“actually my great uncle was second generation born in America, his grandparents arrived in the 1860s. I’m 5th generation born here on one side and 4th on the other.
My paternal grandmother’s side now stretches to 9 generations born in the USA with 5 of the extant lines still orthodox of assorted hues.”
That’s really amazing! My family came in the 1800’s on my mother’s side and 1920’s on my father’s. Both my parents are bt. On my father’s side, no line stayed Orthodox throughout (the generation that came was the generation that stopped being Frum), and on my mother’s side, there is one branch that is basically Orthodox, but from the two people in that branch there is only one child (only one of the two got married), and she is not 100% normal.