Where was your father born??

[SmileyBoy]

My father was born in Izmit, Turkey.

[Skittles]

1. extreme southeastern Minnesota

yup

[swag]

2. Sedalia, Missouri.

[xmas74]

84. I live about a half hour from there.

[swag]

88. I had many happy times visiting relatives in and around Chillicothe

when I was a kid, probably about 90 minutes from you, huh?

[xmas74]

89. Give or take.

Maybe a bit more. It's been years since I made the drive.

I'm closer to KC. I live in Warrensburg.

[swag]

91. KC was always fun.

Saw a couple of Royals games right after that new stadium was built, with its then state-of-the-art scoreboard, fountains, and fireworks. Lou Piniella, Amos Otis, Fred Patek and a bunch of other great players on the team back then.

I always thought KC, MO was a nice town. I don't think I've been through Warrensburg. Did you grow up there?

[xmas74]

97. No.

Originally from Wisconsin but moved to Marshall, MO when I was a teen. (Sedalia is about in the middle-Marshall is 30 miles northeast of Sedalia and Warrensburg is about 30 miles west of Sedalia).

You might have been through Warrensburg and not have known it. It's right on 50 hwy, which many from Sedalia drive to get to KC. Warrensburg is where Central MO State University is and the town is near Whiteman AFB.

[swag]

101. Since we've already jacked the thread,

where in Wisconsin are you from?

I lived in Madison in 1964-1965 and Black Earth from 1965-1969, before being jolted out of that happy hide-and-seek-in-the-cornfields delirium into the grooviness of Alexandrian, Virginia from 1969-1971.

[xmas74]

105. I'm originally from Kenosha.

It's on Lake Michigan, in the SE corner of the state.

[deadparrot]

3. St. Louis.

Same as mom, same as me.

[ZombieNixon]

4. Madras, India.

Now known as Chennai.

[Floogeldy]

5. In a bed. At a hospital.

;)

[u4ic]

6. Saskatchewan

Same little town as my mother. (a 'blink and you'll miss it' kind of place)

[In_The_Wind]

7. Benton, Tennessee

[CBHagman]

8. New Jersey.

Just like his grandfather before him.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

98. HECK YEAH

My dad was born in Jersey City as was his mother and her father. And me, and my kids. Then we gave up and moved to Florida!

[CaliforniaPeggy]

9. Chicago, Illinois......just like my mom......

[grace0418]

69. Same here! Wait! I have a sister Peg! Hmmmm...

Well, except she lives in Washington so she'd be WashingtonPeg. :hi:

[Whoa_Nelly]

10. I have absolutely no idea

He was adopted in 1918 as an infant from a children's home called "The Cradle" in Kansas City, MO. His adoptive parents were from Henryetta, OK.

[Broken_Hero]

11. Everett, Washington...n/t

[No Bravery]

12. Philly

me too, 1965...

Hello lounge :hi:

[ZombieNixon]

16. Welcome to DU, No Bravery!

:hi:

[No Bravery]

19. why thank you ZombieNixon, it's great to be here =)

:toast:

[Broken_Hero]

21. welcome to DU No Bravery...:) n/t

[No Bravery]

23. thank you petersond

:hi:

[reyd reid reed]

13. Long Beach, California

[Floogeldy]

18. Prolly born in a sailboat.

;)

[reyd reid reed]

26. Heh

Halfway to Catalina...

[LeftyMom]

14. San Francisco nt

[noshenanigans]

15. Altamont, North Carolina

After I graduated college in Chapel Hill I moved to Los Angeles, but my whole family is still there. Even though he grew up poor in the mountains, he did a lot. He tells me stories about being in the Air Force stationed in Greece. He played football with guys from the Greek Army and made friends, spending his breaks with them (before he went to Vietnam). He and my mother raised me to explore, and I really hope I do them proud.

[noshenanigans]

17. dupe n/t

[SeattleGirl]

20. Arkansas. n/t

[Presidentcokedupfratboy]

22. Da Bronx.....

He was a Yankee fan growing up, near the Elder Avenue stop on the #6 train.

Now, however, he has seen the light and is a Mets fan.

[scarlet_owl]

24. St. Louis.

[Blue_Tires]

25. Charlottesville, VA

[Jazz2006]

27. County Kildare, Ireland.

I think.

The details are sketchy, but either County Kildare or County Cork, from what I can gather :D

(Thanks for the reminder to ask again, do some more research and get it all down on paper before the stories are lost forever, by the way!)

:toast:

[fizzgig]

28. brooklyn

but grew up in queens

and yet, he has no accent (unlike either of his parents or brothers)

[Omphaloskepsis]

29. I don't know...

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. India.

[Spider Jerusalem]

31. Washington, DC.

[ScreamingMeemie]

32. Milwaukee, Wisconsin

:hi:

[Mutley]

33. Upstate New York

[SoCalDem]

34. Havana , Cuba

[donheld]

35. Tryon Nebraska

:crazy:

[Droopy]

36. Somewhere in Tennessee. Cookeville I think.

His family moved to Ohio a few years after he was born.

[lizziegrace]

37. Pittsburgh n/t

[miss_american_pie]

38. Pittsburgh

[Jokerman]

39. Moran Indiana (no joke, it used to be a real town) n/t

[Lydia Leftcoast]

40. A small town in northern Minnesota

three miles from the Canadian border.

[1gobluedem]

41. Grosse Pointe Farms, MI

In Cottage Hospital.

[peekaloo]

42. North Carolina.

[Giant Robot]

43. Camden, New Jersey

[bertha katzenengel]

44. Corn, Oklahoma.

No cowpies.

[bleedingheart]

45. In the coal mining town of Claridge Pennsylvania in a company house

and then his dad went on strike...and they had to move into a tent with my newborn father...

[no name no slogan]

46. Izmit! Isn't that where Mahir is from?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahir_Cagri

MAHIR ROCKS!

My dad was born in North Dakota, somewhere.

[Misunderestimator]

47. Scheveningen

Netherlands

[raptor_rider]

48. Munich, Germany

in 1949. He was adopted by a lovely couple in Albuquerque in 1955. Him and his sister arrived in the US on 12-24-1955.

[trof]

49. Birmingham. The one in Alabama.

[clyrc]

50. Muskogee, Oklahoma

And he's proud of it, too.

[Ravenseye]

51. Mosul, Iraq

[Richardo]

52. Downstate

[arwalden]

53. Georgia...

The US state... not the country.

[mainegreen]

54. Paris, France. n/t

[gollygee]

55. Traverse City, Michigan

and he was a breech birth. My grandma used to say he was born mooning the world.

[Giant Robot]

66. Waves at gollygee from

Traverse City now. Just was shocked seeing my home's name on this site.

:hi:

[gollygee]

72. It's a beautiful place

and a favorite place for vacations. If my husband and I ever have the money, we want to get a vacation home up there.

:hi:

[Lautremont]

56. Gander, Newfoundland,

while his mother was on a layover.

[Left_Winger]

57. On the family farm in Fairfeld County, SC

His brithday: Christmas Eve.

[Bossy Monkey]

59. Rural Orangeburg County, SC n/t

[Left_Winger]

61. Now we reside in the same city

Small world isn't it?

[NewWaveChick1981]

58. Pennsylvania

[CottonBear]

60. Charlotte, NC, USA n/t

[Left Is Write]

62. Western Minnesota.

[trackfan]

63. Chicago

[azmouse]

64. In his parent's home.... near Reading, PA

In 1933 it wasn't too unusual to be born at home.

[regularguy]

65. Brooklyn, NY.

Youse gotta problem with dat? :)

[Mikimouse]

67. Tata, Hungary...n/t

[Ohio Joe]

68. Englewood, NJ

[NJ Democrats]

95. I was born in Englewood!

I love Bergan County, but I don't live there anymore.

[AbbyR]

70. Richmond, Virginia

[maveric]

71. Watertown NY.

My grandparents lived there for a few months while grandpa was managing a wool warehouse. Dad was born 3/28/31. A month later the young family moved back to their roots in Lawrence MA.

[malta blue]

73. Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico eom

[sinkingfeeling]

74. Kiousville, Ohio and I dare you to find it on a map!

[SteppingRazor]

75. Scranton, PA -- newly famous as the location of "The Office" n/t

[wildhorses]

76. Atlanta, Georgia n/t

[rug]

77. W. 52nd St., NYC

[nickinSTL]

78. Minneapolis, MN

n/t

[JuniperLea]

79. Los Angeles, CA n/t

[ceile]

80. TX-Corpus Christi, I think n/t

[LiberalEsto]

81. Stackeln, Latvia

But he was an Estonian citizen.

[huskerlaw]

82. Connorsville, Indiana

Sadly, I'm half Hoosier. x(

[joneschick]

83. Gillett, Wisconsin, on Halloween 1925 at home. RIP Dad.

[xmas74]

85. Da UP.

He's originally a Yooper.

[mdmc]

86. Albany, NY

me too!

[shanti]

87. ellensburg, washington n/t

[TexasLady]

90. waco texas

and his father and grandfather and great grandfather were all born texans too!

[NJ Democrats]

92. The Bronx

Grew up in Yonkers, NY.

[devilgrrl]

93. Born in Brooklyn, NY (1937) - Died in Philadelphia, PA (1997)

:shrug:

[Bridget Burke]

94. Manchester, New Hampshire.

I was, too, although I left at 6 months & never lived there again.

His parents came from East Galway.

[Zing Zing Zingbah]

96. My dad is from Derry, NH. n/t

[Kerrytravelers]

99. Burtonville, Kentucky. In the house he lived in on the mountain side.

I'm from real "down home' kind of people--- all Democratic down home kind of people, that is! :)

[yellowdogintexas]

100. in his grandmother's home on the Tennessee Kentucky state

line...
on the farm, on the Kentucky side.

not too far from Clarksville Tennnessee.

[AuntiBush]

104. Hi!

Have a lot of lineage from those parts.

:hi:

[yellowdogintexas]

110. what county?

I grew up in Todd Co KY.

[BrotherBuzz]

102. La Cañada, California

[AuntiBush]

103. The Smokies.

[pecwae]

106. Virgie, KY.

[book lady]

107. Granite Falls, Minnesota

[Momgonepostal]

108. Miami, Arizona...really!

[Puglover]

109. The exotic town of....

Center Junction Iowa. Oh the day that the Titanic sank. :)

[CornField]

111. Three Brothers, Arkansas

[BikeWriter]

112. Coal Hill, Arkansas.

[Kathryn STone]

113. my dad? Washington Indiana, my bf's?Madisonville KY

[driver8]

114. Wharton, Texas

[kittykitty]

115. Cleveland, Ohio--Jazo, Hungary (now Slovakia) was where his older

7 older sibilings were born. He was 1st born in the USA.

[njdemocrat106]

116. New York, NY

Died here in New Jersey, though :(.

[donheld]

117. In the wagon of a traveling show...

His momma used to dance for the money they'd throw, grandpa'd do whatever he could Preach a little gospel, sell a couple bottles of Doctor Good Gypsys, tramps, and thieves...
:silly: