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30 Dec 2009, 12:02 am

I was grown in an underground vault from some ancient DNA discovered in a meteorite that had impacted the remains of Thomas Jefferson 30 years after he had been interred. A few insects, a dead rat, and a few off bacteria also contributed a few chromosomes and it took quite a few decades for the process to come to completion. The resulting egg was placed in the womb of a giraffe and I was born a few months later. I was small enough to escape through the bars of the zoo and grew up in various supermarkets and grocery stores where I lived in dank cellars and emerged at night to eat and educate myself by reading labels. Obviously I have had a peripatetic life and the rest of it is somewhat dull.



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31 Dec 2009, 11:12 pm

Moravian, Celtic, and Dutch.


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01 Jan 2010, 4:35 pm

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I tell people that I am a mutt, as it bores them when I rattle off all of the places that my family comes from. I like genealogy... But since you asked :)

My maternal grandmother's side of the family would be Scottish royalty turned Irish peasant (there is a ruined Maxwell castle still somewhat standing after the Johnstones ran them down and out of Scotland). There is also some Dutch in there.

My maternal grandfather's side is not as easy to trace back.They would be Irish, English, African... they had been in the states for awhile and were Kentucky feuding hill folk which did not mesh well with the African bit as they tried to hide it and 'whiten up' back then.

My paternal grandmother's side is mostly English and Scottish with some from (my grandmother believed to be) Holland.

My paternal grandfather's side would be the most diverse as two of his ancestors were sailors and boat builders who traveled about and consequently picked up women from all around. On that side I have Scottish, Irish, French, Shawnee, Brazilian... Some came from Germany, Austria, England, Holland, Switzerland...

So yeah, I am a mutt.

I tend to have an oragel moment when I hear a woman has that many ethnicities :).

Its pretty boring on my side though - Irish/English on one side, German/Polish/Slovak on another.



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01 Jan 2010, 4:38 pm

My parents immigrated from Holland and were each 100% Dutch as far as the available information goes.


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01 Jan 2010, 4:54 pm

Sand wrote:
I was grown in an underground vault from some ancient DNA discovered in a meteorite that had impacted the remains of Thomas Jefferson 30 years after he had been interred. A few insects, a dead rat, and a few off bacteria also contributed a few chromosomes and it took quite a few decades for the process to come to completion. The resulting egg was placed in the womb of a giraffe and I was born a few months later. I was small enough to escape through the bars of the zoo and grew up in various supermarkets and grocery stores where I lived in dank cellars and emerged at night to eat and educate myself by reading labels. Obviously I have had a peripatetic life and the rest of it is somewhat dull.



Well, at least you don't have to deal with relatives.


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01 Jan 2010, 5:06 pm

Both my mother and father's families came to North America in the early 1600's, so I'm a mutt. My mother is a genealogy nut. After many years of research she can trace the family back by records to the 14th century in England but there are references that an earlier ancestor who came over with William the Conqueror in 1066 and got part of Yorkshire as part of the spoils of war. Even earlier references are that this guy descended from the Vikings that occupied Normandy in the year 800. The earliest male ancestor I've seen through other related genealogical websites was born in Normandy in the year 1000 and it was his son who went to England with W the C. I come from a long line of imperialist bastards.


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01 Jan 2010, 5:21 pm

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genealogy


First person I have ever seen on the internet who spells that right.



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01 Jan 2010, 5:23 pm

TheOddGoat wrote:
Aimless wrote:
genealogy


First person I have ever seen on the internet who spells that right.


I'm a pretty decent speller but that particular success is thanks to spell-check. :)


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01 Jan 2010, 8:24 pm

Aimless wrote:
Sand wrote:
I was grown in an underground vault from some ancient DNA discovered in a meteorite that had impacted the remains of Thomas Jefferson 30 years after he had been interred. A few insects, a dead rat, and a few off bacteria also contributed a few chromosomes and it took quite a few decades for the process to come to completion. The resulting egg was placed in the womb of a giraffe and I was born a few months later. I was small enough to escape through the bars of the zoo and grew up in various supermarkets and grocery stores where I lived in dank cellars and emerged at night to eat and educate myself by reading labels. Obviously I have had a peripatetic life and the rest of it is somewhat dull.



Well, at least you don't have to deal with relatives.


Nevertheless I still have this warm family feeling whenever I see giraffes and cockroaches.



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01 Jan 2010, 8:40 pm

I consider myself as a third-generation Singaporean as I can trace my Singapore roots back 80 years or so from my paternal (that is, father's) side. My paternal grandfather moved here from Nan'an County in Fujian Province, China back then.

My mother came from Malaysia (NEP sucks!), and her mother immigrated from Yongchun in Fujian, China.

I am really happy to see people with different roots here.


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01 Jan 2010, 8:53 pm

My maternal ancestors were from Belgium. That is the lineage where the chromosome duplications seem to be originating. Paternally and some of the maternal mix is Cajun exile (French).



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03 Jan 2010, 7:48 am

Like many people here I am Anglo-Saxon-Celtic.

In other words I am Aryan. My ancestors are 100% Indo European which gives me my blond hair and blue eyes.

But that's ok. Despite the fact that my ancestors conquered the world I am quite happy that within 50 years there will not be a "white" country on the face of the earth.

I am quite happy that within 50 years France and Holland and Italy will be Muslim countries. I am quite happy that there will be more Mexicans in the USA than Europeans. More Turks in Germany than Germans. More Asians and Africans in Australia than Europeans.

Swedes, Danes and Finns are "racist" to complain that African immigrants are gang raping local girls.

We must embrace "diversity" and "multiculturalism" and "globalization"

We, who invented almost everything allowed our industry to be "offshored" and the remaining jobs to be taken by legal or illegal third world immigrants have no right to complain.

If you complain you will be thrown into jail under all the new "hate crime" laws.

Don't you love our brave new world?



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03 Jan 2010, 8:32 am

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Like many people here I am Anglo-Saxon-Celtic.

In other words I am Aryan. My ancestors are 100% Indo European which gives me my blond hair and blue eyes.

But that's ok. Despite the fact that my ancestors conquered the world I am quite happy that within 50 years there will not be a "white" country on the face of the earth.

I am quite happy that within 50 years France and Holland and Italy will be Muslim countries. I am quite happy that there will be more Mexicans in the USA than Europeans. More Turks in Germany than Germans. More Asians and Africans in Australia than Europeans.

Swedes, Danes and Finns are "racist" to complain that African immigrants are gang raping local girls.

We must embrace "diversity" and "multiculturalism" and "globalization"

We, who invented almost everything allowed our industry to be "offshored" and the remaining jobs to be taken by legal or illegal third world immigrants have no right to complain.

If you complain you will be thrown into jail under all the new "hate crime" laws.

Don't you love our brave new world?


Looks like the racists are crawling out of their ratholes.



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03 Jan 2010, 8:52 am

I'm half Italian on my father's side, he came here in the 50's as a young boy. I've been trying to find out information on our family but it's been hard as my father never met his grandparents. Our surname never really sounded Italian and recently I learn that it is an old German name, so I think we came from there originally.

On my mother's side Australian and they go back to Scotch-English-Welsh and aparently Spanish. I'm definitely a bitza.



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03 Jan 2010, 9:17 am

[quote="Sand"
Looks like the racists are crawling out of their ratholes.[/quote]

Yes I am a racist and proud of it!

I am not saying that my race is better than yours, only that it is my race.

I admire the Japanese. They are proud of being Japanese and being "one folk". It is very important to them.

Do you see the Japanese saying "gee our country would be improved by importing millions of Sudanese or Pakistanis or even Irishmen?"

Wow! Perhaps Greece would be "improved" by allowing millions of Irishmen in.

Perhaps Denmark would be "improved" by allowing millions of Greeks in.

I enjoy competition. "We can invent more than you". "We can kick your ass at football". "We can write better music than you"

My people are my people and my blood is my blood.

And if we have a problem about that then sooner or later I am going to load my gun and use it.



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03 Jan 2010, 9:35 am

Wombat wrote:
[quote="Sand"
Looks like the racists are crawling out of their ratholes.


Yes I am a racist and proud of it!

I am not saying that my race is better than yours, only that it is my race.

I admire the Japanese. They are proud of being Japanese and being "one folk". It is very important to them.

Do you see the Japanese saying "gee our country would be improved by importing millions of Sudanese or Pakistanis or even Irishmen?"

Wow! Perhaps Greece would be "improved" by allowing millions of Irishmen in.

Perhaps Denmark would be "improved" by allowing millions of Greeks in.

Jerk

I enjoy competition. "We can invent more than you". "We can kick your ass at football". "We can write better music than you"

My people are my people and my blood is my blood.

And if we have a problem about that then sooner or later I am going to load my gun and use it.[/quote]