User:Angech01

My name is Chris. I'm a college student from

United States of America, although I originally hail from the state of Illinois. I am a fifth generation Illinoisan. My ancestry is Swedish, Norwegian, Italian and Scotch-Irish (and perhaps) English. My great great grandfather was born in 1875 in Calhoun County, Illinois

, he is my oldest link to the state.

My Italian ancestry comes from

St. Louis, Missouri

.

My Swedish ancestry comes from

Stockholm, Sweden

. They immigrated to Chicago in the 1870s or 1880s.

My Norwegian ancestry comes from

Honefoss, Norway

. My great great grandparents were immigrants to Chicago in the early 1890s.

My Scots-Irish ancestry is somewhat unclear. My great grandmother was born in Chicago in 1903. Her mother was from

1900 U.S. Census living together in Madison County, Alabama

. I'm uncertain how they could have met.

My Wikipedia interests primarily include American immigrant profiles, local histories about towns and cities in the Upper Midwest.