NEw Worlders, whose family has been here longest?

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by reds4ever


Oh well then I recant. You are desperate. Touched a nerve have I?

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?

I have no idea what you're talking about.
I just thought you hadn't noticed.

[KrazyHorse]

Originally posted by Lul Thyme


I have no idea what you're talking about.
I just thought you hadn't noticed.

I think he doesn't understand that for French-Canadians especially the move to the New World happened overwhelmingly in the early stages of New World colonisation since after 1760 France had been stripped of most of its meaningful North American possessions...

[KrazyHorse]

IOW a Québecois who tells you that his ancestors moved to the New World in 1860 is probably lying. One who tells you that they moved here in 1620 probably isn't.

[Joseph]

My Father side through his Father etc, 1634. We have our own web site. England to Boston.

Through his Mother, well her Grand Mother on her Mother side was Cherokee, so I guess thounsands of years, who knows.

My Mother side through her Father, prior to 1800, because my GG Grand Father and his wife left New York in 1830 to sail to LA Ca. Irish

Through her Mother side 1850 or so. My Grand Mother oldest Brother was born in 1856 in SF, Ca. Irish

[Drake Tungsten]

Originally posted by notyoueither
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.

I also noticed that those of us with English ancestry don't seem to be doing much to call attention to it. Understandable really, as it's certainly not something to be proud of...

[KrazyHorse]

I'm proud to say that I have no English blood whatsoever.

[Drake Tungsten]

Lucky bastard...

[Asher]

And it shows; even your eyes are defective.

[KrazyHorse]

I like them that way

[Dinner]

Originally posted by Lazarus and the Gimp
These threads are generally hilarious. Americans can be such desperate snobs about their ancestries.

Yes, I have been so snobby as to explain that the furthest I can trace my family back is to peasant farmers in France.

[Seeker]

You don't understand...in the modern britain the only acceptable heritage to have are nameless sheep shaggers and coal miners, who had no personal names, and constantly wore those Chairman Mao workers' caps.

Tracing your family to farmers, shopkeepers or anyone literate is an offence, since these people obviously were snobs.

Even those peasants from 'Monty Python' who beat mud with sticks all day are far too effete and removed from the concerns of the Real Common People.

In fact, real modern citizens have absolutely no distinctions or interesting history and sprung fully-formed from the head of Zeus in about 1975 or whenever the modern era began.

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[Ecthy]

Nazi jokes from Brits anticipated in 3... 2...

Seeker, there's something misanthropic about that guy which will not be understood by human minds...

Doing research on your ancestors

[lord of the mark]

first arrival in new world, that would be my grandmothers father, who was born apparently in Lithuania, spent a few years in the north of England, and arrived in Philadelphia sometime in the 1880's.


Farthest I can directly trace is about a generation before that. Cloth merchants in Lithuania, a cobbler from Minsk, a tavern keeper in Galicia, and workers in Lublin, I think.

Now QOTM's family has a family tradition that they are descended from Rashi, the 13th century French bible scholar and Talmud commentator (given that Rashi had numerous grandchildren, and that having high status, they probably had numerous descendants, and the small size of the ashkenazic Jewish population circa 1400, this is not all that implausible) Now IIUC its a more widely held tradition that Rashi was a remote descendant of the Davidic line. Ergo, QOTM and POTM can trace back to 1000 BCE.

[Bugs ****ing Bunny]

Re: Nazi jokes from Brits anticipated in 3... 2...

Originally posted by Ecthy
Doing research on your ancestors

Were Simon Wiesenthal's archives helpful?

[Lul Thyme]

Originally posted by KrazyHorse
IOW a Québecois who tells you that his ancestors moved to the New World in 1860 is probably lying. One who tells you that they moved here in 1620 probably isn't.

Even in the light of this I can't understand his comment...
Whatever