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. :ph34r:
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? :smoke:
Maybe.
Dress as Roman Legionnaire. Take tons of picture & post it here.
I don't get the thread title.
This will make Euros SCRATCH THEIR HEADS IN CONFUSION.
Quote from: Zanza on April 14, 2010, 07:22:43 AM
I don't get the thread title.
You monsters hate it when we're interested in geneaology. :mad:
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 07:24:34 AM
Quote from: Zanza on April 14, 2010, 07:22:43 AM
I don't get the thread title.
You monsters hate it when we're interested in geneaology. :mad:
No, we don't.
I'm pretty sure I'm more knowledgable about your thoughts than you are, so: YES, YES YOU DO.
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 07:24:34 AM
Quote from: Zanza on April 14, 2010, 07:22:43 AM
I don't get the thread title.
You monsters hate it when we're interested in geneaology. :mad:
Only when you get folk going around saying "I'm Irish! My name is O'Neill and my great great grandfather was born there. English out!"
Generally meh. Many in Europe are interested in it themselves.
Oh, ok. Well, I'm proud to be an American. :showoff:
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 07:24:34 AM
Quote from: Zanza on April 14, 2010, 07:22:43 AM
I don't get the thread title.
You monsters hate it when we're interested in geneaology. :mad:
:mellow:
It makes my blood BOIL that you ignored the sporcle quiz I linked for your benefit. :mad: :P
Quote from: Tyr on April 14, 2010, 07:36:10 AM
Only when you get folk going around saying "I'm Irish! My name is O'Neill and my great great grandfather was born there. English out!"
Generally meh. Many in Europe are interested in it themselves.
You mean when Cal goes: LOL I am German so I hate all French people?
It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.
Ugh. Family reunions. :(
I'm English-Canadian. :smarty:
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.
Because it's redundant. It's like saying "I'm Irish and I drink."
Quote from: Valmy on April 14, 2010, 08:04:43 AM
You mean when Cal goes: LOL I am German so I hate all French people?
When I do that I am always joking. I myself have French ancestry too. :)
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 09:19:26 AM
Quote from: Valmy on April 14, 2010, 08:04:43 AM
You mean when Cal goes: LOL I am German so I hate all French people?
When I do that I am always joking. I myself have French ancestry too. :)
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Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 07:24:34 AM
Quote from: Zanza on April 14, 2010, 07:22:43 AM
I don't get the thread title.
You monsters hate it when we're interested in geneaology. :mad:
Because they all come from peasants.
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.
I'm 100% sefaradi. Both my parents, all 4 grandparents, all 8 greatgrandparents, all 13 great-great-grandparents, and so on and so on.
Quote from: Siege on April 14, 2010, 10:41:23 AM
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.
*Not Cal. I blame Kentucky.
Quote from: Siege on April 14, 2010, 10:41:23 AM
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.
I'm 100% sefaradi. Both my parents, all 4 grandparents, all 8 greatgrandparents, all 13 great-great-grandparents, and so on and so on.
Prove it. I'm sure somewhere in there, there's Nazi or Chinese blood.
Quote from: Peter Wiggin on April 14, 2010, 07:59:11 AM
It makes my blood BOIL that you ignored the sporcle quiz I linked for your benefit. :mad: :P
:huh:
Wait. Your surname is the shortened version of the name? I know what your name is, but I can't figure out what the longer version would be.
Quote from: Siege on April 14, 2010, 10:41:23 AM
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.
I'm 100% sefaradi. Both my parents, all 4 grandparents, all 8 greatgrandparents, all 13 great-great-grandparents, and so on and so on.
This explains many things.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 14, 2010, 12:32:51 PM
Wait. Your surname is the shortened version of the name? I know what your name is, but I can't figure out what the longer version would be.
Nope, other way around. The Lettuce-wannabe branch of the family dropped the first syllable.
Quote from: ulmont on April 14, 2010, 10:43:38 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 14, 2010, 10:41:23 AM
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.
*Not Cal. I blame Kentucky.
:XD:
Guilty as charged. My dad's parents were first cousins, which means (I think) that I have four less great-great-grandparents than most people. :blush:
Of course, that sort of thing didn't used to be all that uncommon, especially in rural communities like they came from.
America. Ha. We Swedes were designing nuclear weapons when the Americans were naked savages.
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 02:07:51 PMOf course, that sort of thing didn't used to be all that uncommon, especially in rural communities like they came from.
Still happens. The parents of my high school class salutatorian were first cousins.
Quote from: ulmont on April 14, 2010, 10:43:38 AM
Quote from: Siege on April 14, 2010, 10:41:23 AM
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.
Siege's is doubly funny due to the odd number...Half siblings married each other?
Alarming.
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 07:24:34 AM
Quote from: Zanza on April 14, 2010, 07:22:43 AM
I don't get the thread title.
You monsters hate it when we're interested in geneaology. :mad:
that's because every europeans have Charlemagne or King Alfred in their ancestry, so by comparison some landowner somewhere seems trivial :P
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 07:11:11 AM
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. :ph34r:
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? :smoke:
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? :hug:
L.
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. :)
Hey kids! Big Ben! Parliament!
Quote from: Ed Anger on April 14, 2010, 06:10:54 PM
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. :P
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.
I'm 1/4 English
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 14, 2010, 06:53:34 PM
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
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.
Quote from: MadImmortalMan on April 14, 2010, 06:32:34 PM
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. :P
:huh: 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".
Quote from: jimmy olsen on April 14, 2010, 06:53:34 PM
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
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.
Quote from: Razgovory on April 14, 2010, 07:41:32 PM
No, no, Tim. You write English at 1/4th normal proficiency. There's a difference.
:lmfao:
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
:mmm:
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 11:59:53 AM
:huh:
Jos' "Hard US State" thread in Gaming forum.
Quote from: Caliga on April 14, 2010, 09:19:26 AM
Quote from: Valmy on April 14, 2010, 08:04:43 AM
You mean when Cal goes: LOL I am German so I hate all French people?
When I do that I am always joking. I myself have French ancestry too. :)
Would they approve of your mustache and pickelhaube?
Quote from: Brazen on April 14, 2010, 08:34:24 AM
It merely makes us bemused. What we don't get is no-one says "I'm English-American". Ever.
That is because the true Americans are of English descent.
Ahem, British.
Quote from: Valmy on April 14, 2010, 10:11:14 PM
Would they approve of your mustache and pickelhaube?
Frenchies don't have a problem with mustaches, do they?
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the beloved Émile Zola ^_^