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

[The Manglement]

At a family reunion once somebody was talking about one of my ancestors in the 1800s, and said "Then he got a bunch of people together and went to Mexico to kill Mexicans".

 

[Bassomatic]

I happen to really enjoy family histories and stuff like that so, I am aware this is power level the thread but I'll partake.

Longest trace back, 900s AD it's just a birth/death record from a church in Germany. Other sides, 1500s 1700s * and 1800s.

In order of history, the longest side, WE WUZ VISIGOTHS AND SHIT quite literally, then moved to more Northern Germany became inn keepers sea farers and came over after WW1. Grandpa who was born in a part of Germany that's now Poland came over and retired a General after ww2.

His wife, family came over from Germany mid 1800s and were in the cloth industry, there's no one left of that side so shortest details sadly.

1500s, Ran from Germany due to Martin Luther's antics (not sure on details being they were Lutherian) to Switzerland, Came over and bought land from William Penn's son, town is still there family sold land off part by part via hard times. Grandma was an Orphan

1700s * Famous Rev War personality, can't give too much info sadly while it's not my surname it's too easy to google. Records were "lost" for reasons but it's traceable. Loosely related to some big US mil names. Great Grandpa helped start a stock exchange. From England, but guess where they came from before that?

Some how I grew up poor. Riddle me that KF? Joking aside I don't mind, it really humbles you and I guess while I'm 600% German racially, the household/culture was very old school with a touch of upper crust English, so we all have done well in their own lives and kinda leave family to make it on their own. I also really like seeing, or hearing about these people and really lets you soak in the nature v nurture thing. I really happen to look like a few family members, hold their temper etc.

It's kinda funny how someone can look and act like someone from the 1700s more than their own family.

I am not much a sappy person but I always love to hear people's family history, it's who they are, on a biological and cultural level. So this thread warmed my heart

Likes to all of you fags.

 

[Draza]

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.

Too bad you're neighbors with Azerbaijani and turk kebab roaches.

 

[Thomas Paine]

Scotts-Irish. Generally British ancestry and Celtic as fuck.

Don't know much about my heritage other than surnames, coats of arms, and clan tartans.

 

[Zebedee]

I happen to really enjoy family histories and stuff like that so, I am aware this is power level the thread but I'll partake.

Longest trace back, 900s AD it's just a birth/death record from a church in Germany. Other sides, 1500s 1700s * and 1800s.

In order of history, the longest side, WE WUZ VISIGOTHS AND SHIT quite literally, then moved to more Northern Germany became inn keepers sea farers and came over after WW1. Grandpa who was born in a part of Germany that's now Poland came over and retired a General after ww2.

His wife, family came over from Germany mid 1800s and were in the cloth industry, there's no one left of that side so shortest details sadly.

1500s, Ran from Germany due to Martin Luther's antics (not sure on details being they were Lutherian) to Switzerland, Came over and bought land from William Penn's son, town is still there family sold land off part by part via hard times. Grandma was an Orphan

1700s * Famous Rev War personality, can't give too much info sadly while it's not my surname it's too easy to google. Records were "lost" for reasons but it's traceable. Loosely related to some big US mil names. Great Grandpa helped start a stock exchange. From England, but guess where they came from before that?

Some how I grew up poor. Riddle me that KF? Joking aside I don't mind, it really humbles you and I guess while I'm 600% German racially, the household/culture was very old school with a touch of upper crust English, so we all have done well in their own lives and kinda leave family to make it on their own. I also really like seeing, or hearing about these people and really lets you soak in the nature v nurture thing. I really happen to look like a few family members, hold their temper etc.

It's kinda funny how someone can look and act like someone from the 1700s more than their own family.

I am not much a sappy person but I always love to hear people's family history, it's who they are, on a biological and cultural level. So this thread warmed my heart

Likes to all of you fags.

I accept your persecution and raise you one crusade. I would do a sword too but I actually don't own one, or know how to use it even if I did. On that note perhaps I should take fencing sessions and keep in touch with my roots of removing kebab.

 

[D. Sweatshirt]

Mostly English, Irish and Scottish. Some of my distant ancestors were pirates.

In the Civil War, two of my ancestors survived Pickett's Charge. They were on the same side, and both wound up POWs.

Had a distant relative who was drafted into World War I, did his training, got all suited up for combat, was just about to be deployed...then the Great War ended. Funny how that sometimes works out.

That's all I'm willing to say for the time being.

 

[CWCchange]

I'm English on my mother's side, which goes further as Nords from Germany and Norway who conquered the island. My dad is Eastern European, so I'm scared to find out his ancestry because it might be littered with Jewish, Turk, Mongol, and/or Gypsy blood.

At least I know I'm not mulatto.

 

[Zebedee]

I'm English on my mother's side, which goes further as Nords from Germany and Norway who conquered the island. My dad is Eastern European, so I'm scared to find out his ancestry because it might be littered with Jewish, Turk, Mongol, and/or Gypsy blood.

At least I know I'm not mulatto.

Mongols are fucking bad-ass, they're like Asian vikings or something.

 

[Bassomatic]

I accept your persecution and raise you one crusade. I would do a sword too but I actually don't own one, or know how to use it even if I did. On that note perhaps I should take fencing sessions and keep in touch with my roots of removing kebab.

I don't have a family sword, but I have my grandpa's officers pistol from WW2, it's removed many a Jap.

Oddly the oldest sword I have was a gift from my dad he gave me, it was one he found at a yard sale from the late 1500s. It's Spanish. It's not worth a lot of money in the over all picture and he spent maybe 10 on it as a kid himself.

Fencing is a great sport, but go hard go sabre.

To go semi back on topic, even with all the digging and the side I know the longest back is my surname. We don't have a coat of arms or anything. Would it be tacky to design one or something? My assumption is we were probably just not important enough to have one and not noble clearly.

 

[heathercho]

When one of my Japanese ancestors came to Australia, he was arrested for showing "perverted images" (titties) to another fellow (a white man, how terrible) and was described in court as a "small, stoveheaded Jap, with curly hair and bullets for eyes" in court documents. He was also described as "the perverted Jap" in a newspaper article about the court case - where he plead guilty and said "that a women's body is pleasurable, why should looking at it be a crime". He had a real fuck you attitude. I'm not going to lie, I'm plenty proud of him.
Another one died in WW2, where my white grandfather fought against Japanese relatives of my grandmother.
My grandfather would stay with the dying Japs out of sympathy for my grandmother back home. The one who died during the war was recovered and we have some of his possessions, including his Senninbari, with his blood on it. Horrible he died needlessly, but it's nice to have that piece of history.

My direct Korean ancestors pretended to be Russian and Chinese and came out to Australia and took "Australian" names, like most Asians that came to Australia pre-1980.

I don't have a family sword, but I have my grandpa's officers pistol from WW2, it's removed many a Jap.

So now I have someone to blame.

 

[Zebedee]

I don't have a family sword, but I have my grandpa's officers pistol from WW2, it's removed many a Jap.

Oddly the oldest sword I have was a gift from my dad he gave me, it was one he found at a yard sale from the late 1500s. It's Spanish. It's not worth a lot of money in the over all picture and he spent maybe 10 on it as a kid himself.

Fencing is a great sport, but go hard go sabre.

To go semi back on topic, even with all the digging and the side I know the longest back is my surname. We don't have a coat of arms or anything. Would it be tacky to design one or something? My assumption is we were probably just not important enough to have one and not noble clearly.

(I do technically have a pair of late 18th to early 19th century british naval swords, however they are more the families than mine as a personal possession. So they don't count until the folks kick the bucket, kek.)

I can actually say with certainty I do have a coat of arms, however all 7000 people who have descended from that lone viking do, well the ones that still have his surname anyways.

 

[CWCchange]

Mongols are fucking bad-ass, they're like Asian vikings or something.

Except Vikings were terrific seamen. I guess mongols could ride horses bareback, and took their semen quite well.

When one of my Japanese ancestors came to Australia, he was arrested for showing "perverted images" (titties) to another fellow (a white man, how terrible) and was described in court as a "small, stoveheaded Jap, with curly hair and bullets for eyes" in court documents. He was also described as "the perverted Jap" in a newspaper article about the court case - where he plead guilty and said "that a women's body is pleasurable, why should looking at it be a crime". He had a real fuck you attitude. I'm not going to lie, I'm plenty proud of him.

The sad thing is, saying such an obvious fact as a line of defense today, regardless whether you should keep it to yourself, would be a crime itself because feminists.

 

[Benine Bovine]

Most of my family still live in an extremely rural arctic region and I have an obscure, long and foreign name. I like amusing american folk by telling them I’m from the buttfuck of nowhere and mentioning midnight sun or polar nights.

Idk a lot abt family ties or history/ancestry cuz I can usually only see my relatives once a year and most of my non immediate family is either off our radar or dead :/ growing up i was hardly taught who my grandparents were lol

 

[Nekromantik]

My great grandfather came to the US to teach English to Spanish speaking immigrants, (we have a lot of teacher in our family). He would tell all sorts of stories about misunderstandings with translations.

What do you put on toast?
Jam
What do you put on eggs?
Gold bond powder! (Eggs/Huevos can be slang for balls in Spanish)
The answer was salt and pepper on your eggs.

 

[:thinking:]

 

[Hui]

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

I kinda threw up a little reading this. Thanks.

 

[Orkeosaurus]

My family on my dad's side goes back to the French & Indian War, and then recently my dad and I found a list for a scouting party with our surname during the Revolutionary War. More recently supposedly we were rich as fuck and then my great (or great great?) grandfather or something along those lines pissed it all away on booze and a bloodsucking harpy. Maybe I should ask him about that story.

My mother's side has more of recent military history. There's a very interesting WW1 story but I don't want to overshare since it was in the paper. Also one of my grandfather's brothers died on Iwo Jima. There's also a tangential story involving a certain very important WW2 general but once again, oversharing.

 

[millais]

Direct lineage back to mid-17th century, on a little island village in the northern half of the Penghu Archipelago, in the middle of the straits between China and Formosa. The original progenitor of the family line settled there in the last decades of the Ming Dynasty, even before the temporary occupation of the Archipelago by the Dutch East India Company and the Qing conquest. I visited the island village not long ago; it's a windswept rock home to some ghost towns and an isolated fishing community. Only a couple surviving branches of the family still living there, most moved away in the 20th century for better economic opportunities. They talk with a very peculiar accent out there due to the linguistic isolation of island life. They harvest some very tasty kidney bean-sized oysters on their beaches, but their accent makes "oyster" sound like "taro" to my ears. Their houses and walls are constructed from big chunks of coral reef that are chopped into blocks and held together with mortar, and they used crushed white coral and shells instead of gravel for paving their roads and paths. Lots of conifers, cacti, and palm trees there, just about the only kind of plants that can survive the incessant winds.

Not much ever happened there after the departure of the Dutch East India Company garrison and the Qing conquest. The French shelled the islands in the 1880s and a couple hundred French sailors and marines died of malaria there during the subsequent occupation. My branch of the family left the ancestral island village for greener pastures around 120 years ago and never really looked back, since the arduous sea voyage to get back there was not for the weak of heart in those days even if you could afford it, and everybody they knew was leaving sooner or later anyway. It's a very picturesque if lonely place these days, though the big island is becoming quite the tourist destination for French and American backpackers.

Considering these origins, I think it must go some way to explaining why I have always had something of a fascination of and yearning for the sea even though I was born and raised in a landlocked interior region.

I don't think anyone in my family was party to any particularly notable historical doings. My older relatives experienced WW2 with frontrow seats to American bombing raids and dogfights between Japanese and American aircraft, but that's about it.

 

[Bob Page]

From what my grandpa told me, my earliest paternal ancestor came over to england with William the Conqueror and that part of that lineage is of Nordic persuasion. All in all, I'm an American of viking and english descent(Glaswegian Scottish).

 

[Lunete]

I don't know much about my ancestry and what I do know is mostly depressing as fuck. So I can only assume that I come from a long line of domestic violence and alcohol abuse.