Your Ancestry

[etherlance]

I recenty found out that my great great great great great grandfather faught alongside William Wallace against the english.


Apparently while wallace gave his "They will never take our freeeeedom"!! speach, my ancestor made the mistake of shouting out loud:


"Well maybe these guys would take us all more seriously if we were all not wearing Skirts all the time".

............well the army took it in their stride and even gave him a ten second head start............his body was never found.

 

[Snake Plissken]

I am Snake Plissken, thereby being the coolest person in ANYONE's family.

 

[Blood Countess]

I am of Norwegian descent with a bit of swedish thrown in but that's common here since I am in Norway

 

[dark-amon]

Pretty standard norwiegean lineage. My ancestors on my mothers side where fishermen in the north and from my fathers side there where farmers living at the slopes of the mountains in the heart of Norway.
My great grandfather on my motherside made a stirr in his hometown when getting together with and marrying a woman intended to be married to another man. Their son (my grandfather) left his wife and 4 kids and left for USA making them the scandal of the town for a while (the prick).
On my fathers side my ancestors moved south started a farm, sold it to be used as a school and then opened a grocerystore. When the Nazis invaded my great grandfather and grandfather supplied the resistance with food and other necesities until they got arested and placed in a Nazi-prison called the Archive. MY grandfather was released since he was a kid, but my great grandfather sat imprisoned until the war was over. 60 years after the war he and all the other prisoners from the Archive was celebrated together with the norwiegean soldiers theat had fought the Nazis from England.
THat pretty much sums up my entire familyhistory. Before that: farmers, fishermen, farmers, fishermen etc

 

[CarpathianMuffin]

I'm a descendant of Ivan the Terrible. That's about it on my end.

 

[lex.nero]

Norse ancestry... Is this win?

 

[SomEngangVar]

Scottish and Irish all the way back. Bruce Clan blood. Fuimus.

 

[Kenko]

Not entirely sure, but im likely a central-european blend with Swedish/Finnish being the closest ancestry.

As for awesome ancestors? Hmm. Well my great grandfather Helge kicked russian ass in Finland during the Winter War. So thats awesome.

 

[natster43]

According to my dad and mom, I am Russian, Ukrainian, and Czech on my dads side and Irish, Polish, French, German, Austrian, and maybe some other European countries on my moms side. I should really look into it more.

 

[Yureina]

German-Jewish background. As for people in my family, my great uncle was a rockstar during the 60's and 70's, but that's about it when it comes to famous people. As for who he was... well, he was a christian rock star, so I'm not exactly too keen on that association. >_<

 

[wiggler]

I'm Anglo-Scots.

On my mother's side I;m directly descended from 1st Baron Admiral Collingwood, who was second in command at the battle of Trafalgar.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuthbert_Collingwood,_1st_Baron_Collingwood

On my father's I'm 12th in the line of clan Macleod to inherit Dunvegan castle.

 

[godevit]

Jew Jew Jew....... although I have no idea why we are considered a .....well i guess a nation or "people".

 

[Voodoomancer]

I'm Icelandic.

Thanks to Íslendingabók [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islendingabok] I can trace my ancestors by names back to around 900 A.D. That's just over 1100 years back.

^,^

 

[RobCoxxy]

1/4 Russian, 1/4 German, 1/2... Yorkshire Tyke.
As for famous people, possibly related to John Boynton Priestley, a writer born in Yaaarkshire. Chances are, we're related. Nice.

 

[Spinozaad]

Pretty much 100% Dutch.

Although, from my father's side it's likely that there's some Indonesian blood, seeing as my grandmother had and my aunt has some remarkable facial features and skin tone.

And, if you go back enough, there's bound to be some German blood, too.

I don't really have famous ancestors, for as far as I'm aware.

 

[GreyKnight3445]

my ancestry is from England, and they came over on the Mayflower.

 

[LightningBanks]

I was a scientific project

....what? its true

 

[Macgyvercas]

All I know is that I'm half German, one quarter Hungarian, one quarter mixed European (aka, no fucking clue).

I also know that my great grandfather on my mother's side founded Amthor Steel (a pretty big business here in Erie, PA)