My great, great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfather immigrated to New York from France in 1685 to escape the religious persecutions of King Louis XIV. I think that makes me 10 generations removed from immigration. There's a town in Normandy, France that bears our name (Caudebec was our French name before immigrating): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caudebec-en-Caux and a small town in New York that bears our Americanized name (Cuddeback after immigrating): http://g.co/maps/p2qm
Another fairly strong component of my ancestry is Cherokee Indian (native American). I don't know nearly as much about that part of my lineage, but I've read that the first traces of Cherokee are from about 3500 years ago. So anyways, my family has been in the US since before it was a country.
But you know that every single one of your 256 great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandfathers were at least second generation immigrants?
Another fairly strong component of my ancestry is Cherokee Indian (native American). I don't know nearly as much about that part of my lineage, but I've read that the first traces of Cherokee are from about 3500 years ago. So anyways, my family has been in the US since before it was a country.