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Interesting question. However I find it worrying that this clearly written spec seems to be misinterpreted quite a bit in the comments. I worry that it means
by adaml_623 15y ago
Interesting question. However I find it worrying that this clearly written spec seems to be misinterpreted quite a bit in the comments. I worry that it means you can't trust the results at all. Or maybe people just like talking about their most distantly traceable ancestors.
I worry that people who don't know if one of their ancestors was an immigrant have answered incorrectly.
I think the way to reduce confusion would be to label the options as "1 generations (One of my parents was an immigrant)", "2 generations (One of my grandparents.. )", "3 generations (One of my great-grandparents was an immigrant)", etc.
- waterlesscloud 15y ago5 generations isn't all that far back. Depending on your age, it puts you mid to late 19th century, and there's a fair number of Americans that can say with reasonable certainty that they have no immigrant ancestors since that time. Much less residents of older countries, which can probably go back a whole lot further than that.