Where did your non-North American ancestors come from?

[SSS1365]

Biological father (and I'm pretty sure his whole family): Puerto Rico
Mom's side: My grandmother's family is from Poland and my grandfather's family is French-Canadian.

My fiance's family is Irish and English.

Our kids will have such an interesting heritage

[_Opi_]

I think this is an interesting thread...


Me: born in the middle-east, raised in Africa and Canada, educated in Canada and the States...

[swissmiss04]

Cool thread!

I have such a cool family history:
My dad's side involves a ton of long established families, namely the Talbotts who helped in establishing the colony of Maryland, and the Talbott family is the family of Bob Dole's mom, making us 4 th cousins, somewhere therabouts. His dad's side of the family came from the Yenters of Germany who settled somewhere in Pennsylvania. They were German Jews, though my other German ancestors were devout Catholics (the Mechlers). He also had ancestors come here from Switzerland, Wales, and Scotland.

On my mom's side, they've been here for so long it's ridiculous, but they are primarily Cherokee, Dutch, Irish, and English. The most recent emigration on her side of the family came in the 1820s from Ireland. Her English and Dutch folks have been here much longer than that.

[ThetaPrincess24]

Ireland, England, Scotland, and the Scandinavian countries. There are rumors of Germany and Italy too.


I've been tryign to find out abotu my family history as of recently, in particularly pertaining to the civil war and who fought on the side of the South. I'm tryign to find out my eligibility for Daughters of the Confederacy.

[bethany1982]

My mother was born in Spain and my dad's side of the family has been in the states for several generations.

[Optimist Prime]

I have ansecstors among:
Britons, Scots, Anglos, Normans, Germans, Bohemians

[KillarneyRose]

Originally posted by swissmiss04

My dad's side involves a ton of long established families, namely the Talbotts who helped in establishing the colony of Maryland,

Hi Swissmiss!
I'm sure you already know this, but in case you don't, there is a Talbot County on the Eastern Shore of Maryland. Seems the last "T" got dropped somewhere along the line, but that must have been the part where your ancestors lived.

[cash78mere]

Italians and Germans...that's about all I know

[jonsagara]

Japan and Europe.

[ansturge]

not sure how many generations

but my first relative was a dr from england and he got off of the boat in 1634

[Peaches-n-Cream]

My ancestors all come from Ireland.

[GPhiLlama]

Mine's a bit of a problem.

On my mother's side, my great-grandfather (the father of my grandmother), was adopted. Unfortunately, records weren't very well kept in those days, so I have no idea about that side of the family.

So from what I know, I'm Italian (3rd generation American), Franco-Caribbean (Martinique), Austrian, American Indian (not sure of tribal affiliation), and Irish are the ones that come to the top of my head right now. With me, it's pretty much "You name a country, I probably have relatives from it."
For a side note, people think that I'm adopted when I'm with my mother, because I look half-Asian, my dad looks Middle Eastern, and my mom is a blonde. S'fun.

[navane]

My family is pretty easy to figure out, we're 100% Polish!


Father's Family: The countryside around Torun, Poland


Mother's Family: Aleksandrow Kujawski, Poland


I am a 3rd generation American. Though my maternal-grandfather was born in the the US, his mom missed the homeland and moved everyone back to Poland. Thus he grew up in Poland. At the age of 19, he came back to the US just at the start of WWII. In September, I had the awesome opportunity to visit my great-uncle and cousins in Aleksandrow Kujawski. I got to see where my grandfather went to school, where he used to work, and the plot of land where his house used to be. Cool!


Edited to add: I visited my father's family too! I didn't mean to imply that I left them out or something!

.....Kelly

[winnieb]

My mom's side is from Germany. My grandmother has my great-great (how ever many more greats) parents immigrations papers from the mid 1800's.
My dad's side I have no clue about.


-wendi

[cashmoney]

Mothers side--Swedish and Germanic


Dads side--Germanic



(On the mothers side) The Swedish side--was traced back to the early part of 1000 AD. My mothers maiden name was Arliksson. Scandanavian families are easy to trace because true Scandanavians have names that end with son/sen at the end of them, which means they were the son of this person or that person some where down the line. That part of my family was from the northern part of the middle of Sweden near the coast, today people call that region Onka. Part of the Germanic side of my mothers family is from Thuringia, in the villages of Nordehausen and Sonderhausen. Thats in the heartland of Germany. I'm guessing if you want to go back further to the Pre-Charlemange era they'd be Visigoths. The other part of the Germanic side was from Bavaria, the town where some of them live today is called Obersdorf. It is a mountain village and one of the most beautiful places on earth in my opinion.

On my dads side they're all German and from the northern part of the country. They're from the Saxony region.