Ancestry?

[Five-hole]

Mostly Scottish, a little German and English, and a 1/4 Danish.

My Grandmother's grandparents were Danish nobility that sold everything and paid the way for around 100 people to come to Southern Alberta and homestead. Why did they do this? They were all Mormon.

[Eastern Girl]

Irish / Scottish

Goes a long way in explaining why I have an incredibly high tolerance of alcohol (well, Whiskey, cause that's all I drink).

[burn_baby_burn]

Originally Posted by Five-hole

Mostly Scottish, a little German and English, and a 1/4 Danish.

My Grandmother's grandparents were Danish nobility that sold everything and paid the way for around 100 people to come to Southern Alberta and homestead. Why did they do this? They were all Mormon.

There were Mormon's in Denmark? I thought that was a predominatly American releigion started in the State of New York in the 1800's.

[First Lady]

Both of my parents are from Friesland, in the Netherlands. They met during WW II, when my father literally ran over my mother with his bicycle.

They immigrated to Canada within weeks of the Canadians liberating Holland. They, along with about 100 other couples, were married in a group ceremony conducted by the ships captain.

[ah123]

Born in Africa, with an Indian ancestry, grew up in Belgium, living in Canada...

[Ozy_Flame]

Ukrainian / Polish mix, most of my family was either from the Ukraine or Northeast Alberta (Edmonton to Lloydminster and all in between.)

My dad was born in Viking, and he used to babysit the Sutter brothers. I'm sure they paid him in perogies and Mundaire sausage.

[Hack&Lube]

Originally Posted by Eastern Girl

Irish / Scottish

Goes a long way in explaining why I have an incredibly high tolerance of alcohol (well, Whiskey, cause that's all I drink).

Chinese, explains my no tolerance of alcohol due to genetic mutation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_flush_reaction

"Alcohol flush reaction is a condition in which the body cannot break down ingested alcohol completely, due to a missense polymorphism that encodes the enzyme, acetaldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH2), normally responsible for breaking down acetaldehyde, a product of the metabolism of alcohol.

The result is the accumulation of acetaldehyde. Approximately half of people of Asian descent are considered to be sensitive to alcohol due to this condition. Flushing, after consuming one or two alcoholic beverages, includes a range of symptoms: nausea, headaches, light-headedness, an increased pulse, occasional extreme drowsiness, and occasional skin swelling and itchiness. These unpleasant side effects often prevent further drinking that may lead to further inebriation, but the symptoms can lead to mistaken assumption that the people affected are more easily inebriated than others."

Basically my entire body will turn beet red and I'll get nauseous and physically sick long before I am ever actually able to get drunk due to acetaldehyde poisoning in the blood. One or two beers or a single shot is okay. But beyond that and it's too unpleasant to be worth even trying to get drunk. Sometimes I feel like I'm missing out.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by octothorp

Some of my ancestors (those who's surname I have) were British colonists in the 1650s, settling in Rowley, Mass.

You're ancestors last name is #?

[kermitology]

Grandfather was from Oban Scotland. When his mother died the father dropped all the children (seven of the I think) off at a Bernardo home in London. They were then shipped over to Canada, luckily to around the same area.

Rest of the family is English or Irish.

[Burninator]

I never understood the interest in ancestry so when people ask I say I am Canadian.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by fotze

What the hell is a Bernardo home? Sounds kind of murdery.

http://canadianhistory.suite101.com/..._home_children

[Burninator]

Originally Posted by fotze

Lots of actors in your family eh, Alec, Stephen, you.

Ha!

When I had shaggy hair everyone thought I looked like some singer guy named Josh Groban.

[You Need a Thneed]

Mennonite. My ancestors emigrated from Russia to Manitoba in the 1870s.

Saying my ancestry is from any one country is, at best, misleading.

[onetwo_threefour]

Paternal is Austrian and Danish, Maternal is Scottish and Irish.

The only good story I have that I know is true is that my grandfathers fought each other in WWII. One was an Austrian infantry conscript who spent most of his war in the hospital tent with dysentery, the other was in the Canadian forces, apparently involved in the engineering team that was perfecting the modern flamethrower for use in combat.

Other than that there is some crazy story about my dad's dad being an illegitimate scion of the Hapsburg's, but nobody believes it. My grandma was schizophrenic and had many interesting theories, but she always said this came from Grandpa himself.

[Hack&Lube]

As far as family details go:

My grandfather on my dad's side was adopted so we really don't know anything at all about them. Just one or two generations working in factories and farms in China.


but...


My great-grandfather on my mother's side had 8 wives and multiple concubines. Then the British came and addicted him to Opium and killed him in the Opium Wars in the late 19th century. The family was still doing okay up until the 30s when they owned a luxury hotel. Then the Japanese army came in WWII and occupied Hong Kong and arrested, tortured, killed everyone, and then confiscated all the money and bombed the hotel.

Thanks Brits and Japanese! (oddly enough, my two favorite cultures today, what's wrong with me?). And man, great-grandpa had it great. 8 wives, concubines, and I guess he was a really mellow fellow with all that opium! Where are my concubines?

[RougeUnderoos]

Mick/Kraut/Jock/Swede.

If anyone knows a derogatory term for Swedish people, let me know.

The Irish people came from Tipperary in the 1860's. They went to southern Ontario first and eventually one of them got mixed up in that whole Donnelly affair somehow, but nobody is exactly sure what role they played. Then they moved to Manitoba and continued their crazy-ass anti-Papist ways (Orangemen) well into the 1960's. My old man remembers his uncles deliberately going out to get in fights with Catholics.

The Krauts came from Germany in 1869 and ended up somewhere in Iowa. They moved to central Alberta around the turn of the century. CHEAP FARMLAND! They had to cut down trees and live in a house made of sod. I had a great-aunt with the middle name of "Alberta" because she was the first one in the family born here.

The Scottish guy came by himself in the early 30's. That's pretty much all I know, but I'm a direct descendant.

The Swedes came from different parts of Sweden late in the 19th century and lived for a time in Minnesota. Through a curious set of events, one of them happened to find a shiny gold nugget in a river near Revelstoke and used it to buy a farm in central Alberta in 1900. These people had it pretty rough too but the managed to get by. They went in really hard for the religion and they weren't allowed to dance or even play cards.

My German grandma had to learn how to make lutefisk, which she hated, and fed it to my Scottish/Irish dad, and he hated it too. I've never even seen it.

I am very spoiled and lazy compared to every person that came before me.

[Berger_4_]

Mom's side is straight up Ukrainian. On my dad's side, there's Norwegian and Irish.

[octothorp]

Originally Posted by kermitology

You're ancestors last name is #?

It was '%' in the old world, but it was mistranslated when we came to the new world.

[Buff]

Originally Posted by troutman

IRISH (with some english and french)

I once knew a gal named Iris. This one time, when she was drunk and we were at a party, she would introduce herself to people by saying "I'm Irish, nishe to meetchya"

I have Norwegian backgrounds. Don't know much about my ancestory though, at least no interesting stories.

[wpgflamesfan]

My mom's side is completely Slovenian and is probably the reason why Kopitar is one of my favorite non flame players. My dad side is a mix of Ukrainian and Scotish