Ancestry

[Lady Squee]

My mom is big on it, and now I'm understanding why.

I knew Jero is related to Lieutenant Robert Maynard, the man who led the attack against Blackbeard and ultimately killed him. But I wanted to learn this info on my own.

And omg this is so cool.

[Beatrix]

My family comes from a small farm in Switzerland.

[Lady Squee]

Yeah, mom is in the process of doing ours (her side) and I just started Jero's.
My dad's father did his side and found that my dad's family comes from Wales. We even have a castle there.

[idlehands]

I recently found out my mother's maiden name is not Spanish, it's French but the spelling was changed to look more Spanish because my ancestor was in the French army that invaded Mexico to try and expand their empire in the 1860s. Apparently he deserted the army when they lost and ended up marrying a Spanish woman there in Mexcio. There was all kinds of stories before about them being Basque or something but I did the research into the name and found out it's origin was French. I am now part frog. History is fun.

[Lady Squee]

idlehands said
I recently found out my mother's maiden name is not Spanish, it's French but the spelling was changed to look more Spanish because my ancestor was in the French army that invaded Mexico to try and expand their empire in the 1860s. Apparently he deserted the army when they lost and ended up marrying a Spanish woman there in Mexcio. There was all kinds of stories before about them being Basque or something but I did the research into the name and found out it's origin was French. I am now part frog. History is fun.

That is incredibly interesting.

[BrobyDDark]

Lady Squee said
My mom is big on it, and now I'm understanding why.

I knew Jero is related to Lieutenant Robert Maynard, the man who led the attack against Blackbeard and ultimately killed him. But I wanted to learn this info on my own.

And omg this is so cool.

I can't find any because I forgot my Pi-Pa's name.

[Kaga]

One of my IRL friends went on Ancestry and found out she's a relative of Adolf Hitler.

[BrobyDDark]

Kaga said
One of my IRL friends went on Ancestry and found out she's a relative of Adolf Hitler.

She did Nazi that coming. Were jew really surprised? If that was me I would be out of Mein Kampf-ort zone.

(Sorry. Not sorry.)

[Hank]

I'm a descendant of Johannes Vermeer, famous Dutch painter.

[Awson]

My mom's mom has a little bit of it done. I don't think there was anything super relevant. There might have been a Duke of something of somewhere near Britain. My mom didn't know anything herself. Nor does my dad.

So I really don't know too much of it. It's a shame. Sort of. I struggle with how much I care.

[andromedene]

I asked my dad where our ancestors were from and he said "WE'RE CANADIAN."

and that was that

[Goldmarble]

Father's side:
Finnish Farmers.
German Farmers.

Mother's Side:
British, not really sure what they did.
British, possibly nobles, more likely highwaymen.

Boring family is boring.

[Cpt Toellner]

When my grandpa died, I inherited all his family history stuff. My last name: originally: "Töllner" was an occupational name for a collector of tolls or customs levies in the Northern Germanic dialects. Records I have seen place us a a poor noble family operating the ferry system across the Rhine. We eventually became part of Prussia and like our entire family history is littered with Prussian Military Officers.

We came to the US after the civil war and took land in Nebraska as part of the homestead act. An argument in the late 1800's resulted in the entire family moving to Oklahoma except one of the sons named "Peter", who went on his own to Wisconsin.

[Griever]

My ancestors were Siberian Shamans.

[idlehands]

My dad's side of the family is mostly English Catholic, the earliest ancestor to come over to the US was in the mid 1600s to the Virginia colony. My grandmother found a will that is from a direct ancestor of my granddad that shows that ancestor leaving his few acres and some pigs to his son. Knowing how it was for Catholics in England at the time, I'm pretty sure I know how and why he came over. He was believed to be just fourteen or so when he made the trip.

[Smiral]

Eh my family history is scattered as tits. Apparently my family's from Barga, Italy, and they may or may not have been royalty.

[Cpt Toellner]

Griever said
My ancestors were Siberian Shamans.

You look Serbian.

I do know that my grandma had a decent amount of Bohmeian Gypsy.

[Cpt Toellner]

Smiral said
Eh my family history is scattered as tits. Apparently my family's from Barga, Italy, and they may or may not have been royalty.

The thought of you as a princess is almost unbearable for me right now.

[Smiral]

Blitzkrieg said
Princess.

[Hellis]

both my tracable family bloodlines end somewhere in 1700's.

There was alot of soldiers on mothers side. Caroliners, Grenadiers, Dragoons. And wealthy farmer family.
Fathers side is traced to a Walloonian craftsman who came to sweden to make cannons for King Carolus . But apperently got cheated on a whole lot of money.