Does your ancestry & history bother you?

One of my relatives has spent a long time on our family tree, tracing it back hundreds of years. My dad's side of the family is most interesting, his family fled from France during some religious persecution. Interesting, but doesn't change anything for me. I still consider myself English (and pretty patriotic) so other than my surname, there is little indication as to where some of my family originated from.

Curls wrote:I tried to do my family tree. I couldn't get past my great grandparents. I was going to ask my nain more about her grandparents on her side of the family. She had a stroke like a week later I'll never really be able to trace it back now. Surname is Jones on BOTH sides. Before that it was like Hughes and Vickers.

It seems my ancestry is Welsh and Scouse for the past 1-2 hundred years, before that though I have no clue.

Unless all your great grandparents were illegitimate and the father isn't mentioned on the birth certificates, you should be easily able to go back further than that.

I love being English/British. A few mis-steps here and there throughout our history obviously, but also an endless bunch of amazing achievements.

I know some of my grandads/great-grandads fought in wars, but little else.

[iup=3570129]Coreopsis[/iup] wrote:I love being English/British. A few mis-steps here and there throughout our history obviously, but also an endless bunch of amazing achievements.

I know some of my grandads/great-grandads fought in wars, but little else.

I know this is probably just the wording, but it makes it sound like you had loads. :shock:

You appear to have forgotten the bit after the oblique. I presume he has the regulation 6.

[iup=3570131]Qikz[/iup] wrote:
[iup=3570129]Coreopsis[/iup] wrote:I know some of my grandads/great-grandads fought in wars, but little else.

I know this is probably just the wording, but it makes it sound like you had loads.

Not the wording, the misreading.

No, why should I give a gooseberry fool? I'm responsible for my own actions, no one else's.

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I wouldn’t have very much interest in my family history other than passing fancy, and I certainly feel in no way bound or related to any national or tribal cultural history.
What is extremely interesting to me is my genetic history, and it obviously does have a bearing on my life, and that of my children.

A few years ago there was a project with the local university where a small mouth swab was DNA tested from an individual and their immediate family, it was fascinating although there was a litany of caveats around what you wished to be told about. The cost of DNA analysis has tumbled down since then so maybe such a thing might be more commercially viable now.
How much would you want to know though, and what might the effect of it be on your life?

It doesnt bother me, but I feel a connection with my family and Dublin in particular. I'm very proud of both my county and country and as Ireland nearers complete seperation from religion I hope that the future will be brighter for my little 4 year old who caries both mine and missus' name (Lennon/Larsen) :wub:

[iup=3571192]Photek[/iup] wrote:It doesnt bother me, but I feel a connection with my family and Dublin in particular. I'm very proud of both my county and country and as Ireland nearers complete seperation from religion I hope that the future will be brighter for my little 4 year old who caries both mine and missus' name (Lennon/Larsen)

This is the same Ireland with retarded religiously motivated abortion laws?

Yeah I wouldn't be proud of living in a country that would let a woman die rather than allow her to abort her life threatening pregnancy.

I brought this thread up in work, just asking folk about their ancestry and stuff.

One fella has relatives that came to the UK in the 50's, a great uncle of his, who also came to the UK was in the SS, his Dad has some medals and photos and some paper work etc, the uncle is dead, I've asked the fella to try and bring it into work or atleast have a look at the stuff, so I can find out if he was a really bad German or just joined for the sexeh uniform :shifty:

Pretty rough to know either way that you had a relative in one of the most renound (both for evil, but also for fighting) military groups in the history of man, although the fella doesn't really give a gooseberry fool. Personally, being a bit of a history buff especially around WWII, I don't know how I'd feel about knowing that.

I'd probably feel simultaneously a bit proud and totally ashamed. Just to have a connection like that to one of the most infamous fighting forces of the 20th century would be enough to make me feel proud, even if his actions and beliefs were horrific (assuming he committed/held them).

I have never understood why people feel pride or shame over stuff that their ancestors did.

I can feel that someone's blasting me with hate
And bass
Sendin' dirty vibes my way
'Cause my great great great great Grandad
Made someones' great great great great Grandaddies slaves
It wasn't my idea
It wasn't my idea
Never was my idea

I just drove to the store
For some Preparation-H

[iup=3571528]aayl1[/iup] wrote:Yeah I wouldn't be proud of living in a country that would let a woman die rather than allow her to abort her life threatening pregnancy.

First of all, it's not government policy or the people who let that person die, that was a call made by the stupid banana splits in a hospital, secondly, if people read what I wrote I said that we are in the process of separating religion from state.

It'd be like you saying you wouldn't be proud living in a country where a child was starved to death while still going to school. It's the same principle.

Actually I wouldn't be proud living in a country where UKIP have an actual mandate.

Doesn't Sinn Fein have a few members in the Irish parliament?

[iup=3572476]Pontius Pilate[/iup] wrote:I have never understood why people feel pride or shame over stuff that their ancestors did.

I can feel that someone's blasting me with hate
And bass
Sendin' dirty vibes my way
'Cause my great great great great Grandad
Made someones' great great great great Grandaddies slaves
It wasn't my idea
It wasn't my idea
Never was my idea

I just drove to the store
For some Preparation-H

It's because they don't know what it's like bein' male middle class and white.

Photek wrote:
[iup=3571528]aayl1[/iup] wrote:Yeah I wouldn't be proud of living in a country that would let a woman die rather than allow her to abort her life threatening pregnancy.

First of all, it's not government policy or the people who let that person die, that was a call made by the stupid banana splits in a hospital, secondly, if people read what I wrote I said that we are in the process of separating religion from state.

It'd be like you saying you wouldn't be proud living in a country where a child was starved to death while still going to school. It's the same principle.

Actually I wouldn't be proud living in a country where UKIP have an actual mandate.

Well apologies then. It was my understanding it was Irish Law that led to that girl dying a couple of years ago. My mistake. X

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