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| Tweet Topic Started: Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:26 pm (1,140 Views) | |
| AWOLangel | Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:26 pm Post #1 |
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inspired by the tv show who do you think you are? on my father's side; his mother's father came over to the u.s. when he was 18 in the 1890s. he was drafted into the Polish cavalry, but since the cavalry are often the first ones shot in combat, he wanted no part of that. so during his good-bye party, when the village was drunk or sleeping that night he packed his one little suitcase & walked at least 20 miles to the train station and took the train to Austria and eventually a ship to the u.s. we looked him up in the ellis island database was a picture of the ship he came over on. if you want to look up your family, but don't want to sign up go to bug me not and use one of theirs. on my mother's side; her mother's mother was born in the u.s. to immigrant parents. they lived in johnstown pa & after the big flood of 1889 they decided that "the new country" was too much & went back to czechoslovakia. as an adult (about 20 years latter) she came back to the u.s. and had an easier time coming in since she was a citizen, being born here. a-thread-a-day #2 |
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| wissaboo | Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:29 pm Post #2 |
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cool thread awol. I have a lot I'm going to have to type it out later. |
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| Moon | Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:31 pm Post #3 |
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My Dad's immediate family is from Cornwall England. He's the only one not born there, My Grandfather came over to Hudson Bay Canada before my Nana and children came with. They eventually moved to the Detroit area so he could work for Ford. His family is tricky, as the last name is one of the 500 rarest in the world. We have found a connection to a doctor who worked for Henry the 8th. We're currently researching my Nana's family, and we're finding about 150 years back quite a few came over from France to live in Cornwall. On my mother's side there is a rich history. We are related to John Wilkes Booth, & Robert E Lee in one branch of the family; in another we used to own land in Ireland [11 castles] before the Brits either were going to hang em or send them to America. Of course they all fought successfully in the Revolutionary War. Nice piece of symmetry is my cousin went to Ireland to study art and one of the places they traveled to while there to do work study was one of the castles our family had held. There's loads more, my uncle spent 20 years researching the family before his death 2 years ago.
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| AWOLangel | Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:45 pm Post #4 |
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln | |
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| Ltpondwater9 | Wed Apr 7, 2010 3:49 pm Post #5 |
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**Tomahawk Chop**
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One side comes from Queens,NY and the other side Molokai, Hawaii. Although a chip off of one side comes from Puerto Rico and a chip off the other side hails from what was formerly known as East Germany. |
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| spocklet | Wed Apr 7, 2010 4:40 pm Post #6 |
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Live long and prosper.....!!
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Agreed, cool thread AWOL, hon. ![]() All I know of my ancestry, is many generations of Yorkshire folk. Though I think there may be some Roman blood in there somewhere, judging by my nose !! |
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| wissaboo | Wed Apr 7, 2010 10:26 pm Post #7 |
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Ok, my dad's family we have a pretty good history of because my dad is in possession of the family bible that dates back to the 18th century. An ancestor was discharged from the british navy in Nova Scotia in the 1760's. He traveled down to the states and fought in the revolution. For the british. We actually have a table that he bought for his wife as a wedding present. They stayed in the states and another ancestor fought in the civil war. for the south. We know how to pick them. About 20 years ago some amateur historian tracked my father down and told him how we had an ancestor who fought for the south and what a patriot he was and how proud we should be that he fought for the south. My dad said, we knew that..... (long pause) we don't TELL people. but we knew that. so fast forward to the late 1800's. My great grandfather and his brother lived in north dakota. The canadian west was opening up and they thought they could make a lot of money bring up cattle to sell to these settlers. They everything they had and took a train to Texas. Bought all the cattle they could and then drove them to Saskatchewan. Take a look at a map. That is a really long way. They made a lot of money but found out what the settlers were really willing to pay money for was horses. So they took all the money they made and returned to texas the next year and bought all the horses they could and drove them up to canada. An early blizzard hit them and every horse died. They were broke so they stayed in canada. On my mother's side grandfather. His father was actually left on a doorstep as an infant in Poland. Ended up marrying the farmer's daughter and they had 13 kids. My grandfather spent most of ww1 in siberia, then fought in the war of the reds and whites after ww1. Grandmother. her family emigrated from germany to russia during the reign of Catherine the great. They stayed till they were forced out during the revolution. Made their way back to Germany in covered wagons. You probably know conditions were not good in Germany between the wars. My grandmother worked in the fields from the age of ten. Her two older brothers were able to make enough money to get to canada then sent for her when she was 16. The three of them sent all the money they made back to germany till there was enough for the whole family to come over. She was also from a family of 13. My grandmother was a very shy person who lived her entire life isolated in a farm. When I think of her getting on a ship alone at the age of 16 then making her way from the east coast to alberta on a train without speaking a word of english I am just flabbergasted. When the family finally had enough for passage for the rest of the family (mother, father and 10 children) they arrived at the dock to board and the youngest, an infant, was denied passage on the ship because she had an ear infection. My great grandfather told his wife to leave the baby on the dock and get on the ship. She refused and he left her there with all ten kids. They began saving money again till they had enough to bring her and the children over. My grandmother visited her mother's grave every week till her father died and was buried beside her. Then she never visited it again. |
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| Praxius | Thu Apr 8, 2010 5:25 am Post #8 |
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Well my family name/history can be dated back from various part of Canada today (Quebec, Ontario, BC, Nova Scotia mainly) and soon I'll be in Australia in a few months. Apparently my great great grandfather was a well known metalsmith and I currently wear a ring he made out of a piece of nickel pipe, which doesn't look like a pipe, that's for sure and has his initials in it. My family comes from Irish and Scottish backgrounds, with also some native blood kicking around through a great.... er or a great great grandmother on my mother's side. However, on my father's side of the family, our name dates back to a time where our family ruled much of southern Ireland, Cork County to be a bit more accurate, before Queen Elizabeth I decided to pull a Braveheart on Ireland. However our family dates back even further then that. Before living in Ireland for many generations, our family was originally from Spain. Family Generic Background: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/O'Sullivan
So we've been around for some time. Our most Notable Historical Mark - Siege of Dunboy - June 1602: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siege_of_Dunboy
There's books and songs apparently about the siege as well as the "O'Sullivan's March" and some consider Donal "The Last Prince of Ireland" prior to that wanker, Elizabeth screwing everything up.
![]() A STORY WORTHY OF KLINGON SONG AND DRINK!!! ^ Pretty much after this incident is when the family, as stated in the first link provided:
And here we are today.... a guy who sits in front of a computer all day and draws pictures. But some day I plan on making my way back to Ireland, rebuild the castle and take back over
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| AWOLangel | Thu Apr 8, 2010 2:01 pm Post #9 |
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![]() your grandmother's (mother's side) story could be one of those epic 6-part tv mini-series they used to do. i'd watch it
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All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.--Abraham Lincoln | |
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| wissaboo | Thu Apr 8, 2010 2:03 pm Post #10 |
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yeah it was an amazing story. the youngest girl who they wanted to leave on the dock is still alive. |
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| AWOLangel | Thu Apr 8, 2010 2:09 pm Post #11 |
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indeed. i'd watch that mini-series too
looking for volunteers? i hope it's not in a windy spot. when conan o'brien when to ireland (& did his show from there for a week) he went to the remains of his ancestral castle. it was very windy. "i can't imagine why they left!" he yelled to be heard over the wind. |
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| wissaboo | Thu Apr 8, 2010 2:13 pm Post #12 |
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"i can't imagine why they left!"
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| VioletCloud | Thu Apr 8, 2010 2:46 pm Post #13 |
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I know alot on my Mothers side... my fathers side I know almost nothing.. both of my Paternal grandparents were adopted... I dont even know where to start... I hear my dads sister has info..but Im not close with that side of the family guess If I go back a few generations on my maternal grandmothers side... My family came from France... not sure where they "landed" .. but they planted there roots in Illinois... and lived in a cave (which I have gotten to see from a distance) till their house was built. Alot of my family still lives in that area (around Peoria)... when my branch moved to Florida(about 3 generations ago).. the reason was the weather.. and to become Tropical fish breeders/farmers I remember alot more to how my french relatives came to America.. but now that I think about it.. I want to look through my stuff for the year that happened!
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| magentastorm | Fri Apr 9, 2010 1:44 am Post #14 |
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Randomer than you since 1992
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Don't know much about dad's side except that one of his father's ancestors came over here as a convict with the First Fleet. Dunno why though. On mum's side, one set of great grandparents were farmers that emigrated from Prussia in the late 1800's and the others came from Ireland, but I'm not sure when. |
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| wissaboo | Fri Apr 9, 2010 6:50 am Post #15 |
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so do a lot of people in australia know they are desendents of convicts? Is it something people talk about? |
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| TheBatlethOfTruth | Fri Apr 9, 2010 7:34 am Post #16 |
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I know that i`m at least 14th generation Dublin.... that`s as far back as we can trace. Pretty rare nowadays! |
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| AWOLangel | Fri Apr 9, 2010 12:08 pm Post #17 |
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i heard the "thing" to do years ago was to look up your convict ancestor & find out what crime they committed to be sent to australia. there was a thing on PBS about how they needed women & england sent a bunch women convicts and one woman set up the ship as a floating brothel every port they stopped at they were open for business. one young girl (11,got in trouble for sealing the clothes off the back of another girl) grew up to have like 15 kids. 1,000s can trace their history back to her |
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| magentastorm | Fri Apr 9, 2010 2:52 pm Post #18 |
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Um, actually, as far as I know, there aren't all that many that are descended from the convicts, I only know about 3 other people that know that they are. Most are descended from free settlers, but one person I know is descended from a soldier from the Third Fleet. Wouldn't say it's discussed all that frequently, though there was a bit of a scandal when it came out that our PM's descended from a hooker on one side, and a thief/forger on the other, which is pretty rare. ![]() But all in all it's not that big a deal. Most people weren't sent over here for any serious crimes any way. |
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| Purplelizard2006 | Mon Apr 12, 2010 9:55 pm Post #19 |
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It's Christmas!
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I love family history! My father side....Butcher/Egly/Borne My grandfather's family were mostly from England. Back in 1612 they came over to USA from England to Jamestown, Virginia. There were some relatives who fought in the Revolutionary war and the war of 1812. I was told a funny bit of a story about my grandfather's gandfather when he was a child(great-great-grandfather) when the family was moving from one state to another in a cover wagon, the child was in the back of the wagon when the wagon kind of stumble over a rock or something along the way and the boy fell out of the back of the wagon. The family did not know he fell out, they were going off some distance from him until they realize he was gone from the wagon. He soon caught with them.... Plus...I was also told there were three relatives were deaf. My grandfather told me before he died, that he recalled as a boy that one of the relative deaf came to visit their home but grandpa don't rmember much about the others. So many of the Butchers all spread out in the USA, it is hard to find any of them to be related to us. My grandmother(father's mother)... her grandfather on her mother's side was 18 when he emigrant to USA from Bern, Switzerland and travelled to settle in northeastern Indiana, in a town just south from where I live now. He met and married a woman in that town and they had 17 children from 1880s to 1912, one of them was my great grandmother. Grandma still have that large old picture of them except one child died young(about 11 yrs) before that picture was taken. My grandmother doesn't remember much of her grandfather from Switzerland since she was about 2 when he died from being kicked by a horse that gave him infection. Grandma's father's family came from Germany, probably a generation back, not sure exactly. Grandma told me that her grandparents and her parents and her brothers and sister lived all together in one house in the country. Grandma had two brothers and a sister, they are gone, grandma out live them. She's 97! My mother's side....Clark/Alt I was told that we were a possible relation to a famous US explorer of the late 1700 to early 1800, George Rogers Clark and his brother, Will Clark(famous in the Lewis and Clark Expedition). Grandfather's grandfather came as a boy from Germany to USA. Grandmother's parents were also from Germany. So I have a mixture of Swiss/English/German in my blood! We had been researching on our ancestry for years, found so much on them. I love hearing about our family history from my grandfather and my father on what they had learned. BTW, great topic, Awol!
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| AWOLangel | Tue Apr 13, 2010 12:27 pm Post #20 |
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very interesting stuff everyone has posted |
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Nice piece of symmetry is my cousin went to Ireland to study art and one of the places they traveled to while there to do work study was one of the castles our family had held. There's loads more, my uncle spent 20 years researching the family before his death 2 years ago.





I remember alot more to how my french relatives came to America.. but now that I think about it.. I want to look through my stuff for the year that happened!










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