Where are you from?

[frash.exe]

13 hours ago, The NFL Shield At Midfield said:

e: not gonna poo up your topic

my grandfather on my mom's side was from the peloponnese region of greece.  my grandmother was also from a greek immigrant family and they met and married in wyoming before coming to spartanburg and eventually charlotte.  my dad's family is from the SC lowcountry and made their way to charlotte in the '50s.

that’s fuging cool

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3 hours ago, TPanther920 said:

Has anyone actually had one of those DNA tests done. "23 and me" is one. I'm such a skeptic , and cheap ass, I don't want to waste the money.

23andme says i’m 80% italian with some spanish, french, and balkan mixed in. i’m third generation for an american so all of my great grandparents came here on boats and all of them were italian.

[rodeo]

ancestry.com is actually much better than 23 and me. the latter sometimes won't even show twins as related. ancestry is much more accurate.

[rodeo]

my mother is an genealogy hobbyist and has traced us back to William the Conqueror and his grand-something Rollo the viking dude

[TPanther920]

10 hours ago, rodeo said:

my mother is an genealogy hobbyist and has traced us back to William the Conqueror and his grand-something Rollo the viking dude

I was just reading about William the Conqueror. Something like 25% of Brits can trace their ancestry back William. Obviously all his conqueroring wasn't on the battlefield.

[TPanther920]

11 hours ago, frash.exe said:

23andme says i’m 80% italian with some spanish, french, and balkan mixed in. i’m third generation for an american so all of my great grandparents came here on boats and all of them were italian.

2 weeks in Rome as a 20 year old U.S. sailor. amazing....food, wine, architecture, history on every corner.

[Floppin]

Scottish and a touch of Welsh. I'm a Wallace and have a huge handknit family tree tapestry that ends with my great grandma Wallace and goes way back, you can see William Wallace on it.

[TPanther920]

My youngest wants to find some Scottish heritage in our ancestry. Some rumors but no documentation. Who did the tapestry?

 

[Floppin]

26 minutes ago, TPanther920 said:

My youngest wants to find some Scottish heritage in our ancestry. Some rumors but no documentation. Who did the tapestry?

 

My great great grandmother. Cora Ingram Wallace

[Anybodyhome]

 

[Jangler]

On 3/30/2018 at 6:35 PM, ARSEN said:

Who the fug knows.  The place I come from was invaded like 10 times by foreigners in last 300 years so I’m a mutt.

Sounds like an American.

[Jangler]

On 3/30/2018 at 10:56 PM, rodeo said:

my mother is an genealogy hobbyist and has traced us back to William the Conqueror and his grand-something Rollo the viking dude

maybe some reincarnation too? lol

history.

[AggieLean]

Don’t know which parts of Africa or the tribe, but I do know my great great grandad was a slave in Mississippi before somehow making it to North Carolina. My great grandaddy was a sharecropper in NC, and amassed a great bit of land in Kernersville and Fairmount. My grandma tells us the story about how my great grandad couldn’t even purchase the land, but a white man who he had befriended purchased it for him and then transferred it into his name. The man could’ve tricked my great grandad and took the money and land, but he didn’t. My dad tells us stories all the time about growing up and spending most the day picking tobacco on the land. 

My brother and I want to trace our ancestry, but I too, don’t want to waste my money. The plan is to trace our ancestry, then go and spend some time in that African country. Right now if you ask us where we started from, we’ll tell you as far as we know, our roots started in Mississippi. 

[TPanther920]

21 minutes ago, AggieLean said:

Don’t know which parts of Africa or the tribe, but I do know my great great grandad was a slave in Mississippi before somehow making it to North Carolina. My great grandaddy was a sharecropper in NC, and amassed a great bit of land in Kernersville and Fairmount. My grandma tells us the story about how my great grandad couldn’t even purchase the land, but a white man who he had befriended purchased it for him and then transferred it into his name. The man could’ve tricked my great grandad and took the money and land, but he didn’t. My dad tells us stories all the time about growing up and spending most the day picking tobacco on the land. 

My brother and I want to trace our ancestry, but I too, don’t want to waste my money. The plan is to trace our ancestry, then go and spend some time in that African country. Right now if you ask us where we started from, we’ll tell you as far as we know, our roots started in Mississippi. 

Good on your GGGDad’s friend

not many people would have done that back then

eastern NC can be “clannish” 

so no records of any kind? Or are you skeptical of their validity?

I cropped tobacco for 1 ONE    day when I was about 15. (73) Made me sick as hell

I went back to mowing yards for money