Where are your people from?

[Lancecastor]

My people on both sides are from two of these villages...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9RDuHS2CFQ

...Going back 200 years or so.

And your people?

 

[oggbashan]

My wife and I have been researching our ancestry on Ancestry, Find My Past and Genes Reunited (in order of usefulness).

My Paternal family were mentioned in Julius Caesar's Gallic Wars. I don't believe the link between that mention and the 14th Century when they first appear in written records in the City of London. They were resident and trading in the City from the 14th Century until 1915 when their home had to be demolished after damage from the then world's largest aerial bomb dropped from a German Zeppelin.

My Maternal family is more complex. My mother's surname traces back directly to a woman in an East Anglian village. That woman was named Lettice Pryke. Lettice had 12 children, all of whom married and had similar numbers of children who survived to adulthood, married, produced children. A distant relative has calculated that there are at least 2,500 living people descended from Lettice.

Lettice's father was called John Pryke. But his father was more direct. He was John Prick, as was his father and grandfather. Lettice's mother was a Smith, daughter of a John Smith, son of a John Smith and so on. If they hadn't lived in a tiny village and practised the trade of Blacksmith, identifying the John Smiths would have been impossible.

According to Genes Reunited: Married into my mother's family after Lettice's time were people descended from a 15th Century immigrant from Pamplona in what is now Spain; and from a younger daughter of a bankrupt nobleman who was legitimately descended from King Henry II, and therefore the Counts of Provence, the Plantagenet Kings, and through them...

The Norse God Odin, Julius Caesar - through him the Goddess Venus, and Cleopatra - through her the Goddess Isis.

Do I believe it? No, even though my DNA and Blood group indicates a Mediterranean link.

 

[1sickbastard]

Ireland, Scotland, Britain, Bohemia.

If I was any whiter, I'd be translucent (but at least I don't get moon-burned).

 

[chillywilly2]

My people on both sides are from two of these villages...

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=T9RDuHS2CFQ

...Going back 200 years or so.

And your people?

What 2 villages...thats an ad for a whole province.

You ever been there, its a really neat place.

I went a couple years ago...took the family on a vacation.
Landed in Deer lake, rented a car and drove around to St Johns, stopped in Twillingate and shit like that, iceburgs, whales, Puffins...and fresh lobster and mussels at a roadside trailer..**** times.

All them places on Cold Water Cowboys, I been too

 

[Mr Noone]

The Golden Vale.

 

[doowdniw]

Gloucestershire, Shropshire, and Surrey.

 

[islandman]

Gloucestershire, Shropshire, and Surrey.

You poor bastard.

 

[Lancecastor]

What 2 villages...thats an ad for a whole province.

You ever been there, its a really neat place.

I went a couple years ago...took the family on a vacation.
Landed in Deer lake, rented a car and drove around to St Johns, stopped in Twillingate and shit like that, iceburgs, whales, Puffins...and fresh lobster and mussels at a roadside trailer..**** times.

All them places on Cold Water Cowboys, I been too

I was born there and own land in the middle of the paternal village.

So, yes, I've been there.

Originally, both sides of the family came from Devonshire.

In England they were seafarers, with some piracy.

My mother's father did very well running rum and port during Prohibition, as the Newfoundland Government supported trans-shipment in bond.

 

[chillywilly2]

I was born there and own land in the middle of the paternal village.

So, yes, I've been there.

Originally, both sides of the family came from Devonshire.

In England they were seafarers, with some piracy.

My mother's father did very well running rum and port during Prohibition, as the Newfoundland Government supported trans-shipment in bond.

What can I say, you're usually so full of shit that I doubted you had ever seen the place, and all I saw in your post was a tourism ad with about 20 places in it.
But, that explains a lot

 

[JohnnySavage]

Mom's family is Scotts-Irish and emigrated to Baltimore in the mid-1750s, then headed west. Dad's family is from Southern Italy and also emigrated to Baltimore in the mid-1750s, then also headed west.

The families merged in the 1960s in a holler in West Virgina - with me being the achievement of the hereditary goal.

 

[1HF]

Irish and Spanish from my dad's side of the family.

French and Hungarian from my mom's.

 

[Sunshine]

100% Sicilian on both sides. My maternal grandmother was born there. Maternal and paternal great grandparents were all born in Sicily. Research has revealed that hundreds of years ago a descendent in my father's family was sent to Sicily from Catalonia in the role of Viceroy. Makes sense as all the men on my paternal grandfather's side look like they are Catalan. It seems being Sicilian means you may have come from any number of places.

 

[Riles]

My paternal side is Scottish and Irish. My maternal are Dutch. My mom has been tracing our ancestry for almost 15 years now and has gone back on her side to the 1400's. The best part is she has created binders that tell the story of our family back through the lines complete with photos, land deeds, birth records, marriage certificates, etc. Her research is confirmed on ancestry.com and she's had several researchers use her books for their own information gathering.

Points of interest: on my dads' side we have family ties to Frederick Banting, and the Black Donnellys. My mom has been to the clan castle in Scotland.

My mom's are UEL's and the name York comes up many times over.

 

[Killswitch]

100% Sicilian on both sides. My maternal grandmother was born there. Maternal and paternal great grandparents were all born in Sicily. Research has revealed that hundreds of years ago a descendent in my father's family was sent to Sicily from Catalonia in the role of Viceroy. Makes sense as all the men on my paternal grandfather's side look like they are Catalan. It seems being Sicilian means you may have come from any number of places.

My dads side is Sicilian from Grotto, I forget the province. Grandparents came here in late 1800's. They settled in Pennsylvania.

Moms side is Swedish. They were from Minnesota.

 

[Sunshine]

My dads side is Sicilian from Grotto, I forget the province. Grandparents came here in late 1800's. They settled in Pennsylvania.

Moms side is Swedish. They were from Minnesota.

Swedish and Italian ~ beautiful combination!

 

[Killswitch]

Swedish and Italian ~ beautiful combination!

A Swedish Meatball.

 

[JudasIscariot]

The East by way of Italy.

Also I little hint of Irish.

 

[domroger]

Most of mine come from within 50 miles of where I now live . Traced some back to the 1750's but first confirmed and documented to 1770 .

 

[PayDay]

I'm from the United States of America.

Both of my parents, and both sets of their parents, and all of their parents, are from the United States of America.

My ethnicity is non-canine mutt.

 

[parodyluvr75]

Vilna and some place pasty.

 

[Hypoxia]

The inner solar system.

You think I'm joking. Ha.

Mom's family were Presbyterian Anglos from Michigan and north Ohio. Dad's family were Quaker Anglos from south Ohio and West Virginia, with family trees dating to the 1600s. But Dad's mother always said that he was so weird, she thought he was from Mars. So I've always considered myself a Martian-American.

 

[Libsam]

I'm a racial-fluid American!

 

[unregistered]

 

[Aphro]

London, England, and Ireland. The Waterford area. There's a bit of Welsh in there, too. Interestingly, while both my parents are Brits, they actually met in Canada. Had to cross an ocean to meet another limey, go figure.

 

[PeteHulbert37]

I'm German, and Irish, and West Virginian (coal mining folk). There's a bit of Cherokee in the mix, too.

I'm that minus the WV.