So, what's everyone's ancestry?
Oct 14th 2013, 10:05 am
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Oct 14th 2013, 2:25 pm
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
Me: completely English
Hubby: completely English
Our children: slightly more interesting
born in Canada to British, then Canadian dual citizen parents.
Hubby: completely English
Our children: slightly more interesting
born in Canada to British, then Canadian dual citizen parents.
Oct 14th 2013, 2:29 pm
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
Mothers side:
English (though cannot research back very far)
Fathers side:
English - Essex roof thatchers going back to 1600s. No evidence of stealing loaves but seemed to have been quite poor.
Oct 14th 2013, 8:15 pm
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
Think they traced my mothers side back to some woman that got into trouble with apples.....
Oct 14th 2013, 8:25 pm
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
Pretty much all Anglo-Scot. I'm 4th generation English on my dad's side and 4/4 grandparents have Scottish ancestry. 
That said, we may have German way back on my dad's mam's side. She had a relative called Samuel Major but his original name of Ishmael. My dad also always said that the name "Major" was originally the German name "Mauer" and that it was Anglicised.
Secondly, there's also possibly some Spanish on my dad's side, again, way back though. Stemming from a photo of a relative wearing traditional Spanish clothing.
That said, we may have German way back on my dad's mam's side. She had a relative called Samuel Major but his original name of Ishmael. My dad also always said that the name "Major" was originally the German name "Mauer" and that it was Anglicised.
Secondly, there's also possibly some Spanish on my dad's side, again, way back though. Stemming from a photo of a relative wearing traditional Spanish clothing.
Oct 14th 2013, 9:35 pm
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Oct 15th 2013, 10:08 am
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Oct 15th 2013, 7:53 pm
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
I'm as Scottish and Scottish can be...
Mothers side traced back to before 1500's and descendent of Robert the Bruce
Fathers side - Still Scottish as far back as I can go
Mothers side traced back to before 1500's and descendent of Robert the Bruce
Fathers side - Still Scottish as far back as I can go
Oct 16th 2013, 6:44 am
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
A people who originated as small group of African wanderers, groups who hunted large animals with stone spear points and drew decorative depictions of animals in caves using their fingers to pass time at night. How they barely eked out a path to survival together, tenuously clinging on over the precipice of extinction for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years.
It must have seemed as if things would never change but for a few, driven perhaps by a hunger and perhaps by wanderlust and an inquisitive nature moved onwards out of Africa, across Eurasia and Australasia and to the Americas.
When we met again we did not immediately recognise one another as brothers. It has taken us centuries of suffering, denial, delusion and our combined intellectual effort to conclude we were actually of the same seed.
So in a way I think it more noble to consider ourselves foremost as those African wanderers, still wandering the world and beyond looking for that...imperceptible something
.
Oct 16th 2013, 6:47 am
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
I'll go with that C.
Oct 16th 2013, 1:46 pm
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
Likewise.
Oct 16th 2013, 9:59 pm
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
Kind of amazing though isn't it BEVS?
A people who originated as small group of African wanderers, groups who hunted large animals with stone spear points and drew decorative depictions of animals in caves using their fingers to pass time at night. How they barely eked out a path to survival together, tenuously clinging on over the precipice of extinction for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years.
It must have seemed as if things would never change but for a few, driven perhaps by a hunger and perhaps by wanderlust and an inquisitive nature moved onwards out of Africa, across Eurasia and Australasia and to the Americas.
When we met again we did not immediately recognise one another as brothers. It has taken us centuries of suffering, denial, delusion and our combined intellectual effort to conclude we were actually of the same seed.
So in a way I think it more noble to consider ourselves foremost as those African wanderers, still wandering the world and beyond looking for that...imperceptible something.
A people who originated as small group of African wanderers, groups who hunted large animals with stone spear points and drew decorative depictions of animals in caves using their fingers to pass time at night. How they barely eked out a path to survival together, tenuously clinging on over the precipice of extinction for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years.
It must have seemed as if things would never change but for a few, driven perhaps by a hunger and perhaps by wanderlust and an inquisitive nature moved onwards out of Africa, across Eurasia and Australasia and to the Americas.
When we met again we did not immediately recognise one another as brothers. It has taken us centuries of suffering, denial, delusion and our combined intellectual effort to conclude we were actually of the same seed.
So in a way I think it more noble to consider ourselves foremost as those African wanderers, still wandering the world and beyond looking for that...imperceptible something
.I carry their DNA
We are representatives of a long line of people
And we carried them around this long line of people
That goes back to the beginning of time
And when we meet - they meet other lines of people
And we bring together the lines of humanity."
Oct 17th 2013, 12:05 am
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Re: So, what's everyone's ancestry?
Kind of amazing though isn't it BEVS?
A people who originated as small group of African wanderers, groups who hunted large animals with stone spear points and drew decorative depictions of animals in caves using their fingers to pass time at night. How they barely eked out a path to survival together, tenuously clinging on over the precipice of extinction for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years.
It must have seemed as if things would never change but for a few, driven perhaps by a hunger and perhaps by wanderlust and an inquisitive nature moved onwards out of Africa, across Eurasia and Australasia and to the Americas.
When we met again we did not immediately recognise one another as brothers. It has taken us centuries of suffering, denial, delusion and our combined intellectual effort to conclude we were actually of the same seed.
So in a way I think it more noble to consider ourselves foremost as those African wanderers, still wandering the world and beyond looking for that...imperceptible something.
A people who originated as small group of African wanderers, groups who hunted large animals with stone spear points and drew decorative depictions of animals in caves using their fingers to pass time at night. How they barely eked out a path to survival together, tenuously clinging on over the precipice of extinction for hundreds, thousands, tens of thousands of years.
It must have seemed as if things would never change but for a few, driven perhaps by a hunger and perhaps by wanderlust and an inquisitive nature moved onwards out of Africa, across Eurasia and Australasia and to the Americas.
When we met again we did not immediately recognise one another as brothers. It has taken us centuries of suffering, denial, delusion and our combined intellectual effort to conclude we were actually of the same seed.
So in a way I think it more noble to consider ourselves foremost as those African wanderers, still wandering the world and beyond looking for that...imperceptible something
.