Do you know where your non-Irish ancestors came from?

[Critters2]

My ancestors not from the Gaelic lands are from Prussia, Pomerania, East Prussia, and Lower Saxony. In fact, my last name means a person from a specific region of Lower Saxony (if I were more specific than that, I'd be just giving you my name).

[BeachBaby]

1. Yup.

Heidelberg, Germany and Warsaw, Poland. :)

[Xipe Totec]

2. Narwhaland? n/t

[sakabatou]

3. If I go waaaaaaay back, it's...

Israel and more recently Russia, Germany, Lithuania and possibly other countries.

[mainegreen]

22. dammit. wrong place

[sakabatou]

25. XP

[FarLeftRage]

4. Yep...

Me father's side: from Calabria in Italy, Scotland, England and France.

Me Mum's side: Alsace-Lorraine, Bavaria in Germany, Switzerland, and Holland.

[Incitatus]

5. Somewhere across the Atlantic. nt

[Critters2]

6. Hye! Mine, too! We may be related! nt

[CreekDog]

7. Milan, Italy & Calabria, Italy & America before it was called that

:think:

and i'm a mutt otherwise.

[Kat45]

78. I have some from Calabria too, along with Abruzze and somewhere in Sicily.

No Irish in me.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. Norway, Scotland, England, Germany, France, Switzerland and Spain.

I'm kind of a mutt.

[femmocrat]

9. I sure do!

They came from what is now the Slovak Republic, near Bratislava. I still have family there.

[Metatron]

10. Hungary, England, and Syria

Although many people assume I have Irish roots because of my red hair.

[Pacifist Patriot]

11. Alabama, Georgia and Pennsylvania.

And I'm pretty sure some came out of East Africa, but that was wwwaaaayyyy back.

;)

[skygazer]

12. England and Italy

Of course, the English actually go back to Germans, Scots and Irish again. Oh, and some Vikings.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

13. The Netherlands (before that, Persia) and Greece

:hi:

[rug]

14. Normandy.

[leftyclimber]

15. Some vaguely, some specifically.

Mom's side: Various places in Scotland and Norway.
Dad's side: Various places in England and the Choctaw rez.

[tigereye]

16. Alsace-Lorraine - that province that keeps going back between France

and Germany.

[Chan790]

17. Yes.

Krakow, Poland
Beirut, Lebanon
House of Gordon, Huntly, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
Pine River Indian Reservation, South Dakota
England by way of Swanzey, NH by way of the Mayflower. (This is my family line through which I'm genetically-related to two of the worst Presidents in US history: Franklin Pierce and George W. Bush. Joy is mine. :eyes:)

My Irish ancestors are from:

Inishowen Peninsula, Co. Donegal and the vicinity of Derry.

[Mist]

18. Prussia, Scotland, Wales, northern England. nt

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. That quarter is from Narwhalelandia

But they were Nazis, so we pretend they don't exist.

[Ptah]

20. Geradstetten, east of Stuttgart, in the southwestern German State of Baden-Wuerttemberg

[greendog]

21. My Grandfather was from Lower Saxony. Town of Lengerich.

[mainegreen]

23. Netherlands (and beyond, lower saxony) and Switzerland.

Genetically, my Y chromosome is from among the first true Europeans (yes I paid money to find that out).
Evidently, genetically, I have a Basque-ish Y chromosome.

[geardaddy]

24. Port Talbot, South Wales

All the rest from England before the Revolution.

[Roon]

26. My paternal Grandmother was from Ireland

she immigrated here a million years ago. She still had the accent. She died about 20 years ago. I feel terrible because I was never a good catholic and never got confirmed. Until the day she died she went to mass every day.

[DemBones DemBones]

27. Mostly from Devonshire or Somerset, with the

Irish ones coming from County Down and Dublin. I'm always arguing with myself as a result. :evilgrin:

[AlCzervik]

28. Dvinsk which is now Daugavpils and Korvo? Russia/Prussia?

[applegrove]

29. I have relatives from germany and Scotland and England.

[Mutley]

30. I've got blood from all over Europe.

My family hasn't been pure-bred for a loooooooooooooooooooooooong time.

[petronius]

31. Pretty much all from Germany (or France, depending on which century your map is from)

The rest I have no idea - probably a quarter of me is from muttsylvania...

[lizziegrace]

32. My grandfather came over from Greece

Crete, to be exact. My mother's a mutt with family who settled in New Amsterdam in 1694.

[RetroLounge]

33. All over northern europe

Actually, I have no irish blood at all, but my kids do...

Mine came from Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Norway.

Does that make me a Viking?

:shrug:

RL

[cherish44]

34. They were mostly hillbillies

Supposedly "Scotch Irish" don't know if that's a misnomer like Pennsylvania Dutch or not. Hillbilly is just easier to explain.

[XemaSab]

48. There's a book called Albion's Seed that I think you would enjoy

Part of it is about the Scots-Irish hillbillies. :)

[Starry Messenger]

35. Germany & Scotland.

[ghostsofgiants]

36. Sweden.

:thumbsup:

[Lost in CT]

37. Don't have any of them.... nt

[old mark]

38. The ones with a little Irish are Scots- Irish/ Swiss. They have been here

since the 1600's so they are mostly from here.
The others are from a mountainous German section of Austria called the Burgenland - around Gratz. They came here in 1919.

mark

[Iggo]

39. Mexico.

Or what people now refer to as The Great State of California, USofA.

[Jamastiene]

40. Here, right in the very area where we live now.

Tuscarora

I wish I had any Irish ancestry at all. I've always been in love with the people and the pictures of Ireland. I've always wanted to go there and visit too.

[Lucian]

41. Austria, Norway, and on the Canadian side of Lake Superior.

My great-grandmother was full-blooded Chippewa.

[geardaddy]

45. Do you have ties to any of the Ojibwe nations

here in MN?

[Lucian]

69. No.

At least, I don't think so. If I do, there's no way for me to find out for sure.

[MissMillie]

42. England, Sweden and Canada

I'm not at all Irish

[Starbucks Anarchist]

43. India, thereabouts.

[BikeWriter]

44. Our family name, Estep, was derived from Easthope, in England.

Then there's the Scottish Boyd Clan , and the Cherokee. I'm unsure of any others.

[XemaSab]

49. You related to Jim?

Guy who does hawk research in California? :shrug:

[BikeWriter]

51. I'd almost have to be. There is a California branch of the family

moved there from Arkansas.

[XemaSab]

52. Jim's a great guy

:D

[BikeWriter]

55. Thanks you, most of us Esteps are. :-)

[BikeWriter]

56. Wow, I Googled Estep jim hawks california. I see what you mean!

He appears to be the hawk man out there, for sure!

[XemaSab]

60. .

:thumbsup:

[La Lioness Priyanka]

46. kolkata, West Bengal, India.

:)

[BikeWriter]

57. I'll bet your people have seen some tigers!

[La Lioness Priyanka]

58. only in the sense of "leisure hunting"...

[XemaSab]

47. Hesse and Kalmar

:)

[SoxFan]

50. What are these "non-Irish ancestors" of which you speak?

Actually, the Fitzgeralds (like any "Fitz" family) are Cambro-Norman in origin, so if you go back far enough, there's a French knight in there someplace.

[TZ]

53. This wiki article pretty much sums up my ancestors..

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

[DevonRex]

66. Which means you're of Viking heritage.

[Deep13]

54. "This royal throne of kings,...

...this sceptred isle,
This earth of majesty, this seat of Mars,
This other Eden, demi-paradise,
This fortress built by Nature for herself
Against infection and the hand of war,
This happy breed of men, this little world,
This precious stone set in the silver sea,
Which serves it in the office of a wall
Or as a moat defensive to a house,
Against the envy of less happier lands,--
This blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England."
Richard II, act II, sc. 1.

Also, Normany, France proper, Germany.

[GreenPartyVoter]

59. The Scots-Irish were from Co Antrim, the Welsh from Cwmavon, the rest I am not sure because those

generations came to America much much earlier or because the info was lost.

I'm also German, English (Norman and otherwise), Flemish (grandfather traced that back to the 1400s), Scottish, and not sure where the last ones came from. The Sotaks were Russian catholic but there were rumors they came from somewhere within a hundred mile radius of Budapest.

[bikebloke]

61. Scotland

Deutschland on the shitty kin side.

When I have a hundred bucks to throw away, I'd like to join the Genographic Project. I'm curious about deep ancestry. I suspect there's Viking mixed with the Scots. Then Sweden would have to let me immigrate and I can be a true social democrat.

[LynneSin]

62. Yes they came NOT from Ireland

:rofl:

[LibertyLover]

63. Yeah, Scotland

n/t:)

[dropkickpa]

64. The one family not from Ireland

The Vrchoticky's, were from Vrchotice, Bohemia (now Czech Rep).

[DevonRex]

65. Wales, Scotland and Brittany.

[sarge43]

67. Scotland, England and Germany

and ultimately sub Sahara East Africa

[foxfeet]

68. Wales, Scotland, England, the Rhineland-Palatinate, and Switzerland.

Family legend says maybe Native American, but I haven't found that ancestor yet.

[DarkTirade]

70. I don't really know my ancestry that well...

all I know is that the jewish part of my family was from eastern Poland, right near the Russian border. And then I've got some native american on my father's side, but I'm not sure what tribes and how much. I THINK I'm a quarter, which would mean that half my genes come from groups that the white man tried to exterminate, while the other half came from the white man. Go fig.

[Ikonoklast]

71. The beer store.

What?

[closeupready]

72. Some of them. Smaland in Sweden, near Ljungby.

Haven't been to Sweden - yet. Other ancestors came from Frankfurt.

[schmuls]

73. England, Norway, Germany and Austria

[TK421]

74. Stevensons from England, Birkenstocks from Germany

although....there is some REALLY weird shit that happened on my Dads side there. From what I am told, my great, great ( etc...? ) grandfather committed some heinous crime against the crown and had to flee the country. There was a name change ( not sure about this...still have to look into it ) but eventually settled down in the states. Only other thing I know is my great, ( ?...sorry, a bit drunk here ) grandfather was a Bugle Boy who rode alongside Teddy Roosevelt in the Spanish-American war, and we still have the saber of a Mexican general who, right after he was killed my great grandfather swooped down and picked it up ( must have thought then that it would have some kind of value! ).

[nickinSTL]

75. non-Irish? most of them...

I do have some small amount of Irish, but I'm mostly Norwegian,German and Swedish with some English, Scottish, Irish and Breton thrown in.

My last name is from a settlement on a bit of marshy land in northern Germany.

[whistler162]

76. Sure... Sweden.... so I may have some gaelic

ancestors from when my ancestors went a raidin' and a pillagin'!

[harmonicon]

77. lots of places

England, Lithuania, Germany (what the hell that means, I don't know, because it would have been in the 19th century, before Germany existed), and Czechoslovakia (what country the town they were from is in now, no one seems to know).