Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. I've always thought I was a first-generation American with a German background. At 58, I applied for dual citizenship, but I ...

I've always thought I was a first-generation American with a German background. At 58, I applied for dual citizenship, but I learned my father became an American after I was born. That meant I've been ...

I've long considered myself a first-generation American. Both of my parents were born in Germany and emigrated to the US in the 1960s. We lived in Virginia, but I grew up bilingual, speaking English ...