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Lets see here... On my mother's side I'm mostly Irish with a bit of Finnish and on my dad's side I'm Finnish... I'm a lot Finnish. However my dad was adopted so we don't really know anything about his biological ancestors, not to mention I consider myself part of my dad's adopted family and not his biological family, so thats who I look at.
Notable people on my dads side (this is his adopted family)A couple of English lordly houses, Clan Campbell (I don't think it is the main branch, probably a cadet branch), as well as a minor Scottish Clan Rose, a civil war captain who accepted his cousins surrender, And Brigham Young who is my great great great great uncle.
On my mothers side we haven't done a ton of research but I can tell you that Jessie James was named after my great great great Grandfather. Also way back there are french Huguenots and considering that although only one percent of the population were Huguenots but ninety percent of the nobility were, there is a chance I'm descended from some sort of nobility.
Notable people on my dads side (this is his adopted family)A couple of English lordly houses, Clan Campbell (I don't think it is the main branch, probably a cadet branch), as well as a minor Scottish Clan Rose, a civil war captain who accepted his cousins surrender, And Brigham Young who is my great great great great uncle.
On my mothers side we haven't done a ton of research but I can tell you that Jessie James was named after my great great great Grandfather. Also way back there are french Huguenots and considering that although only one percent of the population were Huguenots but ninety percent of the nobility were, there is a chance I'm descended from some sort of nobility.
I have mostly Swedish ancestors as far as I know. But I do have some Wallonians, Germans and probably some Finns in my family tree. Most of my ancestors have been smiths and farmers. But some of my ancestors might have been the rulers of a german town called Querfurt.
I'm a mix of English and Scottish, with some Irish a bit further back. Don't know of anyone particularly famous in the family tree, BUT there have been some pretty big bad asses.
For example, William Ram, who served as a midshipman on the HMS Victory during the battle of Trafalgar. He was hit by a shower of massive wood splinters during one of the engagements, and received: "multiple injuries that left him in indescribable agony"
Sometime later in the battle, he could stand the pain no more and "having received a tourniquet around a shattered limb, he untied it and let himself bleed to death"
For example, William Ram, who served as a midshipman on the HMS Victory during the battle of Trafalgar. He was hit by a shower of massive wood splinters during one of the engagements, and received: "multiple injuries that left him in indescribable agony"
Sometime later in the battle, he could stand the pain no more and "having received a tourniquet around a shattered limb, he untied it and let himself bleed to death"
Semi interesting story here.
I am half Finnish and half Swedish.
However, I was born and raised in Australia. I have never identified with my "fellow Australians" I hated the culture, the people, the politics, the weather..... I hated it all. I was never home there, and I consider myself Finnish before all else. I?m a Finnish resident, and will go ahead and take the Citizenship exam sooner or later. I hear the language test is murder even on native speakers.
My Swedish heritage is pretty uninteresting. Bunch of average Vikings no doubt, however my Finnish heritage is a total mystery.
My grandfather was apparently someone of stature, and seeing as most of the people of said stature were and still are Swedish, I may actually be entirely Swedish, or half Swedish and half Swedish speaking Fin..... Which is worse...
Anyhow, my grandfather ran away with my grandmother for REASONS UNKNOWN taking with them ITEMS AND FUNDS UNKNOWN.
They snuck over to England during the giant WW1 and WW2 shitfight in europe. They changed their names, deleted their past identities and then, in an even more sneaky move, hauled ass to Australia in the 60s when nobody was looking.
They are both dead now, and only let slip a few details about their past, which was all very smoke and mirrors.
Their secrets died with them, and I was digging around up here for information on them when the Helsingin Sanmoat (Finland?s largest newspaper) somehow caught wind of what I was up to, called me up and wrote an article on me.
Here it is in a smaller version and a link to the MEGA HIGH RES version if you speak Finnish and actually want to read the article.
The last line in the article is fucking priceless.
"Mutten hän voi joutua Ruoitsiin, ja sellaista Rhys ei tosiaankaan halua"
And mega version for the Fins out there...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b333/thedarkcyan/1cd3af3c.jpg
I am half Finnish and half Swedish.
However, I was born and raised in Australia. I have never identified with my "fellow Australians" I hated the culture, the people, the politics, the weather..... I hated it all. I was never home there, and I consider myself Finnish before all else. I?m a Finnish resident, and will go ahead and take the Citizenship exam sooner or later. I hear the language test is murder even on native speakers.
My Swedish heritage is pretty uninteresting. Bunch of average Vikings no doubt, however my Finnish heritage is a total mystery.
My grandfather was apparently someone of stature, and seeing as most of the people of said stature were and still are Swedish, I may actually be entirely Swedish, or half Swedish and half Swedish speaking Fin..... Which is worse...
Anyhow, my grandfather ran away with my grandmother for REASONS UNKNOWN taking with them ITEMS AND FUNDS UNKNOWN.
They snuck over to England during the giant WW1 and WW2 shitfight in europe. They changed their names, deleted their past identities and then, in an even more sneaky move, hauled ass to Australia in the 60s when nobody was looking.
They are both dead now, and only let slip a few details about their past, which was all very smoke and mirrors.
Their secrets died with them, and I was digging around up here for information on them when the Helsingin Sanmoat (Finland?s largest newspaper) somehow caught wind of what I was up to, called me up and wrote an article on me.
Here it is in a smaller version and a link to the MEGA HIGH RES version if you speak Finnish and actually want to read the article.
The last line in the article is fucking priceless.
"Mutten hän voi joutua Ruoitsiin, ja sellaista Rhys ei tosiaankaan halua"
And mega version for the Fins out there...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b333/thedarkcyan/1cd3af3c.jpg
My family is from Canada. But the surname Anderson has scandinavian roots, so in summary. My family is Canadian, consisting of Norwegian migrators to the north americas long ago. The end. We're just a boring family, boring but safe 
I'm mostly Croatian and Slovenian, with a German/Irish/Scott mix from my mother. I don't know of anyone in my family who was famous, except my great grandfather who did something famous agriculturally (I can't recall it at the moment).
Well my Grandfather on my Mother's side was a german solider in WW2 who spent most of the war in a French POW camp in North Africa, he met my grand mother by being penpals. After the war they found each other, married and moved to Canada. my mother was born there and so was I. My father's heritage is either in the north of England (Manchester) or in Scotland.
My Grandpa is related to some actor, I don;t know his name, all I know is that he did some dog movies, my brother doesn't shut up about how we're related to an actor. My great Grandmother lived down the street from the Queen of England.
EDIT: Also, I'm part Scottish, I was born Canadian.
EDIT: Also, I'm part Scottish, I was born Canadian.
3/4 Dundonian (of Dundee, Scotland), 1/4 Athenian (of Athens, Greece). Grandmother came over because her mom was trying to dodge jail for stealing from soldiers to keep her neighbours alive. Also apparently a descendant of Rob Roy MacGregor.
Yes, THAT Rob Roy, the one Liam Neeson played. The Robin Hood that actually existed. My mom's father is a MacGregor and he came from the area that Rob Roy lived in, apparently it all checks out so....yeah.
Also I have cousins in Greece who traced our family back to the Peloponnesian wars....all the way back to freakin' 200 B.C or something.
As for more recent family members, my grandfather on my mother's side served in El Alamein, still has a sniper bullet in his back which doesn't bother him.
Yes, THAT Rob Roy, the one Liam Neeson played. The Robin Hood that actually existed. My mom's father is a MacGregor and he came from the area that Rob Roy lived in, apparently it all checks out so....yeah.
Also I have cousins in Greece who traced our family back to the Peloponnesian wars....all the way back to freakin' 200 B.C or something.
As for more recent family members, my grandfather on my mother's side served in El Alamein, still has a sniper bullet in his back which doesn't bother him.
Nope. All I know is my grandmother's surname supposedly puts her (and, by correlation, my siblings and I) among the Order of the Thistle.
Not very special.
Not very special.
No offense taken, most of my family is littered with dicks if you haven't noticed.vanthebaron said:
I know what you mean, my birth father is a massive dick, a wife beater, he lies to my sisters, and hes a junky.NekoiHiokans said:
Primarily Canadian, with Swedish, German, and Scottish ancestry. As for famous people, Noah Webster [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutz_Graf_Schwerin_von_Krosigk], of dictionary fame, is a distant ancestor, but I have no idea exactly how I am related.