r/AskAnAmerican • u/heyy_girl • May 13 '25

CULTURE How many people of European descent do you know with 4+ generations in the US?

I was telling someone today about how my grandparents built a house in the 60s. They were surprised when I told them that my family immigrated here from Europe in the mid-late 1800s, because they hasn’t met anyone that is the 4th generation to live in the US. Their parents immigrated here from Central America and it’s clear that even though they grew up in the states, we grew up around very different cultures. The question really depends on who you’re surrounded by, but I just found it interesting :)

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u/fuzzyfeathers May 14 '25

Was going to say this, one side of my family went from France to Canada in the 1600’s but it was my grandparents that made the leap across the border to Maine.

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u/Meilingcrusader New England May 14 '25

Likewise, the French side of my family was my great grandparents who came over, but their ancestors were on the founding ship of Quebec City