What's Your Lineage?

[kane]

Father's side is Irish, came to Philadelphia mid 19th century.

Mother's side is French, via Quebec in the 17th century.

I am a descendant of Louis Hébert and Marie Rollet.

 

[mso489]

Lots of family politics in how my lineage was conveyed. The old Yankee English ancestry was played up -- Roger Williams, the 17th Century founder of Rhode Island, Colonel Prescott of Revolutionary War (and womanizing) fame. Lots of family pride with them. But as time went on in my adulthood, I learned my dad's mom was Scotch-Irish, and I was very close to her. My mom's dad claimed Welsh ancestry, but some looking into Welsh records didn't turn up his last name, my mom's maiden name. I think there are probably a lot of other genetic strains involved. Having visited both England and Scotland, I would say my own father inherited many more Scottish traits than English. There are other strong cultural trends that don't seem typical of the old Yankee line. It might be interesting to do one of those DNA ancestry tests. However, even if it turned up some interesting previously unacknowledged ancestry, it would feel a little phony to start affiliating with that at this time of life. It would have been a luxury to have a more complete view of ancestry earlier in life, but people were reluctant when the disadvantages of immigrant and minority status were so evident. At one point, being Irish was considered by many to be a terrible thing, we often forget.

 

[dread]

Irish and English on my mother's side, African on my father's side. Both biological. I was adopted by a Russian/Polish/German Jewish family and married into an Irish/Danish non-practicing LDS family. Going to do a DNA test to find out more details as most folks with American African heritage have more in the mix and I'd like to know what. Very interesting to me that through all of that mixing my kids are the more Irish than anything and mostly European, and have blond/brown hair with blue eyes.

 

[kanaia]

Scot-Irish, English, Hungarian and Estonian. Mother was a genealogist and discovered that one of our long lost cousins was that illustrious American Benedict Arnold.

 

[reverendsasquatch]

Ulster Scot and Irish on my mother's side, some sorta German/Austrian and Cherokee on my father's side. My wife is full blooded German, w/ her dad being an East German refugee. So my children are far more German than the Celtic blood I've clung to my whole life (though the Germanics were Celts!)

 

[toobfreak]

German, mother's side, Polish, father's side.

 

[gmjabsky]

Slovak, descended from Tatra Mountain swineherds and cabbage farmers

 

[stvalentine]

Father: all German

Mother: German with a bit of Polish, Netherlands and French mixed in :lol:

 

[Perique]

Father: German / German
Mother: German / Italian.
I like a touch of olive oil in my sauerkraut.

 

[tuold]

Had my DNA tested for ancestry a while back.
Link ----> Ancestry DNA Ethnicity
This raised some questions since nobody in the family knew of any Eastern European ancestors. Then we found out my grandmother was adopted as an infant. Her birth parents were refugees from Lithuania.

 

[mso489]

tuold, how interesting! I don't know if I would be intrigued by whole new ancestry, or disappointed if it were as I was told. The good part is, now you can study up on Lithuania and learn a lot, which you might not have done otherwise. A friend of mine adopted a Ukrainian child and suddenly I started noticing Ukrainian art and info, long before it hit the news for other reasons.

 

[sablebrush52]

Cohen on my mother's side, Levite on my Father's. So technically a direct lineal descendant of the priests and scribes of the Temple of Solomon.
You may all bow now.

 

[aldecaker]

@Kanaia- Benedict Arnold gets a bad rap. The more I learned about the guy, the less I saw him as a "traitor". I now view him as, yes, a traitor, but also, a guy who did a genuinely good job, and got sick of being crapped on and shunted aside in favor of shameless self-promoters whose contribution to the revolutionary effort were pretty questionable. I think in light of that, he just saw no good future in our grand experiment. Anyway, threadjack over. Sorry Duane!

 

[Chasing Embers]

No apology necessary, and side discussions are always fun. Man this thread bloomed more than I thought it would, and what a diverse crowd we are!

 

[ashdigger]

I'll just leave this here.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw

 

[dottiewarden]

Second generation Canadian to Scottish immigrants to Ontario around 1911.
But if you go back to Adam and Eve, I guess we're all from Mesopotamia!
If Darwin is right, I guess I can trace my roots back to the deep, dark jungles of Africa.

Irish, Polish, Iroquois. Or as I prefer to say, McPolackaho.

@aldecaker
That would be O'Polackaho

 

[leacha]

Scotch/Irish (Father) & Portuguese (Mother)
Father's side came over in the 1600's.

Mother's were the first Portuguese, late 1800's, to arrive in Hawaii to work the sugarcane fields.

 

[checotah]

American going back about 7-10 generations on my father's side, about 5-7 on my mother's side.
Breaking that down, according to DNA testing, 48.3% Scotch/Irish, 10% Scandinavian,10% French/German, the rest mostly general northwestern Europe.

 

[yohanan]

Western European, Ireland, Great Britain, Scandinavia.

 

[bigpond]

All lines lead to the same place if you look back far enough.
I suppose if one was so inclined one could make a friend or enemy of just about anyone.