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Getbig Main Boards => Gossip & Opinions => Topic started by: Irongrip400 on February 26, 2013, 03:08:46 PM
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So, I sometimes think, especially after going to Europe, that I don't quite feel like America is my home. I can kind of understand why some blacks refer to themselves as Afro American, because that's what they identify with. Sometimes I feel the failed experiment of this colony is over, and that we should return to our homelands to help with the problems there. I am of British and German decent, and really want to trace my family roots back, as that is where we come from. I don't know why, maybe it's age(31) or that I'm having a child in about a month and a half, but I have had this urge to get into geneology. I have traced my family back to the late 1600's on my name side, and further on my paternal grandmothers side. Any of you iron warriors ever get these types of urges? Have we been away from our home countries too long to go back? What say you?
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Spend 30 minutes on ancestry.com
You'll lose interest and get back to internet porn.
You're welcome.
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nope. we're all mutts, except for royalty - they're royal mutts.
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My paternal grandmother did a family tree and traced that side of the family back to the 1600s. Very interesting.
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So, I sometimes think, especially after going to Europe, that I don't quite feel like America is my home. I can kind of understand why some blacks refer to themselves as Afro American, because that's what they identify with. Sometimes I feel the failed experiment of this colony is over, and that we should return to our homelands to help with the problems there. I am of British and German decent, and really want to trace my family roots back, as that is where we come from. I don't know why, maybe it's age(31) or that I'm having a child in about a month and a half, but I have had this urge to get into geneology. I have traced my family back to the late 1600's on my name side, and further on my paternal grandmothers side. Any of you iron warriors ever get these types of urges? Have we been away from our home countries too long to go back? What say you?
I traced both my mother and fathers line back to Perth and Alloa Scotland. Most of my direct ancestors came over in the 1700's. My gggggggrandfather was born next to Tuckahoe where Thomas Jefferson was born, I wonder if they ever met, or at least saw each other. I also found that I'm related to George Washington (through Joseph Ball) and fairly close in relation to the Vanderbilts and Squire Boone.
I really like it here, I don't think I could ever adapt to the European lifestyle. :-\
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I am 100% New York family been here for years.Downtown baby.
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According to our family 'historian" one of my great-great-grandmothers had a Pow-Wow with a Cherokee in a Tee-Pee during a cross country migration and somewhere in someone's attic there is some sheet music with lyrics about that episode.
So I'm part Indian but not indian enough to get some of that free money that other more qualified Indians get from the US government.
If my grand-father was alive today, he'd most likely own a major casino on some reservation and spending his retired years drinking many bottles of Four Roses which I don't think they make any longer.
The last time I offered an Indian friend a drink, the dining room table went through the plate glass window while dinner was being served.
ANd on another occasion the Park Rangers got involved and we spent the next 24 hours sobering up in a padde cell.
Geneology can be very interesting if you've come from interesting stock.
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So, I sometimes think, especially after going to Europe, that I don't quite feel like America is my home. I can kind of understand why some blacks refer to themselves as Afro American, because that's what they identify with. Sometimes I feel the failed experiment of this colony is over, and that we should return to our homelands to help with the problems there. I am of British and German decent, and really want to trace my family roots back, as that is where we come from. I don't know why, maybe it's age(31) or that I'm having a child in about a month and a half, but I have had this urge to get into geneology. I have traced my family back to the late 1600's on my name side, and further on my paternal grandmothers side. Any of you iron warriors ever get these types of urges? Have we been away from our home countries too long to go back? What say you?
Well.....my relatives/ancestors came from Germany, Netherlands and Slavic regions in the late 1800's/1900. I don't feel the least bit "German" " Dutch or whatever......whatever the fuck that is supposed to feel like. So I cannot buy the "Afro" American bullshit, unless one has this need to feel "dissed, marginalized, downtrodden" or any other self defeating BS reason or for that matter, any reason to make myself special because of some generations old connection. And for the same reasons I don't get the Irish, Italian or any other prefix someone needs to fell special or different. As a matter of fact I am closer to my relatives nationalities, time wise, than Samuel L Jackson is connected to the Gold Coast or slavery
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Well.....my relatives/ancestors came from Germany, Netherlands and Slavic regions in the late 1800's/1900. I don't feel the least bit "German" " Dutch or whatever......whatever the fuck that is supposed to feel like. So I cannot buy the "Afro" American bullshit, unless one has this need to feel "dissed, marginalized, downtrodden" or any other self defeating BS reason. And for the same reasons I don't get the Irish, Italian or any other prefix someone needs to fell special or different. As a matter of fact I am closer to my relatives nationalities, time wise, than Samuel L Jackson is connected to the Gold Coast or slavery
I'd say I'm proud of descending from the smartest people in the world who invented everything. I'm not one of those idiots that go around saying I'm Scottish though!! ;D
I'm a European American.
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Well.....my relatives/ancestors came from Germany, Netherlands and Slavic regions in the late 1800's/1900. I don't feel the least bit "German" " Dutch or whatever......whatever the fuck that is supposed to feel like. So I cannot buy the "Afro" American bullshit, unless one has this need to feel "dissed, marginalized, downtrodden" or any other self defeating BS reason or for that matter, any reason to make myself special because of some generations old connection. And for the same reasons I don't get the Irish, Italian or any other prefix someone needs to fell special or different. As a matter of fact I am closer to my relatives nationalities, time wise, than Samuel L Jackson is connected to the Gold Coast or slavery
I think you missed my point, it was more about wanting to know where you come from and seeing your "homeland" than trying to get something out of it, or complaining about being discriminated against. Don't get me wrong, I love America, it's just that sometimes this place just is t old enough for me. It's like, for me, that history started here in the 1600's. Do you ever talk to your grandparents about their experience as being a first or second generation immigrant?
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I'd say I'm proud of descending from the smartest people in the world who invented everything. I'm not one of those idiots that go around saying I'm Scottish though!! ;D
I'm a European American.
;D
You also invented golf which, at times, causes absolutely despise the scots
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Anything is fun when your on vacation and not working, but for me anything past 2 or 3 weeks , i get bored and cant wait to get back to Los Angeles
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;D
You also invented golf which, at times, causes absolutely despise the scots
haha!!
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Visiting a country on vacation is very different that living in a country and building a life and working there!
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Visiting a country on vacation is very different that living in a country and building a life and working there!
Who wants sand in their nose all day, I agree ach
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So, I sometimes think, especially after going to Europe, that I don't quite feel like America is my home. I can kind of understand why some blacks refer to themselves as Afro American, because that's what they identify with. Sometimes I feel the failed experiment of this colony is over, and that we should return to our homelands to help with the problems there. I am of British and German decent, and really want to trace my family roots back, as that is where we come from. I don't know why, maybe it's age(31) or that I'm having a child in about a month and a half, but I have had this urge to get into geneology. I have traced my family back to the late 1600's on my name side, and further on my paternal grandmothers side. Any of you iron warriors ever get these types of urges? Have we been away from our home countries too long to go back? What say you?
So you plan on cutting yourself in half and sending one part to the UK and the other to Germany?
Can I help? ???
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Anyone ever feel like this? The same day over and over.
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So you plan on cutting yourself in half and sending one part to the UK and the other to Germany?
Can I help? ???
Anthropology is an interest of mine, so it's more about origins of where my people come from. I wasn't even close to being in America, and am not an Indian, so my ancestors really aren't from here, unless you trace that shit all the way back to the steppes of Eurasia, which I don't think ancestory.com goes back that far.
On to the second part, getting me cut, what are your qualifications and who have you worked with in the past. ;D
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Thats the interesting thing. How many of you guys actually think that Columbus was the first to discover America? Many think the Vikings did that 400-500 years before. I actually think an ancient culture (Egyptian, Chinese, Roman, Greek etc...) probably came across America earlier then that.
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Thats the interesting thing. How many of you guys actually think that Columbus was the first to discover America? Many think the Vikings did that 400-500 years before. I actually think an ancient culture (Egyptian, Chinese, Roman, Greek etc...) probably came across America earlier then that.
The continents were connected until continental shift, so the negros in africa were the first to discover america. ::)
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The continents were connected until continental shift, so the negros in africa were the first to discover america. ::)
I meant America as the continent we know it as today. G thong.
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Thats the interesting thing. How many of you guys actually think that Columbus was the first to discover America? Many think the Vikings did that 400-500 years before. I actually think an ancient culture (Egyptian, Chinese, Roman, Greek etc...) probably came across America earlier then that.
Yeah, hence the team name Minnesota Vikings. I also read of an Irish priest who supposedly came to the Deep South, Alabama or Georgia I believe. Was around the first milineum.
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Yeah, hence the team name Minnesota Vikings. I also read of an Irish priest who supposedly came to the Deep South, Alabama or Georgia I believe. Was around the first milineum.
Have you been watching that new show on the History channel? :P
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My moms family is all celts that came from ireland and scotland around 1800.
My dads dad, is a irish anglo mutt with some native blood.
My grand mother is old school acadian mixed with a couple branches of native.
So I'm basically the exact mix the country had when it started in 1867.
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I have predominantly German roots, but have absolutely no desire to live anywhere in Europe or ingrain myself over there. I am an American first before any other consideration. With the exception of the US and very, very few other places, the rest of the world is an absolute shithole. Fun to visit, but fuck all having to live there.
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Thats the interesting thing. How many of you guys actually think that Columbus was the first to discover America? Many think the Vikings did that 400-500 years before. I actually think an ancient culture (Egyptian, Chinese, Roman, Greek etc...) probably came across America earlier then that.
Think it's a fact that eric the read landed in North America(markland), and built a settlement on vinland(newfoundland).
He even gave a rather detailed map and directions on how to get here.
He's like 8 hours up the coast from me, one of my buddies grew up right next to where the old settlement was.
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My moms family is all celts that came from ireland and scotland around 1800.
My dads dad, is a irish anglo mutt with some native blood.
My grand mother is old school acadian mixed with a couple branches of native.
So I'm basically the exact mix the country had when it started in 1867.
With a touch of downs thrown in.
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Have you been watching that new show on the History channel? :P
I wish. I'm putting an addition on my house and am living in a winter rental with no cable. I'll have to check it out in a month or so when I'm back in. What's the name of the show?
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Yeah, hence the team name Minnesota Vikings. I also read of an Irish priest who supposedly came to the Deep South, Alabama or Georgia I believe. Was around the first milineum.
you probably mean St Brendan who may have sailed to NewFoundland in a curragh ( leather skinned boad) but Christy Moore suugests he may have gone on to Honolulu
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I wish. I'm putting an addition on my house and am living in a winter rental with no cable. I'll have to check it out in a month or so when I'm back in. What's the name of the show?
America Unearthed.
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you probably mean St Brendan who may have sailed to NewFoundland in a curragh ( leather skinned boad) but Christy Moore suugests he may have gone on to Honolulu
I could've sworn it was the Deep South, because he went up the Mississippi River I think. I remember though that it may have been debunked, or not enough evidence to support it, whatever the case this little hick town still bought in.
Off topic, good on Brady taking a paycut, maybe Joe Flacco will take the hint and leave some pie for the rest of the team.