What are your origins?

[sistasheila]

have you for example been born and raised in,lets say edinburgh with a list of origins from scotland that stems back 200 years? or did your forefathers came from another countries? where from?would be interesting to hear about it like from those of you from the US..and of course from everybody else

I :
grandmother from the father side came from norway (so maybe, bikeubesong, we are related -LOL)
grandfather from the father side have been from berlin
with a history rooted only in berlin as far as i know-


grandmother from the mother side is from pommern which is now poland
pommern was part of us since around 1800(?) ?
http://www.knowledgerush.com/kr/encyclopedia/Pommern/
after WW2 the germans had to fled since the border of germany-poland was shifted so the german population was expelled
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Pomerania
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pommern
so she went to berlin
where she met my grandfather with a history rooted berlin ONLY as far as i know- like my other grandfather

so both my mother and father were born and raised in berlin and I lived some time in my life as a child theree and always had a strong connection to he city . i had moved around a lot and never felt really homely anywhere so when things doesnt work out here in hamburg i might return to berlin...but not too soon Im afraid..money money money....

I had always a strong connection to the sea which i cant really explain....
both the "pommersche" village where my grandmother lived was by the sea as well as the norway village was by the sea also


what about you?

eh..hope origins is the correct word-i wasnt sure-mybe forefathers is more fitting

[EPbabe]

I'm Hungarian, mainly of Hungarian origins, and also of Slovak, Armenian, German, Jewish and Serbian. Typical Easter-European.

Edit: What have I done? I wanted to reply Sistasheila's thread....

Edit 2: Thanks, Kewpie.

[laughing_anne]

I have a Swedish surname but you'd have to go back quite a few generations to find any of my ancestors there. My mum has distant relatives in Russia.

[Franzanna]

I'm half (or a quarter if you want to be fussy) Belarussian, part (eighth?) Welsh, part (looong time back) Scottish, part (eighth or sixteenth, I'm not sure) Channel Island-ish, rest English. My mother lived in Mogalev until she was about 6 or 7, but she doesn't remember much from there.

[almareallymatters]

My Dad was born in 1925 in Co Wexford in Ireland but came to London for work in the late 40's.

My Mum was born in 1940 in Shepherds Bush in London but was evacuated during the war to Yorkshire where she grew up...she returned to London in the early 50's.

Both my parents have passed away now sadly.

"Irish Blood English Heart"...thats me!

Love Alma xxx

[laughing_anne]

and where do you live?

Guess.

Finland

[MunchyBrain]

My dads from Finchley and my mum's from Croydon. Only Londoners will get why that's funny. My great-grandfather was German Jewish, he came over here before the war. I have a lot of random Scottish and Irish as well, from both sides.

[sistasheila]

Guess.

Finland

i havent guessed that haha...

maybe some of my forefathers waaay back came from scotland..I cant really explain that strong connection towards scotland-i was onyl there once and felt some strange and very strong homely feelings there..maybe in one of my previous life i was....
i must get hypnotized to find that out^
but i guess its more wishful thinking haha

[half a person]

I was born in Tuebrook in Liverpool, where my dad had always lived but my mum lived in Rochdale. My dad's family were irish, my mum's completely mancunian as far as we know on her dad's side, and her mum's parents were polish. And that's as far back as I know, I might have connections elsewhere, but nobody knows who my grandad's dad was...

[Franzanna]

My own personal place of origin was Blackpool, Lancashire. Ooooh yeah.

[laughing_anne]

My own personal place of origin was Blackpool, Lancashire. Ooooh yeah.

Blackpool creeps me out a bit. But to be fair I didn't see much of the town outside the piers.

[ThisCharmingGirl]

I'm 100% Catalan. I'm also Spanish, but that's in second place

[Buzzetta]

I was born in 19th century Canada to rich plantation owners under the name James Howlett. I grew into manhood on a mining colony in Northern Alberta, adopting the name "Buzzetta", which was the last name of the plantation groundskeeper, Thomas Buzzetta and his son Dog. After discovering how I was different and causing the deaths of many on that snowy evening. I left the colony and lived for a time in the wilderness among wolves, until returning to civilization, residing with the Blackfoot Indians. Following the death of my Blackfoot paramour, Silver Fox, I ushered myself into a Canadian military unit. Now calling myself Logan, I then spent some time in Madripoor, developing a "Patch" persona; before settling in Japan, where I married and had a son.
During World War II, I teamed up with Captain America versus HYDRA, and continued a career as a soldier-of-fortune/adventurer later working for the First Canadian Parachute Battalion and the CIA before being recruited for Team X.
As a member of Team X, I was given false memory implants. I continued on the team, until I was able to break free of the mental control and joined the Canadian Defense Ministry. Later I was subsequently kidnapped by Weapon X, where I remained captive and experimented on, until my rescue by the Winter Soldier, after which I returned to the Canadian wilderness where eventually my travels led me to Professor Charles Xavier.

[Buzzetta]

oh you are such a geek

I was going to say Krypton

What? What are you talking about?

[iamkali62]

Well, my father was born in Glasgow in 1925 and my mother was born in Ireland in 1923. She was from a small fishing village called Portavogie.HER mother was born in Wales ( I almost was named after her which was Blodwyn. Then she went to Ireland. My surname was originally Thompson but I am also part of the Campbell clan; it seems my relations were slaves to them. Then somehow it turned into my surname which I really would prefer not to mention here and in 1962 I came along.

[nugz]

I was born in 19th century Canada to rich plantation owners under the name James Howlett. I grew into manhood on a mining colony in Northern Alberta, adopting the name "Buzzetta", which was the last name of the plantation groundskeeper, Thomas Buzzetta and his son Dog. After discovering how I was different and causing the deaths of many on that snowy evening. I left the colony and lived for a time in the wilderness among wolves, until returning to civilization, residing with the Blackfoot Indians. Following the death of my Blackfoot paramour, Silver Fox, I ushered myself into a Canadian military unit. Now calling myself Logan, I then spent some time in Madripoor, developing a "Patch" persona; before settling in Japan, where I married and had a son.
During World War II, I teamed up with Captain America versus HYDRA, and continued a career as a soldier-of-fortune/adventurer later working for the First Canadian Parachute Battalion and the CIA before being recruited for Team X.
As a member of Team X, I was given false memory implants. I continued on the team, until I was able to break free of the mental control and joined the Canadian Defense Ministry. Later I was subsequently kidnapped by Weapon X, where I remained captive and experimented on, until my rescue by the Winter Soldier, after which I returned to the Canadian wilderness where eventually my travels led me to Professor Charles Xavier.

haha i started reading that and i was like "wait thats not right...." and then I was like "oh geeez" *groan*

[Buzzetta]

The details of my life are quite inconsequential.... Very well, where do I begin? My father was a relentlessly self-improving boulangerie owner from Belgium with low-grade narcolepsy and a penchant for buggery. My mother was a 15-year-old French prostitute named Chloe with webbed feet. My father would womanize; he would drink. He would make outrageous claims like he invented the question mark. Sometimes, he would accuse chestnuts of being lazy. The sort of general malaise that only the genius possess and the insane lament... My childhood was typical: summers in Rangoon... luge lessons... In the spring, we'd make meat helmets... When I was insolent I was placed in a burlap bag and beaten with reeds — pretty standard, really. At the age of 12, I received my first scribe. At the age of 14, a Zoroastrian named Wilma ritualistically shaved my testicles — there really is nothing like a shorn scrotum — it's breathtaking... I suggest you try it.

[Discarnate]

My mother was born in 1949 in Munich, Germany. My father in 1960 in the US. She is half german (her mother) /half mongolian (her father). He is Scottish. One of the ancestors on my fathers side was General John Stark who is my great, great, great, etc.....grandfather. He was "famous" for fighting in the revolutionary war. There are over 10 towns named after him in NY state (where I currently am).
My grandmother on mom's side was almost sent to a concentration camp when she helped get jewish people out of germany in the middle of the war.

[PregnantForTheLastTime]

When a husband and a wife love each other very much, they get in bed together and hug and a kiss in a very special way...

and that's how I came to be!

[mozzia]

I'm an eighth Irish, the rest English.

My mother was born and brought up in the town we still live in now (in North Yorkshire). HER mother was too. Not sure about her father...

My father was born and brought up in a town nearby. His mother, I'm not sure, but I think shes lived in this area all/most of her life. His father was from Stoke.

The Irish comes from earlier generations, on both my mother and fathers sides, but I don't know specific details.