StillGotIt said:

smoothcriminal12 said:

That's true. Do you think it would work for Jamaica though?

Jamaican or African American--same ship, different stops

There you go.

KidaDynamite said:

StillGotIt said:

Jamaican or African American--same ship, different stops

There you go.

I almost said the same thing. Jamaican is not an ethnicity.

My surname is Lust. And it's not as exciting as one would hope!

lust said:

My surname is Lust. And it's not as exciting as one would hope!

r u implying it should b Lustre???

ThisOne said:

No, my friends call me Lusty though. It can get odd when they yell out to me across a bar of testosterone pumped dudes "hey Lusty, do you want another beer?" tens to give the wrong idea.

All that being said. It fucking suits me!

lust said:

ThisOne said:

r u implying it should b Lustre???

No, my friends call me Lusty though. It can get odd when they yell out to me across a bar of testosterone pumped dudes "hey Lusty, do you want another beer?" tens to give the wrong idea. All that being said. It fucking suits me!

so many things rhym with Lusty!!! esp when drinking !!!!!

Timmy84 said:

KidaDynamite said:

There you go.

I almost said the same thing. Jamaican is not an ethnicity.

I was talking about the way of tracking in Jamaica and whether the methods would be the same...

smoothcriminal12 said:

Timmy84 said:

I almost said the same thing. Jamaican is not an ethnicity.

I was talking about the way of tracking in Jamaica and whether the methods would be the same...

They probably don't.

My family has been more or less purely Swedish for many generations so Sweden is where my name is from too. Apparently it means "holy island".

Spinlight said:

itsnotallover said:

My Surname comes from the Anglo Saxon term for "Town" and the old English term for "Hill".

My Ancestors lived in a on a Hill in a small town.

At the same time, many of my surname ancestory fought in the American Civil War although we are initially English and there is a Well known Man who was a Slave and helped bring about the abolishment of Slavery. His first name was James and I would love to see anyone figure my surname out from that lot

Are you Winston Churchill?

lol no. That was random !!

James is mentioned briefly here:

http://www.spartacus.scho...ington.htm

The term "Penig" is Anglo Saxon for Hill and so is the term "Ton" which meant Village / Town.

It derived from Lancashire in England, where there are many references to the name - Pennington Flash, Pennington Moors and the Pennington Manor.

Historical documents show that many Pennington's moved to the US and there are many recordings of that name whom fought in the Civil War. I haven't found out much more about my Surname as it is a very long journey and as so many Historical Documents have been lost over time, it is very hard to find leads to people and families etc.

It would be nice to think that I may have ancestors in the US who probably don't even know we are related, well, it would be nice to know if I have relations anywhere outside England on my English side. I know of my ancestors on my Mothers side as they are all Germanic.

I might add, that I doubt I am related to James who is mentioned above. I hope I am not, as even though he played a part in the abolishment of Slavery, in order for him to have that surname, he would have had to be a slave to that surname if that makes sense? As many Slaves where given their "Masters" surname if I recall correctly.

My surname tells me absolutely nothing...my family's last name was given to us

It's real awkward going thru this thread and all of the African-Anericans and Carribeans not able to give a direct answer.....SMDH

uPtoWnNY said:

I did the cotton swab at AncestrybyDNA.com & AfricanAncestry.com. My admixture is 64% Sub-Saharan African, 18% European, 16% Indigenous American & 2% Asian. Paternal ancestry is from Ghana, maternal from Senegal.

As for tracing my 'roots', my problem is I don't know who my maternal grandfather is. My late mother had a stepfather, but she never talked about her biological father. So I'm stuck. I have family out there that I'll never meet.

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WOW................. they can do that. If I had the money, I would love to do that as well.

My surname def comes from Spain. Also, according to the 1930s census, my great grandmother was born in France. But to get a DNA sample would be amazing.

A few years ago,I started to try to find if there were any interesting or famous people in my family. I got on ancestry.com,and they were offering a free trial,so I tried to see how much I could get done in that amount of time. I started with my Mom's side,and asked her if she knew people when a leaf would appear,then did the same with my Dad's. I ended up going to cemetaries with my Dad,because he knew where some of his family were buried,so with notebook in hand,I would go,and write down names,and dates,and then bring them home to input what I had found.

I did'nt get far before the trial expired. It was a little hard to find the information,because there is alot of family that I have never heard of,and neither did my Mom or Dad. I came to the conclusion that it would be easier if I culd have an expert to the research,like on that show "Who Do You Think You Are?",but it would cost a small fortune.

My surname (Johnson)- is English and Scottish

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I looked up my surname a few years back and then again recently. Both surnames come from Spain.

There seems to be MANY with my last name all searching for a connection to their roots like me, but other than a Spanish name with a mountain range in Luzon, Philippines which Spaniards named I am sure, there is not much else to go on.

The Caraballo mountains.... interesting how I ended up poking for info on my family name (mother's side) and ended up half way across the globe. Bet I have Polynesian folks with that last name and descended from the same family line.

My father's side of the family is quite sketchy... my dad was a love child and the only one of his siblings with his last name because my grandma had a married man's baby when she was his maid. The same grandmother later married my mom's cousin so both sides of my family now have the same last name. I have aunts and uncles on BOTH sides of my family with the same name. It is a VERY common name... why do so many Latinos have the same names?

Other than that, I got zip.... I can't get any info before my grandparents.

chocolate1 said:

When I was working at a small private school, the Executive Director got the bright idea to take a "staff building" trip to Ellis Island.

I was called into his office because I had said that I wasn't going. He wanted to know why...

I told him that I wasn't interested in it because I'm pretty sure my ancestors didn't go thru Ellis Island, they were tossed up on the shore.

He didn't press the issue anymore.

Your executive director is either an idiot or he wasn't thinking rationally. Seems to me he would have had the sensibility to understand why you did not want to go and were not interested.

I remember when I was in 9th grade, the history teacher spent about a week talking about the pilgrims all the way to Ellis Island. Of course, we "colored kids" were not included in that history and really did not relate, although our white "massas," whose surnames were given to their slaves, had an altogether different genealogy. That's how my father's family ended up with a French surname. There's even a town in Florida that has our same surname, and no doubt, my father's ancestors were descendants of that white "planter family" that owned several plantations in Florida.