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I'm 1/4 Estonian, 1/4 Latvian and from what my dad describes my moms parents as 1/2 white trash. My mom deosn't know her ancestry and shes a really nice person. But the way my dad talks about her parents, I mean wow. (They're dead now) Anyway i'm also 1/2 Jewish, which is part of my Ancestry because of small population=small gene pool=recurring traits. Don't know if I had anyone famous in my history
 

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vanthebaron said:
LackingSanity 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.
amazing that so many people have nazi haritage
Not all Germans are Nazis. Not even in the 30's were all of them Nazis
 

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Well, I'm Brazilian and beyond local roots, I've got Scottish, British, French and Polish roots. I don't know many stories, but some of my family is, or at least was Jewish, and some of them had some real trouble with nazis, so I imagine there are some sad tales in there.
 

Brutal Peanut

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Mothers side: Yaqui Native American
(which we are currently trying to prove. My Elders "Indian" papers burned in a Church fire long ago when we melded into the Hispanic communities to avoid being pushed onto the reservations, and without an "Indian number" on a piece of paper, they tell us that it's hard to prove, regardless of the Elders of my family fluently speaking the native language and being classified as Native Americans on their military serving papers. My grandmother died heartbroken because no one believed her. She spent most of the rest of her life, trying to track down records and papers that would be the equivalent of their "Indian numbers". We are having blood tests done, and are going to try and prove something through blood %. Then again, I would be considered thoroughly 'deluded'. We just want to finish what my grandmother set out to do, and put this all to rest.)
and Hispanic descent.

Fathers side: German (I plan to intrude on my relatives hospitality sometime in the near future=D) and Irish descent.

Other then that, I don't really have an extensive background link to anyone famous, as far as I know. Perhaps I should look into it more. I may be pleasantly surprised. =D
 

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Not much is known on my mothers side except for being largely of Hispanic decent. The reason for this is because my Grandfather's father left when he was born and his mother abandoned him at 4 because she suffered from schizophrenia. While my grandmother's family never kept track much.

Now my father's side is pretty large and all over the place. I was lucky that my grandmother managed to document many of my family as best as possible back to the antebellum period. But what I do know is that on my dad's side I am: Scottish, Irish, British, Swedish, Norwegian, German, and dutch. Although it can be difficult to classify others on the list but my last name shares that of the royal family in what was once Prussia. The difficult thing is that at the time our last name could have been common which is why we had it changed to stop the confusion the Union government was having when issuing drafts for the army. My Great Great Great grandfather actually was drafted twice into the Civil War for the Union. The first time he served and was discharged after being completely blinded in one eye and messing up his shoulder. But he was actually drafted again into the war and at the end he was legally blind in both eyes.
 

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My grandma's grandma was allegedly an illegitimate child of a Sicilian prince.
 

Eumersian

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Scottish, English, German, Irish.

I think I am related, not bloodwise, but through marriage to Alexander Graham Bell.
 

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I don't think I'm related to anyone really special, but I'm mostly french, then english, then irish. :D
 

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vanthebaron said:
cheywoodward said:
On my mothers side I am related to one of the puritans who came to America on the mayflower and supposedly I am indirectly related to Robert the Bruce (king of Scotland). However the one famous person I am directly related to is Alexander Hamilton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_hamilton

Interestingly enough I am also directly related to the man who killed him: Aaron Burr:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr

My grandfather was also a physicist at Harvard and because of this many Nobel prize winners at dinner at his house and my mother still knows some of them.
sweet ass, my ancestor was named after your ancestor
Cool, which one?
 

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I'm some sort of German/Czech/Polish/Hungarian on my dad's side and definately Italian on my mom's side. (her last name ends with i)
 

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cheywoodward said:
vanthebaron said:
cheywoodward said:
On my mothers side I am related to one of the puritans who came to America on the mayflower and supposedly I am indirectly related to Robert the Bruce (king of Scotland). However the one famous person I am directly related to is Alexander Hamilton:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_hamilton

Interestingly enough I am also directly related to the man who killed him: Aaron Burr:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr

My grandfather was also a physicist at Harvard and because of this many Nobel prize winners at dinner at his house and my mother still knows some of them.
sweet ass, my ancestor was named after your ancestor
Cool, which one?
Never Mind, I didn't make the connection until I went back and read your OP.
 

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I recenty found out that my great great great great great grandfather faught alongside William Wallace against the english.


Apparently while wallace gave his "They will never take our freeeeedom"!! speach, my ancestor made the mistake of shouting out loud:


"Well maybe these guys would take us all more seriously if we were all not wearing Skirts all the time".

............well the army took it in their stride and even gave him a ten second head start............his body was never found.
 

dark-amon

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Pretty standard norwiegean lineage. My ancestors on my mothers side where fishermen in the north and from my fathers side there where farmers living at the slopes of the mountains in the heart of Norway.
My great grandfather on my motherside made a stirr in his hometown when getting together with and marrying a woman intended to be married to another man. Their son (my grandfather) left his wife and 4 kids and left for USA making them the scandal of the town for a while (the prick).
On my fathers side my ancestors moved south started a farm, sold it to be used as a school and then opened a grocerystore. When the Nazis invaded my great grandfather and grandfather supplied the resistance with food and other necesities until they got arested and placed in a Nazi-prison called the Archive. MY grandfather was released since he was a kid, but my great grandfather sat imprisoned until the war was over. 60 years after the war he and all the other prisoners from the Archive was celebrated together with the norwiegean soldiers theat had fought the Nazis from England.
THat pretty much sums up my entire familyhistory. Before that: farmers, fishermen, farmers, fishermen etc