Americans: where do your ancestors come from

[Prometeus]

Re: Americans: where do your ancestors come from

Originally posted by orange
I specify Americans only becuase the majority of Europeans trace their family lines to the same nation and even the same area of the nation that they live in now...

Sorry orange to stick in, but my mother's family has not italian origins... we came from Catalunya, Spain. But we're of french origins. Foix, VIII century. A notorious and noble family.

My father's family got genoese origin... they were feudal officers of the famous Malaspina family in XII century Sardinia.

[Fidel]

Originally posted by Boris Godunov
My mom's first ancestor in America came on the Mayflower, Mr. Miles Standish.

Is that a kind of American nobility?

[problem_child]

You Americans really are a mixed bunch huh. In fact, I'm wondering if an American that is one-hundred per-cent anything can really be considered to be a real American! (I kid)

Mongrols the lot of ya... and the superpower to boot

[Richelieu]

Canadian

French 100% on both sides.

On my mother's side we actually traced the family history, back to the first immigrant in "Nouvelle France" in 1654, just a few weeks ago. Originally he was from Normandie.

On my father's side, we don't have as many details. We just know that the name originates in Bretagne.

[Sava]

25 % Serb
25 % Croat
25 % Macedon
25 % Slovak

That was easy

[SlowwHand]

The Hand's are of Irish/Scot ancestory.
The first Hand born in the States was in Virginia, in 1796.
The family kept moving west; going to Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, then Texas.

[Fidel]

Originally posted by Sava
25 % Serb
25 % Croat
25 % Macedon
25 % Slovak

That was easy

so 75 % yugoslav, 25 % slovak?

[General Ludd]

My family roots are...

On my father's side, Scottish.

On my mother's side, Greek and Nova Scotian.

[loinburger]

Mother's side: half french, half danish.

Father's side: french.

There's a bit more thrown in on both sides (there's an Irish great-great grandmother somewhere, and my green eyes certainly didn't come from either the Danes or the French), but that's about the gist of it. "French" includes French-Belgian.

[Sprayber]

Originally posted by SlowwHand
The Hand's are of Irish/Scot ancestory.
The first Hand born in the States was in Virginia, in 1796.
The family kept moving west; going to Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, then Texas.

One state too far Sloww.

Actually that is the exact route that my mom's family took except that most stopped in Arkansas.

[SlowwHand]

This thread was very timely. My cousin-in-law is researching.

[Vesayen]

Mainly poland and turkey.

[SlowwHand]

Paternal Great-grandparents

They were styling.

[Vlad Antlerkov]

1/2 England
1/4 Irish
1/4 French

[rah]

1/2 Italian Mother's side.
1/4 German Father's father.
1/4 Irish Father's mother.

Rumor has it that Ming's the same.

RAH