

I just came across this and thought is was relevant. This article about Tarrant County shows that many of the communities have as high as 60-70 percent of its citizens who were born outside of Texas.

In many Northeast Tarrant cities, out-of-towners outnumber native Texans | Census 2010 |...

[texan55]

Native to the area of south texas/northern mexico before the europeans. assimilated after their arrival.

[Pontificator]

Great-great-great-grandfather of Irish descent died in the Civil War in North Carolina. His widow moved from Alabama to the now ghost town of Larissa, Texas, and worked as a seamstress to raise her surviving 4 children.

Aside from this branch of my family, I am a certified "Heinz 57," as my father always said! His family also brought Danish heritage, as well as Cherokee, and on my mother's side, I am Norwegian, English, and Sioux. And that's just the highlights.

Pretty sure this makes me certified Texan......and definitely American.

[Pontificator]

TexasReb, how did such an interesting poll fizzle? Does this mean not so many long-term Texans, or not so many interested in genealogy? I've really enjoyed reading the responses!

[TexasHorseLady]

Five generations back, born here and fought at San Jacinto, on one line. Four generations back on others. Came here through the north down through the south and across, and from the northeast across to Illinois and down. On my husband's side, one side came down to Louisiana from Canada via the Illinois Territory (with a quick trip back to France to get his Order of St. Louis designation) in the 1700's and then over to Texas on one line, from Georgia across during the Trail of Tears (Cherokee) on another line that married the line that came directly from Germany. So four generations back on that side for him.

If you go further back, my ancestors came from Scotland, Ireland, England, and Prussia, for the most part. With a soupcon of Native American (likely Cherokee) in there.

[Lakewooder]

I'm only the fourth generation on my father's side since 1839 and William B. Travis is on that side. However, I believe only one great-grandparent was from Texas -- however all my grandparents got here from the 1880s to the turn of the 20th Century.

[doctorjef]

Lakewooder, I don't understand your post. Do you mean that you had one relative who was in Texas during the Republic but either moved away or that all your direct forebears didn't arrive in Texas until the late 19th Century? Also I don't understand how a 4th gen. forebear could have been in Texas in 1839 unless you are very old, since I'm 5th gen and my ancestors weren't in Texas until the 1850s. Just wondering...

[kleinmax]

Both of my parents were born in Texas. My paternal grandparents were born in Texas, but their parents immigrated from Prussia and Hessen (the German states) in the 1850s. My maternal grandparents immigrated from Norway in 1890.