French Invasion Of North America? LOL

[Maestro]

Originally Posted by 102first_hussars

Actually Maestro I am in no way a descendant of the U.S.

My mothers family (The Campbells) are of Pure Scottish descent and my fathers family is made up of Pure French descent, French descent hey you and I could be brothers eh? How big is your nose and how tall are you?

In fact, most of my ancestors came more or less directly from Denmark. I made some searches on my family names a while back...

My great grand-father was a Danish immigrant who came in clandestinely in a boat. He dived into the ocean when he was close enough to the Nova-Scotian coast. So from there, I can say I'm at least 12.5 % Danish.

Then onto the family names... All of my great grand-parents' names (in the exception of one) were "registered" for the first time in Normandy around the XI or XII century. In that time, Normandy was colonized by Vikings (from Denmark).

The only family name that isn't coming from either Normandy or Denmark is "Caron" which comes from Burgundy (an other region of France).

So I can say that I'm approximately 87.5 % Danish and 12.5 % French.

[102first_hussars]

So were not Bros then?

[Nonskimmer]

Originally Posted by Maestro

So I can say that I'm approximately 87.5 % Danish and 12.5 % French.

Cool. I'm just 100% this and that.
No French that I'm aware of.

[102first_hussars]

I dont like to brag about the french part of my blood especially in this proving, I be put to death, Death by pea soup drowning.

[Nonskimmer]

I've got a lot of Scottish, English, and German all mixed into this magnificent hodgepodge that is me.
I think I might have some Swiss in there too, come to think of it. I'll have to check the ol' family tree.

[102first_hussars]

I've got a lot of Scottish, English, and German all mixed into this magnificent hodgepodge that is me.

I think of my heritage as a "Cultural Motif"

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

Originally Posted by 102first_hussars

My god do you bleed and bruise just a little when someone says something bad about anything American?

Well guess what? I dont like Bush I think he is an as*hole, I think Kerry won, I dont like Bush but that doesnt mean I hate america.


And you are ignorant because you are still fixsated on one topic and didnt bother to acknowledge this.

Whats your point. I dont think the US is the holy land nor the greatest thing since bread and butter. I dont like Bush either. I did not vote for the guy. I think you just post dumb things when they are not needed. So lets make a deal here:

You stop posting dumb and ignorant **** and Ill get off your back!

[Maestro]

Originally Posted by Nonskimmer

I've got a lot of Scottish, English, and German all mixed into this magnificent hodgepodge that is me.
I think I might have some Swiss in there too, come to think of it. I'll have to check the ol' family tree.

I may have a tool to help you. That's the website I used to get the info on my family names.

http://www.traceit.com/

Type the family name you want in the box, click search, then (on the following page) click on the "More Info" button next to the sentence "The history of (X) family in (Country name)"

However, the site is not perfect... There may be mistakes. For example, my great grand-father's name (the immigrant one) was designated as coming from Poland. But I had a chat with a (Polish) teacher who told me that there were two roots to the Larsen family. One in Poland, and the other in Denmark. The only difference with those two names was the way to pronounce it.

[Nonskimmer]

Say, that's pretty nifty.
I already know that my family name is German, or rather the Anglicized form of the original German name. My dad and I did a thorough trace of our family history together quite a few years ago. My first German ancestors landed in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1799. The Scottish ones arrived around twentyish years before, I can't remember exactly when offhand.

[pbfoot]

Mine ran away from some where in PA Pennsylvania in 1779 and austo-hungary (ukrainian or Poland) in 1885

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

My family is German and Polish decent, and my Step Mothers family is Seven Mountian Saxon.

[Nonskimmer]

Originally Posted by Nonskimmer

My first German ancestors landed in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in 1799.

Correction to this. I should have actually said, "My first German ancestors to arrive in Nova Scotia...", rather than "My first German ancestors...".

[Nonskimmer]

Christ almighty! When I input the present-day Anglicized spelling of my surname into that tool that Maestro linked to, it comes up with France!
Not bloody likely! Fortunately, when I input the original German spelling, it comes up with the proper answer...Germany.
I've long known for a fact that's where they came from. The spelling was changed about a hundred and sixty years ago or so.


Jesus, that was close! Just about gave me a friggin' heart attack!

[DerAdlerIstGelandet]

I typed in my mothers maiden name and it came up right with Poland. They were part of the Piontek family from Kracow way back when. They left for Germany long times ago and for the last several hundred years they were no longer Polish but it was correct in the liniage.

[cheddar cheese]

Whaddaya know, My family either come from Somerset or Austria...

Please be Austria....