How many generations has your family been in the Northwest?

cisco · Feb 19, 2015

Generation Poll

hlb3 · Feb 19, 2015

4th generation on my dad's side, my great grandfather's family came to the Northwest when when he was a young boy, some time in 1880's. They settled around the Kettle Falls area. My grandma's family settled around Lewiston, ID when she was fairly young.

Not quite sure when my mom's side came. I know both of my grandparents were born around the Spokane area, but never heard many details about my great grandparents.

Lucky Jeff · Feb 19, 2015

Kids are 5th generation. My great Grandpa moved to Lopez from Norway as a fisherman.

ish · Feb 19, 2015

Not sure when my ancestors made it to the northwest but my ancestors landed at Plymouth rock in 1620 - 14 generations ago.

hlb3 · Feb 19, 2015

ish said:
Not sure when my ancestors made it to the northwest but my ancestors landed at Plymouth rock in 1620 - 14 generations ago.

Our ancestors may have known each other, supposedly on my mom's side we had some ancestors that came over on the Mayflower. My uncle had mapped out our family tree years ago when he was a history professor back in Massachusetts.

Jokenring · Feb 19, 2015

What's your definition of Northwest?

hlb3 · Feb 19, 2015

WA, OR, & ID seems to be the usual definition of the Northwest.

ain'tstuckjustresting · Feb 19, 2015

My moms Great Grandfather was 100% Cowlitz Indian so I'll say 6+.

GRW · Feb 19, 2015

I'm a transplant but my kids & grand child are NWers

jimpaget · Feb 19, 2015

One ancestor platted and owned 1/3 of what is now downtown Portland. Another was the first President of the Washington Territorial Senate.

Glenn · Feb 19, 2015

I moved to Washington from Montana in 1994.

How do you define northwest? Some say WA, ID, OR. Some include Montana, or at least some of it. Some could even include BC Canada.

GRW · Feb 19, 2015

What part of Montana?

JOOP · Feb 19, 2015

I'm from the central and east coast area. My wife is from CA. But we did the ancestry thing online. My wife's fathers bloodline we could date back to the 1500's. They were some of the first to come over, then they migrated down to southern Alabama area, Arkansas, and then jumped out to California. I'm thinking Gold rush era. My fathers blood line didn't come to the states until the mid 1800's. Originated for France and Norway.

zukkev · Feb 19, 2015

My parents both moved to Oregon from Illinois for school before I was born. we never left...
My wife's family is something like 5th or 6th gen, originating in the Tri-Cities (her dad did a tree some yrs ago before he died, and her roots run deep there....

messix · Feb 19, 2015

my mothers grandfather came from Sweden and settled in old tacoma/rustin.

after working as sailor and ship wright he started peterson berry farms along the puyallup river.

my granfather spent a summer when he was young pulling a boat for the army corps engineers with the family mule when they surveyed to straighten the river and build the dykes for flood control.

oh and my grandfather was born in 1894.

TrikeKid · Feb 20, 2015

I believe it's 5 if you count my kid.

Fordzuki · Feb 20, 2015

4th gen here. My great grandparents were from the okanogan area. I believe they settled there from norway, but it may have been their parents.

WHITE TRASH1 · Feb 20, 2015

5th counting my neices and nephews... ****, 6 my nephew has a son so there's another one. :redneck:

My great grandparents on my mom's side came up here from Kansas, prior to that, Ireland, they ended up in the Harrah area. Dad's side came straight here from Scotland and landed in Grandview of all places.

lethe · Feb 20, 2015

I'm the first generation in the pnw.. I'm the 3rd generation born in the U.S.

cisco · Feb 20, 2015

So far it seems like the majority on this board have family roots here. Doesn't look like everyone that looked at the thread weighed in so I cant put too much confidence in the numbers. I wonder what this type of poll would show for people opposed to offroad vehicle use? No speculation about it either way, just curious if it matters.

My grandmother on my moms side goes back at least 6 gens from the Burlington Bellingham area. My grandfather on my moms side is harder to track but goes at least 3 in the NW and a couple more in California. My great grandparents on my Dads side moved over from Montana a couple generations ago.

In general I know very few people that grew up in Washington. It's amazing to me how much this corner of the state has changed in my life time. Looking at history, it's amazing to me how much the US has changed in just a few gerations.

WHITE TRASH1 · Feb 20, 2015

I come from a long history of family being involved in outdoor activities. Everyone camps, hunts, fishes, works cattle (legitimate cowboys), farms etc. So they have no problem with wheeling etc. My great aunt & uncle were the 5th family to join the peak putters wheeling club. :D

There are only a few that snob about at family reunions and they are married into the family and live in king, snohomish and pierce counties. Ironic? Nope not at all.

Glenn · Feb 20, 2015

GRW said:
What part of Montana?

Helena area.

seh · Feb 21, 2015

5 on my mom's side. They settled in the Kettle Falls area in the 1800's, then moved to Bremerton.
4 on my dad's side. Moved to Bremerton from Minnesota.

junkyard jim · Feb 25, 2015

ish said:
Not sure when my ancestors made it to the northwest but my ancestors landed at Plymouth rock in 1620 - 14 generations ago.

My father's side were here to meet them

t1h5ta3 · Feb 25, 2015

i cant remember how many generations, but my family was the original land right holders to prety much all of what is now lynden continuing over twards bellingham... so i guess you could say we were some of the first NW settlers

boardbysled · Feb 25, 2015

5+ on my dads side and 3 on my Moms side.

I'm also at the least 4th generation to work in the woods.

notstock · Feb 26, 2015

After a short wagon train jaunt from the east coast (rail to Arkansas, wagon train the remainder) my great grandparents homesteaded in Twin Falls, Idaho area in the mid 1860's. We have spread out since, mostly in the Idaho, Oregon & Washington areas although quite a few are still in Twin Falls.

zukkev · Feb 26, 2015

boardbysled said:
5+ on my dads side and 3 on my Moms side.

I'm also at the least 4th generation to work in the woods.

That's a cool thing to be able to say Jacob :awesomework:
...Tree on! O wait, that's fishin'...Nvmd! :haha:

t1h5ta3 · Feb 26, 2015

t1h5ta3 said:
i cant remember how many generations, but my family was the original land right holders to prety much all of what is now lynden continuing over twards bellingham... so i guess you could say we were some of the first NW settlers

some late night research shows the Pyeatts first settling in the late 1840's... so yha, i guess that makes them some of the first white settlers, not explores in the area.
:awesomework:
we still have pre paid burrial plots up in lynden, i think they bought 40 plots for a penny....
berthison park was part of one of the homsteads that got donated to the city about a century ago
i learned a bunch just recently, was kind of cool...

zukkev · Feb 26, 2015

t1h5ta3 said:
some late night research shows the Pyeatts first settling in the late 1840's... so yha, i guess that makes them some of the first white settlers, not explores in the area.
:awesomework:
we still have pre paid burrial plots up in lynden, i think they bought 40 plots for a penny....
berthison park was part of one of the homsteads that got donated to the city about a century ago
i learned a bunch just recently, was kind of cool...

Pretty cool stuff...:awesomework: