I am the first generation born in this country on both sides. My mom was born in Cuba and my dad was born in Colombia.
I find the family tree topic fascinating and I've asked my dad, who is retired and loves projects, to put one together as far back as he can remember. It's good to know where you come from.

None of my grandparents were born in this country. I never met any of my grandparents so, unfortunately, I don't know the history. My father and mother were both born here and, as many of their generation, were embarrassed by their parents' broken English etc. So they never delved into their parents' history. Its sad now that my brother, sister, and I do not know our legacy.

My grandparents were all born in the USA, and we are so very Southern, but I am going to investigate my great, great (?) grandmother Esther Cohen, since seeing The Woman in Gold, I'm very interested in all the bits and pieces of my heritage.

My grandparents are all native born, Great grandparents on parent side - came from former Soviet Union. Mom's side go early on her mom's side. My stepmom's maternal side goes back to the Pligrim's time.

Lucas J. Meyer

On my father's side, Berchtold Meyer, a hog butcher from Heidelberg and a Lutheran, fled the revolution of 1848 with his (probably) Jewish wife, whose name is lost to the fog of the ages. So I think that makes me a 5th or 6th generation American.

My wife's maternal line is, however, far more interesting. The family genealogists, her two uncles did a lot of research, and have proven that they are the direct descendants of Gabriel Spinosa Cattela, whose infamous brother was Baruch Spinosa, a heretic shunned by the community in Amsterdam in the mid-1600s. Much intermarriage over the centuries, and the Spinosa Cattelas were spirited out of occupied Amsterdam toward the end of December, 1940. Thence on to Argentina, South Africa and Australia, before finally settling in Buenos Aires in the late 1940s. Most of the clan has left Argentina, and is settled in the United States.

My paternal grandfather was instrumental in the abortive 1903 Russian revolution,fled the country and entered USA illegally. My maternal grandparents came over from Russia just after WWI.