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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Ayaan » Mon Jul 20, 2009 8:58 pm

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Ayaan wrote:On my mothers' side, my family is a mix of English, Scottish, German, and French.

On my father's side, my family is a mix of English, German, Spanish, French. According to my grandmother's research we are related to one of the Spanish conquistadors who originally explored what became Florida.
One of Juan Ponce de León's mob, or maybe Hernando de Soto's. Probably not something to be broadcast to any Native Americans in your locality ... :whistle:
I don't recall right off hand. Oh, I forgot, there is also some Choctaw on my father's side of the family.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Mysturji » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:50 am

Clinton Huxley wrote:Scottish on my mum's side, French on my Dad's side, with some sizzling gypsies thrown in for good measure (it was in Lancashire Life, so it must be true).

A frankly horrific set of antecedents - thistle-munching, face-painting savages, randy,garlic-slobbering cowards and people who will tarmac your drive for you. Shameful.....
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by FBM » Tue Jul 21, 2009 6:58 am

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Ayaan wrote:On my mothers' side, my family is a mix of English, Scottish, German, and French.

On my father's side, my family is a mix of English, German, Spanish, French. According to my grandmother's research we are related to one of the Spanish conquistadors who originally explored what became Florida.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by FBM » Tue Jul 21, 2009 7:00 am

Ayaan wrote:...there is also some Choctaw on my father's side of the family.
I've got maternal relatives in the Redwater Reservation, Leake County. :td:
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Hermit » Tue Jul 28, 2009 8:05 am

The primordial soup, just like everybody else, but as far as I can trace it I am from Austria, even though none of us have lived there for eight or ten generations.

Somewhere around the 1740s Maria Theresa (the dowager empress of Austria to be) betrayed the fact that she too was infected by the spirit of the Age of Enlightenment. Instead of having everybody who is not a roman catholic killed, as was the custom, she ordered each family to load up whatever they can on a single wagon and leave her dominions. Theresa's enemy, Frederick II (the Great), saw a golden opportunity to acquire great quantities of manpower with great disaffection toward the Austrian empire, and invited them all to settle in his kingdom. My father's ancestors settled in East Prussia (now part of Russia) and those of my mother's in West Prussia (now belonging to Poland) All of them did pretty well. My father's father was shot through the leg a little above the knee just after WWI started. It killed his horse. Other than that the families came out of it relatively unscathed.

My mother's family moved to Thuringia where my mother's father became a judge. WWII had more impact on us. Both my grandfathers served as majors or colonels. My mother's father lost everything to the Russians and finished up in Siberia for seven years. My mother lost her brother in the Ardennes push. My father's father lost all his lands to the Soviets. My father finished up as a 21 year old Lieutenant with a piece of mortar shrapnel (he still has it in his shoulder today) as a POW. Somehow they finished up in the American-occupied zone (very lucky, that) of Germany, where my parents eventually met in 1951.

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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Woodbutcher » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:36 pm

I'm Finnish with possibly some Russian thrown in on my father's side. Last name is Sadko, which is pure Russian. And no, my father was not a merchant. He came from eastern Karelia. His mom died when he was three, and his dad gave the kids up to the welfare people and left. They were all "auctioned" off to the lowest bidders, ie. I'll take the kid if you pay me $10.00/month. He ended up on a farm. He said it was the shits, even the animals were fed better. When the war started in 1939 he was 16, and he volunteered, apparently anything was better than the farm. He also spoke fluent Russian, so he was needed.
My mom's side of the family has farmed the same farm since 1725 in Finland.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Gawdzilla Sama » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:46 pm

Woodbutcher wrote:I'm Finnish with possibly some Russian thrown in on my father's side. Last name is Sadko, which is pure Russian. And no, my father was not a merchant. He came from eastern Karelia. His mom died when he was three, and his dad gave the kids up to the welfare people and left. They were all "auctioned" off to the lowest bidders, ie. I'll take the kid if you pay me $10.00/month. He ended up on a farm. He said it was the shits, even the animals were fed better. When the war started in 1939 he was 16, and he volunteered, apparently anything was better than the farm. He also spoke fluent Russian, so he was needed.
My mom's side of the family has farmed the same farm since 1725 in Finland.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Beelzebub2 » Sun Aug 09, 2009 11:48 pm

1/4 Hungarian, 1/4 German, 2/4 Croatian.

That makes me Hungercroman or whatever.

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Re: Your heritage?

Post by tattuchu » Mon Aug 10, 2009 12:10 am

Half French-Canadian, quarter German and quarter British. I like to think of myself as British, however.

My British ancestors had quite the sense of humor. Rascal they were, building fires on the shore of Cape Cod, which ships mistook for lighthouses, making them steer off course and crash. My Brits ancestors would then loot and pillage the wrecks :? Maybe it was my German ancestors. Yes, that's it. It must have been. English gentlemen would never engage in such untoward behavior, surely :?
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by maiforpeace » Mon Aug 10, 2009 1:39 am

Half German, and half Vietnamese.

On my mother's side, I am a direct descendant of Martin Luther. On my father's side, my Grandfather, Kim Duc Dao was Minister of Public Works under Ho Chi Minh's regime.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Pappa » Mon Aug 10, 2009 2:27 pm

I'm a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Bella Fortuna » Mon Aug 10, 2009 6:20 pm

Pappa wrote:I'm a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.
And Baron Munchausen, by the sound of it. :coffee:
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Woodbutcher » Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:35 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Pappa wrote:I'm a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.
And Baron Munchausen, by the sound of it. :coffee:
And still descending, ever deeper, day by day. :biggrin:
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Pappa » Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:42 pm

Bella Fortuna wrote:
Pappa wrote:I'm a direct descendant of Genghis Khan.
And Baron Munchausen, by the sound of it. :coffee:
Actually, I made that up, but my dad is Walter Mitty.
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Re: Your heritage?

Post by Horwood Beer-Master » Thu Aug 13, 2009 8:55 am

My Nan (maternal grandmother) was German, although she did have something to do with Austrian and/or Swiss in her parentage but I never quite worked out exactly how it worked.

My Dad is apparently (though he didn't know it until comparatively recently) is something like one-eighth Irish (making me one-sixteenth). The rest, on both sides, as far as I know is English.


So there we are, 1/4 German/mixed-central-European, 1/16 Irish, and the rest (11/16) English.
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