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

My family history isn't very remarkable, but I'm Cuban and Irish. My Cuban side of the family came to the states in the 40's. They were farmers back home so my great grandpa and grandma were really self sufficient. Really chill and humble people. I was lucky to live with them when I was a kid. My great grandpa would grow sugar cane in our backyard and helped me build a chicken pen when I brought a hen home. My great grandma was a bad ass on the harmonica.

They were also amazing cooks. I really liked their rice pudding in particular. I'm kinda bummed I never learned how to cook from them or my grandma, so when my grandma died a couple years ago she kinda took all the family recipes with her because my mom never learned either. :(

I don't know a goddamn thing about the Irish side of my family though because I never met those people, so I'm really only rooted with my Cuban relatives.

Some of you guys have cool family histories.
 
I am the bastard son of a drunken coupling behind a pub in some backwater village in Australia-Land. Given that my sire and dam were profligate boozers and rutters, they had no interest in me whatsoever so I was given up unto the state to be dealt with bureaucratically.

Luckily, I was a taken into a lovely family. I am forever grateful for that.

I was asked once some time ago if I wanted to "contact" my "biological" family. "Fuck, no", I said. "I already have a family. Who are these interlopers?"

True story, bro.

Serious.
 
Pretty much Harp on both sides, but my last name is a corruption/Anglicized version of an Irish place name that for some odd reason people take as being anything but Irish.


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CWCchange dijo:
xcept Vikings were terrific seamen. I guess mongols could ride horses bareback, and took their semen quite well.
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Meh, maybe. But you gotta give them credit as a group of people who could really hate if you pissed them off, like the last Abbasaid Caliph did. Not sure this make Mongols the original Kebab removers, but I'm also not sure it doesn't. There's an even more lurid description of the events than on the Wikipedia in one of Will Durant's books. He goes on for pages.
 
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Bob Page dijo:
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).
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It appears our ancestors were once enemies in that case, though the armies we served in never met. Wierd how shit turns out.
 
i guess pretty big powerlevel incoming.

my mom's side of the family's in a scottish clan (and in turn, so am i), so in her house she has a few plaques hanging up.

my dad's side of that family is really weird. not getting too much into it but basically, my dad doesn't like to talk about his family so i don't know too much about them, but i knew he grew up very poor with parents who survived through both world wars in england.

supposedly my last name is ukranian, but whenever i try and look it up in databases i find nothing for meaning or origin or really anything.

i haven't done one of those dna tests yet because i'm really concerned with what those companies do with people's information, so i cannot tell you much about where my family's from besides a few things. but my aunt on my mom's side did one a few months ago, and found we were more eastern european than we thought, with a very tiny but surprising amount of native american (either algonquian or iroquois). so i'm not completely white lmao
 
Nekromantik dijo:
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.
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That reminds me of a story from when I was a kid.

My cousin was gay when we were kids and this girl that lived in the neighborhood was his best friend. She was a black creole, but hardly black as she was one of those that other black people would call "red" or "yella". Anyway, she was super fine even to me and I was too young to be interested in females in that way. She and my cousin were the same age and both were about 4 years older than me but we'd all hang out during summertime just the same.

One time, this other black neighborhood kid came around when we were hanging out on her porch and started teasing my cousin about being gay (he was still a young teenager but everyone knew he was gay or knew he was going to turn out gay when he got older, especially the adults). He was teasing him in a "showoff" kind of way, trying to impress the girl.

The girl's dad came outside and told the black kid, "My daughter's got a better chance of getting with HIM (putting extra emphasis on the HIM as even all the parents knew my cuz was queer) than getting with your stinking black ass!"

It was so damn funny we still bring it up to this day whenever I run into her.
 
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My mom's side is Italian and german, my step dad's side is English and Scandinavian. Technically I'm an adopted Viking.

Yar! I'ma stell all your shit and rape your wives. And then kill you.
 
I know i'm goint to sound assholies, but I really don't care about my family history as it has no impact on who I am as an individual.

I mean I'm an American and that's all I feel I should have to say....
 
KerryDixon9 dijo:
I have the bare minimum interest in the closest members of my living family. I have absolutely no interest in anything beyond that. I know some people like to research their ancestry, I think my grandfather did a little digging, but I couldn't care less.
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man you should really try to find family history.

I did it during semester vacations alone.

village to village. talking to people. reading old records in govt offices .

trust me.
 
From what I'm told I have Portuguese and British heritage in me. Don't know what else.
 
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