Ancestry?

I was always told I was a European Mutt (there's Irish, Scottish, French, German and Polish mingled in there) but very recently I found out that my great grandmother was a full-blooded Mohawk Indian. Apparently she wanted it kept secret..... I guess things were different back then.

I'm a bit of a mutt myself. My mother is of Malaysian descent and is Filipino. My maiden name, I'm told by my father that on his side is French and my great-grandmother x 2 is full blood Cherokee. My maiden name is supposed to be French - DePew.

I am finish canadian...apparently alot of people from Finlad move to canada?? But my dad moved here, US, when he was 10 and is a naturalized citizen. --That's on his side....my mom's side is all american from what I know......hummm......got me curious!

I think all the ancestry stuff available now is awesome. I have an aunt who's into it big time. She knows her family all the way back to the early 1800's.

I'm not that dedicated, but it is interesting.

I love the "mutt" stuff. :laugh:

I don't know about Canada, but I watch Deadliest Catch on the Discovery Channel. There's a lot of talk on there about the Norwegian/Finnish ancestry onboard the fishing boats there in Alaska, so that would make sense, right?

My dad's mother was German, his father was Irish.
My mom's mother was Lakota Sioux and her father was adopted.

Actually, he was abandoned in a field in Nebraska (moses-style).... so he has no idea what nationality he is. He had blonde hair and blue eyes, so that narrows it down somewhat!!

I am Irish, English, Welch, Dutch and German. I have discovered from my father, who I'm not sure why he never told me, that we are related to the late war reporter Ernie Pyle.

Cool topic GTO!

Welsh, Scotch, German, Cherokee.

Jones is welsh, though we traced it to the viking invasions in the mid to late dark ages. (Johannes)

Shew was changed from 'Shaw' after the Culloden defeat in 1746. They fled from Scotland to the New world and changed it to escape the British persecution.

Culler was my grandmothers maiden name, it was originally Kohler, very german. Her family were Hessian landowners in SC, they lost it all after George the III was defeated in the Revolution. They moved to NC and changed it to Culler.

My greatgrandmother was full blooded Cherokee. Her name was Barfoot (Bearfoot). We know very little about her family history aside from that she was from the Cherokee reservation in southern NC.

My aunt did an ancestry project where she traced some family all the way back to the mayflower, how sweet is that?:drinker:

That is on my dad's side, he's German and my mother is full blooded Italian..

we found out that there was a "von" in front of my last name but it was dropped, I guess to sound more American?

I think I have a little bit of other things too...french, english maybe??

Lets see, great topic, i love family histories :happy: actually just found out some more due to the viking thread, went searching and asked a few more questions of my parents

Well my mom's parents:
grandma- her father was first generation Irish, his father was killed by a train and his mother went looney- he was then sent to live on a government funded work farm. he would never admit to being irish- the time and place was not the best for irish, last name was Robinson.
Her mother was a Shawcross and was of mostly English and Scottish descent.... I think I need a kilt of my own
My grandfather- his mother was a Danforth- English- nothing crazy there except she lived to be 101, and lived in the same house for like 99 years, and had the road she lived on named Parker, Which brings us to his father. We can trace that line all the way
to around the time of the Mayflower(supposedly came over on the second ship called the Mayflower as well) which may or may not make it english or dutch as the ship likely carried mostly people from Leiden in the netherlands. that line sprouted off into MA and founded some towns, also Captain John Parker was the leader of the Lexington militia when the battle of Lexington occurred.

now my dad's parents-
my grandma is first generation swedish 100% Anderson
My grandpa is a different story- The last name is Sheppard, and it is the same spelling as the scottish Sheppards that came over and settled in eastern Canada on the run from the law- which matches up with the stories that Sheppard itself may not even be our real name due to lawful matters.... there is also most likey some french-canadian and some Native American in there as well from the stories we've been told, although straight answers don't come easy from my dad's side of the family, lots of weird things, like hauntings, witches, shamans, and some odd "relationships" with some of my great grandparents...

But yeah now i need a kilt... but which tartan

dang i learned alot more about my family history due to this and i already knew a bunch about it... cool

last name was Robinson.
Her mother was a Shawcross and was of mostly English and Scottish descent.... I think I need a kilt of my own

But yeah now i need a kilt... but which tartan

Robinson, like me (Wilson) is a sept of the Gunn clan (or the Robertson clan on, depends on where in Scotland) http://www.rampantscotland.com/clans/blclangunn.htm (nothing for Shawcross, must be Irish?)

lets see, my mother is 100% Scottish, a McLeod from Orkney i believe, don't think there is anything outside of Scotland in that blood.

My father's mum was English and he was born in Newcatle (but claims to be scottish due to his father being scottish and he has lived all barring the first few weeks of his life in Scotland). My fathers great gran was Norwegian (and a giant apparently).

So, i am Paul Wilson, descendent of Gunni, grandson of Sweyn Asleifsson, the “Ultimate Viking” hero of the Orkneyinge Saga...here me roar :laugh: