11 Dec 23
@fmf saidscottish ancestry, according to books i don't make time to read
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2000th cousin to english royalty, please sir, may i have some more?
my clansfolk immigrated earlier (1600?) rather than later, if the stories are to be believed
a great grandfather used to drive cattle up and down the chisholm trail
rode north from denver one day and was never heard from again
i have many other stories, myths, and lies
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12 Dec 23
@rookie54 saidI have Scottish ancestry.
scottish ancestry, according to books i don't make time to read
2000th cousin to english royalty, please sir, may i have some more?
my clansfolk immigrated earlier (1600?) rather than later, if the stories are to be believed
a great grandfather used to drive cattle up and down the chisholm trail
rode north from denver one day and was never heard from again
i have many other stories, myths, and lies
low cost
good value
True story.
@divegeester saidDid all four of your grandparents perish on the back of a pay as you exit bus?
I have Scottish ancestry.
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12 Dec 23
I have a second cousin (Scottish) on my maternal side who is “into” genealogy and he has traced that side of the family back to Sweden in the 18th century. I have a cousin on my paternal side who like my Scottish kin is also interested in family trees and has gone back, thus far, to England in the 19th century but is continuing to delve into it.
12 Dec 23
@fmf saidMy roots can be traced back to the 17th century in southern Scotland. My ancestors were a bunch of political malcontents, who, after a few generations were eventually deported to Canada in the late 1800's. A few scrapes with the RCMP and they fled to Rhode Island. WW2 came along and my father joined the navy. After the war, he was transferred to a base in Seattle, where he met my mother, and I came along in the mid 50's. A rather colorful history, but nothing whatsoever to boast about. π²
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@mchill saidI disagree. You should be proud of your Scottish roots. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ
My roots can be traced back to the 17th century in southern Scotland. My ancestors were a bunch of political malcontents, who, after a few generations were eventually deported to Canada in the late 1800's. A few scrapes with the RCMP and they fled to Rhode Island. WW2 came along and my father joined the navy. After the war, he was transferred to a base in Seattle, where he met ...[text shortened]... nd I came along in the mid 50's. A rather colorful history, but nothing whatsoever to boast about. π²
12 Dec 23
@great-big-stees saidI am proud of my Scottish roots, but not proud of the behavior that got my ancestors deported. I would be far happier if I'd had the chance to grow up and live in Scotland.
I disagree. You should be proud of your Scottish roots. π΄σ §σ ’σ ³σ £σ ΄σ Ώπ
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@great-big-stees saidSo I have mainly Suebian ancestors (the eldest known is hans Greiff, smith and mayor of Oberholzheim (+1450).
I have a second cousin (Scottish) on my maternal side who is “into” genealogy and he has traced that side of the family back to Sweden in the 18th century. I have a cousin on my paternal side who like my Scottish kin is also interested in family trees and has gone back, thus far, to England in the 19th century but is continuing to delve into it.
But i also have migrants from Austria (after the 30 years' war) from Switzerlad (same time) and from Saxony.
And I do have one forfather who fathered a child, who was born in 1838 and is designated "ein Ausländer" (an alien)
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@divegeester saidVery little I am sure! The Scottish people I've met are nothing like you my old nemesis. π
I have Scottish ancestry.
True story.
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@david-burton saidLOL@ david, that should be in the Jokes thread!! π
if your parents had no children the odds are you wont either.
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