What ancestry/ancestries do you have?

[Guest kuroinuyoukai]

Where are your ancestors from?

Well, let's see on my mother's side-Scottish, Irish,and German
Dad's side-Scottish,Cherokee,Choctaw, and Iroquois-maybe some German :catgirl:
Pocahontas is my great........grandmother!! :catgirl:

[Derald]

[FONT=Lucida Console][SIZE=1][COLOR=DarkRed]Hmm.....

Not completely sure yet. Here's what I have so far:

[B]Mother's side of family[/B]
-Spanish (not Mexican, as some would think)
-English

[B]Father's side of family[/B]
-German
-English (again)


Other ancestries have yet to be found (records of my family are somewhat difficult to come across)[/COLOR][/SIZE][/FONT]

[Lafleur]

[COLOR=DarkRed]My fathers side is well documented, and here's why:

Long long ago, my fathers family was minor artisocracy somwhere in centre Europe - loosley related to some king or another. Eventually, though, they fell into ruin. One of my great ancestors headed to then-proserping England, but hadn't a penny to his name - so he made his way as a male prostetute, specifically the male prostetute of Mary Queen of Scots, her favourite, which is why its so well documented.

My mothers side is less known, all I know is they came from Belgium to Ireland, and from Ireland to Canada.[/COLOR]

[Gavin]

[SIZE=1]Interesting, most interesting.

Well my own bloodline is fairly mundane, as both my parents are Irish and all their ancestors were Irish too. I did a project a couple of years ago on my family direct history, going back as far as I could accurately and in doing so I actually proved my uncle's previous assertions that our family are descended from Huguenots is completely wrong. In fact I managed to prove to a reasonable degree that our family are descended from one of the, if not the oldest physician lines in all of Ireland dating back well before the Huguenots ever set foot in Ireland.

Now that was on my father's side of the family, though my mother's side is pretty much the same story, though with the difference that the Griffins were in fact Irish noblemen with large estates on the west coast of Ireland near Ennis in County Clare. My father's people were also noble but primarily served as the physicians to other larger noble families such as the O'Flahertys of Galway and Mayo, which is only a bit north of what would have been my mother's family estate, so it is possible that my mother's and father's family lines intermarried before.

But to cut a long winded story short, I'm one-hundred percent Irish.[/SIZE]

[visualkei]

[QUOTE=Lafleur][COLOR=DarkRed]My fathers side is well documented, and here's why:

Long long ago, my fathers family was minor artisocracy somwhere in centre Europe - loosley related to some king or another. Eventually, though, they fell into ruin. One of my great ancestors headed to then-proserping England, but hadn't a penny to his name - so he made his way as a male prostetute, specifically the male prostetute of Mary Queen of Scots, her favourite, which is why its so well documented.

My mothers side is less known, all I know is they came from Belgium to Ireland, and from Ireland to Canada.[/COLOR][/QUOTE]


Wow. That's friggin interesting! Hehe.


Hm. I'm not that interesting. My mom's side is Chinese and my dad's side is Vietnamese. On my mom's side, her father looked down on Vietnamese even though they lived in Vietnam, and didn't approve of my parents' marriage. My mom says that back in the day Chinese people didn't want to mix though they were not in their home country. But, I think my gramps was just being a jerk who doesn't want to marry any of his kids away. He grew out of that attitude against my dad now. My parents' hometown in Vietnam borders Cambodia, and just about everyone speaks Vietnamese (duh) and Chinese and/or Cambodian though it's no where near China.

[BurnerMan]

I'm not sure who my mom's and dad's ancestors are which, but I know that they are German and Austrian.

[celestialcharm]

[COLOR=DarkOrchid][quote name='Lafleur][COLOR=DarkRed'] - so he made his way as a male prostetute, specifically the male prostetute of Mary Queen of Scots, her favourite, which is why its so well documented.[/COLOR][/quote]

I had no idea she had prostitutes! The only thing intreasting I hear my relatives did, was that one of them might have been a rum runner, but it's unspoken in my family.

Well, my ancestries that I have are:

On my Mom's side:
Afro-Caribbean
Irish
English
East Indian
I think Chinese too...

On my Dad's side:
Afro-Caribbean
English
Scandinavian

I probabably have some more, but I'm not sure which ones.[/COLOR]

[Petie]

[font=Verdana][color=blue]For all intents and purposes, I'm completely Italian (Sicilian to be specific). All of my mom's side of the family is from Sicily. My dad's side we are not completely sure about as he was adopted. As far as we know, he was part Italian as well which makes my blood mostly Italian. As for the rest of his heritage, we're not sure so there could be little bits of other blood in me but not that I'm aware of.[/color][/font]

[Minako]

Let's see, my ancestry is...well...Finnish, Finnish, and only Finnish. I'm quite proud of my heritage, and though i've lived in the states most of my life, I still feel a connection to my homeland. (I also go there almost every summer.)

[Pumpkin]

[SIZE=2][FONT=Arial][COLOR=#663333]I'm [b]1/2 hungarian[/b]. I don't know much about my family history, infact I don't know how to find out more about it (Ancestry.com doesn't seem to work for me). I do know that my mother and grandmother were born in Hungary and I have a lot of relatives there even though I've never been to that country. It's funny to think of me being half european even now. My grandmother was in World War II and actually saw Hitler with her own eyes and often hid jews in her house. I don't know if I could consider her an ancestor, since she's still alive today lol.

But she did have to climb over the mountains in Austria (if you have watched Sound of Music you know what mountains I'm talking about) with my mother on her back. Her first baby died of a cold since back in the day the war consumed a lot of money and left people poor and they couldn't afford medicine. A bomb even hit her house and she almost died being trapped in the debris. She also had to live with German soldiers in her house when they took over (its right next to Germany so obviously they were one of the first to be taken over). My dad side I don't really know much about except for that my family provided shovels and other supplies for people in the gold rush and got rich off of that and have lived in California for years. Theres actually a book about one of my ancestors or so I heard who struck it rich that way, and supposedly my family is mentioned. But I have yet to see it. [/FONT][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[Outlaw]

This is one part of my family which I am truely proud of. I am Scottish/Irish, whose family immigrated three generations ago. It wasn't until seeing Braveheart that I realized exactly how strong my Scottish heritage is. You see, my last name is Wallace, the same as the character played by Mel Gibson, William Wallace.

After quite a bit of back tracking, me and my father were able to track our heritage to this legendary Scottish warrior. And yes, he was a real person, though much more feirce and merciless than the one played by everyone's favorite Lethal Weapon.

Ever since discovering this fact, I have strongly embrassed my Scottish heritage, and I hope to study abroad there next year at the University of St. Andrews.

[Bloodseeker]

What do I know about my heritage? According to my grandma, one of ancestors was the first white man born in one of the middle states... I also have trace amounts of Scotish and Jewish blood in me. I'm white, in case you couln't figure that out. Aside from that, I don't know much about my heritage.

[Panda]

I am Japanese. Most of my family was born in Japan. As far back as my family history is know everyone has been Japanese. It's kind of interesting knowing that my family is all Japanese but having a mixture of ancestries would be really cool too. My hubby for instance is mostly German but also has some French, Native American and Swiss. Having a diverse family history is pretty cool too.

[Bloodseeker]

Japan's cool... I really enjoyed my vacation to Tokyo, the people there were very helpful (I was surprised that so many of them knew English... you could almost always find someone in the area that could help you when you needed it), and I never felt threatened once while I was there. (which is saying something, since I'm a very cautious person)

The only thing that bugged me was the lack of individuality... and it wasn't just that they all had similar skin tones. Men in identical black and white business suits walked the streets of Ginza and Asakusa, groups of girls all make the exact same awed statements at the exact same time (I came across this a few times), many people were extreme comformists in their casual styles... it just seemed weird to me. There are comformists in America too, but there are so many different cultures here that you don't really notice it.