War stories from YOUR ancient relatives
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ParkCungHee
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I'm interested to find out where Masada's ancestors came from, according to this informative chart.
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Maybe Masada's ancestors came from Masada - question is: from amongst defenders or attackers?
If he has Roman toes, then from amongst the attackers.
If he has Roman toes, then from amongst the attackers.
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I'm Egyptian, and my ancestry is mostly from Germany and the British Isles, so this makes no kind of sense.
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I'm Greek. Alexander and his soldiers really did intermarry with the natives after all.
I was unaware of the Roman colonisation of New Zealand. Sources?
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
I think it's in orbit.
I've looked at that picture repeatedly, and I can't even find a combination of two or more which would fit me.
Bonci
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Ohhh very interesting thread!
From my mother's side, my grandpa fought in WW2 for the germans. He was sent to Russia and there he was caught and sent for the rest of the war in a prison where he met a polish man (named something like Olchewsky, but I'm not sure how to write it) who was his jailer, but they became friends. My grandmother was sent to Alsace while british aircraft almost bombed to the ground her home city.
From my father's side, my grand parents were both italians born under the Austro-Hungarian rule in South Tirol and during WW1 they escaped from the front lines (when Italy declared war) to Moravia where they stayed for the duration of the war (they were childs).
My grand mother learned a recipe that she called "Smorum" that is like an italianization of (we discovered only recently) "Kaiserschmarrn" which apparently was the favourite recipe of the Emperor.
When they came back the region where they lived was ceded to Italy.
Between the wars my grandfather made a living out of searching bombs and materials from the war and sell them.
When WW2 started he was already too old to go to war (yeah he was lucky enough to see them both but never fight XD).
From my mother's side, my grandpa fought in WW2 for the germans. He was sent to Russia and there he was caught and sent for the rest of the war in a prison where he met a polish man (named something like Olchewsky, but I'm not sure how to write it) who was his jailer, but they became friends. My grandmother was sent to Alsace while british aircraft almost bombed to the ground her home city.
From my father's side, my grand parents were both italians born under the Austro-Hungarian rule in South Tirol and during WW1 they escaped from the front lines (when Italy declared war) to Moravia where they stayed for the duration of the war (they were childs).
My grand mother learned a recipe that she called "Smorum" that is like an italianization of (we discovered only recently) "Kaiserschmarrn" which apparently was the favourite recipe of the Emperor.
When they came back the region where they lived was ceded to Italy.
Between the wars my grandfather made a living out of searching bombs and materials from the war and sell them.
When WW2 started he was already too old to go to war (yeah he was lucky enough to see them both but never fight XD).
Were they in the part of South Tyrol the Nazis took over after Italy switched sides, or in Mussolini's Salo Republic? Either one would be bad, but I think the former would be worse. Or had they fled somewhere else by the time that happened?
Bonci
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No, they stayed at their home.
I don't know exactly who was in charge there, but my grandmother once said that they were hiding all the time in the basement from the american reconnaissance planes (which they called "Pippo" which means "Phil") as much as the german patrols who used to take random houses as their "self services".
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
Bump.
A European anatomically modern human who lived 35,000 years ago in the Carpathian Mountains:
Kostenki man (found in Kostenki region at the Don River) from 30,000 or more years ago - one of mammoth hunters in what is now Russia:
Kostenki guy shares a common female ancestor who lived 55,000 years ago (mtDNA haplogroup U) with at least 11% of modern Europeans:
Otzi - 5,300 years ago - first known case of Lime disease among humans:
Otzi shares a common female ancestor (mtDNA haplogroup K) with ca. 8% of modern Europeans:
A European anatomically modern human who lived 35,000 years ago in the Carpathian Mountains:
Spoiler :
Kostenki man (found in Kostenki region at the Don River) from 30,000 or more years ago - one of mammoth hunters in what is now Russia:
Kostenki guy shares a common female ancestor who lived 55,000 years ago (mtDNA haplogroup U) with at least 11% of modern Europeans:
Spoiler :
Otzi - 5,300 years ago - first known case of Lime disease among humans:
Otzi shares a common female ancestor (mtDNA haplogroup K) with ca. 8% of modern Europeans:
Spoiler :
Domen
Misico dux Vandalorum
My maternal grandmother's family has Kashubian (or rather Pomerelian, because that's how inhabitants of that region were called in the Middle Ages) origins - her ancestors were members of the Gliszczyńscy family, which originated from the 14th century Pomerelian knight Nickil Glyszyn (Nickil von Glissen) - named from the village of Glisno, which was granted to knight Nickil in 1374 by Grand Master of the Teutonic Order Winrich von Kniprode:
http://www.mojemiasto.slupsk.pl/index.php?id=4525
My grandmother's surname Gliszczyńska originates from the village Glisno and from the by-name "Glyszyn" given to its original owner, knight Nickil. Apparently my ancestor - knight Nickil Glyszyn - fought in the battle of Grunwald in 1410... on the Teutonic side.
Even if Nickil was too old to fight at Grunwald, then perhaps at least one of his two sons - Paszko and Dytrych - fought there.
I suppose, that perhaps I also had some ancestor fighting in that battle on the Polish side.
Nowadays in Poland there are 2327 people with this surname (or its variants) originating from that single knight.
My grandmother comes from that branch of Gliszczyńscy family which emigrated from Pomerelia and settled in Greater Poland.
http://www.mojemiasto.slupsk.pl/index.php?id=4525
My grandmother's surname Gliszczyńska originates from the village Glisno and from the by-name "Glyszyn" given to its original owner, knight Nickil. Apparently my ancestor - knight Nickil Glyszyn - fought in the battle of Grunwald in 1410... on the Teutonic side.
Even if Nickil was too old to fight at Grunwald, then perhaps at least one of his two sons - Paszko and Dytrych - fought there.
I suppose, that perhaps I also had some ancestor fighting in that battle on the Polish side.
Nowadays in Poland there are 2327 people with this surname (or its variants) originating from that single knight.
My grandmother comes from that branch of Gliszczyńscy family which emigrated from Pomerelia and settled in Greater Poland.
Robert FIN
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Nice thread! I don't know very old relatives of mine but WW2 times of my relatives have been explained and told to me somewhat well. I don't know anything about my mothers relatives history bcause they don't want to talk of it. I think that they had really bad experiences in finnish 'civil war' so its too hard to speak about history of their family. That's a shame because I would be very interested to hear those things. Let's talk about my fathers side. My father of my grandmother (yes I'm young person) was a worker in middle of Finland. He earned his food of some kind of hard work can't remember so good..let's say as a woodcutter. They tell that he was a machine gunner in the army. I don't know much about his early years of war but he fought his way with the others to deep behind Russian lines until the attack stopped. They spent a few years in the same spot waiting for command to retreat. During that part of war he he got injuried badly in Russian bombing and a piece of granade hit straight to his knee. His war was over. He got well but he had to walk with straight leg to rest of his life. It was such a pain for him since he couldn't work like before. Hardly no one wanted to hire an injuried man. It must have been hard but he raised seven kids in total. All are fine in these days, my grandmother is the oldest of the kids. My grandgrandfather's war wasn't so interesting. He was really skinny and sick man who died young and was a road engineer in middle Finland. He was not rich but not poor too. They did send him to the war but they noticed that he was too sick and weak to fight so they retired him from war. He died young leaving 5 kids to his wife to raise. The oldest boy (still alive) had to learn driving in age of 12 and he went to work to feed his two younger sister and two small brothers (my grandfather was the youngest son, died in age of 45 when my father was 17.). Three oldest of the kids are alive the boy and girls. Youngest two of 'em died before the olders, its sad. That's some of my history. Fun that I look like my relatives, quite tall but skinny.
Given my somatic form, i like to think that i am around 99% like the better examples of the Ancient Greeks 
I still prefer purple though, or hyacinthine as apostle John of the Apocalypse would call it
Come to think of it, Hyacinthos was rather close to Apollo, although not exactly in the way i like to aspire to be...
I still prefer purple though, or hyacinthine as apostle John of the Apocalypse would call it
Come to think of it, Hyacinthos was rather close to Apollo, although not exactly in the way i like to aspire to be...
