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Stawr Moderator Posts: 1973 From: N. America Registered: Nov 2010	posted November 27, 2011 06:26 PM Dad's side: Irish (his mom 100 percent) Polish (his dad 100 percent was ashamed of being Polish changed his name and ripped his birth certificate...I think so he also could get social security early...his Birth name was Thadeus...and changed it to Theodore and then Ted) Mom's side: Irish British (and unknown) My mom's Grandpa never talked about where he was from...his name was Gordon...so possibly Scottish...but some of her my ancestors look Spanish. Including me and my olive skin. lol IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 22150 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted November 28, 2011 01:29 PM ------------------ "The stars which shone over Babylon and the stable in Bethlehem still shine as brightly over the Empire State Building and your front yard today. They perform their cycles with the same mathematical precision, and they will continue to affect each thing on earth, including man, as long as the earth exists." Linda Goodman IP: Logged
Cancer/Scorpio729 Moderator Posts: 1668 From: 6,000 feet above sea level Registered: Feb 2010	posted November 28, 2011 07:07 PM IP: Logged
RegardesPlatero Moderator Posts: 4366 From: Storybrooke, Mr. Gold's Shop Registered: Sep 2011	posted December 05, 2011 03:37 AM -- IP: Logged
Cancer/Scorpio729 Moderator Posts: 1668 From: 6,000 feet above sea level Registered: Feb 2010	posted December 05, 2011 09:22 PM Hungarian is a very interesting culture to have been around though. Have you been exposed to it much when you were little? IP: Logged
RegardesPlatero Moderator Posts: 4366 From: Storybrooke, Mr. Gold's Shop Registered: Sep 2011	posted December 06, 2011 05:35 AM -- IP: Logged
Cancer/Scorpio729 Moderator Posts: 1668 From: 6,000 feet above sea level Registered: Feb 2010	posted December 09, 2011 03:59 AM Interesting, rather than forget their native culture nowadays parents do as much as they can to make sure their kids are brought up with the same cultural values they had. Difficult in some cases... I'll definitely read Hetalia when I have time, it sounds interesting IP: Logged
RegardesPlatero Moderator Posts: 4366 From: Storybrooke, Mr. Gold's Shop Registered: Sep 2011	posted December 09, 2011 10:28 AM -- IP: Logged
ladyvi Knowflake Posts: 85 From: Arakkis Registered: Dec 2011	posted December 16, 2011 11:01 PM Balkan Girl IP: Logged
tautomer4314 Knowflake Posts: 659 From: Oregon Registered: Dec 2011	posted December 18, 2011 04:34 PM 50% German 25% Dutch 25% Scottish I have light blond hair and light blue eyes as a result, and look like I fresh walked out of europe, despite the fact that it was my greatgrandparents who immigrated here, lol. ------------------ It's All Elemental IP: Logged
Randall Webmaster Posts: 22150 From: Saturn next to Charmainec Registered: Apr 2009	posted December 18, 2011 04:53 PM Welcome! ------------------ "Never mentally imagine for another that which you would not want to experience for yourself, since the mental image you send out inevitably comes back to you." Rebecca Clark IP: Logged
Alma Sun Moderator Posts: 1974 From: The East Coast Registered: Mar 2011	posted December 21, 2011 09:20 PM My dad is from Nanning, China. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanning My mother, Battambang, Cambodia. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battambang She, and my grandmother were born and raised there. However, years ago my grandmother has told me her parents are actually, originally from China. So I guess I would be 100% Chinese, but my grandmother's 3rd husband (my mother's dad) was Cambodian. So I'm Chinese/Cambodian. My brother and I are made in the USA. ------------------ "I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else." ― G.K. Chesterton IP: Logged
Cancer/Scorpio729 Moderator Posts: 1668 From: 6,000 feet above sea level Registered: Feb 2010	posted December 24, 2011 03:41 AM Hope you don't mind me asking, was your mother's side of the family in Cambodia during the Vietnam war and Khmer Rouge regime? IP: Logged
Alma Sun Moderator Posts: 1974 From: The East Coast Registered: Mar 2011	posted December 24, 2011 10:12 AM Vietnam war, no idea. But yeah, during the Khmer Rogue when Pol Pot ruled. You know they had people sent out to rich families to collect for money. My grandma said she gave them the amount they asked for every time, but something went wrong the last time. One of the thugs got greedy, and lied saying my grandma & her family (her husband and in-laws) didn't pay (he kept the money all to himself?). Because of that, they came to slaughter everyone. Only reason my grandma lived that day was because she was very pregnant and one of the guys pitied her and spared her life. That was her 1st husband they murdered. She had two more as the years went by. She was a STRONG woman. Seriously, I would of went ape sh!t if I saw my entire family murdered in front of me. ------------------ "I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else." ― G.K. Chesterton IP: Logged
Cancer/Scorpio729 Moderator Posts: 1668 From: 6,000 feet above sea level Registered: Feb 2010	posted December 25, 2011 07:29 PM Wow, anyone would have gone ape sh!t. That's amazing, did she have any lasting trauma from those experiences though? And did she have to go to the work camps? IP: Logged
Alma Sun Moderator Posts: 1974 From: The East Coast Registered: Mar 2011	posted December 25, 2011 11:14 PM I'm sure she did, but most likely she just thought about survival, and how to take care of the kid she's carrying. She seems very nonchalant when she talked about her life in Cambodia. That's the grandma I knew. quote: And did she have to go to the work camps? She did. And I believe my mom and uncles as well. ------------------ "I am not absentminded. It is the presence of mind that makes me unaware of everything else." ― G.K. Chesterton IP: Logged
Cancer/Scorpio729 Moderator Posts: 1668 From: 6,000 feet above sea level Registered: Feb 2010	posted December 27, 2011 03:33 AM Wow Your family has some incredible stories to tell! IP: Logged
Darkmoon Newflake Posts: 22 From: Red Wiong, MN ,USA Registered: Jan 2012	posted January 06, 2012 03:30 AM I am a little confussed about my ancestry. My mom claims to be 100% German but her people came from Luxemburg which I have read concists on a mix of people from Spain, France and Germany. Some of my relatives appear as if they could pass for Spanish. My Father was half German and half Dutch--great ancester was a Prince of the Netherlands. IP: Logged
mockingbird Knowflake Posts: 697 From: Registered: Dec 2011	posted January 06, 2012 09:50 AM I'm a mutt In no particular order...no, wait...I'm going to do by rough order of arrival date on the North American continent: * Blackfoot * Crow (a maternal Great-Grandfather for both...I don't know his whole story, just that he ended up on the east coast and a Brethren...and was also an excellent dowser - go figure) * "Cherokee" (I say "Cherokee" because my ancestors who are listed as such in the records may have been...or that may have been a lazy pastor writing that as a blanket term for "Native"). * Scotch-Irish * English * Scottish * Welsh (I will not just write "British" for each of these, because they're different) * African (escaped slaves in the mountains, FTW! And "African" is as specific as I can get, unfortunately) * "Texican" (my Father's father was "from Texas and dark"...soo...Spaniard? Mixed with some Ameri-Indian and some Scottish - last name "Johnston"...I just don't know). * Irish * German (paternal grandmother's mother was German/Irish) * Belgian (a branch of the Aspeslaghs - who were Flemish but of German extraction - came to the US between WWI and WWII) Annnd, that's it IP: Logged
mockingbird Knowflake Posts: 697 From: Registered: Dec 2011	posted January 06, 2012 09:54 AM Alma IP: Logged
Cancer/Scorpio729 Moderator Posts: 1668 From: 6,000 feet above sea level Registered: Feb 2010	posted January 08, 2012 12:24 PM IP: Logged
charmainec Moderator Posts: 5578 From: Venus next to Randall Registered: Apr 2009	posted January 14, 2012 05:22 AM Alma ------------------ quote: Remember, love can conquer the influences of the planets....It can even eliminate karma. Linda Goodman IP: Logged

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