What is the origin/lineage of your family?

My Maternal side of the family were born in Poland and Brazil. My Paternal side of the family originate from Lithuania. Ater World War Two, my grandparents went to live in Brazil for some years. Several of my aunts and uncles, and my half sister and brother were born in Brazil. My siblings have Polish, Brazilian and African genes. I was born in Brooklyn , New York(Shout out to Brooklyn!). I still have to find out more about my family tree. I have some questions about my father's side of the family that need to be answered.

Thanks for your posts. Extremely interesting!

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2nd generation American Swede ~

Irish

Welsh

British

Native American

Scottish

Blend ...

I have the Trees / paperwork / photos ... all that jazz for generations back

around the time of the Cretatious-Tertiary transition.

There's a great deal of unknown in between then and now though.

hungarian

irish

french

moor

native american

black american

sicilian

Primordial swamp.

According to family oral tradition...

My maternal grandparents were African American, both from the area of Macon, Georgia, late 1800s/early 1900s.

My paternal grandmother was African American and Chippewa/Cherokee, from Nashville, Tennessee, early to mid 1800s. My paternal grandfather was Irish, from County Cork, Ireland, early to mid 1800s.

Because my family tended to have children late in life, tracking my genealogy requires that I reach back farther than most for each generation. (My own dad, for example, was born just four months after the Titanic sank and was already 60 when I was born.) This almost immediately takes me into a time where records were murky, and the generation or two just above me had died off before I really got to know them and hear their stories face-to-face. I probably need to go the DNA route for a more accurate accounting.

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Gringo and Rican

My father is Rican but our last name is of French origin. Hell if I know.

My mom had Italian and I believe my great grandmother's ancestors were Russian Jew.

I really should have more detail on all this, but I've never really been interested enough to put the effort into researching.

I'm not having any biological kids so I don't feel pressed to have the info to pass on I guess.

Totally boring. As far as I know only Austrian.

Serious said:

Totally boring. As far as I know only Austrian.

Um... King Rudolf I, Paracelsus, Mozart, Haydn, Ferdinand Porsche!? Austrians aren't boring.

I'm a 5th generation Black woman, living in the US. So I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

Lammastide said:

Serious said:

Totally boring. As far as I know only Austrian.

Um... King Rudolf I, Paracelsus, Mozart, Haydn, Ferdinand Porsche!? Austrians aren't boring.

You forgot The Trapp Family (Sound Of Music), Arnold Schwarzenegger and Adolf Hitler .

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german

native american (sioux)

irish

that's all i know, i would like to know more though, but don't have a great deal of my family history.

Mom and Dad both born in Canada.

Grandparents born in England and France.

Serious said:

Lammastide said:

Um... King Rudolf I, Paracelsus, Mozart, Haydn, Ferdinand Porsche!? Austrians aren't boring.

You forgot The Trapp Family (Sound Of Music), Arnold Schwarzenegger and Adolf Hitler .

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The von Trapps weren't so bad, were they? As for Arnie and Adolf ...well...

Lammastide said:

Serious said:

You forgot The Trapp Family (Sound Of Music), Arnold Schwarzenegger and Adolf Hitler .

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The von Trapps weren't so bad, were they? As for Arnie and Adolf ...well...

Thank you. Yeah compared to the later 2 the Trapp family is okay I guess. Even though I cannot stand that music and never made it to any of the youtube videos of that movie for longer than 1 or 2 minutes . It's really funny that people all over the world seem to know them and here they were never popular ever.

I have no idea and don't care. The only thing I'm proud of is when my grandmother used to get mad at me and say..."You little devil you, you don't wanna mess with me, my grandmother was a full blooded Indian (Native American)". At least it lets me know there's something in me other than just white.

Puerto Rican 100%

so basically, I got a lil' of everything in me.

All my siblings are a different hue, and so are all my cousins.

We run the gammut.

Nappy heads, loose curls, blondes, straight and black... native looking (my mom) to Polynesian-ish (grandma on my dad's side... but she has light gray-blue eyes and tight nappy hair).

Everyone was born in PR except my great grandmother on my dad's side that is reportedly born in the USA in the 1930's. I was told she spoke Spanish, maybe one of the first New Yorkericans. Who knows?

Serious said:

Lammastide said:

The von Trapps weren't so bad, were they? As for Arnie and Adolf ...well...

Thank you. Yeah compared to the later 2 the Trapp family is okay I guess. Even though I cannot stand that music and never made it to any of the youtube videos of that movie for longer than 1 or 2 minutes . It's really funny that people all over the world seem to know them and here they were never popular ever.

I think the appeal has mostly to do with Julie Andrews.

Serious said:

Totally boring. As far as I know only Austrian.

That is not boring! Virgo's, typically critical. Do some research. If you believe in reincarnation, then we all had many lives each one a different(race, sex, e.t.c).

Lammastide said:

Serious said:

Thank you. Yeah compared to the later 2 the Trapp family is okay I guess. Even though I cannot stand that music and never made it to any of the youtube videos of that movie for longer than 1 or 2 minutes . It's really funny that people all over the world seem to know them and here they were never popular ever.

I think the appeal has mostly to do with Julie Andrews.

OMG inspired by this thread and our conversation I did some reading on the internet about Hitler's family and found out that his only sister lived pretty close to my house in the 1930s .

Dalia11 said:

Serious said:

Totally boring. As far as I know only Austrian.

That is not boring! Virgo's, typically critical. Do some research. If you believe in reincarnation, then we all had many lives each one a different(race, sex, e.t.c).

@the virgo critical part. Quite on point!

Yeah who knows maybe I had some more diverse background in former lives .

Serious said:

Lammastide said:

I think the appeal has mostly to do with Julie Andrews.

OMG inspired by this thread and our conversation I did some reading on the internet about Hitler's family and found out that his only sister lived pretty close to my house in the 1930s .

Uggh.

If we're playing Six Degrees of Adolf Hilter, I used to work around the corner from the home of the accused Ivan the Terrible, former SS guard at Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. He got deported from Cleveland back to Germany in 2009.

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My father’s side is all Finnish. My dad’s parents even attended church services that were partly in Finnish. My great great (or so) grandfather settled the town of Floodwood, Minnesota. A very small town in the northern part. My grandfather was a logger and only attended school through 6^th grade. I don’t know when he left to move to “the cities” but my dad grew up in north Minneapolis - totally a city boy.

My mother’s side is all German. My mom’s parents spoke some German, but not fluently still, at least not as far as I remember. My mom was born in Iowa but they moved up to rural central Minnesota when she was very young. She went to school in a one-room school house and their first telephone was a party line where several households shared the same line and there were no numbers on the phone, it was the duration and pattern of the ring you got (you could totally listen in on your neighbors too). Their ring was two shorts and one long, or something like that.

That’s about all I know.

Lammastide said:

Serious said:

OMG inspired by this thread and our conversation I did some reading on the internet about Hitler's family and found out that his only sister lived pretty close to my house in the 1930s .

Uggh.

If we're playing Six Degrees of Adolf Hilter, I used to work around the corner from the home of the accused Ivan the Terrible, former SS guard at Treblinka extermination camp in Poland. He got deported from Cleveland back to Germany in 2009.

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Wow that's pretty disturbing too .

I guess it will feel really strange for me from now on to pass that house in the future .

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

I'm a 5th generation Black woman, living in the US. So I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

Would you ever do the DNA tracing thing?

Lammastide said:

According to family oral tradition...

My maternal grandparents were African American, both from the area of Macon, Georgia, late 1800s/early 1900s.

My paternal grandmother was African American and Chippewa/Cherokee, from Nashville, Tennessee, early to mid 1800s. My paternal grandfather was Irish, from County Cork, Ireland, early to mid 1800s.

Because my family tended to have children late in life, tracking my genealogy requires that I reach back farther than most for each generation. (My own dad, for example, was born just four months after the Titanic sank and was already 60 when I was born.) This almost immediately takes me into a time where records were murky, and the generation or two just above me had died off before I really got to know them and hear their stories face-to-face. I probably need to go the DNA route for a more accurate accounting.

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My dad was born when Austria was still the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He was 52 when I was born. My sister and all my cousins from my dad's side are way older than I am.

Lammastide said:

HatrinaHaterwitz said:

I'm a 5th generation Black woman, living in the US. So I honestly don't know the answer to that question.

Would you ever do the DNA tracing thing?

If it was cheaper I'd love my boyfriend to have it done.

Serious said:

Lammastide said:

According to family oral tradition...

My maternal grandparents were African American, both from the area of Macon, Georgia, late 1800s/early 1900s.

My paternal grandmother was African American and Chippewa/Cherokee, from Nashville, Tennessee, early to mid 1800s. My paternal grandfather was Irish, from County Cork, Ireland, early to mid 1800s.

Because my family tended to have children late in life, tracking my genealogy requires that I reach back farther than most for each generation. (My own dad, for example, was born just four months after the Titanic sank and was already 60 when I was born.) This almost immediately takes me into a time where records were murky, and the generation or two just above me had died off before I really got to know them and hear their stories face-to-face. I probably need to go the DNA route for a more accurate accounting.

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My dad was born when Austria was still the Austro-Hungarian monarchy. He was 52 when I was born. My sister and all my cousins from my dad's side are way older than I am.

That sounds so impressive.

Amazing the stamina they had, eh? And my dad was 67 when my brother was born!

I'm 38 and already I feel like an old man.