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10-07-2009, 09:23 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: VA Beach | | | Hey Americans! What is your family ancestry/lineage?
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My mom's side has been here since the 1700s and they all came from Germany, settling in Pittsburgh. Strangely enough, they all seemed to breed with German Americans as well (not a hard thing to do in PA) up until my mom haha. She married a 1st generation British American, my dad and together they had me. My dad's parents came to the US during the Battle of Britain to escape all the London bombings and settled in the Bronx.
With maybe a few exceptions here and there, Im pretty much 50% German and 50% English.
What about you!? 
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10-07-2009, 09:30 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | | I can only go back 2 generations with any accuracy right now:
Mom's side: German & Polish
Dad's side: Welsh & Seminole Indian
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10-07-2009, 09:37 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Sacramento, CA / Missoula, MT | | | Third Generation Japanese American.
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10-07-2009, 09:42 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2009 Location: right behind you... | | | Moms side- Irish and Italian
Dads side- Irish and German
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10-07-2009, 09:44 AM
|  | that video LIES | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Northern California | | English, Welsh, Scottish & a touch of German. Sunlight-starved, potato-eating coal miner stock, and I live in sunny California. 
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10-07-2009, 09:46 AM
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General Manager, Roscoe Guitars | | Join Date: Mar 2000 Location: Greensboro, NC, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by bassteban English, Welsh, Scottish & a touch of German. Sunlight-starved, potato-eating coal miner stock, and I live in sunny California. | Well, depending on WHERE in NorCal you are, it might not be QUITE so sunny, based on my experiences... 
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10-07-2009, 09:52 AM
|  | (aka Greg Harman) | | Join Date: Jun 2007 Location: Dunbar, West Virginia | | | Paternal: German, arrived 1600's in Philadelphia
Maternal: Italian, arrived early 1900's from Calabria
My parents matched up in a southern West Virginia coal camp
edit: I am a distant grandson of Matthias "Tice" Harman who was the militia leader amd frontiersman who lead the settlers against the Indians during the Jeannie Wiley kidnapping incident. Tice was known to the Indians as "the little devil with the big nose".
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10-07-2009, 10:36 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | | Not American, but I think I can post ITT:
Mom's side(straight outta europe): 50% Dutch and 50% Swiss
Dad's side: 50% French Canadain and 50% Ukranian
All I know in terms of histroy is that the French Canadain blood goes, according to my dad: "Back to when being French Canadian meant being a lumberjack in northern Quebec." |
10-07-2009, 10:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: VA Beach | | Quote:
Originally Posted by CrispyDelicious Not American, but I think I can post ITT:
Mom's side(straight outta europe): 50% Dutch and 50% Swiss
Dad's side: 50% French Canadain and 50% Ukranian
All I know in terms of histroy is that the French Canadain blood goes, according to my dad: "Back to when being French Canadian meant being a lumberjack in northern Quebec." | Canada is just as much a part of America as the United States is a part of America  |
10-07-2009, 10:45 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Holy War Canada is just as much a part of America as the United States is a part of America | LOL okay. I assumed you meant "Citizens of the United States of America". I've never heard the term "American" used to refer to both Canadians and uh... United Statesians?  |
10-07-2009, 10:56 AM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: College Station, Texas | | | I think I'm something like 25% German, 75% English. boring, I know. |
10-07-2009, 10:57 AM
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EXAR pedals rep for North & Central America | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: PDX, OR | | | Father's side: Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, German, Hungarian, and Dutch.
Mother's side: Scottish, Choctaw, and nobody knows what else because the family records were lost in a fire long ago, and her parents didn't mention much to her about their family history (and they're dead now). |
10-07-2009, 10:59 AM
|  | Yeah, I've got the moves like Jagger. | | Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: G.R. MI | | | In descending order: Dutch, Scottish, Irish, English, and German.
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10-07-2009, 11:10 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: tulsa oklahoma | | | moms side Irish and English
dads side Puerto Rican
because of the Irish was forced to move away from Ireland some time in the 18th century, and the fact that Puerto Rico is an Island in the Caribbean I always claim to be a pirate. even though my parents met in NJ in the 1960's
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10-07-2009, 11:16 AM
|  | Registered User | | | | | Paternal: 50% russian jew, 50% german jew.
Maternal: Mostly English and Spanish. |
10-07-2009, 11:17 AM
|  | I'm a tumbler, born under punches | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Northern California | | | I don't even know for sure.
Definitely Dutch on my mom's side and German on my Dad's side but beyond that there's British, Portuguese and Italian for sure and probably more. |
10-07-2009, 11:17 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: New Jersey | | | Magyar
Both sides - dating back the better part of a Millenium
Mostly due to the fact that I'm only a first-generation American. All of my nieces and nephews are much more typical Americans, with mixed lineage
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10-07-2009, 11:19 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Waco, TX | | Republic of Texas.
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10-07-2009, 11:24 AM
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I'm a white guy from New Jersey ....
Both sides been here a long time, primarily English .... |
10-07-2009, 11:24 AM
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Endorsing Artist : Genz Benz | | Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Chicago - LA | | | cherokee, italian, austrian, german, etc...etc...
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