What's Your Lineage?

[007]

All that German talk in the Beer thread made me think of a good topic for a thread. What's you lineage?

Here's mine -
75% German
25% EnglishThe German side is fairly nondescript - although they were part of those 'German settlers' in MO near St. Louis. I'm hoping they were part of the Budweiser clan. :)

The English side can be traced back to King John Lackland -[King Richard the Lionheart's brother]- of Robin Hood times. King John was in control while King Richard was away on the Crusades. Pretty cool.

[Lori Burger]

I'm a mutt. The breakdown is something like this:

25% German (this is the Jewish side of my family; dad's side)
25% Hungarian (dad's side)
25% Irish (mom's side)
12.5% English (mom's side)
12.5% Scottish (mom's side)

It could be even more broken up than that, but you know what they say: the more of a mutt you are, the healthier you will be! I don't necessarily identify with any of these particular cultures because there are just too many of them, and they don't really define who I am. I have students who are so proud of their ethnicities (Italians, Jews, Poles, blacks) that they actually celebrate them with their families. Honestly, I've always been a little envious of that.

[False Alarm]

50% german
50% mexican

the german side settled in rural nebraska and my grandparents moved to illinois when they got married, following several of my grandfather's siblings who'd already moved here.

the mexican side's from the north, near monterrey. my grandparents got their papers and moved my mom and her siblings to laredo, texas, when she was 15. a year or two later they moved up to illinois. my great-great-great grandma's maiden name was maria del rio frio, which translates to mary of the cold river, which is a pretty live name.

[slam]

Irish, German.... I think maybe French, a little bit of Cherokee. Do you know Ag Au?

I have zero idea about proportions.

There's a company out there where you can send a sample of your blood and for like $80 they'll give you a very rough breakdown of your lineage. I seem to remember some tv show recently had a number of prominant african americans do the blood test. There were some pretty surprising results. I think quincy jones ended up being like 40% european, which kinda of shocked him.

here's a little writeup regarding it:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11080815/site/newsweek/

[mrjohnchimpo]

50% Irish (County Kilkenny)
40% German/Polish (there is an area in Poland called Kashuba that a bunch of Germans -- well, actually almost every other country, but my ancestors were from Germany) moved into and intermarried with the Polish already living there).
10% Dutch

I identify most with the Irish side though cause I was raised mostly by my mom's family (the Irish side)

Everybody moved to Chicago a couple of generations ago.

[LoveDog]

I identify most with the Irish side though cause I was raised mostly by my mom's family (the Irish side)

I'd say you identify most with the Irish side because you constantly maintain a blood-alcohol level higher than .03.

I'm 40% Irish, 30% German, and 30% French.

[mrjohnchimpo]

I'd say you identify most with the Irish side because you constantly maintain a blood-alcohol level higher than .03.

no, that's backwards.

[JVO]

Cool thread!!!

I am 50% Dutch
25% French
25% Mix of English, German, and probably some other crap.

My family on my fathers side (the Dutch side) immigrated from Holland to Pennsylvania several generations ago.

My mom's side is sketchy.

[Ag Au]

okay slam, i think this is the case.

dad's side
irish
german/polish

mama's side
english
scottish (grandma macdonald)
dutch
french
cherokee

i'm pretty sure that's it. i think mom's side has all those bits, the dutch being the sketchy one, but the rest i am sure of.

maybe we can get it all written down soon. papa just got a whole bunch of old photos and a written lineage dating back to the 1700's. its cool. shows where our way back cherokee grandma came in. too bad we don't have more information about her though.

[slam]

maybe we can get it all written down soon. papa just got a whole bunch of old photos and a written lineage dating back to the 1700's. its cool. shows where our way back cherokee grandma came in. too bad we don't have more information about her though.

neat! i'll have to check that out next time i'm at their house!

i remember when i was in new zeland, we spent a few days staying with a maori community. geneaology was very big to them. in fact, from the day you learn to speak, you're taught your lineage back nine generations. it was a powerful way to keep people from misbehaving. if you were caught for being a thief, then nine generations of your descendents would be taught that you were a thief!

[cuscus]

Im jealous that you guys all know your geneology so well. It is something that my family has not invested much time in. My maternal grandfather did some, but the furthest back was still born in America. I just recently found out my name is Welsh, but I believe there may be some scotch/Irish, and some German. Any advice that doesn't involve needles for me to find out more?

[Soul Queen]

I wish I knew more about my geneology also.

I really only know about my mom's side of the family, which I'm pretty sure was German. My grandma has pictures from when she was a baby of the old kegs her great grandparents used to make beer. he he

My dad's side I think is English...its difficult because I think his mom's mom was adopted. That throws everything off.

Dawn Fox may know more...

[bubz_bluez]

im a mut cherokee irish with a dash of mixician in there

[notorious]

75% english
25% scottish

there's some german in there somewhere and actually some native american...iroquois i believe

[bubz_bluez]

scott egh intresting

bubz

[hotfoot]

50 percent Finnish
25 percent English
25 percent German

Mostly identify with the Finns since I've been around them all my life. My brother is, in fact, marrying one next June, which means I'll be traveling to Scandinavia next summer.

[poofdogg]

All that German talk in the Beer thread made me think of a good topic for a thread. What's you lineage?

Here's mine -
75% German
25% EnglishThe German side is fairly nondescript - although they were part of those 'German settlers' in MO near St. Louis. I'm hoping they were part of the Budweiser clan. :)

The English side can be traced back to King John Lackland -[King Richard the Lionheart's brother]- of Robin Hood times. King John was in control while King Richard was away on the Crusades. Pretty cool.

what he said! count that for me too... :)

[CaDi_LaCkLaNd]

what he said! count that for me too... :)

Ditto, except I doubt very much that it is that simple and basic...

[andikay]

Cool thread!

My mom is fascinated with genealogy and has been tracing our family history since before I can remember. She used to have a huge filing cabinet upstairs in the sewing room, but now everything is on some database somewhere. Everytime we talk on the phone (which is infrequently), she seems to have found a new ancestor or unearthed a new line. So she has told me lots of cool stories.

Mom's side:
75% German
some proportion of English and Scotch-Irish
Using that coat of arms thing Chimpo posted, I found out my ancient German ancestors were storied warriors and defenders of the soil! Neat. That makes sense because my grandpa flew planes in WWII. Also, Fort Zumwalt (and the Fort Zumwalt schools in St. Louis) was named after one of my relatives. Jacob Zumwalt, I think. He did some kind of fighting in the Revolutionary War.
This side is also somehow related to Daniel Boone.

Dad's side:
50% Russian and Ukranian Jews
These folks are interesting. Supposedly my dad's grandpa (I think?) was a musician in the Tsar's marching band during the early part of his rule. Most of them left before things started to get bad, and I think some more came over just prior to the Russian revolution. Also, one of these ladies was a tobacco smuggler. She would sew huge tobacco leaves into the lining of her skirt. I'm not sure where or why she was smuggling the tobacco, though. Through this line I am also distantly related to Nellie (Patrick's wife). The tobacco smuggler lady's last name is the same as Nellie's maiden name; they came from the area around Kiev. One of the descendents of this line was also a vaudeville performer (my great-great aunt Laura). We have some playbills and photos of her, it's pretty cool. Most of the members in this line came over in the early 1900's. I know my grandpa came over in 1906, when he was six, and left an older brother behind in the Ukraine. Sadly, many of my Jewish relatives changed their names and left behind their traditions in order to avoid persecution (e.g., Youssef Schmuel xx became Joseph Samuel xx). I didn't even understand I had Jewish ancestry until I was a teenager. It just wasn't talked about.:huh: Also, my parents are staunch atheists, so I never went to church as a kid and the subject never came up.
50% French, but they were getting it on with Indians too. I can't remember for sure which ones; I think Iroquois and Osage?

So the short anser is: Russian, French, and German.:p Musicians, warriors, tobacco smugglers, and actresses.:headbang:

[MsAnthrope]

:huh:

[bangg trimm]

german cake with german icing.


that's what all the records we have point to. i was tickled to find out a couple of years ago that one of my matrilineal ancestors left germany to avoid the draft in the (roughly) 1850s-60s. apparently lots of krauts skipped town during the bismarck/unification time.

[MigueL]

pure bread mother fu**er