The Faces of NESing II

[Israelite9191]

Well, besides the youngest signature on the Decleration of Independence, a great-great uncle who was murdered by a rival political family for elloping with the patriarch's daughter, and a brick baron, (all on my father's side) my great grandfather was the one of (if not the) only practicing Jew to be in the Czar's cavalry and rise through the ranks, my great grandfather was a major horse breader in Argentina, and my great grandmother's cousin was a commander in the Battle of Stalingrad. Oh, and I am pretty sure my Hungarian side is descended from a family of the Arpad nobles.

 

[Silver Steak]

This thread just sums up the entire NES community. You make a thread that is totally OT, and spam/brag/OT about something else.

 

[Oruc]

I know very little about my ancestors I assume they are English, isnt it weird that alot of people have famous ancestors, more then 50 percent of the people you meet.

 

[andis-1]

How can you people even know so much about your ancestors?
All I know is that family from my mothers side lived in Karelia, but after winter war they had to leave from there. And the name of my fathers relatives suggests that they are from the same region, meaning karelia/st.petersburg.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

I know so much because my mennonite ancestors were crazy about genealogy. Just using a few books I can trace my ancestry back to the 1500s. Although only in one branch.

 

[Reno]

How can you people even know so much about your ancestors?

Plenty of my relatives (Father's side) have dedicated their lives to finding all there is to know about the Palmén family. Most notably my Grandfather has managed to uncover documents, mentioning the Palmén family, going as far back as 1697 (Those are the oldest ones he found, most of them are from the 19'th century though), the wax signets of the Swedish and (later) Russian officials are still in quite good condition. Though all of those letters and documents are in Finlandssvenska (Old Swedish), so it is problematic to know what the letters say.

 

[Disenfrancised]

You people and your illustrious pedigrees , my uncle did some genology once - it turns out that a good deal of what several generations later would be my genetic material was transfered under what could be described as 'business arrangements'. He gave up after that .

@emu; not really - after a few dozen generations any one famous person could have thousands of living descendents

 

[Thlayli]

Ha! If you want an arrogant pedigree, look at the chart hanging in my dining room. It actually traces the lineage of our family all the way back to Otto I (The Great, HRE Emperor) in 973.

So my ancestors hung around in Germany for a while, then migrated to England with the Hanover dynasty, I think. At this point some Irish princes got slaughtered by the English (The O'Carroll clan, actually) and emigrated to the United States, where they became the richest family in Maryland, producing the only Catholic signer of the Declaration of Independence. Then they ironically intermarried with the English line, which had built another agricultural empire in the Maryland/Virginia area.


Then again, my mother's side is mostly Sicilian and Perugian farmers.

 

[Kentharu]

wow, is everyone here white?

 

[Silver Steak]

Not me! I'm Asian! At least half. But I practically look like a pure Japanese.

 

[Kentharu]

ah yes, and panda to well jolly good then, at least im not the only minority

 

[Silver Steak]

I don't care about color or nationality, really. At least, I don't feel too much about it. Nationalism is dross if you ask me. If not dangerous...

 

[JosefStalinator]

I don't care about color or nationality, really. At least, I don't feel too much about it. Nationalism is dross if you ask me. If not dangerous...

I like nationalism, because America is great

 

[Dachs]

I'm very nationalist. Very pro-German (btw, that's very 1337, Thlayli...now I know why I liked you! )...and two extinct empires. Guess which ones.

The most illustrious ancestors I have are Francis Bacon, who got himself killed while trying to stuff a chicken with snow to preserve it, the Earls (and Dukes) of Lancaster to about 1500, and Peter Graves, from Mission: Impossible, the TV series, and who also played Captain Oveur in Airplane!.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Greece and Rome.

Nationalism is for people who don't have a greater cause to support.

PENGUIN DOMINATION OF THE MULTIVERSE!!!

 

[Dachs]

Not Greece. They were never really a single united Hellenic nation...therefore...

Rome is correct though. I consider Byzantium an extension of Rome.

 

[Lord_Iggy]

Byzantines are like Greek Romans, IMHO.

 

[Israelite9191]

I am a minority, Jewish. The reason I know so much is a) on my mother's side I have over 90 year old great aunts who remember everything from the old days and everything about the family b) one of my father's matrilineal cousins went back to Hungary to do a lot of research and c) the Newmans (my English side, straight patrilineal) were for several centuries first the most important political family in Upstate Newyork then the second, which means a lot of written records, plus most of the Newmans remained in the same area (in particular Havestraw, New York) up until my father's generation.

 

[andis-1]

Not Greece. They were never really a single united Hellenic nation...therefore...

Hmm, Alexanders macedon?

 

[Dachs]

Nope. Not really cool enough.

Hint: it has a lot to do with German stuff.