What's your ancestry?

[progbuddy]

I've found ancestry and Genealogy to be a great hobby. Me and my mom have traced back to the 1640's in my dad's family line. Turns out our ancestors were from Holland, and came over on a ship called "The Spotted Cow" (seriously). I'm somehow related to Theodore Roosevelt and Stuart A. Roosa. My mom's side is boring, coming from Great Britain with everyone else :p.

[nil8]

I was adopted. My biological mother was adopted.
To trace it back is rather pointless to me, except from a genetic medical perspective.
My mom and dad are the people who raised me, even if I didn't share their bloodline.

It creates an interesting dichotomy internally. I seek tradition, yet at the same time I have trouble understanding some people's traditions.

Anyway, from my body structure, I'm Germanic. How much? Who knows.

[simon275]

My mums side of the family is originally all Scottish. Three brothers from the Family left Scotland for Australia and New Zealand. I am descended from the brother that went to New Zealand. Little is know about this side of the family

While on my dads, dads side they where merchants from south east England.

While my dads, mum side where Farmers and Landowners in England. The Luptons. Through parish records and stuff like that it was established that one of the Luptons went off on the Crusades and had heraldry consisting of three wolves head and flowers and a bunch of other stuff. It makes sense as Lupton is the English corruption of the Latin word Lupus which is Latin for wolf. Relatives of ours had a book commissioned and published about the lupton family history. My parents and I warrant page.

[Slug Toy]

well my mom was adopted, and she never knew her real parents. all i know is that her adopted father is scottish, and her adopted mother is belgian. on my dads side, its all yugoslav. beyond that... i cant tell you much. never really looked into it actually.

[GT40_GearHead]

neither did I

though you maid me a bit curious

[DaJe]

Swedish, Italian, Portuguese, German, English, Irish, French Canadian.

[Mitternacht]

All German.

[CanaBalistic]

I'm not 100% on what i am either. My last name is my fathers who i've never met in my entire life. Bereza is ukraine for a type of birtch tree. My first name, Jaims is well, James with a slight twist on the spelling. My mother tells me its a cross between german and english.

ah, **** it. Im Canadian, through and true.

[jdbnsn]

part white, part bread

[slytherock]

I made some research on my mom's side before my wedding cause my ex-wife and my mother share the same name. The only interesting thing I found was that ten generations before, we had the same parents...

[Omega]

If it's in europe, chances are that I'm partly that ethnicity.


Mainly Swedish/German, though. I just switch the two around because my frame is more German than Swedish (and I love it)

[Eclecticos]

100% IRISH. Got the beer to match. :D

[Canadian Eh?]

I've wanted to try that, but all the genealogy sites are pay sites...

[sirkillalot617]

my cousin Has traced us back on my mothers side to the 1600s when apparently we were king and queen of wales for a short time.On my fathers side they came over in 1066 from france and fought in the battle of hastings after they won they were given land and decided to stay.

[blue73]

Half English, Half Scot. My Dad is Lancashire, Our Surname is partly French. My Mum is a Scot, And a fine Scot at that, she's a Wilkey while my Dad is a Greenhalgh, the French bit...

[Reyer]

im not sure, but my grandma said i was related to Robert E. Lee

an im half dutch

[Drum Thumper]

My tree has been traced back to Myles Standish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Standish) on my mom's side. Not too sure about dad's side, as not much is really known about his dad. Whatever dark family secrets Gram was withholding she took with her last summer.

[CanaBalistic]

I've wanted to try that, but all the genealogy sites are pay sites...

I've found a couple of free sites but none of them had anything on my family name. I've even checked at a genealogy kiosk in the mall and they didnt have nothing on it either.

The only thing i've found is this unfinished website. http://www.bereza.ca/ I have sent an email to the owner asking for them to finish the site but i havent recieved any reply.

Came across that site while searching for my estranged father.

[DaveW]

Scottish all the way, apart from my grandfather who was English. But i've never met the guy. My dad has just tracked him down-he's never met him either. He was surprised to discover that he's still alive and living in Canada, don't know what's going to happen with that.

-Dave

[Omega]

An Englishman in Canada?

Interesting....

[B1Gtime]

Half Italian, Half German

[xRyokenx]

Mostly German with some other mixed European... kinda weird. My family lived/lives in New England mostly... and that's where this (most of) generation of my family is from...

[XcOM]

scottish -Dad's side
English- Mums side, (But got 3gen back its scottich again)

But i see myself as scottish. I maybe in england, but i got brought up with my dads values.

Will contact nan, she has traced AGES back.

[Redundant]

German, Hungarian, Polish, & Russian as far as I know...

[dfigravity]

I'm Prussian / Polish (pretty much the same thing) my last name is Olshove, but was originlly Olslavski (can't remember the exact spelling) so that's on my dad side...on my moms side, all I know for sure is that her grandmother was Mexican and her grandfather was Chinese. We're an ecclectic family :santa: