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Do we need a separate fucking thread for all you jagoffs to discuss your family lineage? Especially you Scotsmen. Mother of God. For Christ's sake, people...no one gives a shit if your great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather fought beside William Wallace...

AZGrizFan wrote:Do we need a separate **** thread for all you jagoffs to discuss your family lineage? Especially you Scotsmen. Mother of God. For Christ's sake, people...no one gives a **** if your great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather fought beside William Wallace...

That would be cool if some one's ancestor did fight beside Billy Wallace.

AZGrizFan wrote:Do we need a separate fucking thread for all you jagoffs to discuss your family lineage? Especially you Scotsmen. Mother of God. For Christ's sake, people...no one gives a shit if your great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather fought beside William Wallace...

You hate us, cause you ain't us.

I don't really care about my lineage. I'm just glad my ancestors were smart enough to leave and come to the land of opportunity to have a better life for them and their descendants.

Six degrees of Millard Fillmore.

Ivytalk wrote:Six degrees of Millard Fillmore.

I love his comic strip.


He was a Know-Nothing, right?

Ibanez wrote:

Ivytalk wrote:Six degrees of Millard Fillmore.

I love his comic strip.


He was a Know-Nothing, right?

You must be confusing him with duncedawg.

Ibanez wrote:

AZGrizFan wrote:Do we need a separate fucking thread for all you jagoffs to discuss your family lineage? Especially you Scotsmen. Mother of God. For Christ's sake, people...no one gives a shit if your great great great great great great great great great great great great great grandfather fought beside William Wallace...

You hate us, cause you ain't us.

Oh, but I am. You have NO idea....

I'm Irish. Fuck you!

OL FU wrote:I'm Irish. Fuck you!

Whatever kuksuger, I'm Norwegian.

kalm wrote:

OL FU wrote:I'm Irish. **** you!

Whatever kuksuger, I'm Norwegian.

Fitting. Part of the slaughtering horde

Lineage matters less the further you go back. I know based on y-DNA that my patrilineal line is Saxon/Angle. I don't know my father's line back past the 5th generation (past 1760), and my grandfather discouraged digging for it because he was certain the Pages were all horse thieves and serfs before that.

My Gunn ancestors, through my grandmother were more interesting. Clan Gunn has a storied history in North America as much as in Scotland. My 4x great grandfather was Starling Gunn, and a fusilier in the Continental Army. He was at the siege of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He later moved to Caswell County NC where he took up tobacco farming, and also brought the first Methodist circuit riders to Caswell County. I think it is cool to be able to know things like that.

Thanks for creating this AZ. Now I know where to avoid.

I'm Irish/German/Russian. I have no idea what that means, but it sure explains alot of another part of my life.

Mick Polack here, if anyone was interested.

Heinz 57. Irish, English, Cherokee, among others.

My sons got all that plus German and Portugese from the ex.

Ivytalk wrote:

Ibanez wrote:
I love his comic strip.


He was a Know-Nothing, right?

You must be confusing him with duncedawg.

My mistake.

My 25% Swedish line goes back to 2 toddlers found by a stream after a battle. Ancestors of the Swedish Bikini team took them in and nurtured them to adulthood. Then they move to Minnesota.

Spoiler: show

That was before the invention of the bikini

CID1990 wrote:Lineage matters less the further you go back. I know based on y-DNA that my patrilineal line is Saxon/Angle. I don't know my father's line back past the 5th generation (past 1760), and my grandfather discouraged digging for it because he was certain the Pages were all horse thieves and serfs before that.

My Gunn ancestors, through my grandmother were more interesting. Clan Gunn has a storied history in North America as much as in Scotland. My 4x great grandfather was Starling Gunn, and a fusilier in the Continental Army. He was at the siege of Yorktown and witnessed the surrender of Lord Cornwallis. He later moved to Caswell County NC where he took up tobacco farming, and also brought the first Methodist circuit riders to Caswell County. I think it is cool to be able to know things like that.

It's interesting to know stuff like that. I have an Uncle that joined the Union Army in the Spring of 1859. He was Calvary, fought all the way through Gettysburg and then went AWOL. He was found and returned to his unit. He finished out the war and then returned to Hell's Kitchen and did was every Irishman in NYC does: Becomes a cop.

We really didn't know much about our heritage until my father started the research. Everyone thought we were like 90% of the Irish and came during the potato blight. My father, who was from California and was stationed in and moved to South Carolina during WWII, discovered that his first American ancestor landed in 1760 in Charleston

OL FU wrote:We really didn't know much about our heritage until my father started the research. Everyone thought we were like 90% of the Irish and came during the potato blight. My father, who was from California and was stationed in and moved to South Carolina during WWII, discovered that his first American ancestor landed in 1760 in Charleston

Well that narrows it down.

German/Scotch/English mainly, with a little Scotch-Irish and Dutch thrown in.

I had a cousin that did some research - first ancestor came to Massachusetts in the late 1620's. Another branch a very distant cousin traced back to 1200's England. Last of my ancestors came over in the 1850's.

I can also trace direct lineage from a Hessian mercenary who came over in 1775, fought for the British, then stayed. My mom's side were among the first to settle in Marietta, Ohio.

I know I had a great, great...grandpa who fought in the Civil War...on the good side.

Dad's family were all from Iowasome. Des Moines area.

Maternal grandpa was born in Fergus Falls, MN. Grandma in Minot, ND. They moved west via Havre, MT (Grandpa was a rum runner) and Saskatchewan.

Upper Midwest Norse and germanics to Montana, Idaho, and the PNW is a very common story.

kalm wrote:I know I had a great, great...grandpa who fought in the Civil War...on the good side.

Dad's family were all from Iowasome. Des Moines area.

Maternal grandpa was born in Fergus Falls, MN. Grandma in Minot, ND. They moved west via Havre, MT (Grandpa was a rum runner) and Saskatchewan.

Upper Midwest Norse and germanics to Montana, Idaho, and the PNW is a very common story.

The germanics on my dad's side originally went to Alberta before settling in the Great Falls area...so I guess I really am a Montanadian.

The family on my dads side came here from France in the 1920's (was easy to find documentation)
My Moms side apparently arrived in Portland Oregon around 1900 (we can't figure out how they got there)

My parents met in Portland...
Sh!t got real

But I was born in Washington DC where my dad was stationed in the mid-1960's

dbackjon wrote:Last of my ancestors came over in the 1850's.

First of my ancestors came over in the 1860's. Mostly to the Red River Valley in Minnesota and North Dakota. Primary route was thru Canada and not Ellis Island.