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My mother was born two years after her parents immigrated, and before they could speak English. She had a brother born in the old country, so I checked Grandparents,, even though I have an uncle who immigrated.
I know on my fathers side it would be my great grandparents that came over from Lebanon, on his fathers side. For my dad's mom, I don't know. However her last name is one of the French names I can find on local maps going back to the 1700's here in Essex county, so her side could have been in Canada since the French Canadians settled for all I know.
On my mother's side, I again don't know. Her mom was English, and her dad Scottish. Apparently on the Scott side of things, we used to be royalty of some sort.
My great-grandparents came to live here, but not all of them.
For the people who are 2nd 3rd or further generation, do you consider yourseld half- something? or not any more because the foreign ancestors are quite far?
I ask because I have some friends that say "I am Dutch" and then they explain that one person 3 generations before was Dutch, or people saying "My parents are German" and in fact, their parents have german ancestors, but it was many many years before and they just have that info.
2 or 3 different ancestors from Switzerland immigrating around 1650. Their journey was less than 200 kms, but they must have travelled for several weeks.
On my mother side, officially people from the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe are not immigrants in France, they came a long time ago in the 1920's.
They are also immigrants from Belgium and Germany, they came in the early 1900's.
On my father side, there are immigrants from Italy, Switzerland. They came in France in the 1800's.
All these overseas and foreign ancestries are very old, culturally I can't claim to be anything else than Mainland French.
They are no people born overseas or in Foreign country in my familly.
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