Your history, it's meaning to you etc. - How far back can you trace?

[Zebedee]

Been wondering about this topic for a while, where I came from etc and wondered how many other kiwis have been harbouring similar wants to know it.
Not for the sake of "mine is better than yours", but more a sense of curio towards what your ancestors did with their lives, and whether you may share any traits with them.

So anyone up for sharing a little?

I think this goes without saying but I wouldn't post your surname here or anything for the sake of power-leveling.

 

[IV 445]

So anyone up for sharing a little?

I think this goes without saying but I wouldn't post your surname here or anything for the sake of power-leveling.

So you want to know our genealogy basically?

Well my dad’s name was Chrom and my mom’s name was Robin. I don’t have many memories of them

 

[OhGoy]

all i know is that one of my ancestors was a slave owner

 

[Crunchy Leaf]

my great-grandfather wrote a book about trains so i guess autism runs in the family.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

Apparently I come from a long line of smart-asses with an odd sense of humor on my Dad's side. I also apparently inherited "uniquely shaped hip sockets" (my orthopedic's phrasing) from my Dad's side too.

 

[Draza]

Family of kebab and ustase removers.

 

[Nekromantik]

We came from Spain, had blue eyes and strait noses. Then someone came to South America and got with a native girl, and now we have brown eyes and big noses. My grandmother is salty about it and says we need to marry blue eyed people to get it back.

My dad's side won't talk about the creole side.

 

[Sylvie Paula Paula]

I'm a tard from a family with a history of mental illness on my mom's side. The fact I'm a tard makes up a majority of my life and who I am as a person - I was bullied a lot, emotionally manipulated and even kicked out of school because of it.
For proof of my tard behaviour, once I damaged my left eye from looking in the sun for a few minutes (for some reason, only the left one) when I was 7 or 8. Now I can't keep it open in the sunlight, and if I try I can't do it for long periods of time.

Also a crime syndicate called NESTS gave me cool electric powers, so now I'm a super-powered tardlet.

 

[Kari Kamiya]

My family traces back to the Pilgrims from at least my mother's side through her father, and mainly on my dad's (but we found some on Mom's, too) I'm of the bastard line of royalty (King Henry VIII, Tudors), although I have Scottish kings in my lineage. King John of England's also like a great-great-great-number uncle. So that's nice even though there's no money to be had.

It's also possible we got some mental illnesses or a long line of cancer history that run deep in our family, so there's that. Genetics are fun.

 

[Black Waltz]

I come from a family of alcoholics

 

[Zebedee]

Lol I came back an hour later, didn't think this would intrigue. Fine I guess I'll share.

Given the uniqueness of my name I can trace mine quite directly, to several rather interesting events actually however only on my mother's side. As it turns out my her's dates back to 1066 as vikings fighting alongside Hardrada, two centuries later a Temporal Knight popped up during the Alexandrian crusade, otherwise known as the unofficial 10th one where the Templar's had their name tarnished and became known as a bunch of pillaging lunatics. However whether I'm directly related is up for debate, so meh.

After that is a complete blur of farming, butter and wine making until WWII and the battle of Britain. Where the great granddaddy fought in the skies of London against the Hitler's flying party of fun times, the Luftwaffe.

After that we became fucking boring again. Oh and one died on the Titanic when that happened, but that's not really an achievement, more of just being an unlucky sod.

 

[Dirt McGirt]

I always like to hear about people's genealogy so this thread is a nice surprise.

I've been told that I'm generally half Scandinavian (quarter from each side oddly enough) and I have one grandmother who's from Czechoslovakia who may or may not have been an illegitimate child of an Austrian noble. And on the other side I have a grandfather who basically when through life lying about everything about himself and we basically know nothing about him for sure. On that side both of those grandparents were deaf so I grew up around a lot of ASL usage even though I never picked it up.

One thing I always found odd is that my last name seems to be English, the side of my family I get it from is supposed to be Scandinavian. So either they had to change it when they came to America decades ago or they didn't know/hid something years back.

 

[Beth]

This kind of thing fascinates me a great deal, but unfortunately I had no idea how or where to even begin my research...

...Until recently, I found out someone else did my job.

Thanks to my grandmother's cousin, who is a history fag, now I know that in 1661, my ancestor Matt was a master baker and he made the best booze in Germany.

Hilariously enough, I am a baker, but I have never drank in my life...Nor do I plan to. I guess Matt would be sorta proud of me? Lol.

 

[Mr. Poker in the Front Liquor in the Rear]

Full blooded Armenian here.

My Armenian ancestors have lived within Asia Minor/southern Caucasus from the dawn of civilization. We Armenians have been a NATION for around 4,500 and certain aspects of our heritage and culture go back even much further -- to the genesis of the primordial evolution of mankind.When my ancestors were building magnificent cities, formulating monotheism, contemplating the motions of the stars, civilizing barbarians, spreading our technology and arts world wide, the Anglo Saxons were still foraging within the forests of Europe. Do not take that as an insult either to any Anglo Saxons reading this.

 

[Zebedee]

I always like to hear about people's genealogy so this thread is a nice surprise.

I've been told that I'm generally half Scandinavian (quarter from each side oddly enough) and I have one grandmother who's from Czechoslovakia who may or may not have been an illegitimate child of an Austrian noble. And on the other side I have a grandfather who basically when through life lying about everything about himself and we basically know nothing about him for sure. On that side both of those grandparents were deaf so I grew up around a lot of ASL usage even though I never picked it up.

One thing I always found odd is that my last name seems to be English, the side of my family I get it from is supposed to be Scandinavian. So either they had to change it when they came to America decades ago or they didn't know/hid something years back.

Be interesting to see a 23&me from you.

It would be like a historical documentary crossed with an episode of Jeremy Kyle.

"He is... Not the father!"

Full blooded Armenian here.

My Armenian ancestors have lived within Asia Minor/southern Caucasus from the dawn of civilization. We Armenians have been a NATION for around 4,500 and certain aspects of our heritage and culture go back even much further -- to the genesis of the primordial evolution of mankind.When my ancestors were building magnificent cities, formulating monotheism, contemplating the motions of the stars, civilizing barbarians, spreading our technology and arts world wide, the Anglo Saxons were still foraging within the forests of Europe. Do not take that as an insult either to any Anglo Saxons reading this.

Cyprus has you beat, pretty sure theirs dates back several thousand years before that. Though no one knows much about them anymore sadly.

 

[Army Burger]

My family's history extends back many centuries with ancestors in England, Germany & Ireland. I'm also related to one of my country's most famous war heroes, but that's about it in terms of anything noteworthy.

 

[Rand /pol/]

My great great grandfather had a bunch of Concubines.

 

[The Fifth Waltz]

My bio dad bought a scottish clan plaque and upon looking on ancestory I found out that there is no ounce of scottish blood on his side of the family.

 

[Zebedee]

My bio dad bought a scottish clan plaque and upon looking on ancestory I found out that there is no ounce of scottish blood on his side of the family.

Lol please tell me it cost him a tonne of money.

 

[The Fifth Waltz]

Lol please tell me it cost him a tonne of money.

From what I can tell he got it custom made because our name is fairly uncommon. So probably between $50-$100.