Thread: Your family heritage

My mother was born in Italy, but we don't know much about her family. She was adopted from an orphanage in Turin. My father is Italian too, but his family sheltered in France for a while, so they have lost a lot of their history along the way. There is a genealogy and family history book floating around with my Dad's relatives. I think I'll try to track it down and finally read it. Rumor has it that it's a fairly interesting read.

On my dads side its Italian/Belgian. My dads grandfather immigrated from Italy to Belgium and My dads mothers family came from Switzerland i think. I`ve been told on the italian side of the family they were like one of the ruling families of italy or something which i take to mean minor nobility or something.<

On my moms side they're from Casablanca in Mooroco. Theres a chance a couple generations ago a Spaniard was adopted by the Family. Not 100&#37; sure on this.

My mom's side is all from Germany, and my dad's side is from Germany and Ireland. I'm in the 4th generation since either side moved here.

Probably my most interesting is my Native heritage. Metis, a Canadian breed between the French/English/Scott settlers and the Cree, Ojibway, Saulteaux, and Menominee tribes. I've always wondered what stories/personalities/sights my ancestors had as they travelled the free land before it became settled, it'd be mindblowing.

On my mothers side it is mostly British, with a mix of Scottish, Irish, Italian, German, and French.

What can I say? My ancestors got around.

Somewhat similar to CB, actually. I'm half Italian, but I've never met my father or any of his family. On my mother's side, my grandfather is mostly Irish but our name is Welsh (no record of that line that I know, but the name held out, diphthong and all). My grandmother's grandmother was a native of PA, but I don't know what tribe. She married a Pennsylvania Dutchman (original Amish, driven out of Germany by the Lutherans, stayed over in Holland a while as refugees, then William Penn offered them a settlement).

I identify as an indigenous person of the place I was born, both in terms of my ancestry and because I see the land as a parent and feel connected to those woods and wetlands in a unique way.

I'm pretty happy with what I've got, but it would also be cool to have been born to a family of similar station (loooow) in Tibet 100 years ago and gone to the monastery (though as first son, I more likely would be tending yaks, and I'm not sure what they do with bastard children over there). Though honestly, I think I've been there, renounced that, recanted on my death bed, and here I am.

Half Sicillian, Half Aryan, Three fourths English, and One part Ruskie.

Never really bothered tro study my actual lines, though.

Im half Irish. That side is very strong. My father's grandparents moved here from there. My mom's side is a mix of German, Irish and English. I dont know as much about that side except that it is not as strong and I prefer to just say Im Irish, lol.

hmmm, I suppose if I were to have to choose a different heratage I would choose Chinese. Mainly because I really like most of the chinese philosophies. Not the Mao era philosophies of course, but prior to that era. So I guess I should say Taiwanese since they still keep most of those cultural things and China is just now getting it back

I'm the most boring person here....

But I think my ancestors were brought here from Scotland. Just a speculation as of right now.

I would like to be either Irish or Japanese. Irish because I've always liked Ireland as a whole for as long as I can remember. The culture, the land, everything. Japanese because of the land, culture, and because I'd speak the language fluently.

On the one hand, my family was from Nottingham. On the other hand, London. My family only started to travel the world this generation.

I've not looked into it too deeply.

On my mom's side of the family - grandma's side = Dutch, grandpa's side = German.

On my dad's side of the family - all Mexican.

I think there's a tiny bit of Cherokee thrown in for good measure, but whatever.

I'm a mongrel. Mostly Anglo-Saxon but there's Scottish, Dutch and Italian in there somewhere.

The best bit is that my great great great grandfather was the bastard son of George III, who was shipped out to South Africa and produced more bastard children with his Malaysian indentured servants, at least one of whom was my ancestor.

Not much of a pedigree but it's left me with an interesting nose.

My grandad was also District Comissioner of Northern Rhodesia so some people would consider my ancestors imperialists... maybe that's where my fantasies of world domination come from.

Interesting how much Native American heritage a lot of people here have.

The same Mongrels that swept throughout all of Europe and conquered under the Great Khan? Do you enjoy Mongrelian food? And Ghenghis and Kublai Khan were the most famous of the Mongrels, right?

I think you are referring to Mongols...

Originally Posted by Vance

The same Mongrels that swept throughout all of Europe and conquered under the Great Khan? Do you enjoy Mongrelian food? And Ghenghis and Kublai Khan were the most famous of the Mongrels, right?

I think you are referring to Mongols...

lol!
Nope, I mean mongrel... as in 'a dog of mixed breeds'... an impure pedigree, if there even is such a thing as a pure one. (fascist theories aside.)

well my ma was adopted so we don't really know what she is but she looks german/irish/native american but her papers say she has english and german blood in her.my da is german/irish/swiss/english-he definitly looks irish.we have a strong tie to germany and switzerland.our family had a small village chapel in the mountains of switzerland and our german ancestors were shepherds hence our family name of:shaffer. we have amish relatives who came from germany who live in pennsylvania.

It makes you sound oblivious and ignorant when you don't give reasons for why you wouldn't want to be either Chinese or Native.

On secound thought it didnt seem like a good idea to write that stuff so i deleted it....