Ancestry

[Dharkbayne]

I'm related to Jesus. I swear.

[Setari]

my great great etc. uncle was the brother of the father of Robby Lee. that's about all i know. oh and my grandpa was one of the many scientists who helped on the Manhattan Project. (I'd put up a pic of his certificate but it's not at my house right now)

[Incompetent]

On my dads side (all german) I've got a few rocket scientists, and one of the guys that helped create the technology responsible for the microwave and night vision devices. I don't know any specifics though. I know even less about my moms side (alot of different races) although I know her dad was a member of the 101st and fought at Bastogne.

[ControlledBurn]

Originally Posted by Dharkbayne

I'm related to Jesus. I swear.

You're black?

[Red October]

Russian of course. Family was awarded Nobility Title (I think Tsar Peter the Great, could be wrong...have to dig it up again...but was during one of the many wars with Sweden...apparently was instrumental in defeating them). Fast Foward a few centuries, name and family much larger. Group of the the family is "outcasted" due to renouncing Orthodoxy and accepting a sectarian religion. As Russia conquers further South, the Religious Sect gets continuously banned and outcasted to the newly conqured regions to the point where we end up in what is present day Armenia and Azerbaijan.

Pre-Revolution: Part of the Religous Sect emigrates to the United States on the promise of religious freedom and exemption from the military...(no written paperwork, hence military exemption suddenly dissappears during WWI and then have a nice long history with the US Government and subsequently the Selective Service).

Post Revolution: No knowlege of family back in Russia. In United States, family grows and one family individual goes on to earn a few silver and gold medals in swimming. She also makes a big stink about East Germans using steroids (personal family quote from her "When I went in the locker room, I walked right back out because I thought I had went into the mens by accident...turns out I was in the right one").

Post Soviet Empire: We find out that our last name no longer exists in Russia as far as we can tell. Those that stayed with the Orthodoxy (and kept nobility) died during Revolution (not aware of any survivors). Those that were part of the Religous Sect, the last of them died off of old age and the younger one's either died or "dissappeared" in Afghanistan.

[TheN00b]

The only famous person that I can trace my lineage to is Francis Scott Keye, the dumbass who based my countries' national anthem on a drinking song

[Triggar]

My mother's family has been in Montedoro, Sicily since, well, at least when Rome owned everything, building churches on the island of Sicily up until 1960 when a few of them started emigrating to America, person by person, wives without their husbands or children. Way back when, they were falconers, which explains the last name "Falcone" (the Italian word for falconer is "Falconiere").

My father's family has been in Calabria, Italy (the toe of the boot) or Caltinisetta, Sicily since the year 0 at least. There are stories of men in my family fighting for Marc Antony. In later years, they became tailors, which explains my last name, which is the Italian word for "clip".

They lived in Italy until the 40's, where they did the same thing as my mom's family - emigrated piece by piece until an entire family was here. They've been living here ever since.

[SDM]

Originally Posted by Hamma

I have no idea

[Infernus]

My Ancestory:

My Mother: My grandmother is Italian... they lived in Italy during most of World War II (in which my great-grand-father fought and died for Rome in...). After the death of my great-grandfather and the capture of southern Italy by the Allies she fled to America but not before meeting an Irish pilot named Edward Lawless. After the war my grandmom and grandfather were married and had 7 children... my mother being the middle child.

My Father: (This is the Interesting one) My grandfather was German... we have been able to trace his family lineage back to the family of the German Emperor Barbarosa... He served in World War I under Kaiser Wilhelm and later in World War II under Rommel before he defected to the Americans... in the 1950s he met my grandmother (the daughter of an irish farmer) and they married and had my father and my two aunts.

On October 23rd, 1980 Anne Lawless married Richard Merritt and 8 years later i was born... Matthew Richard Merritt I, esquire...

[Sputty]

Originally Posted by Onizuka

ALL my family dates back to slavic peasants.

HAHAH >:}
tend to my fields you serf

[Smaug]

Only thing I really know about immigration in my family is that my great grandmother came to america from Poland when she was 2. My great grandfather also came from poland, and they had my grandma here. Also my grandpa says he has native american ancestry, but I'm not sure if this is proven.

[HunterKiller]

dont know much about my family.

[Onizuka-GTO]

I don't have any famous people in my family, all i do know is that on my mothers side, my Great-Great Grandfather was a Armourer to the Tudor family.
On my father side, one or more of his ancestors was a Samurai to the Toyotomi Clan, which was later wiped out by the Shogun Ieyasu in 1615.
Obviously some survived, and they must of got the hint because they all decided to stay as civilians after that.

[Khronos]

no idea makes me curious though..

[JetRaiden]

Originally Posted by ControlledBurn

You're black?

anyway, Im apparently related to the French ( ) general Layfette, who fought in the american revolution, along with Meriwether Lewis, the explorer. my moms side has been in the US since the formation of the earliest colonies, and my dad's side is from Naples, Italy.