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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: redman555 on March 22, 2011, 06:41:57 PM
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Just curious, where is everyone's roots from? Personally I am 100% Italian, my family came over from Northern Italy (Most in the Genoa area) between 1900-1950.
-BigBOBCH
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One of my Great Grandfather's came to the US in 1909. A Lebanese Immigrant.
The others were mostly European Immigrants pre-civil war, mostly Scot-Irish.
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We came over on the Mayflower. Mother's side anyhow.
wrongway
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Mother is Dutch, Father is Scottish.
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Italian
Great-Grandfather immigrated from Naples in 1915, worked his arse off to become a citizen, and he died a happy, propserous American.
amazing where a little hard work will get you
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Russian me my mom and dad came here in 1993
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Scottish and German
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my great great grandparents were native americans, led on the trail of tears and were forced to stay in oklahoma for a long while, 50 years or so then my great grand parents moved into the arizona region and now my grandparents are in montana. and now my mom and me are here in indiana, yay?
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Lucky to be 100 pecent american...born in Texas by the grace of god!!!
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I guess I'm a mutt :) Scotts-Irish, with some French and American Indian thrown in. Father was full blooded Irish though.
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Mutt... too muddled to contemplate in depth.
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As far as I've been told and remember...
Apparently all of my mother's side emigrated together from Austria-Hungary 3-4 generations back. Ethnically that doesn't lead you very far, but based on surname and religion they were probably Croats, Czechs, or Slovenes, leaning toward the latter two, I imagine.
My father's side is pretty much mixed, based on the prevalent populations of where they're from, probably some mix of British (Scottish/Irish more than English I'd imagine), German, Slavic and Italian. Pretty standard European-American mix.
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Records burned up in a fire. I have no idea, my mom doesn't remember :(
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I'm directly related to Charlemagne. I guess I'm Germanic, British and Cherokee. Interesting background.
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Mostly irish, some German, small bit french Canadian....EH?
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Somehow, Spikes' relatives found their way into KY and drove 35 in a 60 zone.... Get out of the way, eh!? :aok
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Mostly irish, some German, small bit french Canadian....EH?
French Canadian thats worse the normal Canadian geez...
I'm 75% German by the way.
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:lol :lol
<S> greens
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On my father's side, we can trace our first ancestor in the "New World" to "The muster of the inhabitants the Colledge land in Virginia taken the 23rd January 1624/25." Sisley (often more often spelled as Cicely) Jordan was born in 1600, arrived in Jamestown, VA in 1610. She survived until about 1660.
On my mother's side, we can trace my Maternal Great Great grand mother arriving in NYC in 1857. She later served as a nurse in Union Army hospitals during the Civil War. My paternal grand parents.... My great Grand father was born in Austria, on December 2, 1860. He, his wife and daughter emigrated to New York in 1888. He became a Naturalized Citizen in 1920. He died on July 18, 1933. Great grand father was a pottery worker in Brooklyn, until he purchased a 65 acre farm up in Breesport, NY in 1907. The family began a new life as farmers. No electricity, no indoor plumbing. After Prohibition was enacted in 1919, great grand father added a new line... Bootlegger. He and my great grand mother distilled a significant amount of white lightning, and organized dances on their farm. It earned them a respectable income, as they had the money to install a carbide gas lighting system in the farmhouse (electricity didn't come out to the farm before the house burned down during WWII).
Great grand mother was born Frances Koudelka in Bohemia (modern day Czech Republic) near Prague on July 26, 1866. She died May 8th, 1932.
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Italian
Great-Grandfather immigrated from Naples in 1915, worked his arse off to become a citizen, and he died a happy, propserous American.
amazing where a little hard work will get you
Hehe, an Italian from Naples. You are Greek fool! :neener:
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mutt born in sankok dong, inchon s. korea...
maternal side is s. korean (with a japanese and a russian along the line)...paternal side is german, immigrants from the black forest region 1880s...toss in a choctaw great grandmother and a cajun/german great grandfather...
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1/4 German, 1/4 Irish, 1/2 Dutch... my mom is adopted so I don't know how her side got here...and I never thought to talk to ym dad bout his side.
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Mutt here. Spanish, English, Irish, Dutch with a touch of Cherokee thrown in for good measure.
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English-Irish-Scottish-Newfie :D but still Canadian
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Bunch of Irish and Spanish and a touch of Greek.
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Scottish Heritage, McDonald Clan then alttle Irish got mixed in along the way, then early 1800's some Navajo got tossed in the mix at that point :lol
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ALL NATIVE HERE. w alitttle russian in there maybe a 32nd.
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Mostly German, a little bit Swedish and Czech though.
My dads great great great great great grandfather came to Texas in 1834, with the last name Weiss, he changed it to White to sound more American though.
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Family crossed the pond in or around 1635 with Champlain,traveled to Georgian Bay and stayed.
We're a French/Native American cross known as Metis that were recently granted indigenous status...for what thats worth!
Strangest part is it runs on both side,Mom and Dad,though Dad's side seemed to come over in the late 1700's,we call them new comers..... :rofl :rofl :rofl
:salute
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ALL NATIVE HERE. w alitttle russian in there maybe a 32nd.
no such thing as a little russian, its all or nothing man! ;) :lol
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The land of hope and glory, mother of the free.
Great Britain as far back as the 1400's. Then it splits off into normans and vikings and god knows what else.
But a bit of Switzerland is there somewhere.
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irish/native american from what i can tell.
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Nobody born in the USA is 100% (insert other country here)
Your 100% American but of (insert country) decent
If you go back to as my grandparents used to say "the old country". Say Ireland, Or Italy for example. You wont be viewed by the inhabitants as Irish or Itallian. But as an American.
Me, I'm of mixed decent.
German,Irish,English,Spanish,Hungarian,Slovak, and Prussian.
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1/32 French, 1/32 Romanian, the rest is Hungarian, spiced with a bit of Slovakian and Polish.
:salute :cheers:
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Wow, I really need to eat breakfast. These posts are starting to sound like recipes. :confused:
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1/2 Polish and 1/2 Irish
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Born in Germany, adopted by US parents out of a german orphanage at 5 yrs old. Got a copy of my original birth cert. from Germany when I was 30. Mother was German citizen born in Austria, German Birth Certs. in 1940's did NOT list fathers, so I don't friggin know. Coulda been a GI, coulda been an SS officer LOL. May explain why I love Wirbs and M4's.
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Sad, many (if not most) Americans can barely trace their ancestry back a century, much less more.
I'm 3/4 Irish and 1/4 Scot.
On my mother's side both GGGgrandfathers served in the Civil War for the South, both survived the war. The family came from South Carolina to Chattanooga in 1836 to take flatboats down the Tennessee to Northeast Mississippi. Prior to South Carolina they were in North Carolina and back to Virginia. The Virginia family part arrived in the states around 1705.
Father's side arrived Virginia around 1720 and moved to North Carolina. My grandfather left North Carolina for Mississippi around 1916.
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Great Grandparents from England, Ireland, Lithuania and Poland. However being born here makes me 100% Native American, as far as I'm concerned. :rock
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My roots originate all the way to monkeys...
But that's already like 3 generations ago.
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DNA revealed our ancestor changed his name in 1750 from Norden to Norton. Descendant of Robert Norden, the 1st Baptist sent to America from England to set up churches.
DNA came from Romania to East coast of Denmark about 500 AD. From there to Normandy and into East Sussex England 1066 with William the Conqueror.
On my mothers side I match the 10,000 year old Cheddar Man in Sommerset, England.
Been doing DNA Family History since it was invented.
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My grandpa, moved to the states in 1948 with his parents from Germany.
(dad side)
Mom side (schweihofer)
From Germany, but moved here LONG TIME AGO
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I am one-half Polish and one half American. My grandmother on my father's side was English (and lived through the first blitz). My mother's side goes all the way back through Ukraine.
-Penguin
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DNA revealed our ancestor changed his name in 1750 from Norden to Norton. Descendant of Robert Norden, the 1st Baptist sent to America from England to set up churches.
DNA came from Romania to East coast of Denmark about 500 AD. From there to Normandy and into East Sussex England 1066 with William the Conqueror.
On my mothers side I match the 10,000 year old Cheddar Man in Sommerset, England.
Been doing DNA Family History since it was invented.
That's awesome! I might have to look into that......
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Irish and German, have a lot of family from Mississippi and Oklahoma. Have relatives that we know fought in the civil war from Mississippi (on my dads side.) My dad's great great grandmother was Cherokee Indian who was famous for having a WHOLE bunch of kids, something like 20-30 in North Texas.
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My whole family is from Mexico.
Parents are from the same little pueblo.But my great great grandpa came over from spain...ill get more info on him when i see my dad... as for me i was born and raised in the great state of Arizona.
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Norwegian as far back as my mom could trace me when she did the family tree thing. If she went further im betting there will be a monkey and some plankton in the mix
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We came over on the Mayflower. Mother's side anyhow.
wrongway
Now that is awesome!
I asked my mom about our heritage. She wasn't sure. So I have always claimed to be viking cowboy.
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I am what you would call a Heinz 57 mix, a little of this and a little of that combined to make something thats AWESOME!!!!
LOL
LawnDart
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On my dads side of the family they can trace lineage back beyond the "Doomsday Book" to the time on William the Conqueror when he was preparing to invade England pre-1066. Most of that side of the family either arrived here in the colonies (back then) either in Charleston, SC or Norfolk, VA. One brother of an ancestor went AWOL off a Royal Navy ship when it docked in Charleston, SC. He simply never returned for the remainder of his service and went east into Georgia to live. One of my dads great-grandfathers was shot in the neck during the civil war at Petersburg, VA and continued to march till the end of the war. From Appomattox where he surrendered with Lee and then died in the early 1900's after being run over by a horse drawn wagon in the square of Marion, AL.
On my mothers side of the family they can trace back to President James Buchanan through Scotland and to Peter Stuyvesant into the Netherlands, Denmark and northern Germany into the early 1400's.
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I've only been able to trace a few of my ancestors back far enough to know a country of origin, but some of the names are common to specific countries...
On my father's mother's side, Booth and Dorsey (originally D'arcy from what I understand) English and Scottish descent from what I understand, and English/Welsh on my father's father's side with Floyd. Traced a Booth ancestor back to England by way of NY then Philadelphia, came over somewhere around 1790, then the family came south to NC, then to SC. Booth line has been living and farming the same dirt here in Horry County (actually the Independant Republic of Horry, we technically and legally never rejoined the Union or SC after the Civil War and legally, at least on paper, our own independant republic :) as is stated on our County Seal - you guys know this area as Myrtle Beach, SC, by the way) since the mid-1800's. I grew up in the farmhouse on the old family farm that my grandmother's grandfather built in 1866 after returning from fighting in the War. My grandmother's grandfather, great grandfather, and a great uncle were wounded in the Civil War but returned. Two great uncles were lost, one at Gettysburg, and one at the Battle of The Wilderness. One great uncle on the Dorsey side was also lost but was MIA and never heard from again. After the Civil War one Dorsey great uncle moved west to Texas and started a company building Covered Wagons. You still see them on the highways to this day..... only they're Dorsey Trailers being pulled by 18-wheelers. :)
My mother's side is from Goergia and I do not know as much about that lineage, although I'm looking, but as I understand it it is a mix of German, Irish, and a small percentage Cherokee (my great grandmother - mother's mother's mother - was 1/4 Cherokee from what I understand).
Scary/amazing/cool thing is looking at a portrait of my great grandfather on my mother's side... I have a pic of him from when he was in his mid-40's.... I'm almost 40 now.... we could be twins, separated by 50+ years.....
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I am what you would call a Heinz 57 mix, a little of this and a little of that combined to make something thats AWESOME!!!!
LOL
LawnDart
Great another one lol I am Polish/Irish/German/PaDutch would love to know my families past but alls I know is that my fathers side when they came over to the states that our last name was shortened from 15 letters down to five and no one remembers what the original last name was so this may take some real searching to dig up
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My great grand parents, dads dad side came from Sicily ( sorry should have added that they moved to America). His mother came from NZ....they met during the war..he was on R&R here and she was a nurse....My mums side..grandmother is from Maori decent (some Maori princess in the time line somewhere, but filtered down enough that I don't get the perks of the ethnicity)and English decent with a bit of Irish and scottish chucked in there somewhere on my granddads side.....which makes me a true blue mutt :lol :lol :lol :D
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3rd Generation New Yorker. Dad's side Germany, Mom's side Austria, Hungary and Turkey and origins in Israel..way back when..Mom was in same class as Moses.
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My great grand parents, dads dad side came from Sicily. H
Just a heads up. Sicilian is NOT Italian. If you tell my grandparents that they will smack you, then cuss you out in Italian lol.
-BigBOBCH
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ALL NATIVE HERE. w alitttle russian in there maybe a 32nd.
Native what?
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Just a heads up. Sicilian is NOT Italian. If you tell my grandparents that they will smack you, then cuss you out in Italian lol.
-BigBOBCH
I never said Italian...Did I ???...nope (just checked)....that was lucky...would want to dirty my name like that hahaha
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Strawberry blonde
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I never said Italian...Did I ???...nope (just checked)....that was lucky...would want to dirty my name like that hahaha
Actually Sicilians are referred to as "dirty Italians" because they had kids with middle easterns and africans, which is why generally they are so dark. And I only said that to make sure you knew :aok
-BigBOBCH
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Actually Sicilians are referred to as "dirty Italians" because they had kids with middle easterns and africans, which is why generally they are so dark. And I only said that to make sure you knew :aok
-BigBOBCH
lol racism
Anyway, Neapolitans and Sicilians make up the majority of Italian Americans...