Your Genealogy

[Meowi]

What is your ancestry? Do you have any interesting tales from way back when?

I'm although Australian, most of my ancestors came from the British Isles in the late 1800's. On my mothers fathers side, my came from Sicily and left during World War II.
There isn't much information about my fathers mother, but there are talks that she could be of Spanish/Welsh descent. There are other talks too, that my great-great-great grandfather was maori.

[APerfectLie]

All I know is that I am somehow related two presidents.

[mylittledemon]

I have no clue to be honest... but "Jones"? I'm sure to have one helluva Welsh-tree ;)

[MissLadyLoki]

Um, I'm Jewish and most people can't spell or pronounce my last name, but it's the same one as a singer's, but with the spelling changed slightly. As for genealogy, I just know they're from all over Europe so i'm just a mutt

[Silver Springs]

I know sweet feck all about my ancestry, owing to the fact that I have no relatives above parent/aunt/uncle age to ask anymore. I do know my Mother's Grandparents on her Mother's side were Irish, and her Grandparents on her Father's side were Scottish. And on my Father's side there's stray Chinese DNA. Rather odd combination really.

[RickRobert]

I'm mostly Welsh, I think my dad could have had some English grandparents and my great great granddad was Irish.

[Meowi]

Hey stranger! ^^^
How did you go with your exams?

[RickRobert]

Physics wasn't so bad, Chemistry was hell on earth and I seemed to be the only person who thought that so... woops :lol:

Hope to talk to you again someday soon :cool:

[Meowi]

Physics wasn't so bad, Chemistry was hell on earth and I seemed to be the only person who thought that so... woops :lol:

Hope to talk to you again someday soon :cool:

Your never on MSN :p

[estranged4life]

Irish/Scottish on my Mom's side of the family
Irish/Cherokee on my Dad's side

The Irish on Dad's side of the family came to America in the early 1800's. My Grandfather M.H. Johnson (His name is M.H. - the letters apparently have no meaning :shrug: ) was an Irish Catholic until he met and fell in love with a Cherokee, My Grandmother Malzie (I think her full first name was Malziria) Collins - and his family (from the story I heard) disowned him for marrying a non-Catholic Irish woman. So my family became Baptist (Ya know, Methodist's who can't read).

On my Mom's side, I did know...But with all the crap/lies I've heard I don't care to post what may be inaccurate.

[CreepingDeath]

Mother's side: Mostly English with one line of French. My maternal grandparents came to the U.S. in the 1950's from Wiltshire. You can follow my paternal grandparents line as far back as 1495 (mostly Wessex). England FTW! :cool:

Father's side: English/Danish

[amberlemegan]

On my dad's side my grandma's parents are from Italy. I don't know where though. I should ask my Great-Grandma since she lives 15 minutes away from me. I think I heard Sicily at one point.
My grandpa's parents on my dad's side are from Greece. That is all I know.
For my mom's side she's 100% Irish but I don't know when they came to America.
I should defiantly look into this.

Sweet I'm the first one who's Greek :D

[Stew_Matthews]

It’s interesting finding out where your ancestors lived and what they did. My brother spent time tracking down our parent’s family history. My father’s family can be traced back about 300 years and they all lived, in and around, what is now the village of Minster Lovell in Oxfordshire (UK). My mother was Italian and born in Venice. Her great grandparents (on her mother’s side) fled Russia at the time of the Revolution and settled in Switzerland and then Italy after the Second World War.

I was hoping that my brother would uncover some scandal or rogue in the family :Dbut sadly he hasn’t yet. Having said that, my wife’s Sicilian ancestors fill up a few paragraphs in Wikipedia from Chicago’s early years, so I guess that makes up for it.:laugh:

[Meowi]

On my dad's side my grandma's parents are from Italy. I don't know where though. I should ask my Great-Grandma since she lives 15 minutes away from me. I think I heard Sicily at one point.
My grandpa's parents on my dad's side are from Greece. That is all I know.
For my mom's side she's 100% Irish but I don't know when they came to America.
I should defiantly look into this.

Sweet I'm the first one who's Greek :D

If you are from Sicily, most likely we are related.
Seriously.

[GypsySorcerer]

Mom's side - Italian. (Both her mother and father's families were from southern Italy, I think.)

Dad's side - German, English, Irish. My paternal grandfather is mostly German, with a little English. We've got the name traced back to the arrival of our German ancestors in Pennsylvania in the 1700s.

[McTrouble]

I am half Latvian - my Dad was from Riga.

[ButterCookie]

My mum's actually adopted so all we know is that her mum was scouse and her grandparents were irish. My gran, her adoptive mother, is Derbyshire born and bred. She was born at home on a farm and hasn't moved out of the Peak District since :laugh: My grandad is the same.

My biological father is stockport scum through and through.

So I'm a little Northerner and I wouldn't have it any other way :laugh:

[mezzoforte]

Typical American Protestant stock--1/4 Swedish, the rest English and Scottish. Pretty dull--I always wanted an immigrant grandfather talking about the "old country," or something.
I do appreciate some of the American lineage, though--my sister and I were absolutely gleeful to learn we were descended from a Salem witch. Aged 8 and 9, we were pretty sure this meant we had powers, and devoted a good amount of time to brewing "potions."
My father's side has latched onto their Swedish ancestry--everyone has yellow and blue china, and we recite a Swedish prayer at Thanksgiving and Christmas. But since the entire family has been in America for at least 6 generations, no one knows even the slightest bit of Swedish and I'm sure we've butchered the pronunciation beyond recognition!

[TerraRhiannon]

On my dad's side my grandma's parents are from Italy. I don't know where though. I should ask my Great-Grandma since she lives 15 minutes away from me. I think I heard Sicily at one point.
My grandpa's parents on my dad's side are from Greece. That is all I know.
For my mom's side she's 100% Irish but I don't know when they came to America.
I should defiantly look into this.

Sweet I'm the first one who's Greek :D

Greek! That is sweet!

My Dad's family is straight from England. My Grandmother is a war bride & my grandfather was a Canadian soldier in World War II. My Mom's side is straight from Denmark. So I am half Dane & English. It is really convenient because once I have enough money to travel to Europe, I can just stay with my cousins & aunts & uncles there, in both countries which is exciting. My Mom's side also has some kind of weird african tribe in their family too, she tells me they are very homely people so I'm glad it's far enough back:laugh:

[Enchanted_Stevi]

I know nothing...except that my family has their own type of gun..and we are somehow connected to the "king/queen" whatever you call them...of Italy