Your ethnicity....

[malcolmX]

I am white English born and bred and can trace my family tree back to 1590 and will fight all comers, like a true Englishman, willing to fight our traditional enemies the Spanish, French and Germans anyday when I get my mad up.

 

[merlin50]

I do not think anyone can trace there family back! who knows who anyones father might be

 

[skitzee2k]

I am white English born and bred and can trace my family tree back to 1590 and will fight all comers, like a true Englishman, willing to fight our traditional enemies the Spanish, French and Germans anyday when I get my mad up.

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....So that is about 16 generations right??

So out of those 16 generations, all 33,000 direct ancestors (i.e. people that make up your genetic information) were english? You know this for sure?
You don't think one might have been french? Or German? Or spanish? or dutch? Or scotish, irish or welsh? Not one?

That must have taken you a long time. I suggest you get on to historians and tell them how you have did it...i don't think they have ever been able to trace back all ancestors further than 6-7 generations. Well done.

White British

 

[ColJack]

lets not forget that you're part viking, part roman, etc etc..

 

[oompah]

lets not forget that you're part viking, part roman, etc etc..

The topics not called your authenticity

 

[malcolmX]

The paternal side of my family originated from Darbyshire and was quite easy to check out, it took me about ten years on and off to find them and cost about a £1000 in fee's.

The maternal side were from the highlands of Scotland and ended up in England during the highland clearances when they were thrown off their crofts by the English landlords, half of them ended up in Canada where we have a big contingent.

But going back further no doubt there would have been a foreign influence, as it stands the only foreign blood is from a Greek woman who married into the family about a hundred years ago.

 

[skitzee2k]

I was meant to say 66000 direct ancestors before..so...

When you say maternal and paternal, do you mean their immediate family? or are we talking about the 33000 people from either side that you claim to be able to trace back?

All I am getting at is this, imagine you are a tree truck, what you are doing is tracing down one of the many logs (thick branchs), then on that log tracing down one of the many branches, the on that branch tracing down one of the many sticks, and then off that stick tracing down one of the many shoots, and then of that shoot you are tracing down one of the many twigs, and on that twig you have found a sparrow...and from this you are saying the only animal in the tree are sparrows. That you are a sparrow tree and you have traced it!

Just going back ten generations (say 250 years?) you wil have 1024 Great x8 grandparents...It seems you have picked 1 and seem to be basing your beliefs on that.

 

[DIYDANDY]

Pink, Irish.

 

[malcolmX]

I was only interested in my fathers direct line back, not all the side shoots, far too difficult.
It helps if you join a geneological group to trace your family tree, it also helps if you have a distinctive surname such as I have, if you have a surname such as Brown, Jones or Smith it is much more difficult due to it being more common or garden.
My research showed that my great grandfather was a highly decorated first world war hero and his name is honoured on a bronze plaque in Manchester.
He was in the Lancashire Fusiliers and a friend of mine is an ex fusilier and he pulled my great grandads war record from the Fusiliers museum archives in Bury Lancashire, it makes for remarkable reading.
The way I started on my family tree was to place an ad in the Manchester Evening News asking anyone with my distinctive surname to contact me and it started from there.
Our family seat was in Bakewell Darbyshire and in those days people did not move far from their birthplace so by checking out churches and census documents it is quite easy, and as all my ancesters were mainly masons, carpenters, plumbers and farm workers you can find out a lot from old trade registers.
My wife comes from a very wealthy Lancashire mill owning family, unfortunately the family money was embezzled by the black sheep of the family in 1920, the money was long gone when I married into the family.

 

[gregers]

well i expect i can be traced back to adam and eve?

 

[ellal]

So where's the NOYFB option?

 

[imamartian]

So where's the NOYFB option?

where's the option to ban complete vank3rs from posting on legitimate threads...?
If you don't like a post, move on ffs !

 

[malcolmX]

Whats the NOYFB option ?

 

[oompah]

None of your f*****g business

 

[D_Hailsham]

My wife comes from a very wealthy Lancashire mill owning family, unfortunately the family money was embezzled by the black sheep of the family in 1920, the money was long gone when I married into the family.

Did you learn this before or after you married her?