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Re: Your heritage?

Post by klr » Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:35 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:I just found online my paternal grandfather's entry on a ship manifest from when they came over from Russia in 1922 to escape the madness there. Cheers to the internet! :toot:
The madness? But it was a workers' paradise? :mob:
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Jun 24, 2010 8:45 pm

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Bella Fortuna wrote:I just found online my paternal grandfather's entry on a ship manifest from when they came over from Russia in 1922 to escape the madness there. Cheers to the internet! :toot:
The madness? But it was a workers' paradise? :mob:
Yes, they just loved when their village was collectivised and they all started starving. :ddpan:
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Thinking Aloud » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:13 pm

Hmm. I thought I'd posted earlier in this thread but it looks like I didn't ...

I'm English.

My parents were born in England.

My paternal grandparents were born in England.
My maternal grandparents were born in England.

Some of their parents came from Wales and Ireland. And England. (The mad grandparent insisted on a Romanian (or possibly Bulgarian) distant relative too.)

My family name (which I share with lofuji) apparently originates with a particular wave of Nordic settlers, way back when.

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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Pappa » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:33 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:I just found online my paternal grandfather's entry on a ship manifest from when they came over from Russia in 1922 to escape the madness there. Cheers to the internet! :toot:
Cool. :biggrin:
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Post by Bella Fortuna » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:36 pm

Thinking Aloud wrote:Hmm. I thought I'd posted earlier in this thread but it looks like I didn't ...

I'm English.

My parents were born in England.

My paternal grandparents were born in England.
My maternal grandparents were born in England.

Some of their parents came from Wales and Ireland. And England. (The mad grandparent insisted on a Romanian (or possibly Bulgarian) distant relative too.)

My family name (which I share with lofuji) apparently originates with a particular wave of Nordic settlers, way back when.
...who came from England...
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Ian » Thu Jun 24, 2010 9:48 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:I just found online my paternal grandfather's entry on a ship manifest from when they came over from Russia in 1922 to escape the madness there. Cheers to the internet! :toot:
Very cool! Were they lucky to make it out, or was Mother Russia happy to have fewer mouths to feed at the time? :think:

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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Brian Peacock » Thu Jun 24, 2010 10:20 pm

Two-thirds incredible, and one third fantastic on my mother's side.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Svartalf » Fri Feb 22, 2013 10:19 am

I recently learned that the Nantes side of my family had blue blood, not just the Norman side... descent from the family that were Mayor of Nantes in 1700.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Jason » Sat Feb 23, 2013 3:52 am

I'm a descendant of John O' Gaunt.. apparently. I want my castle back (or Lancashire.. whatever).

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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Svartalf » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:02 am

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Re: Your heritage?

Post by hadespussercats » Sat Feb 23, 2013 7:10 am

Făkünamę wrote:I'm a descendant of John O' Gaunt.. apparently. I want my castle back (or Lancashire.. whatever).
My husband's descended from him. I'm descended from his brother Lionel. John of Gaunt's brother, I mean-- not my husband's.

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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Svartalf » Sat Feb 23, 2013 9:58 am

As a stuart descendent, I happen to have John O'Gaunt on my ancestor list too
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sat Feb 23, 2013 11:05 am

I'm descended from Attila the Hun. I want Asia back. :lay:
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