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     kevin Member Username: Kevin Post Number: 288 Registered: 05-2005 |
The thread in which irish-american relations got strained (  ) between padraig and hardin got me thinking. we're all spread around the globe on this messageboard, but where do your ancestors come from? or maybe you are 100% indiginous. i live in scotland but mine are irish migrants from the early 1900s | ||
| Hardin Smith Member Username: Manosludge Post Number: 261 Registered: 03-2006 |
I'm half Canadian, half Mexican | ||
| XY765 Member Username: Judge Post Number: 50 Registered: 01-2006 |
Irish, from Galway on the West Coast and live and work in Dear Old Dirty Dublin...but didn't the Celts come from central Europe originally?? | ||
| Kurt Stephan Member Username: Slothbert Post Number: 261 Registered: 04-2005 |
My family is made up of typical American mutts that came here from Europe who knows when. I never hear about great-grandparents from the "old country." It's all pretty much British and French on my mother's side; my dad's side (or at least his pop) contributes the German name, but has a lot of English blood too. I've always been an Anglophile and have been told by British friends that I would have fit in very comfortably in the UK, which I take as a compliment. | ||
| Randy Adams Member Username: Randy_adams Post Number: 300 Registered: 03-2005 |
Predominantly French on my mother's side, except for a dash of Irish. The French were all respectable tradespeople from the environs of Pau. My mom's family has unusually deep roots in California and I'm the third generation to have been born here on her side. I know nothing about my father's side. While his parents did not meet until they were both in California, each originated from the Ozarks of Missouri where a man was not a man unless he'd broken in his daughter. Nobody seems to know anything about the origins prior to Missouri. I have seen a photograph circa 1910 or so of my paternal grandfather's family when my grandfather was about 13 or 14. They were obviously very poor, posed in front of a small rough-hewn wooden house. It looked like a photo from a Ken Burns documentary on the Civil War. I have no idea whether the "Adams" name is Irish or English in origin. | ||
| spence Member Username: Spence Post Number: 331 Registered: 05-2005 |
I am half Scottish and half English, with a grandfather from Wales and a grandmother from Ireland, so I cover all the UK with my make up! My heart is Edinburgh, Scotland and The Pentland Hills just south of Edinburgh, always, my home is in Birmingham. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 285 Registered: 10-2004 |
well, predominantly english, but some dutch and german as well. my mom is obsessed with geneology, and after years of work, claims to have traced family roots as far back as 12th century england. my ancestors have been in america since the 1600s. but more directly, i'm descended from total oakie-joad-grapes-of-wrath-dustbowl stock. | ||
| Jeff Whiteaker Member Username: Jeff_whiteaker Post Number: 286 Registered: 10-2004 |
but to add to that, i've been in california for most of my life. i was born in NY and lived for a few years in virginia, but california has been considered home by most of my family for a long time. | ||
| Pádraig Collins Member Username: Pádraig_collins Post Number: 277 Registered: 05-2005 |
Randy, your description of the Ozarks reminds me of a story I heard John cooper Clarke tell live years ago. Guy from Burnley marries girls from Barnsley. Phones his dad in a state on the wedding night, saying "Dad, she says she's a virgin, what'll I do?" Dad replies: "Get out of there son, if she's not good enough for her own family she's not good enough for ours". Love that gag. | ||
| David Matheson Member Username: David_matheson Post Number: 79 Registered: 12-2004 |
I was born in Australia. One grandparent was Irish and one English. On the other side my ancestors migrated from Scotland to Australia in 1839. |