Your ancestry

As a massive history nut, I have recently become obsessed with my ancestry. However, my family are very negligent when it comes to family records. My dads side of the family goes back furthest, to my great grandfather, but my mum didn't know her grandparents, and it seems that stops there.

The purpose of this thread is to discuss your ancestry. If anyone has any interesting stories about their ancestors. So please, share

We can be History nerds together OB

Imma post stuff later

I too, am a history nut, and did some basic research into my family's history.
On my mother's side, the Zarowski line can be dated to 1799 in America, though details are sparse apart from the names.

I'm less successful on my dad's side, as he didn't know much about his father's side of the family. I know my grandfather was born in 1887, and he held a few odd jobs before ending up in Sunnyside and marrying my grandmother.

My fathers mothers fathers cousin is Eva Bron...shes on the history channel like...every single day...

My great grandmother's 4th cousin on my mom's side was Henry Ford and my great great grandmother's brother on my dad's side was Jesse James.

My peoples were driven out of our homeland by Rasq and his ilk.

Ringleader wrote:My peoples were driven out of our homeland by Rasq and his ilk.

Well, yes, but which side?
English, Germans? Or were you driven out of the slums and into better housing by my Polish/Irish ancestors?

I didn't know we were related LP!!

Sicilian (and presumably also some other mix along with that) , Irish, and German. Interestingly enough, my German ancestors on both sides lived in the same town.

Rasq'uire'laskar wrote:

Ringleader wrote:My peoples were driven out of our homeland by Rasq and his ilk.

Well, yes, but which side?
English, Germans? Or were you driven out of the slums and into better housing by my Polish/Irish ancestors?

First one, then the other.

Germany and Scotland. Although there was some Irish mixing with the Scottish...so...kinda weird >.>

My mom used to trace family history on her side of the family...she dated back to like...the...1600's or something? Idk. We do however, know our family crest and a description of our family name ^^
Kinda cool if ya ask me

Italian Irish here! Great combination of people there Other than that, don't know much about my family history (and I'm history buff too ) but something to keep in the back of my mind I guess.

Maeve wrote:Germany and Scotland. Although there was some Irish mixing with the Scottish...so...kinda weird >.>

My mom used to trace family history on her side of the family...she dated back to like...the...1600's or something? Idk. We do however, know our family crest and a description of our family name ^^
Kinda cool if ya ask me

Wow, that is cool. I don't think I have a hope of tracing my family once they crossed the Atlantic.

I'm Irish, English, German, Italian, and Swedish. Beyond that, all I know is that Charles Dickens is some distant relative on my mom's side.