This will make Euro blood BOIL

[dps]

I'm 100% sefaradi. Both my parents, all 4 grandparents, all 8 greatgrandparents, all 13 great-great-grandparents, and so on and so on.

Most* of us have 16 great-great-grandparents, but thanks for the confirmation that your family tree doesn't fork.

Could just be really poor math skills on Siegy's part.

The really bad part would be if some of the great-great-grandparents also count as some of the great-grandparents.

If you have trouble figuring that one out, watch the end of Chinatown.

[Josquius]

Siege's is doubly funny due to the odd number...Half siblings married each other?

[Jaron]

Alarming.

[viper37]

I don't get the thread title.

You monsters hate it when we're interested in geneaology. 

that's because every europeans have Charlemagne or King Alfred in their ancestry, so by comparison some landowner somewhere seems trivial

[Pedrito]

I can't remember if I'd mentioned this on Languish before, but the guy I got my surname from came to the US from Germany in 1740 with his brother.  We're not entirely sure, but it was either his brother or one of his sons who left Pennsylvania and moved to Virginia c. 1780 (I am not descended from either the brother or that particular son).  Shortly thereafter, he left Virginia for its western colony 'Transylvania', which later became the state of Kentucky.  This branch of the family shortened the surname, became thoroughly Southern, and ended up large landowners and slaveholders, whose sons fought for the Confederacy.  There are actually some black families around here that ended up with this surname.

Anyway, back when I was a staffing manager a guy worked for me who turned out to be a distant cousin descended from this family line, and he got me invited to their annual family reunion in Lexington (the family tends to live further south, in Madison County, Kentucky, but Lexington is more generally convenient to everyone).

When Cal meets his country cousins will: hilarity ensue?

O GAWD HOW I HATE WHEN YOU HICKS PRETEND INTEREST IN GENEALOGY!

MY BLOOD IS BOILING, WORSE! IT'S BRAISING!!1



Are you satisfied now, Cal? 

L.

[Caliga]

I don't believe I have any noble blood and wouldn't care if I did.  My interest in geneaology came out of my obsession with maps and history, as well as a desire to find distant relatives I can leech off when visiting countries, a la National Lampoon's European Vacation.

[Ed Anger]

Hey kids! Big Ben! Parliament!

[MadImmortalMan]

Hey kids! Big Ben! Parliament!

There are no roundabouts in view of the Big Ben side of Parliament. I noticed that the first time I was there. National Lampoon lied to us. 

[jimmy olsen]

It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.

I'm 1/4 English

[Jaron]

It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.

I'm 1/4 English

Of course you are. And I'm 1/4 Byzantine.

[Caliga]

There are no roundabouts in view of the Big Ben side of Parliament. I noticed that the first time I was there. National Lampoon lied to us. 

You sure about that?  There's a roundabout somewhere nearby, I thought within view.  When I was in London my brother took me there (he was living there at the time) and said "this is the place where the National Lampoon scene was filmed".

[Razgovory]

It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.

I'm 1/4 English

No, no, Tim.  You write English at 1/4th normal proficiency.  There's a difference.

[Caliga]

No, no, Tim.  You write English at 1/4th normal proficiency.  There's a difference.

[Caliga]

MiM/Londoners, if it helps, right after he took me to that roundabout we had dinner at this place:

Imperial Tandoori
48 Kennington Road
Lambeth
London
SE1 7BL

[Eddie Teach]

Jos' "Hard US State" thread in Gaming forum.