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re: Where are your ancestors from?
Posted on 6/25/16 at 12:16 am to Mister Tee
Posted on 6/25/16 at 12:16 am to Mister Tee
Bienville Pairsh, La, you didn't say how far back
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Posted on 6/25/16 at 1:00 am to Mister Tee
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("Low" during the 1500's used to mean how the rivers flowed North from France into Belgium and Holland--it really just meant "heading North")
... no, it literally did not. where'd you pull this out of your arse from? It means that the land is low, as in beneath the sea level. Before they built the dykes they used to build big mounds to put little neighborhoods on. 
Posted on 6/25/16 at 1:17 am to Mister Tee
Denmark, Spain, Norway, England, and a few others. I really want to do a genealogy report.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 1:35 am to HempHead
Posted on 6/25/16 at 1:48 am to Masterag
The Meuse River in France which flows into the Netherlands:
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The Nile also flows North due to how high the African Plains are in relation to it's source in relation to altitude and it's final journey into something of very importance to us all...the "Mediterranean Sea."
Some rivers just move North instead of South, unlike what we are used to in the United States.
The US is more of a "sloped-southwards" country.
Gravity vs. water is a strange thing. The Mississippi vs. the Alps would just create another canyon. The higher elevation would win every time vs. water.
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The Nile also flows North due to how high the African Plains are in relation to it's source in relation to altitude and it's final journey into something of very importance to us all...the "Mediterranean Sea."
Some rivers just move North instead of South, unlike what we are used to in the United States.
The US is more of a "sloped-southwards" country.
Gravity vs. water is a strange thing. The Mississippi vs. the Alps would just create another canyon. The higher elevation would win every time vs. water.
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 2:28 am
Posted on 6/25/16 at 2:11 am to Mars duMorgue
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FWIW: A relative of mine served in the Wehrmacht (25th Panzergrenadier Division) in WW II.
My old man probably shot at your kin folk back then. He fired many shots at both Russians and Germans. But he didn't share to many stories.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 2:34 am to Angry Wolf
That doesn't give you a right to shoot anyone, however.
We can all get along.
Peace is the answer. Beer and peace.
We can all get along.
Peace is the answer. Beer and peace.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 2:39 am to Mars duMorgue
That sounded like poop. I listened to it...but I don't particularly like the whining defeat of Irish-fed "guitar-music".
It was rather depressing.
I know why my fore-fathers ran away now.
It was rather depressing.
I know why my fore-fathers ran away now.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 5:35 am to Mister Tee
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The Meuse River in France which flows into the Netherlands:
LINK
The Nile also flows North due to how high the African Plains are in relation to it's source in relation to altitude and it's final journey into something of very importance to us all...the "Mediterranean Sea."
Some rivers just move North instead of South, unlike what we are used to in the United States.
The US is more of a "sloped-southwards" country.
Gravity vs. water is a strange thing. The Mississippi vs. the Alps would just create another canyon. The higher elevation would win every time vs. water.
that's fine, but how does any of this prove your assertion that the name for the netherlands, literally which means "low country," have to do with a river in the 1500's?
they've been calling it "netherlands" for about 1000 years prior to that. besides, "up north" in french is "au nord," which sounds nothing like "netherlands." Likewise, the french name for the netherlands is "pays bas(pronounced payee ba)," which doesn't sound like it either.
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 5:37 am
Posted on 6/25/16 at 8:25 am to biggsc
I am Scots-Irish or Anglo-Saxon
I don't know
I just know that my ancestors came from Northwest Europe
I don't know
I just know that my ancestors came from Northwest Europe
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 9:07 am
Posted on 6/25/16 at 8:58 am to Mister Tee
Irish heritage here.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 9:02 am to Mister Tee
Been in the state of Georgia for about 10 generations
Before that my dad's side was in Alabama and my mom's in Tennessee and North Carolina.
At some point (1600s or so) both sides of my family came in through Virginia, originally from predominantly Wales, Scotland, and England.
However, I've traced my ancestry back pretty far and found freed-slave relatives (great great great grand aunt or something along those lines), Cherokee relatives (great grandmother was full blood cherokee indian from north carolina), and we have some connections to France and Sweden.
Before that my dad's side was in Alabama and my mom's in Tennessee and North Carolina.
At some point (1600s or so) both sides of my family came in through Virginia, originally from predominantly Wales, Scotland, and England.
However, I've traced my ancestry back pretty far and found freed-slave relatives (great great great grand aunt or something along those lines), Cherokee relatives (great grandmother was full blood cherokee indian from north carolina), and we have some connections to France and Sweden.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 9:33 am to Mars duMorgue
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The great Mark Knopfler tune:
I had never heard that before. Thank you.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 11:28 am to HempHead
Arkansas
Posted on 6/25/16 at 11:31 am to Angry Wolf
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My old man probably shot at your kin folk back then. He fired many shots at both Russians and Germans.
Wow. Was he Polish underground?
In fact, my relative was wounded in the summer of 1944 at Minsk, when the 25th Pg was all but wiped out by the Russians.
He was one of a handful of his gruppen that managed to escape--and he did it with the help of his future wife, a Russian schoolteacher with whom he fell in love at the time.
Their story is a long, improbable and fascinating one, but it amply demonstrates unconquerable power of true love, I'll leave it at that.
Coincidentally, the Russian offensive that swept through Minsk, Beylorussia and Poland, all the way to Berlin, commenced on June 23, 1944--72 years and 2 days ago.
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 11:36 am
Posted on 6/25/16 at 2:07 pm to Mister Tee
Mom- Icelandic
Dad- Germany and Ireland
Dad- Germany and Ireland
Posted on 6/25/16 at 2:18 pm to HempHead
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I had never heard that before.
Awesome song, innit? Knopfler is actually a Geordie boy, having grown up in Blyth, Northumberland.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:20 pm to Mister Tee
Father's Father's family: Ethnic Germans from Wissembourg, in what is now Alsace Lorriane.
Father's Mother's family: German from Saxony
Mother's Mother's family: Swedish, from middle of nowhere.
Mother's Father's family: Scottish (MacKinnon) and English, no idea where. This part of the family moved to NS, Canada and later the US so a lot of the history is muddled.
So I'm 1/2 German, 1/4 Swedish, 1/8 Scottish, and 1/8th English.
Father's Mother's family: German from Saxony
Mother's Mother's family: Swedish, from middle of nowhere.
Mother's Father's family: Scottish (MacKinnon) and English, no idea where. This part of the family moved to NS, Canada and later the US so a lot of the history is muddled.
So I'm 1/2 German, 1/4 Swedish, 1/8 Scottish, and 1/8th English.
This post was edited on 6/25/16 at 3:22 pm
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:46 pm to Mars duMorgue
No, Finland. The Soviets invaded at the start of WWII and the Germans invaded a few years later. Neither one were able to hold the entire country, due to many factors. One of which was an armed civilian resistance.
Posted on 6/25/16 at 3:55 pm to Angry Wolf
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No, Finland.
Well then, it's unlikely your father fought my uncle, who was wounded in Russia. That's just as well!
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