My dad's family has been in the States for a long, long time. We've got it traced back to the 1600's here. My mother's family, her grandfather came from Alsace-Lorraine, the French-German border. The one we've traced back the furthest, they started in New York originally and then into Pennsylvania and then followed the frontier through Virginia, Kentucky, into Indiana and then up to Michigan. I was born and raised in Michigan. I've lived a lot of other places through the years. My husband and I moved around a lot and I came back to Michigan almost ten years ago now. I'm a Michigan State grad, from 1962.