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Kool! Everyone should take pride in their ancestry. Remember America's national motto, E Pluribus Unum -Through many, one.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

You have some interesting ancestors. You know alot. :lmao:
I'll tell you about one of mine, though he's French.
My ancestor Peter Delong was one of my many Hugonaut ancestors, born in Lorraine. His parents were from Normandie, I think. His grantparents, Charles Langer was from Normandie (name changed to DeLong) and Marie De Marets (daughter of Jean De Marets and Sarah Bonnet) were from Wallonia, Belgium.

(from rootsweb)
De Long.--The progenitor of the De Long family was Peter De Long,8 originally De Lang, who came to Maxatawny at an early day from New York, where the family had located. The family name will ever be distinguished by the heroic achievements of Lieut. George W. De Long, of the American navy and leader of the ill-fated Jeanette Polar expedition, in which he perished.

Peter DeLong, the ancestor of the DeLong's of Berks county, migrated form Ulster county, NY, to PA, and settled in Maxatawny township, Berks county, (then Philadelphia county), in 1738. A patent for 186 acres was granted to him 6/27/1738. He was married in 1722 to Eva Elisabeth Weber, a daughter of Jacob and his wife, Anna Elisabeth Weber. Mr. Weber was a member of the famous Rev. Joshua Kocherthal Colony, which settled in Duchess county, NY, in the spring of 1709. In a record of the colony made 4/20/1710, we find the following mention of him and his family: "Jacob Weber, aged 30,
husbandman and wine-dresser; his wife Anna Elisabeth, 25, their children Anna Maria, 5; and
Eva Elisabeth 1." The land selected by Peter DeLong was a level tract of land, well timbered,
a few acres of the original forest are still standing, and well watered, is rich and productive. He, the pioneer, toiled and struggled clearing the land and building a house and rearing a God-fearing family. Near the close of his life, 10/8/1759, this pious Reformed Huguenot gave two acres of land for an
Evangelical Reformed Church and school house, not only for a short period, but as long as the sun and moon shall shine in the heavens and the rivers run down to the sea. It is therefore, not without reason that from the loins of this plain but God-fearing settler have sprung a long list of staunch Protestant heralds of the cross. he died about 1760 and his remains and that of his wife no doubt repose in the cemetery of the church of which he is regarded as the founder.

PETER DeLANGHE WAS A GERMAN SPEAKING FRENCH HUGUENOT. HIS FAMILY EMIGRATED FROM FRANCE OR WHAT WAS A GERMAN PRINCIPALITY. THE AREA WAS NOW WESTERN BELGIUM AND PART OF HOLLAND. THE FAMILY FIRST IMMIGRATED TO ULSTER CO., NEW YORK.

Guitar_Girl-

In the words of Mr. Spock: "Fascinating."
My Dad's people, once having reached America, settled the Dakotas in the 1870's, as most Black Sea Germans did. After which, by the 1890's, they had relocated to Oregon, then Washington (where I reside to this day) by the turn of the century.
My Mom's Mom's people had lived in Chicago since 1890's (I don't know when her Dad's folks came to Chicago, or America). As a child, my Mom's family moved all over the country, but ended up in Washington, where my parents met, got married, and made me!
I'm trying to make an effort not to have diarrhea of the finger tips, this time.

-Bill, otherwise known as Kraichgauer

My mother has been working on the family genealogy for 30 + years and has networked with other distant family enthusiasts. The earliest I know on my father's side is a man born in Normandy in the year 1000. His son was with William the Conqueror and got a piece of Yorkshire as part of the spoils of war. My surname used to be de ______ from that area. So it was Bartholomew de ______. In the 1630's two of his descendants went to the America's on a land deal to Mass. I'm descended from one of the brothers. My mother's side also came early. One ancestor was part of the second Jamestown expedition. They actually got blown off course by a hurricane and ended up in Bermuda where they had to repair the ship.When they got to Jamestown he got captured by the Native Americans but was later released. Later in the 1700's, there was an ancestor who settled in Barbados. He was a doctor and a randy old goat and fathered many children out of wedlock. So I have many Caribbean distant half cousins.

I'm Prussian

I have a tiny tintype photograph of my Prussian Great Grandmother. She looks just like this only much rounder.

Bill

I'm on the other side of the country, near the Atlantic Ocean. (about 1 hour away)
All my ancestors settled in NY, NJ (including an English woman, tracing back to European royalty), or PA. Your family sure moved alot, more than mine. I have some relatives in Florida, who I used to get Christmas presents from, and my grandfather is in Minnesota. That's about it. I also have distant relativis in Washington. Do you know any Dotter families?

I can trace my ancestry back to the year 160 in Finland. Wow. I'm definately a European mutt. His name was Fornjotur Kvenland (names were weird back then) , who was born in 160 and died in 250. Finland was named after him. You can look him up http://www.kvenland.com/ . On the page it shows descendents of Fornjotur. His descendant, Nor, founded Norway. I find it fascinating how surnames change over years. See how Brusesson got to De Bruce.
I would have diarrhea of the fingers, but not much is known about him.

50% Irish
25% German
12.5% French
12.5% British

Direct descendant of a signer of the Mayflower Compact Original immigrant on my mother's side, arrived at Rhode Island in 1651, and married a woman whose father came over on the Mayflower in 1620.

Charles

I don't know any ancestors that are interesting, but like I said, I'm very mixed. The Cleary or Cleirigh clan(also Clary, Clery, and Clark) is one of if not the oldest documented Irish clan still in existence. I'm probably very distantly related to people named Clark, like the Clark(don't remember first name) from the Lewis and Clark expedition. On that same side of the family(paternal), my ancestors belong to the Scottish Campbell clan which is one of the more prominent and powerful clans. It is quite possible that one of my father's ancestors was Mediterranean as he has that look about him, so much so that his brothers used to tell him he was adopted from places like Spain. Also, on the same side of the family, I've a German ancestor and a Briton ancestor.

On the Maternal side(Puerto Rican side), although my grandmother was adopted very young, she was adopted by her aunt. My grandmother's grandmother was mostly full-blooded Taino. My grandfather, Manuel Collazo, was more pure. His ancestors probably originated from Andalusia or Galicia. If the latter, than I'm probably Celtic on my mother's side too. Nearly half of Puerto Rico's people have African genes, and going by how my cousins look, I think I probably am black as well. Additionally, the Collazo family originates from Italy, so I'm Italian as well.

Update:
There's possible traces of Hispanic in my moms family

A graph I made This isn't exact, as I probably have traces of other Slavic and Scandinavian in me, but it's the closest.

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Irish/English/Norman (from northern France). My father claims that my Norman ancestors were mercenaries in a war.

Where did you get that graph from?

five thousand years of Greek and Jewish culture.

ruveyn

I made the graph in Microsoft Excel, then copy and pasted the flags onto the image on Paint.NET

Cajun, Slovakian, Polish, Irish, Austrian, British, Welsh, Viking and German. Mostly the first three. I get a lot of Polish jokes from people, even though my Polish great great grandad was pretty smart. He outwitted the Polish army after all.