Reply #18: yeah it's pretty easy, remember the "roots" craze?

[pitohui]

my mom doc'd all that crap a long time ago, in any case, i can document that both of my parents were born on usa soil, and all of their grandparents, to be honest, considering that almost everyone here, even your GRANDPARENTS were born in the 20th century, then the docs aren't that hard to get in a lot of areas

i was surprised even tho my dad's side is basically scots-irish peasants, for lack of a better word, it's easy to trace back his family for several centuries

in the "one drop of blood" states like mississippi apparently some courthouses got burned so people could pass more easily or whatev, but even so, people can still get parent's birth certificates and prove where their parents came from, unless they're like 95 and nobody's deporting 95 year olds for taking people's jobs

i'm not sure what your argument is, it might have made sense if it was like 1910 and most people's parents/grands were born in the 19th century when documentation was still poor but...wait...i'll take that back...my friend just followed his family tree all the way back to the year 1200 going thru multiple countries, italy, france, cuba, haiti, louisiana (which i guess was france then), united states

bureaucrats have kept records of legit people for a butt load of centuries actually -- they say that the first writing ever found in sumeria was tax records and even if it's just a joke i half ways believe it

if you can't prove who you are, i'm going to raise an eyebrow, because unless you were adopted i think you could prove if you wanted to

i'm not saying you "should" prove but you "could" prove

tons of records from ellis and angel island far as i know...we're a country of bureacrats & scribblers, frankly, names might be mispelled but that's no biggie