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Owner59 -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 2:17:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Level I'm a Cajun (or Coonass, as we refer to ourselves down here), derived from Acadian. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cajun Acadian Driftwood Lyrics: Robbie Robertson Music: Robbie Robertson The war was over and the spirit was broken The hills were smokin' as the men withdrew We stood on the cliffs, oh and watched the ships Slowly sinking to their rendezvous They signed a treaty and our homes were taken Loved ones forsaken, they didn't give a damn Trying to raise a family, end up the enemy Over what went down on the plains of Abraham Chorus Acadian driftwood Gypsy tail wind They call my home the land of snow Canadian cold front movin' in What a way to ride Oh, what a way to go Then some returned to the motherland The high command had them cast away And some stayed on to finish what they started They never parted, they're just built that way We had kin livin' south of the border They're a little older and they've been around They wrote a letter life is a whole lot better So pull up your stakes, children and come on down Fifteen under zero when the day became a threat My clothes were wet and I was drenched to the bone Been out ice fishing, too much repetition Make a man wanna leave the only home he's known Sailing out of the gulf headin' for Saint Pierre Nothin' to declare, all we had was gone Broke down along the coast, but what hurt the most When the people there said "You better keep movin' on" Everlasting summer filled with ill-content This government had us walkin' in chains This isn't my turf, this ain't my season Can't think of one good reason to remain I've worked in the sugar fields up from New Orleans It was ever green up until the floods You could call it an omen, points you where you're goin' Set my compass north, I got winter in my blood [chorus] Sais tu, Acadie, j'ai le mal du pays Ta neige, Acadie, fait des larmes au soleil J'arrive Acadie http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZwkxHYM7lI ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ My roots are English and Irish

FRSguy -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 3:01:38 PM)
I found out I was directly decended from Sir Frances Drake. In looking at the family history I can honestly say that there is a definate pattern of behavior going back on both sides of the family.

windchymes -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 3:51:43 PM)
I don't know much. I was adopted at birth, but managed to trace my birth mother, who tells me I"m pretty much German on both sides of her family and half German from my biological sperm donor. I think there's some Italian in me somewhere because I can't tell a story if I sit on my hands, and I like to cook and feed people. [:)]

PanthersMom -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 4:36:01 PM)
my family calls itself mutt, we're a little everything and stuff we're not too sure of because my maternal grandma was "adopted" (read sold) by her biological mother who was romanian and gypsie from what we're told, her mother's hubby was jewish, most likely romainian as well. mom's father was supposedly full blooded german from baden baden. dad's family was hungarian/polish/czech/slovak/french and god only knows what else. i have a distant cousin who plays pro hockey, the family resemblence is amazing but we're not sure exactly which branch of the family he's from. amazing the little stories you hear when delving into the family history. PM

Aneirin -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 4:42:53 PM)
Interesting you have discovered a possible link to the Romani, do you think there is Romani in yourself, how are you with others, do you feel different, or are you much the same., I say this, as I have experienced people in the past exclaiming that there was possibly gypsy in me, from my looks, also my desire to not follow the status quo, and do what I want. I have a different way of looking at things, which sometimes causes problems.

popeye1250 -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 4:53:16 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: Aneirin Interesting you have discovered a possible link to the Romani, do you think there is Romani in yourself, how are you with others, do you feel different, or are you much the same., I say this, as I have experienced people in the past exclaiming that there was possibly gypsy in me, from my looks, also my desire to not follow the status quo, and do what I want. I have a different way of looking at things, which sometimes causes problems. Aneirin, ha,ha, with those traits you could be a "Mick."

EmlyKate -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 4:56:01 PM)
On my mother's side, we can trace one branch back to the Mayflower, and another branch is Irish, then of course there's a smattering of French and German thrown in On my father's side, all we've determined for one branch is "English" and Lithuanian and/or Polish (it was a border area and the borders changed several times) for the other

Aneirin -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:01:28 PM)
Highly likely as there is a branch of us in Waterford, has been since the fourteenth Century. Odd it is, or maybe I am stupid, but the last industry I was in, when the gypsies came to town, mostly Irish tinkers, I had time for them, if they wanted repairs doing to their machines I did them, and dealt in the way they know, cash. No receipts or other paperwork, what I asked I got, as I took the trouble to talk to them and make sure the job was done properly.They always came back and even referred us to the rest of their 'clan'. An odd thing though, some items of equiptment that we had lost through theft, miraculously re appeared. I was heavily involved in the plant hire industry at the time. Through talking with those people, I recognised a similarity in thought.

breatheasone -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:05:43 PM)
My fathers people were the settlers of a city called Midland, in Michigan. There is a statue of John Wyman I believe somewhere in the city. My husband is the 2nd generation born in this country on his mothers side. His mothers people are Germany. My husbands fathers people had been traced back to Wexford Ireland, they have the bill of sale for the ticket their grandfather purchased over there to come here(can't remember the date, but its OLD). We also have a pocket watch with the family name of my husband the date on the watch is The year of our Lord 1865 its an AWESOME piece...and it works TOO....[:)]

Aneirin -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:10:38 PM)
I believe a lot of the Eirish left for the Americas because of the potato blight. That thing, the blight, if you read the history is an abomination. Whenever I hear of those of Eire who have sailed to America, I think of the Pogues song, ' Thousands are sailing', I do recommend it.

christine1 -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:12:14 PM)
my father was german and my mother was a mix of swedish/norwegian, emphasis on norwegian. i've not had very good luck tracing anything back since when my fathers parents came to america, the spelling on the last name was changed, when i have more time to pursue this i will.

GreedyTop -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:15:18 PM)
yeah, same here, Christine...Mom's side is traced back really well (The Scots... got a couple of Presidents back there..LOL), but Great Grandpa's name got mispelled (both first and last), soooo.....

Aneirin -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:21:40 PM)
I did hear that a lot of immigrants to the US back then, either got rid of the family name, or changed the spelling to a more anglisiced spelling so as to become part of what they had become, Americans as opposed to immigrants. A lot though they may remember the traditions of their home country, the best bits, wanted rid of the fact they were of a certain country, as I would suspect they felt it had let them down.

popeye1250 -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:44:50 PM)
Seems like a lot of people came over from Germany. And they settled all over the country. I had a friend growing up who's parents came over after the war from Germany and his father was an officer in the German tank corps. I saw a show on t.v. last week that mentioned that all blue-eyed people are related. Seems they think one man from S. Russia near the black sea had an "aberation" of blue eyes about 10,000 years ago! How the scientists figured that out I don't know!

PanthersMom -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:45:58 PM)
different, yes. i've always been told i was different from other people as well, more "old world-ish" than most. i guess i see the world thru gypsy-rose colored glasses, lol. PM

subtee -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:46:46 PM)
Yeah, except for those of us (okay not us), that were already here! Still with the ignoring...what am I, chopped livah? Wait...different ancestory maybe

MissAidan -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:48:00 PM)
My ancestry has always ment alot to me, though I didn't know what it was until I was 19 due to closed adoption. I lost contact with my mom after finding her, so I know very little. I do know that I am half Irish (get that from both sides), about a quarter Scottish, and that there is also German, Austrian and Cherokee thrown in the mix. I've been wanting to trace my family, but that would require finding her again first, or him, and I don't even know how to properly spell his last name!

MissHarlet -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:53:08 PM)
Choctaw and Irish .. by way of Virginia... Georgia... Oklahoma....and Texas ... so Im a Southern Lady no matter where I live ...even those 7 years I lived in New England

playfulotter -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:56:27 PM)
i am mostly German and English with a little irish thrown in..and on my mother's side her father was 1/4 Cherokee...so i guess that makes me 1/16 Cherokee..i do get a good tan. really dark when i try to get one like when i was a teenager..but i have to have a few good burns first which i regret! [sm=lol.gif]

popeye1250 -> RE: Ancestry (2/11/2008 5:57:30 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: subtee Yeah, except for those of us (okay not us), that were already here! Still with the ignoring...what am I, chopped livah? Wait...different ancestory maybe Subtee, I saw a documentary one time about American Indians and they did a DNA study of old bones that had gotten dug up and found that 40% of those bones had Celtic DNA in them. Also in the coastal town in New Hampshire where I lived (Hampton) they found Viking artifacts that were about 1,000 years old so Columbus wasn't the "first" European to hit these shores by a long shot.

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