What's Your Lineage?

[tschiraldi]

Straight Italian on my Dad's side, Slovak and Dutch on my Mom's. Dad's side immigrated here in the late 1800's, Mom's side were founding fathers, having come here in the early 1600's at St. Mary's, Maryland. I even have a great, great, great, great, grate, great grandfather who fought in the Revolutionary War.

 

[psychpipes]

English, Irish, German, Scandinavian (Norweigian & Danish), and French. Oldest versions of my last name that I have traced are Gudbrand/Gudbrandr. It went from Gudbrandr, to Gudbrand, to Gudbrot, to Goodbread, and now to Goodbred.

 

[bassbug]

I was gonna leave out the horse thieves, highwaymen and anyone else in the family tree I was not sure of then realized it would be a very short post. :rofl:

 

[mackeson]

If my parents are any indication, Alien.
They tell me Italian and Irish

 

[virginiacob]

English on my father's side. Scottish on my mother's. Also, a little Viking ancestry thrown into the mix as my original ancestors to arrive in England were Normans.

 

[disinformatique]

Indian, English and Irish. Living in India currently but moving to Canada after 2-3 years.
Cheers,

Chris

 

[dogmoby]

Albanian!

 

[stefanbessason]

All Icelandic with the exception of a great great great grandfather that was from France. Fun fact: We have this thing in Iceland called "Íslendingabók" where you can look at your lineage all the way back to 10th century (for example am I related to Leifur Eiríksson through 30 generations). And you can also see how your are related to all other Icelanders. Comes in handy when hooking up, to prevent incest (no shit!)

 

[aldecaker]

"Incest" is relative.

 

[aristokles]

7/8 Hellenic, 1/8 Laz.

 

[tslex]

Bio mother's side: Irish (specifically from County Mayo in and around Castlebar to Balina along Lough Conn. (Students of the '98 Rising will know why this matters).
Bio father's side: German, but details unknown.
Adoptive parents: Czech (back before was a Czechoslovakia per se, and of course there isn't one now.) Specifically three Bohemian grandparents (what is now the Czech Republic) and one Slovak (what is now the Slovak Republic) but was then all part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. (Eastern Europe gets kinda complicated.)
Bastard half-breed orphan, adopted at a year old. Raised in a house that was strongly "Czech" culturally, with two first generation parents and both Czech grandmothers much in the mix. Learned of my birth heritage as a young adult, and found it made a LOT of sense given who I was and what I believed -- cultural memories seem to be real. From my earliest days I had a tremendous and inexplicable affinity for all things Irish. I recall as a boy (I knew I was adopted) thinking that my Uncle Jack, a giant of a brawling Irishman from Galway (not far from Mayo) might secretly be my real dad.

 

[foggymountain]

Eastern European, Mostly Russian, some Polish and maybe 1/8 Chinese. Possibly descended from Genghis Khan.

 

[Chasing Embers]

So many different heritages. If we could get a pipe into the hand of everyone on the planet, it would be a much happier place.

 

[styler]

I've always found the US fascination with heritage/ancestory to be... well, fascinating!
How many of you feel like it had a real impact on your upbringing or a tangible effect on your character?
As for me, I'm quite boring - 100% scottish, born and bred.