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Originally posted by reds4ever
And into a land of 2 month summers and 10 month winters....? Yeah, good move!
And into a land of 2 month summers and 10 month winters....? Yeah, good move!
And no soccer riots or tabloid culture!
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It's been 19-20C here recently.
And no soccer riots or tabloid culture!
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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Originally posted by Asher
And no soccer riots or tabloid culture!
Not having those are minus points.....
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It's going down to -5 here tonight.Originally posted by Asher
It's been 19-20C here recently.
And no soccer riots or tabloid culture!
It snowed yesterday.12-17-10 Mohamed Bouazizi NEVER FORGET
Stadtluft Macht Frei
Killing it is the new killing it
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The first member of my family to reach the New World crossed the Atlantic on the Sarah Constance."I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!Comment
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Native ancestry
I think the first white folks were part of the Jamestown colony, but I don't know when.Christianity: The belief that a cosmic Jewish Zombie who was his own father can make you live forever if you symbolically eat his flesh and telepathically tell him you accept him as your master, so he can remove an evil force from your soul that is present in humanity because a rib-woman was convinced by a talking snake to eat from a magical tree...Comment
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Is genealogy a pastime in Europe?These threads are generally hilarious. Americans can be such desperate snobs about their ancestries.
I imagine it's either very easy (you already have the family crest, history back to feudal times, etc) or impossible (your folks were poor or refugees at any point in the last 1000 years).meet the new boss, same as the old bossComment
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Great grandfather Andrei (changed to Andrew when he got here) on Dad's side came from Bergen, Norway in 1901.
Mom's great granfather came from northern Germany, Holstein probably. Don't know when, though.Comment
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Damn you guys' families got to America early, nobody I'm related to got to the New World before 1880...Stop Quoting BenComment
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the most recent immigrants (great great grandparents?)
came from Ukraine (I think)
they were 13 when they came over, and married
JMJon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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Married at 13?Originally posted by Jon Miller
they were 13 when they came over, and married
JM
"The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
Ben Kenobi: "That means I'm doing something right. "Comment
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yeah, maybe one was 14
JMJon Miller-
I AM.CANADIAN
GENERATION 35: The first time you see this, copy it into your sig on any forum and add 1 to the generation. Social experiment.Comment
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Read the post two above from you slowly.Originally posted by reds4ever
Who mentioned "desperation"? Me thinks you doth protest too much....
Its only one sentence or so long you should be ok.Comment
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Now, now, cousins.
Surely a man from the land of Eton must have tongue firmly in cheek when posting on the subject of desperate snobs and ancestry as applied to other people.Last edited by notyoueither; November 25, 2005, 00:15.(\__/)
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Oh well then I recant. You are desperate. Touched a nerve have I?Originally posted by Lul Thyme
Read the post two above from you slowly.
Its only one sentence or so long you should be ok.
Let me guess your "heritage'.....
A Dutchman on your Fathers side founded Toronto in 1875, abolished slavery and then met a Swedish women who's ancestors had discovered Madagasgar?
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My dad's side goes back to a Jewish draft-dogder in Russia around the turn of the century
My mom's side is some mix of English and Irish AFAIK.Originally posted by KrazyHorse
My father's side is assorted Scottish and Irish trash that came over in the mid- to late nineteenth century.Comment
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