My mom's paternal side (Irish) came over in the early 1900s, serving class, and worked for the Duponts in Delaware, where they met, as far as I recall.
On my dad's maternal side, we're related to Daniel Boone, but I don't know any more than that.
I'm not on the ship. I'm in the ship. I am the ship.
River ,'Objects In Space'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Amy - Jul 01, 2010 6:44:17 pm PDT #10089 of 30001
Because books.
Aims - Jul 01, 2010 6:45:10 pm PDT #10090 of 30001
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Double up:
I've always wondered if on my grandmother's side, since both her father's and her mother's family side were in Canada for so long what my roots are? Scottish or Canadian?
Does anyone on the board have a copy of The Bamford Saga?
§ ita § - Jul 01, 2010 6:55:16 pm PDT #10091 of 30001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
See, where Americans ponder if their ancestors were involved with the War, we Jamaicans have the Canal. That's probably our only large world event, and it didn't even happen in Jamaica.
Zenkitty - Jul 01, 2010 6:56:35 pm PDT #10092 of 30001
Every now and then, I think I might actually be a little odd.
An email from ancestry.com tells me that 60% of Americans have "Revolutionary War roots."
Civil War, yes, on my mother's side, but Revolutionary War, I don't know. Father's side, definitely not.
erikaj - Jul 01, 2010 7:00:35 pm PDT #10093 of 30001
"already on the kiss-cam with Karl Marx"-
Don't really think so, except the Indians. Unless we've got a Hessian connection that I don't know about. Which there might be, cause I know so little about my German forebears. Typo Boy, yes, absolutely. And, still, 90% of the "Gavels in New Places," reports would be patently untrue.
msbelle - Jul 01, 2010 7:13:49 pm PDT #10094 of 30001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
most of my family was here in Civil, probably at least 50% were Revolutionary too. am mutt.
ChiKat - Jul 01, 2010 7:17:16 pm PDT #10095 of 30001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
am mutt.
Me, too, msbelle. Mutts represent!
Ginger - Jul 01, 2010 7:18:09 pm PDT #10096 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I'm one of the people with Revolutionary War roots. I have Lt. Ezra Tucker to thank for the fact that I could be in the DAR, if someone came up with a compelling reason for me to go to the trouble.
quester - Jul 01, 2010 7:23:11 pm PDT #10097 of 30001
Danger is my middle name, only I spell it R. u. t. h. - Tina Belcher.
I have some Irish ancestor(s) that came over in time to fight for the Union on my mother's side. My father's parents immigrated from Hungary.
Calli - Jul 02, 2010 1:37:57 am PDT #10098 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
I figure most non-DNA based ancestry tracking requires that my great(to whatever power) grandmothers were telling the truth about whose kids they bore. While I'm willing to believe Mom on that, and my grandmothers (given how much my parents look like their fathers), when we get to my great grandmothers and beyond, who knows? I never even met those people--I should be making claims about their fidelity? There've been people who screw around all throughout history, and I've no reason to believe my family tree has been unaffected.
So who knows where all my pre-1900 ancestors came from, really?