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Offline Plawranc

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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #30 on: March 23, 2011, 03:53:22 AM »
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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Offline Tyrannis

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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #31 on: March 23, 2011, 05:53:23 AM »
irish/native american from what i can tell.
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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #32 on: March 23, 2011, 06:10:24 AM »
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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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #33 on: March 23, 2011, 06:19:24 AM »
1/32 French, 1/32 Romanian, the rest is Hungarian, spiced with a bit of Slovakian and Polish.
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« Reply #34 on: March 23, 2011, 06:50:39 AM »
Wow, I really need to eat breakfast.  These posts are starting to sound like recipes.   :confused:

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Offline Jack16

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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #35 on: March 23, 2011, 06:56:14 AM »
1/2 Polish and 1/2 Irish
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Offline redcatcherb412

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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #36 on: March 23, 2011, 12:27:28 PM »
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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Offline ROX

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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #37 on: March 23, 2011, 12:38:50 PM »
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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« Reply #38 on: March 23, 2011, 12:44:36 PM »
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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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #39 on: March 23, 2011, 12:49:06 PM »
My roots originate all the way to monkeys...

But that's already like 3 generations ago.
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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #40 on: March 23, 2011, 09:00:26 PM »
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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Offline JOACH1M

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« Reply #41 on: March 23, 2011, 09:03:08 PM »
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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« Reply #42 on: March 23, 2011, 09:04:32 PM »
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.

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« Reply #43 on: March 23, 2011, 09:06:25 PM »
Quote from: killjoy1 on March 23, 2011, 09:00:26 PM
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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Re: Your roots?
« Reply #44 on: March 23, 2011, 09:17:58 PM »
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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