Ancestry?

[Drunk Skunk]

[Bagor]

Originally Posted by Drunk Skunk

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Lithuanian?

[Thor]

I got in trouble in 8th grade when I did my family tree, since every branch was iceland/iceland/iceland, etc..

I have direct relations to Erik the Red and his son Leif the lucky who discovered North America hundreds of years before the Spanish prima donna.

So yeah, me moving out of Iceland was a big deal.

I should move back

[Drunk Skunk]

Originally Posted by Bagor

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Lithuanian?

Hot dog, we have a wiener. My grandparents on my father's side came from Lithuania, grandparents on my mother's side from Scotland. My screen name comes from a common mispronunciation of my last name, actually.

[habernac]

French/German and a little Irish for my temper.

[Calgaryborn]

My Mother's grandparents came over from Norway around the turn of the century I think. They homesteaded near Foam Lake Sask.

On Dad's side his mother was 1/2 Irish and Metis(French/Micmac) His father was of English decent . Following the surname I believe I'm seventh generation Canadian. Our family landed in Nova Scotia in the 1700s. Might have come over with the military because their first son was born in Fort Lawrence New Scotia.

[Vulcan]

Grandfather's family was Welsh with a little bit of native. He and his parents came up from Minnesota and homesteaded north of Hanna around 1893, apparently one step ahead of the law. There is some tale of him being a descendent of Henry viii and it was a big thing for my brother and I to have a male heir but we had daughters, at least what I'm sure of. He married a Scots lady.

Other grandfather was from Boston. His family were Orangemen from Dublin, but not Irish as the family originally came from northern England or Scotland. He came to Canada in the 1890s also. He was a first cousin to a famous playright from Dublin. His wife was from Manchester though she had a French name and I guess that's where a lot of us get our Charles De Gaulle noses.

Both my grandfathers were in the Klondike gold rush. One was a singer, piano player and gambler while the other delivered mail by dogsled. The mailman also worked on the Panama Canal and returned there with his family as a fireman but the climate got to my grandmother after a few children. They left and drove across from NY to Vancouver in 1924 with my 10 year old mother helping with the driving. Not much traffic than.

I guess I'm Welsh, Scottish, English, French and native and some Spanish but while that's all interesting, I think of myself as Canadian.

[Jagger]

English, of course, with some Welsh, Scots, and Norman too!

The most interesting thing in our family history is that we traced our line back to the Norman conquest of England in 1066! Richard Fitz Gilbert was a Norman Lord who participated in the conquest culminating in the Battle of Hastings. He went on to found the noble English family, the De Clares. In fact it seems that my surname, Hunter, and that of my mother, Clare, both have association with Norman kings!

The Hunter family have a great claim to fame too. It seems that a Hunter had a hand in creating the Bayeux tapestry, one of the greatest historical documents of early history:



The Bayeux Tapestry depicts the Battle of Hastings and the events leading to it.


Clan Crest:

[Montana Moe]

My grandmother's family on my father's side were Mennonites of Russian descent. They settled in Manitoba before moving to Montana in the 1910s. I also have German ancestors from this side, Van Heusens.

My Grandfather's family on that side are from Norway, originally named Christensen. When they immigrated to the U.S. and settled in MT they changed their last name to Moe. There was a town named Moe in Norway, which I am assuming they came from.

I'm not entirely familiar with how my mother's side breaks down, but I know it consists of Irish, German, Bohemian, and Polish. My Grandmother's family settled in Illinois before moving to Montana.

I wish I knew more, actually.

[Vulcan]

Originally Posted by troutman

ABBA loving, sardine eating, visor-wearing, diver-monkeys

or

Sedin

No offence

My dad used to call them herring chokers.

[kermitology]

Originally Posted by habernac

French/German and a little Irish for my temper.

So you're a badass soldier who likes to surrender because you're pissed out of your mind?

You also have a vice for a combination of beer, wine, and whiskey.

[Rerun]

My Grandpa was a draft dodger and an illegal imigrant.

He was being drafted into the Russian army in the early 1900's. He decided he didn't want to go. Fortunately, his half-brother had travel documents to emmigrate to Canada and his half-brother had changed his mind because he was in love with some Polish girl who didn't want to leave the motherland (Russia).

So my Gramps used his half-brother's documents (he and his half-brother had different last names) to get out of Russia and into Canada (under his half-brother's name of course).... and here I am.... the decendent of a draft dodging Russian wetback.

[Displaced Flames fan]

Mom's side is Irish/English/Welsh and this (Raglan Castle) belonged to one of my ancestors at one time. Also have Benjamin Franklin in the family tree of my Mom. Both sides of my Mom's family have been in the US since the 1700's at least.




My Dad's paternal great-grandparents were born in Russia, but were of German ancestry. Why they moved to Russia and when is a mystery to me at this point. They came to Oklahoma sometime in the late 19th century as far as I know. His maternal ancestry is German/English. Famous family members on my Dad's side include Frank and Jesse James who were cousins of my great grandmother.

[Phanuthier]

Thats friggin sweet Dis

[Displaced Flames fan]

Originally Posted by Phanuthier

Thats friggin sweet Dis

My Mom's spent a lot of time researching her family history, and my late Grandpa did the same for my Dad's family. I have to get copies of all of their stuff, because I'd like to continue it.

Learned a lot about my Dad's family when I went down for my Grandpa's funeral in August. My great-grandmother was one of 19 kids!

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

My Mom's spent a lot of time researching her family history, and my late Grandpa did the same for my Dad's family. I have to get copies of all of their stuff, because I'd like to continue it.

Learned a lot about my Dad's family when I went down for my Grandpa's funeral in August. My great-grandmother was one of 19 kids!

This is a bit of a dumb question, but how did your mother research her family history?

I really don't have anything cool that stands out in my family history as far as I know.

[jammies]

I'm half-Polish and half-British ancestry, and the only ancestor of note that I know about is Edward Teach (Blackbeard), who was a forbearer of my paternal grandmother.

My maternal grandmother's father was some kind of petty nobleman in Poland before WWI, and their family came over around 1919-20 to escape the Russian Civil War. Their family settled around Drumheller where he then worked in the coal mine.

My maternal grandfather came over from Wales around the same time and also lived in Drumheller; his father was a coal miner as well (in Wales) and my grandfather also worked in the mines until they shut down. Stories I heard from both sides helped me realize how good we have it in contemporary times compared to how it was then.

[jammies]

Originally Posted by Displaced Flames fan

My Dad's paternal great-grandparents were born in Russia, but were of German ancestry. Why they moved to Russia and when is a mystery to me at this point.

There was quite a colony of Germans on the upper Volga in Russia as detailed in Wikipedia here; originally they came in response to Catherine the Great's invitation to farm there (much as the Gov'ts of the USA and Canada invited European settlers over in the late 18th and early 19th century). The colony survived until the early 1940s when Stalin exiled some of them to Central Asia and the rest to the labour camps after Germany invaded.

[Iowa_Flames_Fan]

Originally Posted by Thor

I got in trouble in 8th grade when I did my family tree, since every branch was iceland/iceland/iceland, etc..

I have direct relations to Erik the Red and his son Leif the lucky who discovered North America hundreds of years before the Spanish prima donna.

So yeah, me moving out of Iceland was a big deal.

I should move back

You´ve been playing with this site, haven´t you?

http://www.islendingabok.is

I'm related to Egill Skallagrímsson, and Mörður (Gígja) Sigmundarson--the guy from the opening sentence of Njálssaga.

Of course, being Icelanders, my guess is you go back in direct line to them too. In fact, I would bet that if I look you up, we´re related.

[habernac]

Originally Posted by kermitology

So you're a badass soldier who likes to surrender because you're pissed out of your mind?

You also have a vice for a combination of beer, wine, and whiskey.

Nah, we left France in the late 1600s because we were tired of their crybaby crap.



Landed in Kamouraska Quebec and slowly moved west.