Your heritage?

[klr]

At the end of the rainbow?

Somewhere underneath a certain flight path.

[wolfréalt]

I've ordered one of these off e-bay for the next bunch who tries to do any bludgeoning over here, ye'se have been warned.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Massive Ordanance Penetrator
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[Gawdzilla Sama]

I've ordered one of these off e-bay for the next bunch who tries to do any bludgeoning over here, ye'se have been warned.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Massive Ordanance Penetrator
.

Over-compensation man is over-compensating.

[Xamonas Chegwé]

I've ordered one of these off e-bay for the next bunch who tries to do any bludgeoning over here, ye'se have been warned.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Massive Ordanance Penetrator
.

Over-compensation man is over-compensating.

Yep. Big bomb = small willy.

[Bella Fortuna]

I've ordered one of these off e-bay for the next bunch who tries to do any bludgeoning over here, ye'se have been warned.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Massive Ordanance Penetrator
.

Over-compensation man is over-compensating.

Yep. Big bomb = small shillelagh.

[wolfréalt]

I've ordered one of these off e-bay for the next bunch who tries to do any bludgeoning over here, ye'se have been warned.

Trigger Warning!!!1! :

Massive Ordanance Penetrator
.

Over-compensation man is over-compensating.

Yep. Big bomb = small shillelagh.

WOW!!! Wish I had one of them!!!

[Svartalf]

I've got a colorful family tree...

On my father's side, it's pretty tame. The family name includes an old word meaning 'cart road', so I suppoes the one who was family head around 1530 was some sort of teamster (unless he just happened to live by that road). My paternal ancestors emigrated to Bordeaux from the outskirts of Auvergne in the early 1600s, but it looks like one of those auvergnat guys married some kind of Gypsy woman, since her name looks distinctively Romanian. Thereafter, they were attorneys and sollicitors in and around Bordeaux, my grandfather inherited large areas of Landes forest and a vineyard or two from their marrying into landed and bourgeois families in the area. My grandmother was from such a bourgeois family, from the Armagnac area of Southern France... I lack data on that branch of my ancestry, but the fact that all men from that side (including my father, uncles and myself) have a distinct Moorish cast of features, I strongly suspect they are descended from converted Jews who came From Spain in the 1500s when the Catholic Kings expelled them.

On my mother's side, it gets more colourful. My grandfather was the son of a butcher, who made a fortune as a shipchandler in Saint Nazaire (at the mouth of the Loire) in the late 1800s, the heyday of the transatlantic steamers. My grandmother's folks on her mother's side were Breton, emigrating progressively from central Brittany until they settled in Nantes, with some branches around Paris. They were wealthy Bourgeois, and through them I'm related with everybody who's anybody in Nantes and with half of Brittany's major families (including several noble families, and such luminaries as Jules Verne and Victor Hugo). Her father was Norman, and the family is weird : They were enormously wealthy until my great grandfather ate it all, though I'm not sure where the money really came from. The clan is first recorded in 1599 when they were ennobled by letters patent signed by King Henry IV. Their buying the title seems unlikely, as that kind of practice came about only 50 years later. The arms imply country gentlemen (an ear of wheat and bunch of grapes), but also include a crescent that's supposed to mean they were in the crusades (presumably as men at arms, since they were made true nobles only 3 to5 centuries later), that warrior background probably also means that they wre commoner followers of Rollo who settled Normandy after around 753 rather than autochtonous peasants. What even stanger is the kind of marriages that family managed to make. One of my ancestors was a colonel in one of Louis XIV personal lifeguard and did some unprecised but clearly outstanding service to the Crown, as he got two major rewards for it : his title of viscount was upgraded to that of Marquess (the title still held by my mother's first cousin), and he was married off to the King's own bastard daughter by Louise de La Vallière. even more interesting, his son or grandson married a lady by the family name Stewart, descended from a lesser younger son of James III, IV or V of Scotland (not sure, I haven't had access to the papers that would make genealogies clear), whose father had been a "gentleman of the Chamber" to the old pretender, and married a wealthy postmistress/innkeeper from the town next to my ancestral seat. I still don't know how such new and minor nobles were deemed worthy to marry women of royal blood, even illegitimate or diluted.

[NineOneFour]

Second generation American here.

[Mantisdreamz]

On my dad's side my grandfather immigrated from Norway and grandmother from England. Mom's side, her parents came from Ukraine. As far as I know, they were both gamblers.

I consider myself more Ukrainian though, just because I was brought up in that culture. I don't really know much about the actually origins of my last name: Shypit, but I do know that there is a waterfall in the Ukraine called Shypit waterfalls. I might add that this was not the best last name to have while growing up.

[Surendra Darathy]

I'm a 42-year-old Orkney malt. Going back a ways, there's vodka on my mother's side, and schnapps on my Dad's.

Look how I turned out. I needed some of that aqvavit that somebody like Bella has in her pedigree.

[Animavore]

Unless one of my ancestors was raped by the English vermin that infested out nation I should be 100% Irish (well, that and Celt, Norse, French and what ever other nations had their way with as they passed Ireland around like a ho).

[Deep Sea Isopod]

I only know as far back as my grandfather on my mums side. He was a Humphreys. From London. (The name is Welsh I think?)
He was in the Army "durin' da woar". REME, and was in the advance party into Germany.
My mum joined the Navy. Married someone by the name of Glynn. This name is Irish, but he's not my father though I took that name.
One of my 2 older brothers (who both are mr Glynn's sons) joined the RAF, then I also joined the RAf.
So the British forces are prominent throughout my recent heritage.

My 2 kids, well they have Irish blood in them. My wifes great grandmother would be turning in her grave if she knew a member of her family married into the British forces.
I've heard the stories of how she'd harbour the terrorists.
Even now, if I piss of my wife, I always check under my car for bombs. They don't like it up 'em.

[Feck]

Generations of canal digging horse stealing Irish mixed with some coal mining steel pounding Yorkshire types and a little bit of Scottish ginger twattishness .

[Ironclad]

Dutch, apparently, but I have never really asked. My family is scattered and diminished and I know only of my mother's side.
Shortish, red-head, simple-minded lover of baccy & fireworks. I could well be from Hobbiton.

[Saim]

I was born in Brisbane and have lived in Southeast Queensland all my life (something I am planning to change as soon as I finish high school) but my dad was born in Pakistan (and grew up in the US, Switzerland and Malaysia) while my mum is from Vojvodina, former Yugoslavia.

My dad is Punjabi (the largest national, ethnic or cultural group in Pakistan and one of the largest in India) and his parents belong to the Rajput (my grandmother) and Jat (my grandfather) "tribes". My dad's dad is part of the "Bavri" clan of Jats, and they have apparently been Muslims for a fair while (before this they were Sikhs).

My mum is a mixed Yugoslav - my mum's dad is of Serbian ancestry, but while tracing our ancestry mum a line bearing typically Croatian name on that side of the family. My mum's mum was born in Russia, and is of mixed Russian (paternally) and Slovene (maternally) descent. The Slovene side also likely has some German (Austrian) and Italian ancestry (our Slovenian-residing relatives from this side of the family claim both of these ancestries, as well as French, on their side of the family that they share with ours).

So, overall that makes me 1/2 Punjabi/Indian (1/4 Punjabi Rajput, 1/4 Jat), 1/2 European (1/4 Serb + possibly some Croat, 1/8 Russian, 1/8 Slovene + likely some German and Italian and maybe some French). Culturally, I would say my "heritage" is strongly within the Anglophone world (due to my Australian birth and residence), but due to being raised bilingually in Serbocroatian and English I also feel somewhat Serbian (and I am constantly reminded of my Punjabiness due to being reminded of my Indian physical features by other Australians). I don't strongly identify with any nationality, ethnicity, or cultural group; I feel more human than anything else.