1) Who was your first known ancestor to immigrate to the United States or live in the United States?
1) Who was your first known ancestor to immigrate to the United States or live in the United States?
(Note: Your answer may vary based on your family history. If you know your first ancestor to migrate to the US--on either side of your family--list that person.
However, there are multiple reasons why someone could list their first known ancestor to LIVE rather than migrate in the US: a) descendant of indigenous peoples; b)
descendant of enslaved peoples without a record forced migration; c) descendant of persons living in a territory that was involuntarily annexed by the US, such as
Hawaii or parts of Mexico that were ceded to the US; d) your family does not have a complete record.
Furthermore, if you are the first person to migrate to the US, then list yourself. If you were adopted, you could elect to list information based on what you know
about your birth family--keeping in mind that you could list yourself if you are an international adoptee--or your adopted family's history. If there are any other
family history situations that make your answer unclear2) What was this persons place of origin?
3) What do you know about why this person migrated to the United States OR what do you know about the type of work this person did?