Racsoviale
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Through all my last names I am from Germany, Sweden, Denmark and Italy and are blond and have blue eyes(Hitler and Mussolini would be so proud)
Based on you last names, Where is your family from?
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Samez
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My father's name originates from our ancestors being persecuted French Huguenots which emigrated to Germany. The name itself is an alteration of the city-name they came from. For the original family name I would have to ask my grandpa who did the genealogical studies. (But I am not sure whether he still can remember it...I am also not sure if he (/his dad) did it for the Aryan Certificate, for the two Denazifications or right after all that mess because of being pissed-off)
My mother's family name is a typical German name. (some ancestor's job designation, like in English Smith)
My mother's family name is a typical German name. (some ancestor's job designation, like in English Smith)
Mustakrakish
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My last name has nothing to do with where I'm from...
Huayna Capac357
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My last name is an English word. My ancestry is quite boring.
bernie14
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my mom's name is Galician in origin, my dad's name is 9th century spanish, but the origin goes back to greek and hebrew religious events
dannyshenanigan
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This is every surname I'm descended from as far as I can trace. There's a few German and Irish surnames, an English surname, an Anglicized Norwegian surname, and a Czech sounding surname that might really be Dutch.
Pemberton, Nelson (Nilsen?), O'Hare, Morrissey, Sammon, Gorman, Kelly, Carroll, Russell,
Klöckner, Scholer, Leuz, Bauer, Zander, Weinard, Stücker, Hengesbach, Havel, Köller.
Pemberton, Nelson (Nilsen?), O'Hare, Morrissey, Sammon, Gorman, Kelly, Carroll, Russell,
Klöckner, Scholer, Leuz, Bauer, Zander, Weinard, Stücker, Hengesbach, Havel, Köller.
With minimal effort, you could learn more. If you simply know the year your gg grandpa died and his age. It shouldn't be hard to figure out w/ a few basic facts. Maybe you don't have those?
As for me... last name is Irish. Ethnic background is a mix of Irish, English, German, and Dutch. I'm told some Welsh as well, but I've yet to come across any proof.
Brian Shanahan
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An O'Neill (about the only way you're going to be able to prove direct relation)?
As a Shanahan my fathers side was originally from Clare, Ó'Seanacháin comes form a derivative of bard, and there were Ó'Seanacháins mentioned as court bards at the time of Brian Ború. His mothers family was Daly, another bardic name traceable back to Westmenath originally. Needless to say I couldn't compose a poem to save my life, and sing like a crow.
On the mother's side I've a mixture of Corkonian (her maiden name was Cremins a Cork name originally), and English ancestry (originally my mother's family's land was owned by a family named Hammond, it passed into the hands of a Cremins relative).
My paternal last name derives from a small region in Imperial Germany, one eventually given to Poland after one of the world wars. I don't know if my paternal ancestors were German or Polish: the land would've been German until the 20th century, and I assume they came over before then, but just because they were from an area controlled by Germany doesn't mean they were German.
At any rate, I enjoy studying German and look forward to visiting the country one day.
My maternal last name is English: it means "blessed". I know some of my maternal ancestors were around in the 1860s, as a great-great-great(etc)grandfather fought in the Civil War.
At any rate, I enjoy studying German and look forward to visiting the country one day.
My maternal last name is English: it means "blessed". I know some of my maternal ancestors were around in the 1860s, as a great-great-great(etc)grandfather fought in the Civil War.
sophie
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My family's name is similar-ish. My dad's side of the family was originally from Bavaria, named Friedrich, and we moved over to England, I believe some time in the 1880s or 90s. When WWI rolled around we were persecuted for the German last name, so we ended up anglicizing it to Frederick.
GenMarshall
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French, though technically French Canada (Before the Brits came in during the French and Indian War aka. Seven Years War in the global community)
trader/warrior
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Last name norwegian, middle name is a Danish town near Vejle and Horsens. The name literally means "dead farm" from a deserted farm reclaimed after the black death.
Leifmk
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Aw crap, I missed that nuance.
Well, my mother's maiden name... that's just the name of another local geographical feature, unsurprisingly enough the small fjord where her father grew up. Unimaginative bunch, us Norwegians.
Actually it's not been all that many generations since having a fixed last name was made mandatory for everyone; in the old days proper family names was for the upper classes while the great unwashed hordes made do with geographical references (which would change if you moved) or patronymics (which would change every generation). And when fixed last names became the rule, most folks just went with taking what they were already using and making it permanent, hence the legions of -sen names (derived from patronymics) or family names derived from various location names (including specific farm names).
Leifmk
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Yah, there's a lot of people with that name (Ødegård, or variations of same, right?) which is because there were a lot of such farms reclaimed in the generations after the plague, which again is because there were an awful lot of farms that were deserted, since probably about half the population keeled over and died (some estimates range as high as 2/3).
In fact there were quite a lot of deserted farms (typically the worst ones) that were never reclaimed, because by the time the population had grown to where people might otherwise have been desperate enough to scratch out a living in those marginal places, they had the option of emigrating to the Americas and therefore went there instead. (Yes, that recovery took about five hundred years.)
Oerdin
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British.
SuperBeaverInc.
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Maternal grandfather: Dutch
Maternal grandmother: Scottish
Paternal grandfather: English
Paternal grandmother: Scottish
Maternal grandmother: Scottish
Paternal grandfather: English
Paternal grandmother: Scottish
holy king
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it's a german name. surprisingly.
Magnificent One
Stetsons are cool.
I already know i have family from Britain,Ireland and Canada,but apparently i am from Germany,Sweden,Denmark.I also have blond hair and blue eyes.And possibly family from France.
Mango Elephant
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Based on my first name I'm a member of the Jewcrew! 
Yet I'm still pretty poor. Go figure.
Yet I'm still pretty poor. Go figure.
