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whats ur heritage?

free gaff? · 2009-12-23 21:02:50

i have a distant greek ancestor, and prob some english and french(norman) descent.

23-12-2009 9:02pm

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i have a distant greek ancestor, and prob some english and french(norman) descent.

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#2 23-12-2009 9:08pm

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I'm Irish, believe it or not.

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#3 23-12-2009 9:10pm

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How far back is 'heritage'?
Grandparents and older would all be Irish, except for my nan's dad who we think was Mediterranean (based purely on her colouring)

Parents English

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#4 23-12-2009 9:10pm

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100% Colombian.

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#5 23-12-2009 9:11pm

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Green canvas meself, whiff of turfsmoke and crubeens.

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#6 23-12-2009 9:11pm

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brummytom wrote: »

How far back is 'heritage'?
Grandparents and older would all be Irish, except for my nan's dad who we think was Mediterranean (based purely on her colouring)

Parents English

go suck on a toad. racisttt

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#7 23-12-2009 9:12pm

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CCCP^ wrote: »

100% Colombian.

so the spanish didn't rape your ancestors no?

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#8 23-12-2009 9:12pm

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Irish as far back as I care to know

dad, his parents, and their parents

Mother, her parents and their parents

All from Ireland, and not only that but all from Monaghan, and as far as I know, all from Clones (my kids will be ending the streak)

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#9 23-12-2009 9:12pm

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Predicting short career for this OP

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#10 23-12-2009 9:13pm

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irish and scotish

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#11 23-12-2009 9:13pm

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free gaff? wrote: »

so the spanish didn't rape your ancestors no?

You ****ing what?

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#12 23-12-2009 9:13pm

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free gaff? wrote: »

go suck on a toad. racisttt

She had olive skin, her mother abandoned her and Spanish sailors often visited Ireland in the 30s.

You're not attacking my post because I'm English are ya? Racissstttt

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#13 23-12-2009 9:16pm

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free gaff? wrote: »

go suck on a toad. racisttt

free gaff? wrote: »

so the spanish didn't rape your ancestors no?

We'll miss you.

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#14 23-12-2009 9:17pm

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Irish+Scot

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#15 23-12-2009 9:17pm

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I'm Northern, my dad's parents are English and my mother's family are scottish (but a long time ago)

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#16 23-12-2009 9:18pm

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and i was really getting to like him as well

:rolleyes:

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#17 23-12-2009 9:19pm

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Irish Irish Irish Irish Irish... all the way back to wherever.

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#18 23-12-2009 9:20pm

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100% Irish, though my mam is technically Irish-American (she was born there to Irish immigrants but grew up in Ireland, she's a dual citizen though).

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#19 23-12-2009 9:25pm

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Scottish....

My mum is from a small island in the Outer Hebrides & my dad is from Fife - my surname is from the Scots Gaelic so I think like most ancient Scottish clans there is perhaps Celtic and/or Norman connections somewhere down the line.

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#20 23-12-2009 9:27pm

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brummytom wrote: »

She had olive skin, her mother abandoned her and Spanish sailors often visited Ireland in the 30s.

Just as likely to be descended from the spanish armada sailors that were shipwrecked* off the west coast of ireland.

There are quite a few spanish types in the west!

*must have happened several times as according to Wikipedia they were all killed!

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#21 23-12-2009 9:31pm

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100% Irish back to about 4 generations (and then all records seem to just end).

Time for a shameless plug for the new Genealogy forum where people like me are willing to help do whatever we can to help you to trace your family tree.

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#22 23-12-2009 9:31pm

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Just as likely to be descended from the spanish armada sailors that were shipwrecked* off the west coast of ireland.

There are quite a few spanish types in the west!

*must have happened several times as according to Wikipedia they were all killed!

Well she was from Tallaght, so not quite the West :pac:

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#23 23-12-2009 9:32pm

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SW France, Northern Spain, Andorra area plus German.

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#24 23-12-2009 9:35pm

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Born in the Isle of Man./

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#25 23-12-2009 9:36pm

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Irish all the way back on my ma's side, with my great granddad being the Scottish son of Irish emigrants in the late 1800s. He came back and took part in The Rising (no he's not James Connolly)

Norman name on my dad's side so we've only been Irish for about 1000 years now

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#26 23-12-2009 9:37pm

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TheZohan wrote: »

We'll miss you.

That was my collar, Zohan! :mad:

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#27 23-12-2009 9:39pm

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That was my collar, Zohan! :mad:

Sorry 'bout that...must be zee German blood in me.

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#28 23-12-2009 9:40pm

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My mothers maiden name is of Norman origin.

Also my grandfathers parents were from Kerry.:(

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#29 23-12-2009 9:40pm

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50% Irish, 50% English.

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#30 23-12-2009 9:44pm

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I'm half donegal - half norwegian!

I can trace my ancestry back on my norwegian side to Ganger Rolf who was the first count of normandy - who was reputed to be so big no horse could carry him (ganger rolf means "walking rolf") - hence all yea norman feckers are my very distant cousins for good or for ill!

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#31 23-12-2009 9:53pm

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Complete Paddy, with rumours of a Spanish connection in the distant past.

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#32 23-12-2009 9:55pm

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Well, my tribe is either of Afghan or Brahmin descent, and if we go back far enough, apparently some ancestors lived in what today is Iran in 900 bce.

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#33 23-12-2009 10:16pm

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100% Irish going back at least 6 generations.

However, I've managed to convince a guy in work that I'm actually french and moved to Ireland 20 years ago. Pretty much everyone else is in on the joke except this guy. He's even given me the nickname 'Sarkozy' in reference to the French president.

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#34 23-12-2009 10:21pm

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TheZohan wrote: »

We'll miss you.

Like I said!!!

bang on cue:D

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#35 23-12-2009 10:22pm

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Irish - Laois, Tipp, Clare and Armagh.
I suppose years back the Clare and Armagh contingent might have had a chance of a whiff of 'something foreign' but even now Laois is fairly inaccessible.

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#36 23-12-2009 10:31pm

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Half English (mother's side), half Irish - both paternal grandparents born here but my granny's parents were from Italy, so if we're going by blood I suppose I'm 1/4 Irish and 1/4 Italian. Look 100% Mediterranean for some reason.

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#37 23-12-2009 10:32pm

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I came from monkeys apparently.

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#38 23-12-2009 10:40pm

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I was born in New York. Mother is from Clare, Dad from Cuba. His grandmother was scottish I've heard. No idea what the story was with that.

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#39 23-12-2009 10:48pm

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Donegal, Wicklow/Carlow. All my grandparents were Irish as far back as I can trace. But there's a possibly a British great great grandmother. (1870ish)

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#40 23-12-2009 11:21pm

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Well both of my parents are Irish born, and one of my Grannies was from Crossmaglen

My surname is of Norman descent, apparently

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I'm pretty sure mine is totally Irish for a couple years, but then I came and fucked up everything cos I was born in Holland :pac:

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#42 23-12-2009 11:36pm

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Irish, with English creeping in more and more as the generations go back on my mothers side, definitely English by the early 1800s anyway.

Completely Irish on my father side going back as far as we can.

I was conceived in the UK though, does that count as a break in the line?

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#43 23-12-2009 11:37pm

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#44 23-12-2009 11:38pm

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#45 23-12-2009 11:38pm

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irish all the way i think....boh irish names etc....never heard of any thing strange happening

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#46 23-12-2009 11:39pm

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Midnight_EG wrote: »

I'm pretty sure mine is totally Irish for a couple years, but then I came and fucked up everything cos I was born in Holland :pac:

You mean your dad came and fucked up everything?

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#47 23-12-2009 11:44pm

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My name is URL wrote: »

You mean your dad came and fucked up everything?

You saying I was a fuck up eh!

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#48 23-12-2009 11:45pm

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Completely Irish as far back as the records go (five generations maybe?, can't remember now exactly)

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#49 23-12-2009 11:45pm

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As far as i know its irish all the way back except that my great grandads step-mother or something was french but not by blood.

Thecnically my grandparents were english though as they were all born while ireland was under english rule,my grandad even fought for the british army in ww1

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#50 23-12-2009 11:48pm

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Aisling(",) wrote: »

Thecnically my grandparents were english though as they were all born while ireland was under english rule,my grandad even fought for the british army in ww1

That doesn't make them 'thecnically' english at all.

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#51 23-12-2009 11:54pm

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full Irish 100%

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