Who were your ancestors/relations?

I'm half-Irish, half-German, and we think that one of my ancestors was the Native American chief, Tecumseh. (google his name, you'll probably get a lot of hits) but since the museum containing his birth documents burned several years ago, we might never know. (Tecumseh was the chief of a tribe of Indians known as the Shawnee indians.) Nothing really is known about him, and his birthdate is an estimated one.

I also have Black Dutch, French Canadian, and a little Scottish in me.

I'm not really related to anybody famous. :rolleyes:
 
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Interesting histories, everyone! :D I just found out yesterday that my great-grandpa, whose name was Fred Carroll, was a bigamist (had more than one wife). He left my grandma and great-grandma and went back to his home state of Alabama, where he remarried and had a couple of kids. My aunt was surprised when she found out. xD
 
Well, if you really want to know... My mom's side is Japanese. And that's the only side, in my opinion, that is worth the smidge of hearing about.

My mother's grandmother (1902-1980) married my great-grandfather (1898-1983) around 1920 or so and had my grandma, my great-uncle, and great-aunt (in that order) in California.. around I'm not sure when. :p

My great-grandmother (Kotoku Ushio Inouye [ee-no-eh, not in-a-way.]) was the daughter of Tei Ushio, one of five something sisters- and, no sons. She married Suekichi Ushio- Suekichi taking Tei's last name (some Japanese custom when there's no one to carry on the family name or whatnot)- a gentle man [she said] who happened to be a erm... sumo wrestler. (Go ahead and laugh it up, but this was sometime in the late 19th century when the world was a lot slimmer)

[An interesting note- Tei Ushio's father was a Samarai in the early 1800s. The two swords that the my family inherited (long an small) were unfortunately confiscated by the Japanese government during WWII when they had that need for metal or whatever. They gave up the long one, and hid the small one, but eventually it was taken from them. I don't even know why they were in Japan during WWII but I'm guessing it was because they had some business with the family-owned land.]

My great-grandfather (Kensuke Inouye)'s parents were Iwakichi Inouye (faher-1871-1929) and Miyo Furukawa (mother-1868-1898). Iwakichi had three wives. The first, Miyo, died after delivering Kensuke, so he remarried. And she too died- pregnancy complications or something. He did marry a third wife, but she died without having any kids. I don't think the rest of her step-children liked her very much anyway. There's also some sort of curse or something she tried to cast but whatever.

Anyway, that's part of my family history. Not very much there is exciting, and I can only trace back to the early 1800s, so yeah... there's a lot of blanks to fill, and I hardly know anything about it. :p
 
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I've recently found out that I'm decended from the Welsh Royal family on my mum's side. They've lived in the West Midlands for years, but my great uncle has been doing research into genealogy and has discovered that the middle name for the males in the family has always been Derwas, which was the surname of the decendants of the Royal family. I'm gonna do research into it and find out the connection. If its true my son is getting the middle name Derwas!

Apart from that I'm pretty boring. I come from a family called the Ashdownes on my dad's side who have just bummed around in Sussex for about 500 years...
 
owlfeather90 said:
Thanks yeah it´s sweet to be a decendant from vikings but it can actually get annoying when people think you are a viking yourself -___- I am just a fairly normal teenage girl ^^ Did ya know (oh dear) that icelandic is the closest language that comes to the original old-norse. That´s one the reason why it´s so UNunderstandable ^^;
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Oh be proud of it will you?! ;) ... actually, your language is the coolest language around. It rocks :P ... Old-Norse and Icelandic is very similar, and even though we don't know how they spoke, some assume that they spoke the way you guys do. Atleast when I'm learning Old-Norse, I have to speak with an Icelandic accent.

Oh yeah... 100% Norwegian.
 
Well I know that my great grandfather came from Germany to America and then the rest of his family came, on my dad's side. I also know that on my mom's side of the family my great great grandfather was named Orley Arley and was either Norwiegen or Sweedish and married either a Norweigen or Sweedish mail order bride. Which ever he is not so one was Norweigien and the other Sweedish and my great grandmother was named Olga Arley. My grandma on my mom's side thinks we are descended from Lief Eric but doesn't know for sure and has no proof and my other grandma thinks she has some Native American blood but isn't sure either. I call my self a mixed breed because I come from so many different backgrounds.
 
I don't know anything about my family. All I know is that they descended from either Afaghanistan or from Moghuls. Or either they were Hindu Indians, who convereted to Islam, who then became either Pakistani or Bangladeshi - which I am. :p
 
FaNtAsY-GiRl-FoReVeR said:
Anyone here know Jesse James, yeah, Im related to him. And one of my friends at school is related to Hitler!
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Really?:eek: Wow...that's a relation NOT to be proud of.:p Did you know Hitler has direct relatives living here in the U. S.? His nephew, William Patrick Hitler, came to America with his wife, and their children ended up changing their names and stuff so they wouldn't be found out. It's sad.:(

But anyway, very interesting ancestries! I've been doing my mother's side of the family recently, and managed to get her family back to the American Revolution on her father's side, to a Moses Cox of Washington Co., GA. I also did some research on her mother's side, and found out her father may have been a bigamist; Grandma has a half-sister living several hours from where I live. Lol.
 
No idea. As my mother is Scottish and my father is American, (and you know how American genetics can get!) my genes are such a stew that I know I must have... at least a bit or Native American, Scottish, perhaps a bit of Irish (my last name has Irish origins) and from there, I don't really know. Research would be a huge pain...
 
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No idea. As my mother is Scottish and my father is American, (and you know how American genetics can get!) my genes are such a stew that I know I must have... at least a bit or Native American, Scottish, perhaps a bit of Irish (my last name has Irish origins) and from there, I don't really know. Research would be a huge pain...
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*Blows away dust.*

Yeah, researching is difficult sometimes (trust me, I know; I've spent hours in libraries looking through books, lol), but it's worth it.:D

Anyway, after doing some research on Mama's side, I've found that she has a royal descent too, just like my dad does through his Feltons.:eek: Apparently, through the marriage of a Willam Avent to a Sarah Massey through one of Mama's grandmothers, Mama is related to the Barons of Dunham-Massey (who had a family priest, St. John Plessington; though that was interesting), and has descent from numerous European royalties (including six different descents back to Edward III of England, apparently)...
 
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