Trees in PetersPioneers

• Peter and Marilyn Carroll Biggins Family Tree
• John Alfred and Jane Drueke Biggins Family Tree
• Edward and Henrietta Kenny Carroll Family Tree
• William and Rose Smith Drueke Family Tree
• Roger and Carroll Biggins Byrne Family Tree
• Edward and Kerry O'Brien Biggins Family Tree
  • Callixte John and Sophronie Laroque Dupres Family Tree
  • William and Phoebe Harris Cockle Family Tree
• Donald and Patricia Callahan Galligan Family Tree
• John and Maureen Carroll Varro Family Tree

Increasing Diversity of Ancestry

In the data presented below, Gen stands for generation and the number is a rough average of the generation's years of birth.

Gen 1910 - 1-2 countries

My father and his brothers and sisters were 100% Irish.

My mother and her brothers and sisters were 100% German.

My wife's father and his brothers and sisters were 50% Irish and 50% Swiss.

My wife's mother was 100% Irish.

Gen 1940 - 2 countries

My brothers and sisters and I are 50% Irish and 50% German.

My wife and her sister were 75% Irish and 25% Swiss.

Gen 1970 - 3 countries

Our children are 62.5% Irish, 25% German, and 12.5% Swiss.

Gen 2000 - 4-6 countries

Three of our grandchildren are 75% Irish, 12.5% German, 6.25% Swiss, and 6.25% Scottish.

Three of our grandchildren are 50% Irish, 25% Lebanese, 12.5% German, 6.25% Swiss, 3.125% French, and 3.125% English.

Two of our grandchildren are 43.75% Irish, 15.625% German, 12.5% Greek, 6.25% Swiss, 6.25% Scottish, and 3.125% English.

Immigration

Most immigration took place in the latter half of the 19th century. The earliest immigration was English in the 1630s. Some immigrants lived in Canada for a few years before going to the United States.

Melting Pot

Titus Munson Coan initiated the term "melting pot" in an article entitled "A New Country" in The Galaxy, April 1875:

"The fusing process goes on as in a blast-furnace; one generation, a single year even—transforms the English, the German, the Irish emigrant into an American. Uniform institutions, ideas, language, the influence of the majority, bring us soon to a similar complexion; the individuality of the immigrant, almost even his traits of race and religion, fuse down in the democratic alembic like chips of brass thrown into the melting pot."

Other Family Trees

There are a number of family trees outside of PetersPioneers that have been helpful in constructing the family trees in PetersPioneers.