What Is Your Heredity?

English. Born in Cheltenham, mother's family were northerners, father's family were Londoners. Scottish and Welsh links a couple of centuries ago.

My ancestry (or heritage or whatever pedantry you prefer) dates back to an old Saxon name, so historically I've been from here for over a thousand years.

 

half polish half italian 4th generation american. Italian side half calabrese half marchesian(sp).

 

Some Amish, German, Irish, slovic, French, Swiss.

 

Convict, from Ireland and England. Farm laborers, London street urchins, 'Machine Breakers', stone masons, sons, wives and daughters.

Our grandchildren are 7th generation Australians.

 

What exactly do you mean by "slovic"?

 

Slavic?

 

I assumed so, but what exactly

 

Planet zerion, mixed andromeda galaxy and a little reptillian.

 

Slovic, slov, I dunno. The name was Pavlic. Slovak perhaps

 

Cro-magnon

 

this is my pops

 

i am a four tribe person.
i'm sure i've already mentioned them in this thread. but its been so long since i've been to this forum, i'm not sure how far back it was that i mentioned them.

hessian, my fathers fathers fathers (before germany was a place, hess was a principality in what is now north-rhine/westphalia. "military contractors" from there, were hired by the british, long before the american revolution, and i am a direct descendent of nathan teal, who was their leader. i'm not proud though, of what they were hired for. to burn indiginous villages in order to take possession away from the french)

andrews of clan ross, (a clan of the lowland scotts) my fathers mothers father

onondagwa, (the people in the middle of the long house, who kept the council fires) my fathers mothers mother

and kanigsbergs/kongisbergs, my mothers ancestors on both sides, as she was born on the boat coming over from poland, after the pogroms and before the holocaust,
a babe in her mothers arms, passing through ellis island.

though i know more or their ('tribes') names, i have never met any of my fathers predecessors. only my mothers.
and the one time i met my mother's mother, she was already dying, and that was when i was 11, which was 55 years ago.
my mother's sisters, their husbands and their children, i was able to meet, though also relatively few times.

there is an architect in california i might be somehow related to. there is or was an economists of a flavor i find distasteful i might be. the guy who came up with turning left over french fry grease into diesel fuel i might be related to. there's an outfit that makes modular extrusions for parts of machinery and partitions i might be related to. there is an oceanographer at woods hole i might or might not be, there was an edward way teal, (a published author, wrote doorway into summer) whom i almost met but never did.

i grew more isolated from in-laws then i think a very large majority of most people. on my mother's father's side, her mother and him divorced what she was still a child, i may be distantly related to alan kanigsberg. that's his mundane name. out of respect i won't mention is professional acting, directing, producing name. either you recognize it or you don't.

one of my mother's sisters married a bloomberg. i forget the family names of the husbands of the other three. i know the daughter of her identical twin syster, (agusta) the one who survived and is around my own age, has a husband who's last name is gross. the third of her sisters, named annette, had a son who as in high school when i was in grade school, his name is martin. and that he married when i was in high school.

mostly i only know of my mother's relatives from one visit, and from she always used to write to them. adel, bonny, who was also around my age, and the younger sister of martin, and pearl's two daughters, alice and nora, are probably still alive. they may all have had children i know nothing of. my mom's generation are probably all gone by now. my mom herself was in her 90s when she passed away five years ago. and her sisters were all within a year or two of her own age.

at any rate, i grew up on the west coast of the u.s. and they all lived on the east. neither my parents nor i, could ever very well afford to go see them.
so they're all just mostly names and not people i've ever known very well.
there was one of my mother's sisters, aunt pearl, who used to send me a birthday card every year with a five or a ten or twenty in it, and who, with her husband managed somehow to make it out to my wedding in the mid 90s. she and adel are the only relatives i've had contact with in the past decade. my wife had some relatives too whom i got to meet some of. she died six months before my mother and we never had any kids of our own. though she had one by a previous marriage.

well i'm happiest alone and always have been. i'm curious about those i've never met though, and the condition of those i have, but i expect i will very most likely die that way. which may be just as well.
i really hope, i get to die meditating and alone, when the time comes for me to do so.

 

I have Irish ancestors.

 

Nothing too exciting I am afraid I was born in England my dad was Northern Irish and my mum was Southern Irish. But proud all the same to be native english

 

boringly, I'm pretty much 100% english on both sides, as far as I can tell. I have blonde (slightly reddish) hair and blue eyes and a viking surname so at least some of my ancestors must have done a bit of traveling.

 

My parents are both canadian. If you break it down though I'm almost half irish, a good 1/4 or more native American, and a bit of french, English and miscellaneous mixed in. My mom was adopted by a scottish-Canadian family though, so I have a Scottish last name.

 

Native American (Southern Band Tuscarora) and a bunch of invading Europeans.

 

Total mixed bag. So far, I have identified ancestors from England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, the Netherlands, France, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and Spain. Then there are all those grandmothers whose last names are "unknown" in the 1600's and 1700's. I expect I'll add a few Mediterranean countries after more DNA matches occur.

 

I just had my DNA analyzed. I am 51.9% British & Irish, 15.2% French & German, 2.6% Scandinavian, 27.3% Northwestern European, 1.9% Southern European, and 1.1% Broadly European.

My ancient ancestry roots came from Europe, which was buried under miles of ice ten thousand years ago. As the glaciers receded over millennia, Neolithic farmers from the Near East joined Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers to settle Europe. Somehow I ended up in sunny Southern California.

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Scots-Irish, not sure what other European ancestry I have in my genetics (and what ancestry do my ancestors have?)... but definitely all Western European.