Your Nationality, Background

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Sphinx
I bet that took years to research? :crazy:
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Actually, it was because of a wrong email address, that it happened.

I had managed to trace back to a relative in Canada, as there is a park, and a creek with my last name on it.

My sister happened to email me one time and forgot a number on the end of my addy. The lady on the other end whom carried my same first inital, and same last name, emailed back. I continued the conversation and she had a branch of her family tree that had moved stateside, and vanished. my family filled in the branch.
 
Thats some coincidence. I have to say I haven't done much research myself regarding my family tree, but other members of the family have filled in certain branches quite well. Particularly my dads side of the family.
 
my fathers sister did a BUNCH of research in as many libraries, articles, and anything she could find and dug up a preety good amount of information about my family. This was even before the internet was big

one day i was looking on the internet and found a whole webpage with the ancestry of my last name
Prescott
i feel so special :dopey:
 
But are the people on that page your ancestors? Not everyone who's surname is Prescott will be related to you in some way. That's a genuinely good thing though, otherwise you'd be related to this man.
PrescottBLOG.jpg
 
SS69
You know, In America, everyone asks; "whats your heritage?" And you usually expect a response along the lines of, Irish, English, German, etc.... How long does the U.S. have to be around before that answer can be American?
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It is a good question that really doesn't have a good answer. That is something that you would have to ask a historian or something, as I'm not sure what the general rule is. My guess is that most Americans while abraod will refer to themselves as American, however we are still very proud of where we have come from. If anything, that is something distinctively American, and yet another thing that separates us from the rest of the world. I don't think there is anything wrong with celebrating your heritage, as there are so many things that have carved out their own little pieces of American history.

...Arguably, it is the British and the Irish, as well as the Germans that have pretty much shaped the country that we see before us today. In other parts of the country you will usually find greater numbers of different folks, like here in Michigan the numbers of Polish and Dutch folks is staggering. But now it is a bit different, as our new citizens like to come to America a different way (involves a fence, border guards, and a desert)...
 
American families that talk of "old" money vs. "new" money are talking about something that has been around since railroads (OK, maybe a tiny bit longer) vs. last week's lottery winner.

Europeans think "new" money is from the day Protestants split off. And if a European had blood from another country, would he admit it? :)

I think that goes to the question of why Americans are Scotch-Irish, German, French, rather than Amurriken. They haven't been American long enough to be American.
 
I am....
Austrian, Equadorian, Croation, Irish, Italian, French and Alasce-Lorraneian

Personally I'm not one of those kids who go around flashing my background or backgrounds. By the way I HATE being French.
 
Ozzy.
What is so wrong about being French?
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I bet for the political reasons. French are so great, except in that department.
 
But are they really known because of that? I mean when you see a French dude do you think of France's politics right away? Is it so bad?

Personally, If I was from France, I'd feel kinda proud that my descents come from a country with so much history and culture. It gives you a lot to research and explore.

Plus, they finished in second place at The World Cup, they lost to....errr....hum...*cough* :sly:

But hey, that's just me.



Hope that helps.
 
Ozzy.
But are they really known because of that? I mean when you see a French dude do you think of France's politics right away? Is it so bad?

Personally, If I was from France, I'd feel kinda proud that my descents come from a country with so much history and culture. It gives you a lot to research and explore.
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I'd be the same way. But like I said, that's the only thing I can think of. Oh, and maybe this, but that's really about it:
 
Im chinese guy and a canadian citizen :)
 
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50% Chinese
50% Manchurian...

Perhaps some ethnic minorty bloods mixed in there, but I'm not too sure.
 
Meh...I'm not gonna mess with percentages, but mostly English and German here. A little Lakota too, and maybe some Scottish, but I'm not sure on that one.
 
Lets see I'm....
25% Swedish
25% Dutch
12.5% German
12.5% British
12.5% Irish
6.25% Swiss
6.25% Scottish
Yeah I'm bit of a mutt
 
I see practically every single Western European nationalities mixed in there...
 
From my mums side my grandfather was Scottish and my Nanna was Australian with English decent. On my dads side there is English, Irish and German decent. A great ,great, great..... grandfather was transported to Australia back in the convict days for punching his senior officer.
 
My mom's side of the family is Italian and my dad's... I don't know, probably Portuguese.
 
Us Scots seem to be spread far and wide.

I'm Scottish. My mum and dad are both Scottish. I believe their parents were all Scottish, and that's as far back as I know.
 
wfooshee
Europeans think "new" money is from the day Protestants split off. And if a European had blood from another country, would he admit it? :)
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How many Europeans have replied in this thread?

GT4_Rule
I see practically every single Western European nationalities mixed in there...
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That's about half of them.
 
75% Scottish
25% English

Born in Australia, bit of a weird mix eh?
 
Half Scottish, half Greek Cypriot, born in London.

THAT's a weird mix!
 
Specialized
75% English, 25% Irish

Spec....
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Wow, there's a combo. The fighting Irish with the relaxed English. Do you have tea time bouts? Or Guinness at afternoon tea?

Sorry bud, you know that I had to say something.

In all honesty, I'm not sure about my heritage. I know there's Italian and African in there. But I haven't a clue what country in Africa.
 
Ozzy.
What's so wrong about being French?
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Because after how we helped them rid the nazis out of their country and took over after them in vietnam, and they cant even give us their support (not troops just support) in the war on terror, their a bunch of wussies. I dont like getting into things because I will probly get flamed out because most people in other countries dont like America and our descisions.
 
Scottish and English. My mother's maiden name is Spencer which I would think is somewhat of an English name:) My father's side is Scottish.

My wife is Ukrainian and Irish with some french.
 
socomplayer2
Because after how we helped them rid the nazis out of their country and took over after them in vietnam, and they cant even give us their support (not troops just support) in the war on terror, their a bunch of wussies. I dont like getting into things because I will probly get flamed out because most people in other countries dont like America and our descisions.
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Yeah you better don't ;)
 
50% Italian
40% Native American
10% German

(Roughly at least) :)
 
Ozzy.
What's so wrong about being French?
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Well, I can attempt to answer that from my perspective. What it comes down to is that being French is viewed as a "weakness" simply based on the history of the country maybe in the past 100 or so years. Truely a reason to hate your ancestors? Not really. Where I come from (Michigan), we were overran by the French and the British long before Americans showed up, hell the Indians before that. It was the French who built Detroit and Mackinac (Mak-in-aw for those of you not from around here...).

It is the attitude that probably ruins them for Americans. That and their distaste for bathing, as well. I'm sure that they think the same of us, however we don't care.

I must admit that for a time I would tell people that I was Australian in place of my French heritage because of how much I hated that country. Things aren't as bad now, however, I can't say that I love my French origins, no matter how important they may be.
 
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