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Title: Your Roots
Post by: jones on Apr 27, 2010, 11:46 AM
German/American.  

My mother moved to the US from West Germany at 13 and my father was born in the states.  How about you?
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: pawpaw on Apr 27, 2010, 11:55 AM
"I was born a poor black child."

(http://www.fancast.com/blogs/wp-content/post_images/Blog-Steve-Martin-The-Jerk.jpg)

;D

For real though, I'm predominantly Irish and German, with some English, Scottish and Swedish thrown in too. All branches of my family tree have been in the US for at least 4 generations though. I'm an American Mutt.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: mjkoehler on Apr 27, 2010, 12:01 PM
Dad's side is German. Mom's side is English. Hence my love affair with beer. Both sides came over late 1800's.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: joey_rogo on Apr 27, 2010, 12:05 PM
My dad's side of the tree is 100% Polish and my mom's side is a mix of Welsh, Irish, German and a bunch of other stuff.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: capt. scotty on Apr 27, 2010, 01:06 PM
Irish
Polish
German
Armenian
Slovakian
Slovenian
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: vespachick on Apr 27, 2010, 01:08 PM
Mine are brown, with a very occasional grey.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: jones on Apr 27, 2010, 01:20 PM
QuoteMine are brown, with a very occasional grey.

Good one, Vespa! ;D
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: jones on Apr 27, 2010, 01:23 PM
As far as imports are concerned, it looks like Germany has taken an early lead.


(http://static.ashland.edu/academics/studyabroad/images/germany-flag.jpg)
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Ruckus on Apr 27, 2010, 03:07 PM
We gotta bump that who the hell are ya thread.

Half Japanese, half indian.  Born in Japan as an Indian citizen but raised in the states.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: el_chode on Apr 27, 2010, 07:43 PM
Non-guido Italian from New Jersey
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Sassbox on Apr 27, 2010, 07:59 PM
I'm an 8th generation American on my father's side (French and German, both families came to Louisiana in the 1720s) and first generation on my mother's side (Filipino). My father and his brother traced our family back to 1640 and I have a printout of my ancestry that's about 3" thick, in addition to a book about my paternal grandmother's family.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: johnnYYac on Apr 28, 2010, 12:25 AM
johnnYYac is John Yacopucci, spelled Iacopucci in Italy, a derivative of our ancestor, Jacob Pucci.  Mother was Polish (Noska).  I've traced my family through my paternal grandmother to the 1300s in Fife-on-Firth, Scotland.  I had a great great grandfather died when he was severed by a train, across his legs.  Another relative paid someone to take his place in the Union Army during the Civil War.  I'm so proud!
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Paulie_Walnuts on Apr 28, 2010, 04:57 AM
So basically you are all mongrels!  ;)
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: mjkoehler on Apr 28, 2010, 06:59 AM
Yes we are. And that makes the current xenophobia craze in this country all the more stupid.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: AMightyCaporal on Apr 28, 2010, 07:13 AM
Italian (From Dad)
Irish             \
Polish         > (From Mom)
Lithuanian /

Don't know much about my ancestry but one day would like to believe that I am royalty and I have a whole heap of treasure coming my way!  ;)
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Paulie_Walnuts on Apr 28, 2010, 07:37 AM
QuoteYes we are. And that makes the current xenophobia craze in this country all the more stupid.

What craze is that?
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Jaimoe on Apr 28, 2010, 08:14 AM
Quote
QuoteYes we are. And that makes the current xenophobia craze in this country all the more stupid.

What craze is that?

You're kidding, right?
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Paulie_Walnuts on Apr 28, 2010, 09:17 AM
Nope! Craze implies something recent and out of the ordinary. Is that the case?
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Taterbug on Apr 28, 2010, 09:46 AM
German &  Austrian,  No I don't own any Lederhosen.  
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: jones on Apr 28, 2010, 09:51 AM
QuotejohnnYYac is John Yacopucci, spelled Iacopucci in Italy, a derivative of our ancestor, Jacob Pucci.  Mother was Polish (Noska).  I've traced my family through my paternal grandmother to the 1300s in Fife-on-Firth, Scotland.  I had a great great grandfather died when he was severed by a train, across his legs.  Another relative paid someone to take his place in the Union Army during the Civil War.  I'm so proud!

I had someone in my squadron in the USAF with the name Pucci.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: mjkoehler on Apr 28, 2010, 10:06 AM
QuoteNope! Craze implies something recent and out of the ordinary. Is that the case?
Yes. It's worse and has gotten worse the last 8 years and is only going to get worse I'm afraid.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: jones on Apr 28, 2010, 10:12 AM
QuoteGerman &  Austrian,  No I don't own any Lederhosen.  

Does that mean that you have to borrow yours?

This reminds me of das boot that I had when in Greenwich Village when we were up for the NYE show.  Here is a picture that I took while visiting:


(http://i837.photobucket.com/albums/zz298/rowanjones78/lederhosen-1.jpg)


[smiley=beer.gif] :'(



Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: tdb810 on Apr 28, 2010, 10:16 AM
Irish
Sicilian
German

I have been told that both my meatballs and corned beef & cabbage are equally AMAZING ;)  

No German specialties though ;)

And my other roots -- also grey if i don't get touched up every 2 or 3 months.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: mjkoehler on Apr 28, 2010, 10:57 AM
QuoteIrish
Sicilian
German

I have been told that both my meatballs and corned beef & cabbage are equally AMAZING ;)  

No German specialties though ;)

And my other roots -- also grey if i don't get touched up every 2 or 3 months.
I'm coming to your house to eat.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: tdb810 on Apr 28, 2010, 12:21 PM
Quote
QuoteIrish
Sicilian
German

I have been told that both my meatballs and corned beef & cabbage are equally AMAZING ;)  

No German specialties though ;)

And my other roots -- also grey if i don't get touched up every 2 or 3 months.
I'm coming to your house to eat.

:) :) :)
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: pawpaw on Apr 28, 2010, 12:37 PM
QuoteNope! Craze implies something recent and out of the ordinary. Is that the case?

Here's something recent and out of the ordinary: http://www.sacbee.com/2010/04/28/2710704/marcos-breton-new-arizona-immigration.html
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Jaimoe on Apr 28, 2010, 02:42 PM
QuoteNope! Craze implies something recent and out of the ordinary. Is that the case?

Ah, I stand corrected. Perhaps it's a matter of the xenophobia being more high profile and mainstream than its been compared to the past 250 years.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: ALady on Apr 28, 2010, 02:50 PM
1/2 Polish, 1/4 German, 1/4 French.  Or something like that.  We don't know much about my family past 4 or 5 generations back.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: Jaimoe on Apr 28, 2010, 02:53 PM
My late father's side settled in Kingston, Ontario, from England in the latter part of the 1800s (but I hear they were actually closeted Scots). My dad's mother's side goes way back too; they emigrated from England in the late 1800s.

My mom is a first-generation Canadian. Her mother was from Portadown in Northern Ireland (near Belfast) - grandma came over in the early 1920s; my mom's father was an orphaned Scot from Edinburgh who came over when he was 5 with his brother, before 1920 (grandpa settled in Kingston too) and his brother, my great uncle, moved to NYC when he was a teenager. That's right, I have Yankee cousins.

Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: ynwa on May 27, 2010, 01:23 PM
a mix of irish & english mostly, with a little bit of native american

my dad - 1st generation american:
his father was from aghagower, county mayo, ireland.  we still have family there, living on the the property that was the family farm when my grandad was a child.  his roots can be traced back to brian boru - high king of ireland.

his mother was from north shields, borough of north tyneside in northeast england.  oddly, we don't know too much about that side of the family even though my grandparents met, married & lived there for a few years before coming over to america.

my mom - a bit more confusing, and sort of opposite of my dad's:
her father's side has been in america for many generations, supposedly not too far after the mayflower.  his roots are mostly all english but someone in there married a mohawk woman so i've got some native american blood in me.  there supposedly is also relation to an english pirate, peter blood.  arrrg matey!

her mother's side is irish, irish, irish.  her great grandparents came over to america from galway.  even her grandfather's 2nd wife (my grandmother's mother) was of irish descendance.  we still have tons of family over there.
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: DiscoStu65 on May 27, 2010, 02:02 PM
from my mother - 1/4 Italian and 1/4 English

from my father - 1/2 English

so 3/4 English and 1/4 Italian, thankfully I got the good tannin' skin

My great, great grandfather on my mom's side was CSA General Joseph Wheeler.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Wheeler He's actually the only Confederate General burried in Arlington.  The reason for this was he was also the only confederate general who held the same rank in the union army after reconstruction.   There have been a couple of books written about his life and through reading those, I've been able to trace my ancestery back to some of the earliest settlers in Mass in the early 1600's and even further back to Queen Anne Boleyn.  
Title: Re: Your Roots
Post by: doctorinthehouse on May 27, 2010, 06:14 PM
English with a tiny bit of Irish.