On ancestors...we all have them, so...

i have never investigated my ancestry and am not sure it would be very easy given that some of the background to both sides is a bit murky. i can tell you that half my family comes from england and the other half from scotland but not a great deal more than that. i do know who my grandparents were...

Thats a really interesting subject, since mine is known due to their charity and political links , we have books written on them. They migrated from Saudia Arabia, Iran and Turkey then were in Sub continent. It has a wide mixture of europe as well as of Scandavian. some of them got married while they were abroad for high studies. They are a mix of teachers, doctors, poloticians, traders, merchant and from Armed forces etc.

You definitely have a nice mix there; English, German and French Canadian.. awesome. I am not really too much interested in my own heritage. I used to be so caught up but recently I'm not, because to me, it's what the person is that make the person, rather than the ancestry. Ancestry is just there, as a roots based and it's definitely important. I never doubt that at all. Just in my case, I prefer not to delve in too much. Because I believe that success comes to those who believe in it and make it, instead of just relying totally on their heritage. For instance, a rich boy comes from a rich family and refuses to work and create his own wealth and instead, relying heavily on the family's good name. Something like that. Oops, I hope I do not blabber too much though, lol..

I really don't know much about mine at all. I know it would be interesting to learn about yourself but i have never tried. It's great u know as much as u do.

My husband and I are genealogists, we not only do our families but others also. It's wonderful to find out where you came from and some of the things your families went through. It's also very important to write your memories for the sake of your children and their children. I wish I had more of mine. Part of my family were German Jews and they are all just wiped from the earth if part of that family had not come to the US around the time of the Civil War, I would no nothing before my Dad and his father. The other side of my family came before the Country was born and I have most of their history. But warning, genealogy has become so profitable that many scams abound. My family even passed many of these tales off as truth, it wasn't until I did the research and found the dates just didn't match that I was able to separate truth for fiction.

Hello my friend PeacefulWmn9 Ji, Well, I have my reservations on this type of thinking, as this will go against International brother/sister-hoods. Why to think all these things, why to make groups, 'I am Indian, you are not the same, which am?'. I think such topics do create difference of opinionsin others mind. I have no such curiosity o know. Further, even if I say somethin, I am to prove. Can anyone of us prove that we were born to so and so in the present birth, then why to wastemy time in going back 1000 ys and so on back. So I say I keep my mouth shut and eyes open. May God bless You and have a great time.

my ancestors were from china. they took a slow boat down to singapore. which is not in china, quite far from china in those days. they were from the southern part of china. my maternal side are from the dialect group called Hakkas, and my paternal side are from the Hokkiens. they came to south east asia to get a better life and here we all are now. thanks for the interesting discussion!

Dad's side - Russian Jewish and Polish Mom's side - German, English or Welsh and PA Dutch (more German) My dad's father was born in Odessa, his mom somewhere in the Austro-Hungarian empire. My mom's dad's parents came from part of Prussia that is now Poland. Not sure about the others. Dawn

Hi, PeacefulWmn9. It's good that you know much about your heritage. I don't know that much except that my paternal grandmother has Chinese blood and my maternal great grandfather is Spanish. I'm quite interested to know about my ancestry because sometimes I have questions which I think can be answered if I understand where I came from.

Hi Peaceful Woman: wow you're very European i think it's wonderful the things you discover when you make an investigation about your heritage. Unfortunetly It would be very difficult to me, to find if I have ancestors from other contries because, my father, mother, grandparents and even my great grandmother are from my country. I would need to search for information of more than 100 years and that's hard. Thanks for sharing with us what you have found about your genealogy, very interesting, thought. Hope you are having a nice day. Merry Christmas/ Happy Holidays. -Alvaro.

Usually people from the US are interested in knowing their heritage, as they're usually from foreign countries. Cultural differences are interesting, aren't they? In other countries we don't really care much about that. I come from the old continent, and I know that my grand parents and my grand grand parents were all born in the same country. Knowing the history of my country I can imagine my way earlier ancestors too.

It's not a huge interest for me. but some of my family members on both sides are really into it and pass information to me. On my dad's side is some native american, in fact, I can be a card carrying indian if I fill out the paperwork. On my mom's side is an english duchess. What a mix.

our ancestries pretty boring =D

Well, ancestry is getting harder to trace because of the way some families act. Like my family, everyone claims they aren't related to anyone else, even if they are because they hold grudges for so long,. As far as my family goes, I know that part of my ancestry comes from the abenaki indians, and the other half is from Samuel Morse whom is a great decendant of mine, somewhere up the line, but that's about all I know of my family, so when my kids ask me, it's just going to be even harder for them to find out anything else that I may have missed.

My ancestors are from all corners of the globe and they are of many races and nationalities. Most of them do come from Wales and once served the royal family of England. They were know as the "Wealthy Guardians".

well my grandmother is german an my grandfather is american indain an french an on mom side american indain an french candain I have been researching my family tree an you wouldnt belive what I have found its like all the members of my hubbys family go back to england were miners an when they came here they became thats right miners an he is related to the hatfields an mccoys an daniel boone an jesse james on my mom's side we are related to robert guolet ,madonna celine dion an the dionne quints

I like this discussion Karen thanks for that. When I was in my teen ages I wanted to know about my ancestors. I did a research in my village, met several old people of that period and collected valuable information about my ancestors. I am indeed very grateful to them. Because my today's life is what they had given me indirectly. I want to compose a song on them and circulate that cd to all of my family members. I will write the song, compose music with the help of my relative and I will sing the song. How is this?

when i was a child my parents always told me i was born under my mum's arm so i was really curisoused about that for some time and as i grown up i know something more about the ancestor thing and think that ancestor must be one grate man and kindess so he can have so many child.

Hi there, i cannot say much of my ancestors cause i think it is a little bit complex, but when i searched for our bloodline, i am really shocked. Actually our family at present is the closest descendants of those people, i discover that they reside in Italy before, and they are one of those most influential people of the medieval period, and now i think they are still one of the most influential, actually i have the copy of the coat of arms of our family, and now they are one of the famous mafia. I am not happy actually, knowing that my ancestors are that influential. At least i know where i came from and now i know why i am so brave. That is all i can say to you, have a great day.

In my culture we have tribes and from these tribes we are divided into clans. Each clan has a name and a clan praise. From the clan praise we are able to gather the names of our ancestors, the verly old ones. What this essentially does, it identifies all the descendants, for example if I had to come to America and meet someone with the same clan name as mine, even though I've never seen the person, that person is family and that means " no intimate relationship". We always take the clan praise of the fathers side. From my mother's side my great great grandmother was white but i'm not sure if she was dutch or not. I'm assuming dutch because dutch people are the ones that settled close where they lived. I am still perplexed about how she managed to do this, get married to a black man in south africa when racism was still ripe. I have never met her side of the family and i assume she was disowned. We dont have her photos but part of her complexion is still lives on till the 3rd generation.