What's your ancestry?

[scheherazade_79]

I thought this would be an interesting question to ask everyone. I spent most of my life believing blindly that I was 100% Welsh. More recently, I did some research and found out the following:
Although my immediate relatives who are still alive are all Welsh, I have one ancestor who came over from Poland in the 1800s, and my father's side of the family actually came over to Wales in the Norman invasion of 1066.
What about you lot?

 

[NoJo]

My mother is from Lvov in the Ukraine. My father was born in London, but his parents were from the south of Ukraine, near Odessa.

Like most Jews (exept a few wealthy ones of Spanish descent), it's pretty hard to trace my ancestry beyond that.

When I got married, my father couldn't actually prove he was Jewish to the Rabbi. His father's name was Boris, which is as unjewish a name in Russia as Christopher is in England.

 

[TheEarl]

I'm as English as you can be really. From the research my family has done, pretty much 100% of my ancestors have been English, right back to Anne Hathaway.

And yet I still have no desire to support the BNP. Isn't that interesting? Maybe it's because I have an IQ above that of the average carrot?

The Earl

 

[NoJo]

And yet I still have no desire to support the BNP. Isn't that interesting? Maybe it's because I have an IQ above that of the average carrot?

The Earl

Also one doesn't tend to see a lot of BNP babes, even in Essex. Mingers, on the whole.

 

[shereads]

My ancestry also includes a home invasion by a guy named Norman. Your problem is, the statute of limitations ran out in 1076. Fortunately, the stain of illegitimacy has probably been long forgotten. Forget Norman and move on. In my family's case, it was only two generations ago. "Grandpa Norman" we call him.

Edited to add: Scots Irish.

 

[Liar]

I'm:

11/32th Swedish
4/32th Norweigan
2/32th Estonian
1/32th Finnish
1/32th Portuguese
1/32th Russian
1/32th American

11/32th not yet figgered out

Among my ancestors we find murderers, thieves, counts and circus artists, communists and royal servants. And a guy who went to prison for claiming the king was a moron.

 

[Weird Harold]

I spent most of my life believing blindly that I was 100% Welsh. More recently, I did some research and found out the following:

I'm reasonably certain that all of my ancestors were Cromagnon; there doesn't seem to be any trace of Neanderthal in the line at all.

A bit closer to my generation, my father was first generation American born of Finnish immigrants. (There are some prominant people on my Paternal Grandmother's side in modern Finnish history.)

My Maternal Grandfather was the American-born son of Welsh immigrants.

My Maternal Grandmother can only be described as "American" -- or in her words, "throw a dart at a spinning globe." (From the fact that Great-Grandma Barr commissiond a geneology and then had it burned rather than displayed, I suspect that there's a suspicious lack of marital fidelity and/or lack of "respectible" ancestors therein.) I know there are a few "Outlaws" mixed in with the inlaws in my Maternal Grandfather's line ( A pirate and a horse thief for sure.)

I however am simply an American -- period.

 

[mrboom]

I tried to look up my ancestry once, I came up with don’t bother there all dead and didn’t leave vast tracks of money.

 

[snooper]

... which is as unjewish a name in Russia as Christopher is in England.

Christopher is used in the UK by Jewish families. For example Christopher Salmon was MD of J.Lyons & Co.

 

[English Lady]

Well I seem to remember my mums heritage is Lancastrian (North of England) all the way but my Dad's Dad came over form Guernsey and on that side our name means "High Servant" and someone way back when was a trusted servant of one of them Louis fellas. (I'd have to ask Dad again for which one *L*)

 

[SensualCealy]

My dad's side is from France, came over in the 1750-ish's (I know that isnt a word but Im not getting up to go look at the geneological info I have to get the exact date!)

We dont have much beyond a few generations in the 1750's in France.

As for Mom, well she is a mutt, some Scottish, Welsh, and English, Cant find much on her though. Her dad was illegitmate, last name collins, her mom was a Lloyd/ Reid desendent. Other then that, thats all I know.

HOWEVER- I AM CANADIEN! (French Canadian)
C

 

[Guest]

we are:
Ukranian
Irish...

happy drunks, the lot of us.


got the line from waterford ireland but dont know where in the Ukrane. my grandpa was an indentured ukranian servant. he was so cool...
all 4'9" of him.
so funny but as far as lineage is concerned in the U.S. we go back a long way...got the DAR thingie going on and the Mayflower descendants affiliation but to yous guys ovah there, we're just newbies.

 

[Guest]

 

[impressive]

Ah, my favorite pre-Lit hobby. (Writing smut is SO much more fun!)

I have a huge database of over 22,000 of my kids' ancestors. (Can we all say OCD?)

I'm 1/4 Croatian, 1/4 Italian, and the rest is a mix of northern European and native American from folks who populated the frontiers in pre-Revolutionary times.

 

[elsol]

I'm mud people.

Sincerely,
ElSol

 

[Remec]

I thought this would be an interesting question to ask everyone. I spent most of my life believing blindly that I was 100% Welsh. More recently, I did some research and found out the following:
Although my immediate relatives who are still alive are all Welsh, I have one ancestor who came over from Poland in the 1800s, and my father's side of the family actually came over to Wales in the Norman invasion of 1066.
What about you lot?

My father's grandmother arrived on the boat from Ireland during one of the influxes of immigrants from there between the World Wars. So I'm only the third generation in his line born in this country.

His mother's family comes from the Pennsyvania Dutch...ie, German background...in the area around York (I think).

Most of my mother's family heritage is a mix of German and Dutch from both her parents with a bit of Orangeman from her dad.

 

[Guest]

Mostly Brit (Scot, Irish, Welsh and English, I have 'em all) with a splash of German and Native American. (Thanks grandma)

 

[brightlyiburn]

I'm:

11/32th Swedish
4/32th Norweigan
2/32th Estonian
1/32th Finnish
1/32th Portuguese
1/32th Russian
1/32th American

11/32th not yet figgered out

Well, you're the only person I met that's got me beat.
I'm:

Russian
Polish
Romanian
French-Canadian
Native American

The first three come from mom's side of the family, which is Jewish.

 

[Rumple Foreskin]

MONGREL

Can't you tell?

Rumple Foreskin

 

[cheerful_deviant]

I'm mostly German/English.

The German is from my mothers side. My Great, Great, Grandparents came over aroung the turn of the century. They originally settled in Kansas and were farmers. Mt Grandfather moved to New England after the War. Much of the family has been here ever since.

The English is my fathers side, it traces back to before the Revolution. They were actually English Loyalists before the Revolution and had to flee the country. They settled in Nova Scotia and from what I understand there are still distant relations up there.

 

[Colleen Thomas]

On my mom's side, I get highland and lowland Scots, and some Irish from county Mayo. On my dad's side, it's highland Scots and some Cherokee, with a smattering of Irish, German and possibly some lebaneese (that side of the family have been seafarers as far back as we can trace them, to a gunner who fought against the spanish armada for england.).

 

[cloudy]

I'm a mix, ancestry-wise.

My father is almost all Welsh, possibly with some Viking blood mixed in there somewhere - he was HUGE.

My mother is Creole (French/Spanish), highland Scots (we have a clan stone at Culloden that I want to see one day), and half Native (Cherokee...we think, although recently things have come to light that point to Mohawk, as well).

 

[Boota]

The first guy we could find was a guy from England who came over to America in the mid-1600's. We had no success in tracing his line back through England.

My immediate ancestry is Cherokee and German from my paternal great-grandparents and Blackfoot and Scottish from my maternal great-grandparents.

I know that in the 1800's a large chunk of my family was hung as horse thieves in Georgia.

 

[Guest]

My Mum's English, My Dad's English, both sets of Grandparents are/were English. Both sets of Great Grandparents were English. This goes all the way back to Robert the Bruce, who was, of course, Scottish. There's a traitor in my ancestry somewhere.

 

[NoJo]

I know that in the 1800's a large chunk of my family was hung as horse thieves in Georgia.

Which is why you're also hung as a....

oh, never mind..