Heritage

What heritage is everyone? I am mostly Native American and italian, so very dark skin.

nikki

White British. Boring.

Although my family name (Dent) is from Normandy, France, obviosuly brought over in the invasion of 1066. I am partially related to the Scottish Royal Family through the fleeing Bonnie Prince Charlie...though lots of people probably are. My gran was born in India and my uncle and aunt born in Trinidad and Tobago.

Basically I'm boring and normal/

Are you related to Arthur Dent?

Anyways, I guess I'm kind of a mix of a ton of stuff, but basically just European heritage. And why is being British white boring? Are you saying that British white people aren't as good as being black or from Germany or something like that?

Ooooo, a heritage thread! I have much I could tell about my geneology! Just ask Crysi, Delo, Tara, Mesh, and Arvy. But, I'll spare you and save the history for later right now!

I'm Swiss, German, Canadian Indian, French Canadian(meaning I'm also regular French), English, Scotch-Irish, Welsh, and some possible African-American(due to untracable roots in Louisianna.) Think that's it.

And why is being British white boring? Are you saying that British white people aren't as good as being black or from Germany or something like that?

I never suggested that. It's just less interesting. Most people have some interesting ancestors, I don't.

White anglo-saxon whose ancestors descended from Great Britain in the 1600s.

Mine's all mixed up. The family name (Caldwell) is from Scotland and I am able to draw a direct bloodline from me to my ancestors going back into the 1600's, but I wouldn't call myself Scottish. I have Italian blood in me, Irish, French, a little dab of Native-American, and a whole slew of others.

So, in the end, my heritage is just American.

hehe, you asked this, remember! (and yes perra, we know! lol jk jk)
anglo-saxon (well i think, mid 1700's ancestor came to america from a small port town in england, that's all i know for sure), german, french, russian, polish, ukraine(ian?) (basically all eastern european countries) and sweedish. i think. and we think one of my ancestors on my dad's side signed the decleration of independence (right name, right time, right age, location.. lol) i think i'm forgetting a country here...

My dad's family is 100% Irish traced back 5 or 6 generations or so by my grandfather. He said he couldn't go further because the British burned the records, or something. My mom's great-grandmother came to the U.S. at about my age through Ellis Island. My other great-grandparents immigrated from the Czech Republic and Germany.

So in a nutshell I'm mostly Irish with a bit of Czech and German. I was raised American though. Not quite sure how I feel about that.

I am half Greek, 1/4 Austrian, and 1/4 Irish. As far as I know that's it.

Mine's not as complicated. My father's Dutch (immigrated when he was small) and my mother is South African born and bred. Although, since almost all white South Africans basically came from the Netherlands, I'm probably Dutch all around.
Wait, I'll ask my mum ...
*stands up and yells to her mother*
Okay no, my (real) great grandfather was French, so I think I'm like 75% Dutch and 25% French or something.

well... here goes
my father's side is scotish and native. we hail back from the MacNaughten clan in Scotland, which was the rulling class.... until they were forced to flee to brittain and take a different name. At some point, a white woman in my family married a charoke, i dont know his name, he was put down as a question mark in the family tree, and he took the brides name instead of keeping his own.

my mothers side is probably polish, but we arent sure. her grandfather was a traveling circus clown (no joke) and he would never say where he was from, just that he was an american now.

I'm half Irish I find it really cool how I'm the first female generation from my mums side of the family to be born in England (she was born in Ireland) and my dad's side have recently come to England too they came here about 50-60yrs ago so I'm 1/2 Irish, 1/4 Scottish and 1/4 English, I'm prob a bit more Scottish than English but hey lol

Meshugenah wrote:hehe, you asked this, remember! (and yes perra, we know! lol jk jk)

Hehe. Now I think everyone else should know! But it's a lot to rewrite, so I'm gonna copy, paste, and edit.*cough*lazy*cough*

According to my grandmother, I am a direct, illegitimate decendant of King John I, son of Henry II and Elanor of Anquitaine, brother of Richard the Lionharted. Also the king who was one of the bad guys in the Robin Hood legend, and who was forced to sign the Magna Carta. I'm related to Edward the Black Prince of Wales and Dark King(forgot what number he was, I also don't know exactly how I'm related, just quoting grandmother). Down the line, I'm related to Sir Thomas Wyatt, the Elder, who was a member of King Henry VIII's court, an ambassador, a poet that land down tracks for Shakespeare, and may be found in your encyclopedia. His son, Sir Thomas Wyatt, the younger, was a cousin of Anne Boleyn(mother of Queen Elizabeth I, who I had a fasination with before I even knew I was related to her), led a revolt against Queen Mary I(Bloody Marry,) which failed and got him locked up in the Tower of London(which Henry II built), and was beheaded. Or hanged. Can't remember which. On a non-British side, one branch of my family in Switzerland/Germany had councilmans, bailiffs, a very influencial man, a castle, knights(at least one who went on a Crusade,) and one was Baron Christophe DeGraffenried, who, I believe, was a Baron of Austria, and, as a fact, founded NewBern, North Carolina in 1719(if my grandmother's dates are right). There's more, I've got a few pages of ancestry my grandmother gave me. According to her, once you're related to one royalty, you're related to all, and I might have some relation to a Russian Princess!

Now, on my dad's side of the family, my family owned some of the tea that was thrown overboard by "Indians" in the Boston Tea Party. During the Civil War, one of my ancestors picked up the rebel flag after the flag carrier was shot and took it to the top of the hill they were supposed to capture in Picket's Charge, during the battle of Gettysburg. While on that hill, he was shot, and some people say that the moment that the Confederate flag was dropped turned the tide of the Civil War. He survived, and something happened, like Ohioans(we were Virginians) sent us the flag, and we are ok with Ohio people now. Kinda explains why I wouldn't mind going up there..... My great-grandfather met Paton in WWII, and my great Aunts were born in the Phillopenes(sp?) and Hawaii, and one on an island that no longer exists! Don't know were Granddaddy was born....

That's all I know right now. I know that, on my mom's side, we owned a bank, were very powerful in a town, and got a street named after us or something....

Wow that's really quite cool. One thing - it's Richard the Lionheart, not Lionharted!