From what country or countries did your ancestors come over from.

[maveric]

Mine are from Ireland and Sicily.
How about yours?

[Blue_In_AK]

1. England

The ones I know about. They were Quakers and came with William Penn.

[joanski0]

2. Both of my parents came over from Poland n/t

[evlbstrd]

3. Ireland, here.

1847, during the Great Hunger.

[RawMaterials]

4. Mine came from

Poland Germany and Ireland % wise mostly German

[graywarrior]

5. Poland, Ireland, Italy.

[YankeyMCC]

143. Wow, I hadn't expected to see

a duplicate of what I was going to post.

That's the makeup of my ancestors as well plus throw one Russian-Jewish great grandmother.

[graywarrior]

145. No way! We found out a few years ago that we have

Russian-Jews in our family tree!

[Avalux]

6. Ireland, Germany, England

Germany before the Revolutionary War (they were really Swiss but went to Germany first); Ireland and England in the mid 1800's.

[coalition_unwilling]

7. Scotland (through Northern Ireland) and Austria-Hungary (the Germanic

speaking part of Croatia

[Kber]

8. All over, really

Western Europe (Denmark, England, Scotland & Germany)
North America around the Great Lakes in Michigan
Russia
Africa (or so it's rumored in my family)

I don't think I have even 2 great grandparents from the same place so I'm no more that 1/16 anything.

[flobee1]

9. The ones that are traceable

are from Oldenberg Germany

Came over in the 1840's and settled in eastern Ohio

[MadMaddie]

10. Just a wild guess.....somewhere on the African Continent...

[IsItJustMe]

21. Have you heard about the DNA research they are doing where people of

African decent can trace their roots. I saw a woman of African decent trace her roots back to an island of the coast of Nigeria. They are doing DNA tests all over Africa and saving the profiles for people to find out where they come from if you are interested.

[MadMaddie]

42. Oh...I would love to do that...I have been planning

on doing an extensive Family Tree project this would be pretty cool...do you have any links for the ogranization that's doing this...This would be soooo..cool....I went to a family Reunion in South Carolina and was floored by my family and it's history...a lot of the old photographs need to be scanned before they are dammaged, documentation needs to be scanned the family tree needs to be computerized....

I like this kind of stuff so thanks for the information...

[IsItJustMe]

55. I believe I saw the story on the Discovery Channel so you might start your

search there.

It was a wonderful story. This woman went back to Africa and had a great reunion with her long lost relatives from that island. They really gave her the red carpet treatment. She participated in several rituals and I could tell that when it was all said and done, this was a very spiritual experience for her with very deep life altering meaning for her.

It was probably the most inspiring TV documentary I had ever watched. I thought about this months later, and even now from time to time.

[MadMaddie]

79. Thank you for the information!!!

[IsItJustMe]

88. Your welcome, I hope you go on that search.

[TahitiNut]

63. $100 - The Genographic Project

https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/

[MadMaddie]

81. Thanks for the link this is great!!

[TahitiNut]

85. Anything for you, cousin. Glad to pass on the fun.

When I get an 'extra' $100, I want to do this myself. I really, really like the reality of "The Human Family."

[kittykitty]

164. Hungry, Scots Irish, France

1/2 Hungarian, 1/4 French. 1/4 Scots Irish

[Alamom]

83. You should do it. I was overwhelmed with the stories I found to be

true about my family. There had always been spoken stories of living with the Cherokee for a century, being part Cherokee..... some of the family had to leave on the "Trail of Tears" and some managed to stay in the South. As I traced my family tree, I found most of what we had been told as children was true.

[MadMaddie]

87. Wow...My grandfather was from an Indian Tribe in OK...

I want to find out more about him....

History is amazing isn't it especially our own personal history!!

[IsItJustMe]

11. Hired a gynocologist to do the research. LOL

Just kidding of course


The 1600's from Germany to Pennsylvania.

[rfranklin]

23. It was hidden in your vagina?

Wow! Far out! I'm gonna get someone to look in my penis.

[supernova]

12. Scotland and Alsace

:D

[tcfrogs]

13. Croatia

along with Norway, Sweden & Ireland

[dogday]

14. American Indian and Irish

On Both sides of the family....

Both Grandmothers were full Cherokee, lived on the reservation for a while in NC.

[One_Life_To_Give]

15. Didn't we all start in Africa?

Supposedly they were from France. But they were in England since before the 1060 census till 1634.

[JitterbugPerfume]

16. Germany , Scotland, Ireland ,England

really all over Europe

[Connie_Corleone]

17. I have no friggin' idea.

But if I had to guess, I'd say some country in the western part of Africa.

[mitchtv]

28. Ireland, England and I suppose

Scotland ( ancestor named Scott)

[ThomWV]

18. The East of England

My sister got into genealogy for a while and did the tree back to the late 1500's. It was not what I had expected but I can name to the day who got here and from where. At any rate my people, at least the line I can follow, got here with what might be called the second wave of Puritans coming into Mass.

[Dhalgren]

19. England and Turtle Island...

[LuckyLib]

20. Germany, Poland, Sweden

[lonestarnot]

22. Ireland, England, Wales

[TechBear_Seattle]

24. I am a mongrel

Mother's mother - Sweden
Mother's father - Wales & Ireland
Father's mother - Austria, Czech
Father's father - Prussia (Now in Poland, near German border)

[Bridget Burke]

188. There are no "pure-bred" humans.

Unless you count royalty. But that much inbreeding isn't recommended.

Prussia that is now Poland? That particular part of Europe has probably changed names several times. And many peoples have moved across the land--sometimes settling, sometimes just leaving genetic evidence. All of Central Europe has a similar history of migrations.

Wales, Ireland & Sweden have long coastlines. So the gene pools are even more likely to be diverse.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

25. England, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Prussia and North America

I think that's everybody.

[Jersey Devil]

26. Italy, France & Croatia - I'm a mutt

My paternal grandfather was born in Italy and came here as a boy with his family (legally). My paternal grandmother was born in Brooklyn, the child of Italian immigrants.

On the maternal side, my grandfather was a Croatian merchant mariner who jumped ship in New York City and joined the American Army, fighting in France in World War I where he met my grandmother, a native of Normandy. They married in France, he returned on a troop ship and memere came over to New York via Ellis Island. I have the ship manifest with her name on it and a photo of the ship that I obtained a few years ago.

[riona]

27. denmark, scotland, italy

[AllieB]

29. Ireland, Norway, Wales, Germany, England

edited because I forgot one. :blush:

[slide to the left]

30. England

From the same town as Washington

[Kerrytravelers]

31. Scotland and Ireland

[datadiva]

32. I'm Irish and American Indian

My husband is Scotch and American Indian.

[Rowdyboy]

33. France, Germany, England and the Netherlands.....

Kicked out of the finest countries of northern Europe!

[Tuesday_Morning]

34. Italy (Calabria and Sicily), Norway, Scotland via Ireland, France, Denmark

...and Lithuania.

And then they all married and got in trouble with their families for marrying outsiders.

[maveric]

48. My parents were the 1st in their familes to"Break the bloodline".

All Irish on Dad's side and all Sicilian on Ma's side. They took some heat for that and were told that it wouldnt work out. They were married in 1953 and stayed married till Dad died in 2000.
Ma told me that the wedding reception was very divided at first. Both sides didnt talk to one another till the booze flowed. They seemed to accept it after a few drinks and many became friends and business associates.

[free_spirit82]

35. Scotland, Ireland, and Native American (Cherokee)

n/t

[Penndems]

36. My ancestors are Scotch-Irish, German and Italian

n/t

[ceile]

37. Ireland, Germany, Scotland

The Scots came early 1800s
The Irish early 1900s
The Germans 1890s

[NYCGirl]

38. Russia and Poland. NT

[Raksha]

39. I'm Ashkenazi (Eastern European Jewish) on both sides.

My father was born in Poland and my mother's family was from Ukraine.

[rainy]

40. Both grandmothers and one grandfather all German

[patdem]

41. Mine were part of those low life Irish who would do ANY job for money

but were rejected with signs "No Irishman Need Apply" That is on my mom's side, my dad is some English and mostly French..you know..those "Surrender Monkeys"

I LOVE my heritage..it is bruised and battered like MOST immigrants!

Edit...mispelled English of all ancestors!

[rene moon]

43. That evil country down south of here

Mexico. And that other country that hates America, France

[Media_Lies_Daily]

44. How much time do you have? :-)...............

Mom's side of the family:

*German (1717 Germanna Colony)
*Italian (1773 and worked at Monticello for Jefferson - two male ancestors on the same ship)
*Scots (mid 1700s)
*English (mid-1700s)

Dad's side of the family:

*Scots-Irish (1730 Philadelphia by way of Ireland in 1550 during Cromwell Reformation)
*English (mid-1700s)

[treefrogjohn]

45. Mother's side from Ukraine, Father's from England n/t

[Adelante]

46. Holland, France, England

Back when.

[cantstandbush]

47. American Indian, African-American, Irish, German in that order. n/t

[Arkansas Granny]

49. Sweden, England, France.

[Critters2]

50. One grandfather was Irish, the other German (Pomeranian);

one grandmother's family was from Scotland, the other Scots-Irish. Two of my great-great-grandmothers were Menominee (Native American). I have a pic of one of my Menominee great-greats, and she looks so much like a first cousin of mine that it's just spooky!

[stillcool]

51. England, Germany, and Ireland

[catmandu57]

52. Some from Scotland

Some were here waiting for them.

[devilgrrl]

53. Just your average Italian/Sicilian Peasants...

looking for a better life.

[Cleita]

54. Spain, Chile, Germany, Holland, Ireland and Scotland.

On edit, I forgot Scotland. My grandmother, Laura would be upset.

[RethugAssKicker]

56. Jamaica Mon

[TahitiNut]

57. Maternal grandparents from Norway, 1915-1919

Ancestors on my father's side mostly lowland Scots-Irish ... where the Vikings planted their seeds.
Thus, I regard my ancestry as nearly 100% Viking. :evilgrin:

[trackfan]

58. Italy

[Bridget Burke]

59. Mostly from Ireland....

One grandmother called herself "Scotch-Irish" "Scots Irish" is the current term; sounds better than "hardheaded Presbyterian Orangemen." Her ancestors had been here longest of any other grandparent, so "other" European blood is possible.

Her husband was Irish. From the famine Irish? Not sure; he was gone before I was born.

The other grandparents came from Eastern Galway.

[JohnKleeb]

60. All right

Ireland, Germany on my dad's side during the Civil War around and Slovakia, Slovenia on my mom's just before WWI broke out. Last ancestor that I know of came over in 1919 around. Still got family in Europe too, would love to meet them.

[sutz12]

61. Germany, both sides....

have some Blackfoot indian on daddy's side, or at least that is what I heard.

[trof]

62. British Isles (all of them), Germany, France.

We're a ployglot, we are.
;-)

[rodeodance]

64. Holland, Chek, Switerland and Bohemia

[denidem]

66. My mom's German and my dad's Turkish

But they met here in the US.

[Orrin_73]

146. Merhaba denidem

and welcome to DU. :hi:

[mitchum]

65. Half of my ancestors introduced the other half to the joys of lung cancer

North America and France

[mcscajun]

67. Germany, Ireland, and Norway.

Mostly Germany.

[Alamom]

68. Irish - Cherokee

My 6th Irish grandfather came to America in early 1700's. Migrated south to the Cherokee Nation of Georgia. Married a Cherokee woman and they had children who intermarried with Cherokee and so on.
They lived there and farmed for over 100 years. When A. Jackson decided the Cherokee no longer had rights to the land, my family was able to avoid the "Trail of Tears" and came to Alabama in the 1830's due to being mixed ? . I live about 10 miles from where they originally settled.

I have traced my fathers line back to the 1300's when it appears people took last names. I have been able to trace their line (here) due to the Cherokee having an established government at the time and records were kept. I have census records of how many came with them to Alabama and deeds of the land they bought. I remember my Cherokee 2nd grandmother. She lived to be very old.


My Mother's side is also part Cherokee, but I'm having trouble locating records.



Many people in the Southern States have a similar heritage.




edit spelling.

[Odin2005]

69. 3/4 Norwegian 1/4 German

Paternal Great Grandfather came from near Bergen, Norway. Maternal great grandfather came from northern Germany (Holstein)

[Der Blaue Engel]

70. Sweden, England (English and Scots-Irish), Native American

On my dad's side: my great grandfather was a stowaway from Liverpool (he's the Scots-Irish); great grandmother was half Native American (can't confirm, but was told either Cherokee or Blackfeet), the other half may have been Danish.

On my mom's side: grandmother came from Sweden with her family in the late 1880s because they couldn't find work in Sweden (great aunt wrote a YA book about it called The Copper Kettle); grandfather's family came from England sometime in 1800s.

[mmonk]

71. Oz

No, England.

[NoPasaran]

72. It was Austria-Hungary when they left

Ukraine today, after several intervening changes of ownership.

[snacker]

73. Belgium, France, Bohemia n/t

[merbex]

74. On my mother's side about 5 boats after the Mayflower (Eng.) and

my father's parents are from Czechoslovakia

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

75. Ireland.

[spuddonna]

76. Ireland, Poland, & Germany n/t

[truebrit71]

77. I came over from England.

But I'm no-one's ancestor yet.....Cheers!!!

[Ignacio Upton]

78. Let's see....

My surname is Scottish (my great-great-grandfather came over in the period after the Civil War...either 1870's or 1880's, and settled in Brooklyn. His son/my great-grandfather was born in the early-mid 1890's, and when he had my grandfather and other kids, he moved them to Detroit in the 1920's.)

I don't know specifically what direct nationalities my paternal grandmother has, but I think they include English, German, and maybe Protestant/Scots-Irish?? I'm not sure about the latter two.

My maternal grandfather came from a working class English family at the turn of the 20th Century. My grandfather actually lived back in Britain for part of his childhood.

My maternal grandmother had parents from two different countries that came over to Ellis Island. Her father was Norweigan, moved to Minnesota for a few years (there were a lot of Scandanavians over there as well) and then served in the military for the latter half of the 1900's decade. Her mother was from the Austrio-Hungarian Empire, and was either Czech or Slovak, but I can't remember which one specifically. My mom told me that she was also Protestant, which, and I'm not sure, could have been a reason for her marrying outside of her ethnic group (besides loves of course :)) since most Czechs and Slovaks are Catholic.


....Besides my immediate ancestry, most of which dates to the late 19th century/early 20th century, I have a lot of indirect ancestry that has been here since the colonial times or Revolutionary War. I also have indirect relations to Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Ward Beecher (the Beecher family lived in Brooklyn, and I'm thinking that either my great-great-grandfather or great-grandfather married someone who was related to the Beechers.) As a result, my grandfather's middle name was Beecher, and so is mine.

[Solly Mack]

80. the land that became known as the Americas and

Africa, Spain, England, Ireland and Scotland

[MadMaddie]

82. This is a great question because it underlies the most important

thing about America....

WE are decendents of people from around the world and our differences and similarities as Americans are what makes this nation so great!!!

Here's to America!!:applause:

[Catherine Vincent]

84. I don't know.

[TX-RAT]

86. Ireland, legally

89. Belgium, England, Germany, Ireland

DuPont, Hall, Woltjen, Kendrick

and many others. No one from the Mayflower that I know of.

[guinivere]

90. Poland and Russia nt

[Beaverhausen]

91. Germany, Switzerland, England, France and Ireland

and maybe Denmark too.

[VOX]

92. Scotland, England, France, Holland. n/t

[nini]

93. Germany and Portugal

/

[nonconformist]

94. Mine are from Sicily and Ireland as well, plus I'm Cherokee

My father's parents both immigrated legally from Sicily as children. They met and married here.

On my mother's side, the Irish half immigrated here right before the Potato Famine. The Cherokee half has obviously always been here.

[knitter4democracy]

95. German and Ireland on dad's; England and Scotland on mom's.

I'm just learning now more about my dad's family. I would love to know more about Mom's. My mom's dad's brother had a huge family tree made (6 feet long) that goes all the way back to somewhere in the eleventh century and Scotland. She's distantly related to King Duncan, killed by Macbeth.

[Nailzberg]

96. Sweden and Holland

[SeattleRob]

97. Wales n/t

[sakabatou]

98. Russia, Poland, Israel

[Sparkle]

99. Somewhere in the continent of Africa.

I think.

[Blue Belle]

100. Germany, Austria, Ireland,

but then a small part of my family are indiginous to this continent. :)

[Zookeeper]

101. My children are:

Scotch-Irish, English, French, Polish-Jew, Austrian-Jew, German and Cherokee.

And a bit confused, as this is a lot of information to absorb. ;-)

102. me and Tom Cruise came from outerspace

:+

[DanCa]

110. I come from the planet Krypton

My father rocketed me to Kansas (?) when I was a baby because my birth world self destructed.

118. ha

:smoke:

we have a few assignments for you then.

[AbbyR]

103. Scotland, Wales, England, France (nft)

[XemaSab]

104. Ireland, Germany, and Sweden

[BlackVelvet04]

105. Scotch Irish and French

and a great, great grandmother was Native American.

[sproutster]

106. Yea... They called it Sewards Folly

We are not immigrants - we were bought.

[elehhhhna]

107. Holland, Sweden, Ireland (lost 1 on the Titanic)

All poor people except for my Great Grandpa. He left his family fortune in Holland and got poor HERE. lol

[CottonBear]

108. Father's family came from Ireland (Scots-Irish) & Mother's is English.

Mom's family is English and or Scottish and Black Irish. My paternal grandfather had red hair, freckles and blue eyes. Probably Scottish or maybe protestant Irish. My maternal Grandmother may have been a Melungian: think really dark and glamorous like Ava Gardner (from NC like us.)

My Aunt Elizabeth (many greats Aunt and daughter of my grandfather who came over form Northern Ireland in the mid 1700s.) married Davy Crockett.

[DanCa]

109. The original pronuciation of my last name is Sitehammel

I have both Bohemian and German blood in my veins.

[Catshrink]

111. Wales and England in the 17th century, Ireland in the 18th

[BlueStorm]

112. Sicily, France, Spanish, Norweigen, Netherlands...

And God knows what else.

Blue

[tritsofme]

113. English/German

[Qanisqineq]

114. Norway, Denmark, Germany

in the early 1900's

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

115. 3 Grandparents from Sweden ~ The other is either Scotch or Irish

that came over at the start of Americas discovery, and mixed in many more, Native American included.

There sure are alot of Irish/Scotch here.

[Doctor_J]

116. Germany 187X, Italy 1909

[mzmolly]

117. I'm a product of the "great melting pot" but am mainly Irish.

:)

[EFerrari]

119. El Salvador and Germany.

They didn't get along.

My husband's crew is also that way: Brazil and Canada.

It melts down to Heinz57 :)

[Hutzpa]

120. AFRICA......now don't you tell me about

tracing my roots, because mine are already traced, from West Indies to England to Italy and a little German and French, man I feel like some kind of spice, just seasoning everyone around me.




:headbang:

[Spider Jerusalem]

121. England, Ireland, Wales. Germany, and the Netherlands...

My ancestors were by and large a fairly diverse lot; some of them were university-educated 'gentlemen' looking to become rich in the New World thanks to the misfortune of being born younger sons, some were ardent Royalists who fled England after the Civil War, some were Puritans who fled after the Restoration, some were Catholics who came to Maryland in the mid-1600's to escape persecution in England...I have Ulster Protestant ancestors who came over in the 17th and early 18th centuries, Irish Catholic ancestors who emigrated to America after the potato famine, Quaker and Mennonite ancestors who came to Pennsylvania in the 1700's...like I said, a fairly diverse group.

[regnaD kciN]

122. Everywhere...

50% Russian or Belorussian Jewish (my father's side)
25% German (via Poland)
12.5% Scandanavian (predominantly Danish)
12.5% Celtic (Manx - with Scots and Irish background)

That's right -- German and Jewish, Russian and Polish, Scandanavian and Celtic. I persecute myself in my spare time.

[KamaAina]

123. Scotland, Ireland, Germany, Austria, Netherlands, Northern Ireland

conceivably even a couple of others we don't know about.

[Ravenseye]

124. Iraq

[Thirtieschild]

125. Germany, Switzerland, Alsace, England, Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland

The Quakers, the Mennonites, the Amish and the Lutherans settled in Pennsylvania (except for the handful of Amish who settled in Ontario), the Puritans settled in New England, the Presbyterians settled in Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia. The Missouri-born son of the Pennsylvania Dutch met the Georgia-born daughter of the Presbyterians in the Texas Panhandle and the rest is history (me). Sure envy everyone with Native American ancestry. I've looked and looked at my mother's Southerners and have come up empty. Would be very surprised to find any among my father's Mennonites and Amish.

Edited for spelling and to add jealousy.

[Viva_La_Revolution]

153. I'm 1/32 Blackfoot, 1/64 Cherokee and 1/64 unknown NE tribe

We didn't know about the 1/64ths until just a few years ago. Don't give up hope. :)

[Chovexani]

126. I don't know about my African ancestry

Don't know which country my folks came from.

But from my father's side, I've got Creek ancestry, and Roma from Britain (Romanichal).

Yes, African/Indian/Romani and god only knows what else. :crazy:

[Ladyhawk]

127. Denmark and England...and yes, today's popular answer: Cherokee.

My mother is an eighth Cherokee and my father also had some Cherokee blood. My family is from Missouri. A lot of displaced Cherokee ended up in Missouri.

[enigmatic]

128. I'm 1/4 Ojibwa, 1/4 French-Canadian, and 1/2 Scot-Irish

All over the place.

[BeachBuckeye]

129. England 1685

Settled in what is now northern Virginia. Brought their home with them (tore it down in England and brought the pieces along and assembled them here)

[marions ghost]

185. Interesting...

would make a good story. I'm assuming they brought milled wood pieces like floorboards and structural timbers. I'm trying to imagine what that house would have looked like. Was it wood sided or stucco or brick? And what it was like to bring it over in those small sailing ships in the 1600's. I'd like to write an historical novel set in those times...these were very determined people who came over to this country in those days--not your average homebodies.

My ancestors on my Dad's side came from England early on also. They were sea captains (2 brothers) who finally ended up in the Chesapeake area of Virginia. The only other interesting tidbit about them is that they descended from the *illigitimate* son of William the Conqueror, which my Dad gets mileage out of as a big joke. It sounds so ignoble.

Mom's side is Scottish through and through. The ancestor who came over was a political exile who was a flaming Protestant (at a time when that was problematic after the Reformation). He was also a "practitioner of the black arts," not so unusual for Scots in those days. This family married other Scots (even their own relatives) over here in VA and NC to a degree that is downright clannish, although there is American Indian and African blood also by some accounts. It would be interesting to have DNA testing to confirm this.

[NastyRiffraff]

130. Great thread! Here's mine

Mother: Immigrated from Hungary, parents both Hungarian with some Russian and Polish background.

Father: His ancestors were from the Netherlands, Wales, and someone somewhere married a Native American (Cherokee). His grandfather was one of the Welsh miners who settled in Pennsylvania and was involved in the strikes there.

[bridgit]

131. scotland-germany...

[LaurenG]

132. Scotland, England, Ireland and France, Germany and Spain

In that order; of known ancestors anyway.

[bridgit]

134. wow, you're like hubby, he's french, swiss, german, spanish, & yaqui...

indian...his mom used to say he had a duke's mixture :rofl: :hi:

[LaurenG]

137. I figure we're all pretty mixed up

If we go back far enough I'm sure you and I are related!:bounce: :hi:

[bridgit]

140. there'ya go, hon, that sounds like america to me...

:bounce: :hi:

[ZombieNixon]

133. India. Both mom and dad.

But the family is dotted with specimens bearing decidedly un-Indian qualities. My mom has green eyes and freckles. My paternal grandmother is as pink and white as a Viking and my maternal grandmother had a cousin who looked freaking Irish! We think there might some Persian in there, but there's probably other stuff too. We just don't know what it is. :shrug: So we just say Indian.

[kineneb]

135. Germany, England, Switzerland, Norway, France

Mom's side:
Grandfather-German (Meissner/Meisner), Swiss (Muenger), arrived pre-Civil War era
Grandmother- English (Justice, Wing), 1600s?

Biological father:
Grandfather- Arcadian French (Palvadoux, Vincent) from Louisiana, through TX, arrival date unknown
Grandmother-German (Klotz), Norwegian (Aamott), late 1800s


Step-father:
All Persian

A truly international family. I speak fluent German, but only a bit of Farsi.

[fleabert]

136. Ireland,, Germany, France, and the Americas

cherokee and comanche specifically

[Dem Agog]

138. England and Ireland... with a Prussian ancestor here or there...

For whatever ungodly reason my retarded ancestors left Europe to come to this shithole.

Wish they hadn't. Amerikkka is not a fun place to live. I hate living under Boy Hitler. Would have rather grown up in Europe, frankly.

Repulsed and ashamed to be an Amerikkkan....

Dem Agog

[Orrin_73]

147. Dont be sad Dem Agog

I live in Europe the image you have of Europe is different then the reality. Europe is changing and slowly turning rightwing. I wish I could be in the US.

[Rainscents]

139. Korea/Norwegian

;-)

[Zookeeper]

144. I have a friend who is...

Swiss and Japanese. She's gorgeous!

[Rainscents]

167. Very nice mix!

I been told, I have great mix! My daughter, she model for Macy.

[annabanana]

141. English, Swedish, Welsh, French, Dutch and

Pokanauket tribe of the Algonquin Nation ("Alice" Sessatom, one of the "Praying Wampanoag" - 8 greats back)

[smirkymonkey]

142. England, Holland and Italy

My Italian Grandfather came over through Ellis Island as a Boy and my Italian Grandmother was born here but her parents & older siblings came over on "the boat." The English/Dutch side came over much earlier.

[tlsmith1963]

148. Practically Every Country in Europe

But I'm mostly English, Danish, & German.

Tammy

[Deja Q]

149. Scotland, Norway, and Denmark - so what?

I'm an American. And that's the flag I wave.

[Raine]

150. Canada

on my father's side they were Norwegians who came from Canada. On my mother's side Native American, English and Irish but they have been in America forever (anyway way before the Civil War).

[Bigmack]

151. Sneaked in... all 4 grandparents..

One set from France... thru Canada. They were a trip. Gave false family name - and kid's names - to the census and the local govt.

The other set from Ireland... again thru Canada. They taught me never to burden the government with too much personal information.

Them goddam ferrun illegal border runners! Kick their asses out!!
(How come there's no smiley for IRONY?)

[verse18]

152. My mother, her sibs and my grandmother

are from Trinidad. My grandfather is from Barbados. My stepfather is from Nigeria. My family LEGALLY immigrated here about 26 years ago. I remember going with one of my older cousins to his naturalization ceremony.

The summer before my senior year, I and my family got a chance to Ghana. We toured a castle in which they held the slaves before sending them on to their "destinations." As we were finishing the tour, I saw a building with my last name on it "Belgrave Hall." I assume my ancestors originated from somewhere in that area.

[stepnw1f]

154. Ukraine and Germany

a bit of Tartar mongolian to throw into the mix.

[ljm2002]

155. Ireland, Lithuania, Germany, France...

...pretty much in that order, percentage-wise.

[Sisaruus]

156. Finland

[file83]

174. Me too! Finland and France.

[lamp_shade]

157. Slovenia, Turkey, Ireland, Scotland

[kskiska]

158. Hungary, Armenia, Germany, Ireland

1/2 Hungarian (they arrived around 1905)
1/4 Armenian (arrived 1909, escaped holocaust)
1/8 German (arrived ? 19th century, presumably)
1/8 Irish (arrived ? 19th century, presumably)

[windy252]

159. Ireland, Germany, and France

:evilgrin:

[Kosmos Mariner]

160. Italy, Greece, England

My Italian and Greek ancestors came to the US in the early 1900's. The English ancestors emigrated to New England in 1600's.




:dem:

[Horseradish]

161. Polish, German, Irish, Norwegian ...

... and I think I have a little Martian in me, too, but I can't prove it.

[hopeisaplace]

162. France

[thinkingwoman]

163. England, Ireland, Germany

with some co-mingling with the natives. :evilgrin:

[Tracyjo]

165. France and Germany

or so I've heard.

[bumblebee1]

166. Germany

My father and maternal grandfather's families
The Netherlands- my paternal grandmother's family
England- my maternal grandmother. She passed away before I ever got to meet her.

[nolabels]

168. That is debatable

I guess I am a Euro from my roots or something, but like after a few generations is everybody sure who the father really was, cause like they didn't have blood tests even just a few decades ago. Not only that but back a century there were not the maps and measurements to be all that accurate on boundaries and borders for countries.

[REP]

169. Wales and Russia

Merioneth and Glamorgan in Wales; Moscow in Russia but family originally Lithuanian.

[BlooInBloo]

170. Are there any groups of people in America....

... who *typically* don't know what countries their ancestors came from?

Do these sorts of threads intrinsically exclude people from such groups (if there are any)?

Is this exclusivity deliberate? Or accidental?

[file83]

175. I'd say the the exclusivity is inevitable - I know my anscestors

are from France but only because of my unique and VERY French last name. If I had a more common name like "Smith" I would have no clue where my father's side of the family was from. Ultimately, it's just a name though. Because I could have 7 great grandmothers that came from all over the world, but it's only because my French NAME trickled down through the ages that I know AT LEAST I have French heritage.

[BlooInBloo]

176. I'm not sure that answered any of my questions, but thanks! lol

[Alamom]

181. Yes, I know many people who have no idea where they come

from, who their ancestors are or how they got to a specific part of the country. When I was trying to trace my family tree, I ran into many people on ancestry sites who hit dead ends with their grandparents or great-grandparents and could not find anything more.

I did mine out of curiosity, there was nothing to be gained or lost by what I would find or not find.

My HUSBAND is one of those who does not know what his ancestry is and has very little family throughout this country or anywhere. I tried for months to trace "it" at his request and there is nothing past his Grandparents who he remembers. They would have been born in the late 1800's. It seems they showed up in America sometime between WWI and WWII and settled in a very rural area and found work. No records, no anything. Their name is unusual and presumed by what little extended family we found to have been changed from the original. They all had the same information we had. History (here) back to the early part of 1900 (grandparents) and then zip. They have no religious beliefs in particular other than his family said they were agnostic, no affiliations with anything that we could find.
They're citizens since his father nor he had any problem serving in the Military (Navy) and my husband served in a Security Cleared capacity. They're democrats who vote and that's all we know.
I met a woman several years ago in New York (through my work) who had the same last name as my married name, my husbands name. We worked together quite a while, became friends and she told me she had only been in this country a few years. She was German and Jewish. She told me what her ancestral family name was in Germany and that her very elderly grandmother had told her why her last name was different from the older family.... and she might run across some extended family in America.
She said a few of their ancestors had left Germany prior to and as WWII escalated, changed their name, "forgot" their heritage due to fear and persecution and disappeared into different parts of this country. Very few got out of Germany or survived WWII. There was once a large family and the names are listed as casualties of the war. Whether this is true....we have no way of knowing. It may be true for many people and better left as their ancestors made it for whatever reasons...unknown. When both his parents died, his faher last year, his sister told him she had some papers she wanted to show him one day. She has not and may not. They're not close and it doesn't bother him one way or the other....

Does it matter to me that I know part of my ancestry/history and he does not have one, NO.
He's a good man and we've been married 30 years......
I ask if he found this thread to be exclusive, suspicious or in any way hurtful because some people know their heritage and some don't, NO.
He thought the 2 threads started yesterday regarding ancestorship, heritage & family was quite interesting, nothing more.

We're Americans and love America. We're both liberal Democrats, hope to make a difference and enjoy being in the company of the same, regardless of where anyone else came from of what they know or don't know about their heritage.
If it mattered, that would be racist or bigoted, wouldn't it?

These are threads listing what some know of their family and what some have found out through doing family trees. To me, it looked like it was fun and interesting to most people who participated. Nothing more.



I have no idea what your last question means....I would suggest asking the OP. If there was an ulterior motive........ I missed it on both threads.

[RebelOne]

171. England, Ireland and Scotland.

One of my ancestors on my father's side was Edward Teach --"Blackbeard."

[dipsydoodle]

172. I am English

so maybe this is cheating but it appeared to be a general question open to all.

My father traced us back on his mother's side to being Dutch back in 1545. It got too difficult going back prior to that date. On my mother's side it was a Russian / Polish marriage, on her father's side back to mid 1800's ,and real Anglo Saxon on her mother's side back to the year dot.

Were any of the parish records in the USA ever on vellum ?

[radfringe]

173. Grandparents - both sides of family

dad's side - Silesia Germany between 1926-1928 (note after WW2 Silesia became part of Poland, but at the time my grandparents immigrated it was still part of Germany)

mom's side - my grandfather was from Torino, my grandmother from Monte Grosse d'Asti. My grandfather came here after WW1, went back to Italy, married and came back in 1932. They landed on January 14, 1932 -- my mom was born January 15, 1932

[BreweryYardRat]

177. I'm a Euro-mutt.

France, England, and Germany.

[NMMNG]

178. My last name is German, and I've been told I also have some Swedish in my

heritage. I'm American by accident of birth.

[madokie]

179. euro-mutt here mostly, dutch, germany, irish, english, and the one

I'm most proud of, Native American, Cherokee. 1/8th

[laruemtt]

180. all four grandparents on a boat from sicily. n/t

[SoCalDem]

182. Ireland/Bohemia /France/Spain/Cuba

Ireland-Bohemia = maternal grandparents (via Canada)
France-Spain = paternal grandparents (moved to cuba in the 20's..US at the end of their lives)
father born in Cuba...moved to the US in the 40's & retired from the USAF (26 years)

I am a MUTT :)

[Lumily]

183. England, Austria, and Germany.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

184. India.

[Samurai_Writer]

186. Israel, Germany, Ireland, Wales, and somewhere in North Africa

Here's the breakdown, as much as I can tell it:

Two grandparents came over from Germany (but were originally from Israel)
One great-grandparent came over from Ireland
One great-grandparent came over from Germany, but was part North African
One great-great grandparent came over from Wales

Edited to add: It's been rumored there is also some Cherokee in my family. There is a town in Oklahoma with mostly Cherokee in it, and most of those people have my maternal grandfather's last name. He was adopted, so it is possible we don't know all his ethnic history.

[foreverdem]

187. Many!

My great grandparents from Ireland, Italy, Germany and Scotland. I've found my mother's side on the Ellis Island website, I'm trying to find my father's side. The surnames on his side are very common names (how many Irish have the last name Rooney?), so there's quite a few to weed through.

[mcar]

189. Ireland and Germany