I've searched a couple different keywords and couldn't find a a similar thread on the forums. So, out of curiosity...Do you know your anscestry? If so, please share. I know most of mine, and can guess(from old pictures) wildly at the rest. My dad's mom's dad was an Irvine from Scotland. My dad's mom's mom's dad was Finnish. My dad's mom's mom's mom was Irish. My dad's dad's mom was Irish. My dad's dad's dad was Magyar; he anglicised my last name to Tursack. My mom's dad probably(guessing from an old family portrait) had some Pennsylvanian Dutch somewhere in his family, and claims to be part Miami Amerindian. My mom's mom and her siblings all have a fairly dark brown complexion; that could be anything. My mom says that she(my grandma) has a significant amount of Cherokee in her blood, which I'm somewhat doubtful of, but I don't have any better guesses. So... would anyone else like to share hwat parts of their anscestry they know?

100% Russian all they way as I as know. Maybe a bit chinese, kazakh blood, ukranian, belarus.

My mothers bloodline is traced to Ireland, (grandpa Bones)and american indian,Grandmother was chauktau, and my fathers bloodline from france. But Im American, ....a mutt in a mutt nation.

3/4 Latvian, 1/4 Polish, with a bit of German blood some 4 generations down.

Do you know your anscestry? If so, please share.
me mudder was german, me fadder was american.

french from my mothers side with some serbian in it, considering a birth anomaly their chould also be some mongolian in it. My father's side spiraled from germany to french to belgium

How far back do you want to go? Scots German French Chaco-Anasazi Spanish Moor. That's what I can recall before breakfast.

German, Irish, English, French, Swedish, and Finnish. I may also have Scottish in me from my father's mother, but I am not sure.

Swedish, Dutch and a dash of English.

100% Russian all they way as I as know. Maybe a bit chinese, kazakh blood, ukranian, belarus.

i have a mixed background but not too long ago i found out part of my ancestory comes from russia 2, i have southern european blood i am a super mongrol with many different blood lines, my great grandfather on my mothers side changed the family name, it was renovich, i didnt know this until recently, i have been doing reaserch on the name,


peace,

this is a very interesting thread :).


is there anywhere you can go to get a spit sample taken and your dna background origin checked or something?. blood wouldent be neeeded would it?, just DNA from spit should do right?.



peace.

this is a very interesting thread :).


is there anywhere you can go to get a spit sample taken and your dna background origin checked or something?. blood wouldent be neeeded would it?, just DNA from spit should do right?.



peace.National Geographic offers a cheek swab sampling of DNA for $200 (US) Results are in within 6 weeks. Oprah did it and discovered she's of Liberian ancestry, not South African.

Spanish (50%), Swedish (40%), and Norwegian(10%).

Those DNA tests they do for the public nail down basic ethnic groups and show you on a map where those people lived during various time periods in general.

National Geographic offers a cheek swab sampling of DNA for $200 (US) Results are in within 6 weeks. Oprah did it and discovered she's of Liberian ancestry, not South African.

thanks :), i want to get that done for me and my wife, she is 100% St lucian, probably derived from the carib people, from south america, or some other native tribe fromt he islands i was reading up on carib and other caribbean native people the other day but i forgot most of it.


i would like to see the results i will google that national geog thing now thanks a lot,

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thanks :), i want to get that done for me and my wife, she is 100% St lucian, probably derived from the carib people, from south america, or some other native tribe fromt he islands i was reading up on carib and other caribbean native people the other day but i forgot most of it.


i would like to see the results i will google that national geog thing now thanks a lot,

peace.Carib! Now that is an exotic ancestry. Forget pasty Sweden! I wish I had a link for you but you'll find it. Someone here at SF did it but I can't recall who.
I'd like to do it as well. I just know my great grandparents on my Mother's side were born in Sweden and moved here in 1881. My Dad's side is the Dutch & English, but his family has been in the US since the 1760's so it's harder to look back further than that.

These people are believed to have left the Orinoco rainforests of Venezuela in South America to settle in the Caribbean. Over the century leading up to Christopher Columbus's arrival in the Caribbean archipelago in 1492, the Caribs are believed to have displaced the Maipurean-speaking Igneri people from the southern Lesser Antilles. Their legends (as recorded by Fr. Breton in the 17th century) say that they killed (and ate) all the Igneri men and took their women as wives. Anthropologists are divided as to how true that was, but the fact that the Island Carib women spoke a Maipurean language gives credence to this idea. The islands also raided and traded with the Eastern Taíno of the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico. The Caribs were the source of the gold which Columbus found in the possession of the Taíno; gold was not smelted by any of the insular Amerindians, but rather was obtained by trade from the mainland. The Caribs were skilled boatbuilders and sailors, and seem to have owed their dominance in the Caribbean basin to their mastery of the arts of war.

The Caribs were themselves displaced by the Europeans, and were eventually all but exterminated during the colonial period. However they were able to retain some islands, such as Dominica, Saint Vincent, Saint Lucia, and Trinidad. The Black Caribs (Garifuna) of St. Vincent who had mixed with marooned black slaves from a 1675 shipwreck were deported in 1795 to Roatan Island, off Honduras, where their descendants, the Garífuna, still live today. The British saw the less mixed "Yellow Caribs" as less hostile, and allowed them to remain in St. Vincent. Carib resistance delayed the settlement of Dominica by Europeans, and the Carib communities that remained in St. Vincent and Dominica retained a degree of autonomy well into the 19th century. The last known speakers of Island Carib died in the 1920s. The number of Caribs in Dominica today is about 3,000; there are several hundred ethnic Caribs in Trinidad.

Let's see, I'm Irish, and my father's family have been sitting on this rock for 15,000 years, FACT. Although sometimes they've been sitting on some rocks just off the coast of this rock, but it still counts. My mother's family line is a little more varied. Mostly Irish, but one or two English, and a bit of Spanish too. Well, I did say a little more varied.

Seriously, though, my family's all Irish, but it's interesting. My great-great-uncle was one of three people who risked his life to bring in the guns for Irish independence, I'm related to two Miss Irelands, and my grandfather was one of the most intelligent men in the country in his day.

I actually get a lot of respect around here because of my heritage. My name is one of the most ancient Gaelic names there is.

Scottish for at least 8 generations, I think. Beyond that I have no idea. Possibly part Irish and further back there could have been some Roman blood. I have a straight nose and olive skin. :D

Chi - Interesting about the Caribs there. I was in Dominica a couple of years ago and considered going to some Carib village place, but it seemed a bit fake - being a tourist place. Been in the Orinoco Rainforests as well as it happens, but I think I only saw Indians. Anyway, she sounds nice and exotic :D

on my fathers side, entirely english(born in new zealand since 1860). i know my maternal grandmother emigrated from england to canada, but im not sure about my grandfathers heritage.

Finnish 100%, both sets of grandparents imigrated from Finland.

I had an Great-uncle on my Mother's side that had a family tree traced back several generations.

On my father's side, there's a story that says we were descended from Finnish royalty, but it can't be proven because some of the birth records were destroyed in a Church fire ( and apparently the particular royal family member we are descended was disowned for marrying a commoner). But I take that story with a grain of salt, considering the convenient lack of a way to prove it.

I'm also supposed to be related to a famous(at least in Finland) poet.

Scottish, English mainly.

Touch of Texan (must be why I'm such a bigot), some French.

Basically good genes.

Amusingly, I am actually a direct descendant of King Robert the Bruce. No joke! I have the records.

im half turkish kurd (my father was full blooded), and my mother's family was french, greek, and the tiniest bit english.

My family came to South Africa in the 1820`s. I can trace my ancestory back to about 900AD to Norman blood with the surname Burci. My father was english as well with the surname Berrington. I have no other european blood in my system. Anglo/Norman through and through.

Except, during the 2nd world war, my great grandmother married an Oranje serving in North Africa.

Scottish for at least 8 generations, I think. Beyond that I have no idea. Possibly part Irish and further back there could have been some Roman blood. I have a straight nose and olive skin. :D

Chi - Interesting about the Caribs there. I was in Dominica a couple of years ago and considered going to some Carib village place, but it seemed a bit fake - being a tourist place. Been in the Orinoco Rainforests as well as it happens, but I think I only saw Indians. Anyway, she sounds nice and exotic :D

is the orinoco forest nice? it sounds interesting, hey did you know that most caribbean people dont even know anything about there own origins, i would "guess" around 80-90% of them all think they are of direct african decent, and that all the islanders were brought over on slave ships within the last 500 or so years,

i know a good few were brought over on ships etc and have intergrated and become mixed race, but you can usualy tell the difference the skin tone of the african people brought over are usualy a good few tones darker, the caribs and other indigenous tribal people of the islands are more of a light golden brown colour. and as my wife says "generaly better looking" (that did not come out of my mouth) :)


peace.

oh yeah and about 2 days ago my wife found out she is actualy not 100% st lucian as we previously thought she was, she actualy has a small amount of french blood in her aswell,


im interested to see her ancestory from the national geog test results we are sending off for the equipment over the next few weeks, she placed a bet that i have chinese in me along the line somewhere, not because i look oriental in the slightest, but because of my obsession with the chinese culture and martial arts, but i keep telling her that its because i was brought up around a chinese family from a very very early age. and that i just think its cool.



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im half turkish kurd (my father was full blooded), and my mother's family was french, greek, and the tiniest bit english.That is a sexy combo DI!

Did america ever have a population from south asia? because of my study of sir names of my local neighborhood and expansive seem to reflect proportionally south asian root. Leading me to believe there were migrations of australians that may have made it up north and than to the west making my theory of a specific classified migratory homosapiens existing in the US valid.

My grandfathers name was Iswarlal which translates to the red war. My father was born on 12-3-45 after World War II. My last name translates to people of the stairs. We have moved here to America from an obvious geographcal location of India. My profession is to make a stairway to heaven. My name is Lord Jigar.

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My grandfathers name was Iswarlal which translates to the red war. My father was born on 12-3-45 after World War II. My last name translates to people of the stairs. We have moved here to America from an obvious geographcal location of India. My profession is to make a stairway to heaven. My name is Lord Jigar.

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Oh yeah that is the ciyt of Dahod my dad is from., so that makes us:
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On my father's side, there's a story that says we were descended from Finnish royalty, but it can't be proven because some of the birth records were destroyed in a Church fire ( and apparently the particular royal family member we are descended was disowned for marrying a commoner). But I take that story with a grain of salt, considering the convenient lack of a way to prove it.


Shame that there was never any real Finnish royalty. Unless you were a Swede, Russian or German.

That is a sexy combo DI!

thanks..i think.

my dad was 6' 8" tall...my mom was 5' 2" or so.

im right in the middle.

my dad married a japanese woman, and the kids they had were all taller than me....
ha!

hey you know the national geographic swab test you can take. howcomes you dont get a % of origin report along with the mapping trace across time?

whats the deal with that? how do you get both rolled into 1 or cant you get that? and what is reccomended for me to get. the maternal or the father line?




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i'm black... which means i have some of everything in me. the most dominant genes are always negroid apparently. but my father's father had one full italian parent.. my mom's mom's dad was full Blackfoot Native american... that's all i can really know lol.

hey get the national geog swab test!, im getting mine done soon.

what "black" are you. african, carribean? you could be decended from south american tribes. judging from your picture i would say your not african. you have a nice golden brown tone like my wifes usualy inherited from south american carib tribes or nearby natives.

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errrm and yeah i wasnt giving you a compliment by saying your skin tone was nice. i was just saying its nice because it is. it was just fact stating nothing else.


peace.

.... are we not allowed to get compliments?? or you just didn't want me to take it that way? :) lol thank you anyway.
I want a swab test!

My family came to South Africa in the 1820`s. I can trace my ancestory back to about 900AD to Norman blood with the surname Burci. My father was english as well with the surname Berrington. I have no other european blood in my system. Anglo/Norman through and through.

Except, during the 2nd world war, my great grandmother married an Oranje serving in North Africa.This is fascinating. Awesome.

well... i guess it was a compliment but its also a fact first and foremost. but i cant be giving women compliments im not supposed to. especialy black women who i am most attracted to. my wife would not approve. but i guess i did nothing wrong so it is ok.


i think maybe its because your the type of person i would go for, and i felt uncomfortable at first after i realsied what i said. and now i have just typed quite alot of words trying to explain myself wich is not good.


ok im done.

peace.

is the orinoco forest nice?
I didn't spend much time there, and what time I did wasn't a very 'genuine' experience, if you see what I mean. I was in Margarita on holiday and there was a package type thing to see the Angel Falls, Canaima Nat. Park and some of the Orinoco.

It's an amazing place. Going down the river in a dugout canoe was an awesome experience - the wildlife alone would be worth the trip. We stayed in some ex oil prospector camp at the side of a river, which was cool. There was a newlywed couple staying at the same time and the guy was such a wimp, it was hilarious. A big muscley guy with a skinhead and you could tell he was shitting himself. There were a lot of strange creatures around - these moth type things the size of eggs, you could hear their wings flapping away and it was pretty sore if one flew into your face. At night there was a large selection of toads that sat around on the veranda/walkway bit outside the huts. They showed up pictures of a goat that had been tethered and kept for Christmas, but had fallen prey to an Anaconda (I see there's a thread of a vid of that, but I've avoided it :P). At night we went down river and fished for piranha with bacon fat. It started raining - pouring, like a monsoon. They stopped the boat in the pitch black in the middle of a lake down there - you couldn't see a thing. And then we had a look for crocs. Discovered some snakes right above where I was on the canoe in a tree (I screamed like a little girl, needless to say :D) After that, the bloke took us back to the huts without a light to navigate - quite scary, but he seemed to know what he was doing (I'm alive anyway!)

It was a great experience and surprisingly good seeing as it was a touristy package thing. I'd recommend it if you're ever in Margarita. I'd like to see more of the area independently, or using local guides. I doubt I'd be taking myself down there in a canoe anyway lol.. As for Caribs, I'm not sure if I saw any. There were a few settlements on the river that we passed and some of them did look fairly dark skinned, but whether or not they were Indians or Caribs, I've no idea. I'm sure the guide said, but I've since forgotten.

.... are we not allowed to get compliments?? or you just didn't want me to take it that way? :) lol thank you anyway.
I want a swab test!

I wouldn't say no ;)

Northern English and Spanish!

:bravo: :grumble: Europe. guess where from and i will give you...um nothing. right then.

1/5 vodka, 1/4 gin, and the rest various other alcoholic ingediants.

:bravo: :grumble: Europe. guess where from.
France?

:bravo: :grumble: Europe. guess where from and i will give you...um nothing. right then.

That has to be Albania.

english, scottish, spanish, norman, saxon, norse, roman, scottish celt.

My family lineage has been traced back to 1390 in Germany. One of my ancestors was a professor of and science advisor to Goethe.