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Tell me all about your ancestors....

ChickenGuy

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I've always had an interest in genealogy (family trees and all that) so I thought it would be interesting to share whatever we know about our ancestors, and if you're American / Canadian / Australian, whether you know which country they emigrated from.

Mine are mostly Scottish through and through, except for one great-grandmother that came from Norway and one great-grandfather that came from England.

What about you?
 
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I'm just brown.

I reject the notion of ethnicity, race and nationality.
 
Probably from Ireland or Scotland. The first records found go back 8 generations to pre-Revolutionary War in the British Colonies to the birth of my 7th great grandfather. As the Revolutionary War approached, his family of siblings, as often happened, drew lots and divided themselves into either the Patriots or the Loyalists. In that way, they would always be on the 'winning team' and life would (supposedly) go on as always.

My ancestor was a Loyalist and, following the war, found himself and his family (as well as the families of the other Loyalists) expelled from the new United States. He travelled north and took advantage of Canada's 'homesteading' plan in Upper Canada (Ontario) and was granted a plot of land on the north shore of Lake Ontario about halfway between Kingston and Toronto.

He and his family became the first to settle there and, as a result, founded the town I grew up in. Some of my relatives still live on the old homestead and many more still live in the town, all descendants of my great great great great great great great grandfather.

(Much of the 'Patriot' side of the family still resides in the Great Lakes region of the United States.)
 
Being a French Canadian, it's safe to assume that my ancestors came from France. I have a few British and Scottish ones too (which I want to find more information about). I apparently have some distant connections to General James Wolfe and I had a great-great-grandmother who had the surname Fowler. I like to dream I'm a distant relation of the late Viscount Wolverhampton whose surname was Fowler. But that's just me being silly. !oops!

Oh, and German too... Although my ancestor changed his name to a French one when he arrived in Canada in the early 1800s and settled down on the Quebec shore of the Quebec/Ontario border.

How could I have forgotten about the German one... It flows in my veins more than I care to think about what with my paternal grandmother being cousin with my maternal grandfather on that side of the family... #-o
 
On Dad's side, we have records that go WAY BACK into Britain's history. Found the family Coat of Arms, and all that happy stuff. Supposedly, one of my ancestors held the Scottish Throne for about 8mo., or so, until his successor did to him what he had done to his predecessor! There are several buildings, and other structures,in all four countries of the UK, that carry the family name to this day.

However, the first one we know of to make it to The Colonies was deported, from Bath, for thievery! #-o :badgrin:

There are quite a few family members that have also played historic parts in the founding of The States. The most recent Notable died in the early 90's, at the age of 96. He was my Great Uncle. One of the places his name appears is on a plaque, at the top of Hoover Dam, on the Nevada side.

On Mom's side we don't have as much specific information. Here in The States, she's 3rd generation German. However, her maiden name, and her parents' surname, are quite common, and, therefore, must also go back quite a way. The most recent Notable was her older brother, who was quite active in California, and National, Republican Politics, from the 50's through the 80's, before he retired. We lost him, too, in the mid 90's.

I was lucky enough to be born into the "Poor Church Mouse" branch! ](*,)

Keep smilin'!! :kiss:(*8*)
Chaz ;)
 
I've traced my ancestors back to the 1640s and know where they were living 100 years before that. They were almost all (7/8ths in fact) English, mostly from the counties of Suffolk and Warwickshire. I have one great-grandmother from Radnorshire (in Wales, but only just) which makes the remaining eighth Welsh. As far as I know, I don't have a drop of Irish or Scottish blood and certainly nothing from further afield.
 
So.

We have records back to 1100 AD for some parts of our family and back to 1500AD for other branches.

Much of the history is related to fleeing fundamentalist religious fervour and persecution. It molded and shaped my ancestors' experience for 500 years.

Out of the cavalry and good marriages, law, the church, teaching, veterinary medicine and farming were the occupations of choice for about 10 generations on one side, while farming and shipping made the Dutch side self-sufficient.

Along with 90% of everyone on the planet, we have connections with royals but I much prefer the accomplishments of the people who actually worked and contributed to their community and countries.

Our extended family database has about 75,000 individuals from all around the globe; the number that are directly connected by paternal lineage back to 1550 number about 5000 all around the world and the number of people with the same family name is less than 1000 around the entire globe.
 
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They had a pagan kingdom in the North of The Netherlands in the early middle ages.

They killed Saint Boniface (that's what the picture is of) and later when they had become Christians participated in The Fifth Crusade.

When Napoleon conquered The Netherlands, some of my ancetors were drafted to serve in Napoleon's ill-fated attack on Russia.

Otherwise they just lived in their swampy country as farmers and farm-hands.

Because of a shortage of farmland many people from my family immigrated to the US, in two waves. The first in the 1900s and the second in the 1950s.
They changed their obscure Frysian first names for their American counterparts ("Stientje" became "Stella", "Fouke" became "Frank", and "Treintje" became "Tina"). They kept their last name, however, because they were very proud of it.
 
My geneaology says there is an ancestor in the Tang Dynasty court 1400 years ago. I think most of it was cobbled up to name drop. Only the last 300 years of my ancestry is certain. My great grand father on my dad's side was a geomancer.
 
I am dismayed at the lack of unmarried (homosexual) men in our tree...

God knows why, but all the men married and spawned. Some of them had to be flamers, no?

I only know of several certifiable homos over the last 4 generations and none before that. I know of two closet cases among several hundred cousins that I've met in the last years. I mean. C'mon.

I feel that I am being an example to all those to follow in our family.

Here. Queer. Unashamed.
 
Calabria - Italy
Patras - Greece
Sevilla - Spain

They all came to the US over 60 yrs ago.
 
I found out that one of mine fought in the War of 1812 and wound up marrying "up" (VERY unusual and verbotten in those days) the slightly older daughter of his regiment's commander! He must have been a hottie!
 
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