Bloodine

[RCMerchant]

What's your heritage? I'm American, of course, but most of my bloodline comes from Norway and England.
My Dad's grandparents were from Norway. My Ma- she was adopted as a child by a hillbilly woman from Georgia and a Jewish man-"Pappy" from NYC. She was raised in the Bronx- where I was born. My Dad met her in NYC when he was on leave in the Navy. But Her real parents were Morgan's. In North Carolina.

[Alex]

Since Kristi has been working on my family tree, I can tell you they go back in the UK for quite a long time. Most of my ancestors seem to have come over from France and Italy (although one branch did leave Scotland to be nobles in Sweden). I now seem to be working on reversing the emigration of people to the US and bringing them back to Europe (we have at least three families who want to move over here and want to know where me and Kristi are settling once I am out the RAF. I think basing your future on where we live is a terrible idea. What if they come over and then we decide to go somewhere else?).

[Trevor]

I was born in Rhodesia, abandoned in a hospital when I was a few weeks old so I have zero memories of my birth parents.

Both of my adoptive parents were South African born so I have a bit of a murky past.

Someone offered to trace my heritage once and I said no because of the fact that all the zombies and criminals would come out of the woodwork 

[RCMerchant]

Since Kristi has been working on my family tree, I can tell you they go back in the UK for quite a long time. Most of my ancestors seem to have come over from France and Italy (although one branch did leave Scotland to be nobles in Sweden). I now seem to be working on reversing the emigration of people to the US and bringing them back to Europe (we have at least three families who want to move over here and want to know where me and Kristi are settling once I am out the RAF. I think basing your future on where we live is a terrible idea. What if they come over and then we decide to go somewhere else?).

I wouldn't move here. If you did- go to a small town. The cities are insane. Though I gotta say NYC iwas a porno cesspool in the early 80's. Punk rock and crime. Rats. Garbage.  I loved it. It taught me a lot about human nature. Desperate. Lonely, people. I was one of them.

[Alex]

Since Kristi has been working on my family tree, I can tell you they go back in the UK for quite a long time. Most of my ancestors seem to have come over from France and Italy (although one branch did leave Scotland to be nobles in Sweden). I now seem to be working on reversing the emigration of people to the US and bringing them back to Europe (we have at least three families who want to move over here and want to know where me and Kristi are settling once I am out the RAF. I think basing your future on where we live is a terrible idea. What if they come over and then we decide to go somewhere else?).

I wouldn't move here. If you did- go to a small town. The cities are insane. Though I gotta say NYC in the mid 80's was a porno cesspool in the early 80's. Punk rock and crime. Rats. Garbage.  I loved it. It taught me alot about human nature. Desperate. Lonely, people.

We discussed moving to the US, but various factors convinced us we'd have a better quality of life over here.

[RCMerchant]

^Any kind of health care that is worth a broke dick is higher than my pot-head ass.

[RCMerchant]

My Gramma Morris made the best dam fried chicken and hush puppies I ever had in my life! I lived with her when I ran away from home in Michigan in 1979. That was in the Bronx.
Pappy Morris died when I was about 5 years old. He had an old sister who's voice sounded like she had been smoking cigarettes for most of her life.

[indianasmith]

Scots-Irish with a dash of Cherokee.  Sixth generation Texan.
My grandmother's grandfather fought in the Texas Revolution, the Mexican War, and the Civil War.
Came through all three unscratched and lived to be 91!

[claws]

My sister just started this myheritage stuff online. Not sure if worth the $150 she had to pay for DNA and one year subscription. From my father's side our bloodline comes from England and France, but we already knew that.

[ER]

On my paternal grandfather's side I have a lot of German ancestors. On my paternal grandmother's I have a surprising amount of Scottish (and although I don't mention it often to my mom's side, Scots-Irish) but also English. My grandma had a several-times great uncle who converted to Anglicanism and clerked for the Lord Mayor of Bristol, the city where many of her English ancestors seemed to live in and around. My mom's family hail from one of the stubbornly Gaeltacht regions of Ireland, and my maternal grandfather's grandparents never spoke English.

In 2007 I did a DNA Tribes DNA analysis, back then the best on the market supposedly, and it confirmed what I was told in my family, but also showed interesting markers going back apparently thousands of years, and was surprised to find I also had distant ancestors from the Indus River Valley, from the Berbers of North Africa, from Tuscany, Syria, the Baltic---Vikings, I figure----and, confirming the Irish histories, from among the Basques, who settled in Ireland in pre-history.

So, there you go, I am a mutt.

[chefzombie]

english, irish, scot, cherokee and mashpee, or so i'm told. there's official family tree crap on both sides , but it's just detail of what i already know. i prefer the truth that my maternal grandmother told me, and my paternal aunts too. they didn't deny the darkness in our ancestral past.

[Rev. Powell]

I'm descended from a fella named Adam and a dame called Eve, who conceived my ancestors in a sick threesome with a snake.

More recently a mix of English, Irish and German.

I'm not really much interested in "heritage." My father and brother worked on a fairly thorough genealogy that goes back earlier than the Civil War, and we know where my family name originated. It's sort of interesting, if trivial, but it doesn't really grab me.