Who's your Daddy? [Archive] - Sports Car Forum

TransAm

03-17-2005, 04:18 PM

Inspired by the St Patricks Day thread, I thought I would start a topic in order that we can share our 'roots' with oneanother, so here goes...

I'm English by birth, 1/4 Irish, 3/4 English...There is possibly a bit of French in our blood but I can't be sure; my fathers family originates from the south Devon coast in England.

We traced our history back to the mid/early-1800s but it all gets a bit vague thereafter as my forefathers were farm labourers and couldn't read or write - they signed their names with an 'x' on the 19th century census :lol:

Who's your daddy :?:

666fast

03-17-2005, 04:31 PM

German, with a tad bit of French in there. I forget the name of the town my family comes from! LOL I know I still have family there though.

nthfinity

03-17-2005, 04:56 PM

we have successfully traced my family's heritage to several places... and the Irish connections are the most vague, but sprout up several times.

on my dad's side, its Irish-German with more known about the German history. we came from near the center of Germany, where we found traced back to the 12th century. at that point, we then found further traces back to the emerald Isle. my great grandmother/grandfather was full blooded German imigrants on my grandmothers side; on my grandfather's side, Irish and a strong possibility of menonites.

on my mom's side its mostly bankers back to the early 16th century in Jamestown. which then lead from scotland. also, my grandfather's herritage comes from some lordship in england, who in the 16th century died from a carriage accident.

my most famous reletives were Ulysses S. Grant, and Dr. Solomon Spalding (who inadvertently created mormonism, which was based on ficticious events of a book he was wrighting in retirement...and were stolen while he had taken ill)

ARMAN

03-17-2005, 04:59 PM

1/2 Russian and 1/2 Chuvash(thats a republic in russia http://www.chuvashia.ru deep in the roots nothing extraordinary simple russian people :P

Toronto

03-17-2005, 05:02 PM

my dad was born in West Germany (and his parents, both German Jews)
My mother was born in Canada, and her mother the first child in her family to be born in canada (all the other members of my grandmothers family are from Old Russia/Poland all Jewish aswell)

abbor

03-17-2005, 05:05 PM

I'm mostly norwegian since forever almost, apart from 1/8 danish on my father's mother's side.. I have traced my main heritage back to around the 1500's on all other sides than the danish one...

GT-R_R34

03-17-2005, 05:24 PM

i'm Chilean by birth. i tried to do a research on my family, but i found out that my grandfather change his last name for unknown reasons. and my mother side is spanish. that about it.

JiggaStyles09

03-17-2005, 05:56 PM

i am part italian from my fathers side of the family and i am part irish i believe, from my mothers side and maybe some german too.

gis

03-17-2005, 05:58 PM

All english baby :D

i havent really gone into family history,ill have to check in on that :D

Fleischmann

03-17-2005, 06:03 PM

My grqand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand-grand dad was most definatelly german. You can tell by my surname - Biernacki. Bier=beer in german :D and -cki is just a typical ending to a polish family name.

SFDMALEX

03-17-2005, 06:10 PM

Well I'm 100% Ukrainian. My great great grand mother was Polish. Im not sure about my dads side. He's 100% Ukrainian, their might be a hungarian mix somewere in there way back.

ferrarif1fan89

03-17-2005, 06:12 PM

cuban, british, spaniard

JARS

03-17-2005, 06:21 PM

Who's your Daddy?

and what does he do ?

kjekki

03-17-2005, 06:22 PM

I have traced my main heritage back to around the 1500's on all other sides than the danish one...
one question, WHY, hehe :wink:

Pimp Racer

03-17-2005, 06:23 PM

100% Indian. Born in India and did school there. Is that all the info or should I post more?

coombsie66

03-17-2005, 06:36 PM

100% british beef me. :D Born and bred in somerset. (no inbred jokes though, thats devon and below :P Trans :wink: )

blah

03-17-2005, 06:48 PM

Who knows the percentages, Cherokee Indian, Irish, probably german in there, some african country i dont know which one. 100% American Badass though. 8)

FoxFour

03-17-2005, 07:03 PM

I have Italian blood on both sides. My dad's father and mother immigrated from Italy in the early 1900's. Grandma was Sicilian, Grandpa was born in the south part of Italy.
My Great-Grandparents on my mothers side ( her dad's side) immigrated here in 1917. I have the records of when they arrived at Ellis Island. Great-grandpa got here first and got a job and then several month's later great-grandma arrived here with her children aboard the S.S. Oceania, My grandfather was born on that ship as they were approaching the US. My mom's mother, I don't know much about but I know she is of Italian ancestry. She abandoned mom when she was 6 month's old. Her name was Sirami.

TransAm

03-17-2005, 07:11 PM

Who's your Daddy?

and what does he do ?

Retired at 50 :wink: so lots of golf basically

mike_sayer

03-17-2005, 07:17 PM

I'm all Brit as well, family has been traced back to the south west corner of england, near Cornwall, and the family pedigree goes back to the 1500s. In a week's time i will have my family signet ring, and i even (very pretentiously) have our family crest in a frame in my bedroom. Sad, yed, but i guess i'm proud of my heritage.

And i think coomsie may actually be 75% British and 25% Cartman, eh mate? :wink:

coombsie66

03-17-2005, 07:26 PM

^^^ EHHH BITCH!!
It might actually be true im sad to say! :?

antonioledesma

03-17-2005, 10:33 PM

ok... by my dad's side seems that no one was "special" or nobody cares.
by my mom's side... my grandmother was 1/4 of spanish (and that family says they're related to a noble family in Spain....yeeeahh, right), my grandfather was son of a frenchman and an italian...woman.
If anyone that lives in France knows a lastname that is somewhat related to Larre... can you tell which is it? please?

SKYLiNE_R33

03-17-2005, 11:01 PM

Who's your Daddy?

and what does he do ?

Retired at 50 :wink: so lots of golf basically

LOL it was a rhetorical question :P

Toronto

03-17-2005, 11:13 PM

^^^ lol kindergarten cop that was so funny

Toronto

03-17-2005, 11:16 PM

dingo

03-18-2005, 04:21 AM

Who's your Daddy?

and what does he do ?

My dad's a gynecologist. He looks at vaginas all day long. :lol:

yeah but not necassarily nice ones :wink:

TransAm

03-18-2005, 09:55 AM

Who's your Daddy?

and what does he do ?

Retired at 50 :wink: so lots of golf basically

LOL it was a rhetorical question :P

:P :lol:

komotar

03-18-2005, 10:12 AM

100 % Slovenian....probably 100%

On my dad's side, we have a family tree that goes all the way back to 1545.

see the pic.

http://img42.exs.cx/img42/117/pict04461fl.th.jpg (http://img42.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img42&image=pict04461fl.jpg) http://img42.exs.cx/img42/6064/pict04451kx.th.jpg (http://img42.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img42&image=pict04451kx.jpg)

and on my mom's side I'm 100% Slovenian at least 200yrs back....

ARMAN

03-18-2005, 02:33 PM

:shock: Thats deep Komotar

callen

03-19-2005, 12:42 PM

My Mom was born here in Canada and so was my grandparents. Great grandparents are from england i believe but i am not too sure. My dad was born in Glasgow Scotland, moved here when he was 11. Everyone on his side is from Scotland. His name is Malcolm, mine is Callum (same name different language, Galic for those 'in the know" :wink: ) So basically, I am 100% British beef, but Canadian born and raised. My grandfather(not by blood, but i consider it so) is Irish, so I must uphold my St pattys day commitment to boozin!

CSedl87

03-20-2005, 02:28 AM

I'm mostly German, with Norwegian,French, and bit of Irish in there. My major family lineage traces back to ~1200's Munchen (Munich), from there we traced it to the royal brewers of Bavaria, Spaten. They're still there in Munchen and we've tried to talk to them, but they seem to think we're after their money, which we're not... Also there is a lil bit of black in me on my moms side, and also from her side I'm related to Buffalo Bill.

possessed_beaver

03-20-2005, 11:25 AM

..Im Australian, so basicley if you go back 200 years im sure one of my relatives came here on a prision ship as a murder or something bad.. :twisted:

abbor

03-20-2005, 01:06 PM

I have traced my main heritage back to around the 1500's on all other sides than the danish one...
one question, WHY, hehe :wink:

Watch your mouth, bitch n****, or I'll come to your house and burn your house down... I know where you live, so don't think your safe.. 8)

mindgam3

03-20-2005, 01:14 PM

Mostly english, bit of scottish in me from some way back ;)

jon_s

03-20-2005, 01:17 PM

Well, my direct heritage is:
Mum = Irish (Born in Ballymena)
Dad = Cornish (Born in Plymouth)
Me = English (Born in London)

My mum has strong connections with Scotland.
We have a lot of the convicts that were 'exported' to Australia in the family. Ironically, they are now one of the wealthiest 'arms' of the family.
I have lived out in New Zealand for a few years (Manurewa in Auckland)

Z3uS

03-20-2005, 03:25 PM

Hi mates, im new here :fadein:

So... I was born in Brazil and still live here. I have Spanish and Portuguese grandparents.

ARMAN

03-20-2005, 03:34 PM

Hehe I thought more people would have somewere deep down russian roots ... sofar noone :mrgreen: Germany win as I see LOL

Stikz

03-21-2005, 01:11 AM

Hey, hey, I'm from India originally. Moved to Canada in 1990. Let's see, for those here that are indian, i'm half goan and half manglorian by my parents. My great grand mother was iraqi, but she left there when she was like 14 or something. Someone on my mom's grandfather's side is scot, somewhere in my mom's side there's also some british. AS for my dad's side, its mostly indian, although there is some portuguese in there as my last name is silveira. A pretty mixed bag as far as i'm concerned. I also look forward to injecting plenty more nations into our family tree. :D Or maybe just injecting myself into girls from different nations. :D

ZfrkS62

03-21-2005, 01:39 AM

I"m part German and part Irish for sure. I want to say 50-25 respectivley. Not sure what the rest is. Kind of difficult for me to find out since i would have to find out who my biological parents are first :wink:

My adoptive dad's side is Polish, hence the Polish last name. Can't remember my mom's side though :?

ARMAN

03-21-2005, 09:35 AM

Hehe I thought more people would have somewere deep down russian roots ... sofar noone :mrgreen: Germany win as I see LOL

Russia probably haven't had so many emigrants? At least I haven't heard of Russians moving to USA, Canada or Australia. Am I totally wrong?
Its true that they couldnt leave country for decades. They did moved but not so many I guess, but they did in volume in 90's

saadie

03-21-2005, 11:59 AM

hmm ... well ... my great great grand father was iraqi ... my grand mothers dad was from mauritius .... they somehow ended in bangladesh fer business and all ... and before the damn war .. dad came to pak fer holidays and all and got stuck here ... and mom came here after the war ... and i was born in china when my dad was posted there ...... soo .. thast my pathetic story and how i eneded up in pakistan .... i hate this damn place ..... im not a paki ... this place is shyt ... soo yah ....

antonioledesma

03-21-2005, 12:41 PM

saadie

03-23-2005, 12:00 PM

so, how do you consider yourself? from china? bangladesh? american? citizen of the free world??

well .. i donno im asian i think .... the chinese govt dosnt give nationalities cuz of their huge population .... so i guess im asian .... im not american .. thts fer sure i'd rather be a ukranian (i just love tht place).. lol
the world isnt free btw :wink: ... anywayz .. i sure dun wanna be a paki ... :|

zr2man99

03-23-2005, 12:23 PM

I am half Czech & Slovak from my dad's side of the family. Both my great grandparents were born in the Czechoslovakia area. My grandma is full blooded Czech and my grandpa (God rest his soul, died 2 weeks ago :( ) was full blooded Slovak (with maybe a little bit like 5-10% of something else way down the line). I'm not so sure about my mom's side. I know theres a lot of German, Austrian, and Norwegian.

neilo63

03-25-2005, 05:47 PM

Sicillian both sides.

komotar

03-26-2005, 07:32 AM

Sicilian both sides.

One post for each side, huh? :wink:

stradale

03-26-2005, 07:57 AM

^^^ :lol:

I'm about 80% Dutch (or Frisian actually: a northern province of the Netherlands with its own -somewhat peculiar- identity and language) and the rest is Indonesian, Belgian and I think (not really sure) a tiny bit of Austrian and Danish as well.

I have traced my roots back to jesus, my kin come from the bastard child of jesus....

So Im half God, half whore......it works for me............ :mrgreen:

LOL!! You've been reading Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code, haven't you? If not, then please do. It's about your family. :D

BTW, if your roots really go back to a man who could turn water into wine, then why the hell is that RS2 still a mess?! :P :wink:

SFDMALEX

03-26-2005, 04:57 PM

so, how do you consider yourself? from china? bangladesh? american? citizen of the free world??

.. thts fer sure i'd rather be a ukranian (i just love tht place).. lol
:|

What is that supposed to mean? :bah:

Vansquish

03-26-2005, 11:37 PM

I'm a mutt :-D

My great grandparents hailed from Poland/Belarus/Prussia/Russia (they were sort of on the border and the border changed a lot), Austria, and Germany.

My dad retired at 55 and he's basically a ski bum...spending his winters out in Colorado and his summers travelling, playing golf and "looking for a job" (bullshit!! hehe)

ZfrkS62

04-06-2005, 09:02 PM

ok, i actually managed to find something on my grandfather (whom i only rememebr meeting once) I'm still trying to find his obituary from the NY Times, but i can't remember what year he passed away.

Nosek, Kenneth A., awarded Bronze Star: 3/15/45p8

Nosek, Kenneth A., awarded Purple Heart: 10/19/44p3

Nosek, Kenneth, weds Jeanette Connor 1/31/43: 2/4/43p5

His family immigrated from Poland in the 30's. If i remember right, there were 7 kids in the family. One died of pneumonia and two in a fire i think. It's been awhile since i've heard the story.