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Just curious, does anyone else here have an interest in genealogy? It's pretty fun, finding out about your family history and even finding lost cousins! I only have 6 generations from father to son (which is what I'm focusing on), but I do have other parts of my family tree going back past Charlemagne (A common ancestor for many many European lineages, a lot of you should be related too. It's fairly easy to get that far back). I even found pictures of my family's farm in Norway before my ancestor immigrated, which is still being run by cousins.
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I do know that I'm related to Buffalo Bill, and I have roots in Czechoslovakia, Germany, and Russia on one side of my family.
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02-14-2011, 01:50 PM
(This post was last modified: 02-14-2011, 01:54 PM by Vipershark.)
I'm interested in this.
My family (on my dad's side) has a family tree, but if I recall correctly it doesn't go past my great or great-great grandparents.
This kind of has nothing to do with it, but I'm black yet look like I'm everything /except/ black.
I'm curious as to how that came about.
Apparently there's a possibiblty that I'm related to one of the presidents on my dad's side, but I think past said great or great-great grandparent, there's little to no information known.
As far as my mom's side, I've seen a picture of my great-great grandmother and was born before my great-grandmother died, but that's really all I know as far as anything past my grandma.
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I think I'd be more interested if I didn't already know two important things about the family history on my mothers side;
1. We were German.
and
2. We were Jewish.
Bonus points for working out why we didn't stick around.
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I don't know, really. I'm moderately interested in finding out, but not interested enough in learning how to find out.
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My grandma's Cousin is this guy
Other then that I know I'm mostly German with a little bit of Arabic, Dutch, English, Irish, Scottish, and other euro-counteries in me.
My family fought in the civil war way back when too.
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(02-14-2011, 08:15 PM)Kat Wrote: My grandma's Cousin is this guy
holy shit i love tony shalhoub
Oh, and I found out that the Sengir line may be Prussian/German as Poznan wasn't part of Poland at the time of my ancestor's birth. This just makes things more confusing.
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my brother did made some research, and shared it with my mother, apparently. but for the sake of the topic, i'd go and ask for the proper info, since now i am interested into knowing exactly from where do we came from.
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I know that I'm German on my mom's side and half british half german on my dad's side. And apparently the german part of my dad's side were Jewish, so I guess that means in most white supremecist's eyes I'm not actually white.
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Apparently, if someone has our surname, they're connected to our family up north (father's side).
Aside from that, I know nothing about our family line before my great grandparents.
On my mother's side, there are like a hundred family members all living in one town south, and my great great great grandparents were the founders or something. I seriously forget names and faces all the time
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I know I'm related to Johnny Cash from my mothers side. Tbh I was content about my lineage when I found that out.
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All I really know is that
I'm half spartan and half azorean
thats all i know about me
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yeah, yeah, and I'm a clone of Big Boss 
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