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Post by Vortex13 on Nov 2, 2016 15:26:34 GMT
I have some Irish, French and Polish on my father's side with Polish being the greatest percentage. My grandmother always says "Us Polocks are good workers." when we have family get togethers at any rate. We had ancestors in France who were minor nobles at some point, though I believe they lost all their lands after the Revolution. Also, according to my grandfather, on my dad's side of the family, we apparently have some African American in our family tree; the man's name was Levi, if I can recall correctly. On my mother's side, her ancestry is primarily German; which I believe is the greatest percentage of my genetic makeup; my mother is 3/4 German. My grandfather on my mother's side sadly died when she was 12, I would have liked to have met him. All I can recall of him from random discussions of family history was that he apparently came to the US as a child only a few years before Hilter came to power and that his name was Klaus Behr. In fact my mom named my younger brother in remembrance of her father.
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Post by Nimlowyn on Nov 2, 2016 16:20:35 GMT
On the previous page you will see I am an American who is 0% indigenous. I wonder why....... Because my ancestors were immigrants, obvs.
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Post by cloud9 on Nov 2, 2016 17:41:31 GMT
I'm not ashamed of saying it and historically we were stolen from West Africa to the Americas. Trans Atlantic Slave Trade is a bitch. Them no good thieving motherfuckers. Let's apportion some blame where it's due ... who do you think enslaved and sold your ancestors to white slave traders in the first place? Odds are it was probably the Zulus if it was West Africa - Maasai are further east. Who taught you that nonsense? #1: It started in the 15th century in Central Africa to West Africa where over 15 million Africans were forced into slavery (France, England, Spain, Portugal, and other European countries made a killing off of slavery of Africans and even the Middle East was involved enslaving Africans from North, Southeast Africa hence the Arab Slave Trade.) and the English created dungeons in the coast of Ghana and Senegal to keep slaves in the most horrifying conditions, kept in chains while they're starving, living in their own filth, kept in tight spaces and slowly dying in painful death. And in the ships young girls who are no more than 7 to 12 years old were often raped by sailors and captains and people often died by either starvation or murdered. And BTW that whole "Africans sold Africans", they were tricked by the Europeans to sell their POW's to them during the tribal wars in Ghana, Mali, Senegal, Nigeria, and Benin and only a small minority took part in it and South Africa has absolutely nothing to do with the slave trade.
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Post by Tarkus on Nov 2, 2016 19:02:39 GMT
I'm half-Navajo, and half-White.
The Navajo is from my mom, with a little bit of Irish in there too, while the White is from my dad, I think I heard mention of some German/French ancestry with maybe some British but I don't know for sure. If anyone is curious I'm not fluent in Navajo, and my clanship is Redhouse (my clan/mom's clan) and Many Hogans (maternal grandfather's clan).
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Post by jackievakarian on Nov 2, 2016 19:12:26 GMT
I'm mixed race Latino/Hispanic/Spanish, and German/White. I've been told I look like Al Pacino.
I think I'm like 60 percent White and 40 percent Hispanic.
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Post by Heimdall on Nov 2, 2016 21:47:14 GMT
Let's apportion some blame where it's due ... who do you think enslaved and sold your ancestors to white slave traders in the first place? Odds are it was probably the Zulus if it was West Africa - Maasai are further east. Who taught you that nonsense? #1: It started in the 15th century in Central Africa to West Africa where over 15 million Africans were forced into slavery (France, England, Spain, Portugal, and other European countries made a killing off of slavery of Africans and even the Middle East was involved enslaving Africans from North, Southeast Africa hence the Arab Slave Trade.) and the English created dungeons in the coast of Ghana to keep slaves in the most horrifying conditions, kept in chains while they're starving, living in their own filth, kept in tight spaces and slowly dying in painful death. And in the ships young girls who are no more than 7 to 12 years old were often raped by sailors and captains and people often died by either starvation or murdered. And BTW that whole "Africans sold Africans", they were tricked by the Europeans to sell their POW's to them during the tribal wars in Ghana, and only a small minority took part in it and South Africa has absolutely nothing to do with the slave trade. Actually no, Europeans almost never actually enslaved Africans directly. They just sat on the coast in outposts and offered money and trade to anyone willing to sell. The vast majority of the estimated 11,000,000+ Africans transported in the Atlantic slave trade were either prisoners taken in internal wars, sold by their captors (Enslaving POWs was not new to the region), or captured by roving (African, not European) outlaw gangs eager for a profit. The latter became increasingly prominent over time and were a source of civil instability in the region for quite a long time.
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Post by cloud9 on Nov 2, 2016 22:27:37 GMT
Who taught you that nonsense? #1: It started in the 15th century in Central Africa to West Africa where over 15 million Africans were forced into slavery (France, England, Spain, Portugal, and other European countries made a killing off of slavery of Africans and even the Middle East was involved enslaving Africans from North, Southeast Africa hence the Arab Slave Trade.) and the English created dungeons in the coast of Ghana to keep slaves in the most horrifying conditions, kept in chains while they're starving, living in their own filth, kept in tight spaces and slowly dying in painful death. And in the ships young girls who are no more than 7 to 12 years old were often raped by sailors and captains and people often died by either starvation or murdered. And BTW that whole "Africans sold Africans", they were tricked by the Europeans to sell their POW's to them during the tribal wars in Ghana, and only a small minority took part in it and South Africa has absolutely nothing to do with the slave trade. Actually no, Europeans almost never actually enslaved Africans directly. They just sat on the coast in outposts and offered money and trade to anyone willing to sell. The vast majority of the estimated 11,000,000+ Africans transported in the Atlantic slave trade were either prisoners taken in internal wars, sold by their captors (Enslaving POWs was not new to the region), or captured by roving (African, not European) outlaw gangs eager for a profit. The latter became increasingly prominent over time and were a source of civil instability in the region for quite a long time. Tell me lies Tell me sweet little lies (Tell me lies, tell me, tell me lies) Oh, no, no you can't disguise (You can't disguise, no you can't disguise) Tell me lies Tell me sweet little lies
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Post by Red on Nov 2, 2016 22:40:59 GMT
Heritage is hard to discuss in my family. My mother is German descendant, however, still something to be discussed, as far as I know it can be from Hungary or Austria, also tried to look for documents, it's difficult, I have to go on the birth place of my ancestor to learn more. My family for father's part is another mystery, My father has a German surname, by this fact seems they are German immigrants too but in another place, Russia. Most of my cousins are descendants of other European peoples, most from Central and Western Europe. My two families is too large, I have many uncles who mingled with other people. So far, I can be, by ethnicity, German, Italian, Hungarian and Russian... In the end I am just European.
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Post by cloud9 on Nov 3, 2016 4:07:29 GMT
Because my ancestors were immigrants, obvs. That makes 2 of us.
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Post by corpusdei on Nov 3, 2016 13:06:32 GMT
Let's apportion some blame where it's due ... who do you think enslaved and sold your ancestors to white slave traders in the first place? Odds are it was probably the Zulus if it was West Africa - Maasai are further east. Who taught you that nonsense? #1: It started in the 15th century in Central Africa to West Africa where over 15 million Africans were forced into slavery (France, England, Spain, Portugal, and other European countries made a killing off of slavery of Africans and even the Middle East was involved enslaving Africans from North, Southeast Africa hence the Arab Slave Trade.) and the English created dungeons in the coast of Ghana to keep slaves in the most horrifying conditions, kept in chains while they're starving, living in their own filth, kept in tight spaces and slowly dying in painful death. And in the ships young girls who are no more than 7 to 12 years old were often raped by sailors and captains and people often died by either starvation or murdered. And BTW that whole "Africans sold Africans", they were tricked by the Europeans to sell their POW's to them during the tribal wars in Ghana, and only a small minority took part in it and South Africa has absolutely nothing to do with the slave trade. You're only out by about 2000 years - Africans were enslaving each other long before even the Roman empire got involved but I'm not going to dispute the conditions of Western Slavery from the middle ages onwards. The reason there are still Maasai in Kenya is, in part, because they are a warlike tribe - you didn't fuck with the Maasai and they'd happily sell slaves to Europeans. My dad lived in Ghana (and Kenya, and Tanzania) for a while - his dad was a civil engineer on contract with various African governments for many years. My information comes passed down from Kenyans and Ghanaians themselves (including Maasai) ... where does yours come from? The Ladybird book of Slavery? It's not exactly a period of history though where anyone comes out smelling of roses tbh.
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Post by Princess Trejo on Nov 3, 2016 16:55:06 GMT
70% Malay. 30% mixed. One quick trivia about my people;
The Malays have always been a seafaring race originating from the Pacific islands, or perhaps an offshoot from the missing continent Lemuria/Mu with great naval accomplishments, their descendants being the Mauri in New Zealand, the various Polynesian races and perhaps furthest out, the Hawaiians, all originally sailors, fishermen, and traders of the Malays in ancient times. There is even an ethnic Malay community in Madagascar and Capetown who had sailed across the Indian Ocean. The original Vikings way before the Norsemen.
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Post by Duelist on Nov 3, 2016 17:15:36 GMT
The Malays have always been a seafaring race originating from the Pacific islands, or perhaps an offshoot from the missing continent Lemuria/Mu with great naval accomplishments, their descendants being the Mauri in New Zealand, the various Polynesian races and perhaps furthest out, the Hawaiians, all originally sailors, fishermen, and traders of the Malays in ancient times. There is even an ethnic Malay community in Madagascar and Capetown who had sailed across the Indian Ocean. The original Vikings way before the Norsemen. Where did you hear/read this? I'm genuinely curious. I'm Maori on my father's side with a little Cook Island blood on my mother's and anthropologists back in New Zealand had always speculated that Polynesian people originated from Asia but more specifically Taiwan. It wouldn't surprise me if we could trace our roots to the Malay people as well.
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Post by Princess Trejo on Nov 3, 2016 17:41:28 GMT
The Malays have always been a seafaring race originating from the Pacific islands, or perhaps an offshoot from the missing continent Lemuria/Mu with great naval accomplishments, their descendants being the Mauri in New Zealand, the various Polynesian races and perhaps furthest out, the Hawaiians, all originally sailors, fishermen, and traders of the Malays in ancient times. There is even an ethnic Malay community in Madagascar and Capetown who had sailed across the Indian Ocean. The original Vikings way before the Norsemen. Where did you hear/read this? I'm genuinely curious. I'm Maori on my father's side with a little Cook Island blood on my mother's and anthropologists back in New Zealand had always speculated that Polynesian people originated from Asia but more specifically Taiwan. It wouldn't surprise me if we could trace our roots to the Malay people as well. Mostly sites of Pacific race origins. The ancient Malays have their own unique language, scripture, and culture. All lost but some ruins/temples were preserved and survived throughout the ages. Wouldn't surprised me if we all related to each other. After all we are the result of a thousand loves.
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Post by budhalen on Nov 3, 2016 17:44:01 GMT
50/50 split between a Finn mom and Norsk dad.
Uff dah.
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Post by masterwarderz on Nov 3, 2016 18:42:04 GMT
50/50 split between a Finn mom and Norsk dad. Uff dah. How does that work out for you?
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Post by PATPATPATlol on Nov 3, 2016 18:49:05 GMT
I am a mix of a lot of white people. Though to answer seriously, I'm a mix of Irish, German, and Polish but I really don't know anything else about my own ancestry. There's probably a bit more in there than I know.
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Post by cloud9 on Nov 3, 2016 19:16:07 GMT
Who taught you that nonsense? #1: It started in the 15th century in Central Africa to West Africa where over 15 million Africans were forced into slavery (France, England, Spain, Portugal, and other European countries made a killing off of slavery of Africans and even the Middle East was involved enslaving Africans from North, Southeast Africa hence the Arab Slave Trade.) and the English created dungeons in the coast of Ghana to keep slaves in the most horrifying conditions, kept in chains while they're starving, living in their own filth, kept in tight spaces and slowly dying in painful death. And in the ships young girls who are no more than 7 to 12 years old were often raped by sailors and captains and people often died by either starvation or murdered. And BTW that whole "Africans sold Africans", they were tricked by the Europeans to sell their POW's to them during the tribal wars in Ghana, and only a small minority took part in it and South Africa has absolutely nothing to do with the slave trade. You're only out by about 2000 years - Africans were enslaving each other long before even the Roman empire got involved but I'm not going to dispute the conditions of Western Slavery from the middle ages onwards. The reason there are still Maasai in Kenya is, in part, because they are a warlike tribe - you didn't fuck with the Maasai and they'd happily sell slaves to Europeans. My dad lived in Ghana (and Kenya, and Tanzania) for a while - his dad was a civil engineer on contract with various African governments for many years. My information comes passed down from Kenyans and Ghanaians themselves (including Maasai) ... where does yours come from? The Ladybird book of Slavery? It's not exactly a period of history though where anyone comes out smelling of roses tbh. We have indentured servitude in our culture. If a person broke the law, he/she will serve time as indentured servants or if they're POW's they'll serve their captors, and they were treated like human beings and can marry a member of a wealthy family and have property. We never committed brutality and dehumanized each other during servitude, the Europeans done a whole lot of that and gotten away with it.
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Post by PATPATPATlol on Nov 3, 2016 23:24:40 GMT
I might have a bit salarian in me too. I eat flies.
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Post by ruffles on Nov 4, 2016 1:21:18 GMT
I'm American of African blood (Ethiopian and Ghanaian)on my mother's side and European blood (Swiss and English) on my father's side.
Sad thing is, I only speak English despite my parent's very different backgrounds.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 5:32:04 GMT
On my dad's side I'm German and Croatian. The German side is really interesting to me because my great-grandfather apparently lived in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and fought in WW1 on horseback. Strangely enough, he didn't live too far away from the Croatian side of my family. He owned a stable at one point, and then a tavern before anti-german sentiment drove him back to Germany. From there, he ended up on a ship bound to Canada and died a few years later from working in a mine.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2016 5:45:16 GMT
I'm one-eighth African American, and one percent Native American. I'm 30% Finnish. Annnddd that's basically it. Oh and my family were immigrants (on my mom's side of the family), and my blood-related Grandfather was Chief Joseph (on my dad's side of the family), and I don't even look black (but my eyes are brown, along with my hair color, which is also brown; the pigment decided that my skin wasn't what it wanted to darken, leaving me a very odd phenomenon of having white skin and dark colored hair and eyes )
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Post by Melra on Nov 4, 2016 6:00:02 GMT
Just 100% Finnish, nobody gets lost in the woods of the cold north, so not much of a chance to mix it up. I come from pretty small family as well and having parents who are very distantly related but share same last name, kinda makes it hard to find more information. Not many good records kept of the family beyond early 1900s. If there's more than Finnish blood in the mix, it's Karelian or Russian, in the case of the latter it would've been forgotten about on purpose.
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Post by cloud9 on Nov 4, 2016 6:40:41 GMT
I'm American of African blood (Ethiopian and Ghanaian)on my mother's side and European blood (Swiss and English) on my father's side. Sad thing is, I only speak English despite my parent's very different backgrounds. We have lost so much of our history and culture because of slavery, it must've been very hard for our ancestors have to endure and hold on to what's left of their culture during the brutalities of slavery in the Americas and the Caribbeans, and after slavery we create our own culture of music, literature and dance in America that everyone was influenced by us. We're amazing.
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Post by SaikyoMcRyu on Nov 4, 2016 11:35:08 GMT
I am an American Celt, of Irish, Cornish, and possibly Welsh origins. With some Scandinavian on the Irish side because of Viking settlers 1000 years ago (because even hardcore Vikings can't resist the appeal of becoming Irish)
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Post by corpusdei on Nov 4, 2016 12:21:42 GMT
You're only out by about 2000 years - Africans were enslaving each other long before even the Roman empire got involved but I'm not going to dispute the conditions of Western Slavery from the middle ages onwards. The reason there are still Maasai in Kenya is, in part, because they are a warlike tribe - you didn't fuck with the Maasai and they'd happily sell slaves to Europeans. My dad lived in Ghana (and Kenya, and Tanzania) for a while - his dad was a civil engineer on contract with various African governments for many years. My information comes passed down from Kenyans and Ghanaians themselves (including Maasai) ... where does yours come from? The Ladybird book of Slavery? It's not exactly a period of history though where anyone comes out smelling of roses tbh. We have indentured servitude in our culture. If a person broke the law, he/she will serve time as indentured servants or if they're POW's they'll serve their captors, and they were treated like human beings and can marry a member of a wealthy family and have property. We never committed brutality and dehumanized each other during servitude, the Europeans done a whole lot of that and gotten away with it. Which of "your" cultures are you talking about, Maasai or Zulu culture is very different to Kalahari Bushmen for instance or North African Arab culture... big place Africa, lots of different tribes, lots of different cultures. Some more warlike/brutal than others - which is yours?
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