Where were your ancestors from?

[Albion]

come on... there is some meaning to the British identity. It's at least much more meaningful than the "Yugoslav identity" which some people erroneously compare it to. You can't spend 400 years as a joined country and not have some cultural exchange and convergeance. People from the borders and north england don't live on two different planets for instance.

England's controlled a few islands in the Caribbean for longer than that and some are still with us.

The union has left a huge legacy but we never formed one ethnicity. "British" is just a catch-all term for English, Welsh, Scottish, Irish, Cornish, Manx and Channel Islanders.

I suppose it could be used as an ethnic label by people of various British Isles ancestry, but blacks calling themselves "British" is doing it no favours.

Give us names! Cairngorms is Jacobite country.

Like I posted ages ago, names found from all over. I'd assume some of the Brits or those with Brittish ancestry have matches.

Don't get your hopes up, I'm not going to be cheering for Bonnie Prince Charlie any time soon.

[Arne]

Not from Kiwi Land..
They suck.

[Riki]

South-Western Europe.
Galicia.
Northern Portugal.
Central Portugal.

[Veneda]

All come from Poland. I have no family abroad.

[Barreldriver]

For the specific places in the Isle's my roots originated in:

Whitgift, Yorkshire, England (agnatic root, supposed to have originated near Hatfield in modern South Yorkshire, still have relatives living in Goole and nearby).

Walsham le Willows, Suffolk, England

Andover, Hampshire, England

Hurstbourne Priors, Hampshire, England

Northumberland, England

Blacktoft, Yorkshire, England

Devon, England

Cheshire, England

London, England

Somerset, England

Staffordshire, England

Ipswich, Suffolk, England

Lincolnshire, England

County Antrim, N. Ireland

County Tyrone, N. Ireland

County Donegal, Ireland

County Cavan, Ireland

South Wales (cannot remember specifics atm)

[Damião de Góis]

Here's a more exact map. All my known ancestry comes from those 3 red areas:



So far i don't know of any ancestor from outside of the areas above

[Vasconcelos]

Basically Northwestern and North-Central Portugal, so Southwestern Europe.



If you want to go into detail following the Noble family bloodline (at least what is commonly accepted by geneologists) you'll eventually find Basque, Burgundian, Visigothic, Ostrogothic, Frankish and Roman ancestors that don't really matter because it was such a long time ago.

[Comte Arnau]

Mostly Catalonia, but also Highland Aragon, Basque Country and Occitania. I'm a Pyrenean highlander living by the Mediterranean beach.

[Damião de Góis]

Here's a more exact map. All my known ancestry comes from those 3 red areas:



So far i don't know of any ancestor from outside of the areas above

By the way, the areas above were controlled by: Celtici, Romans, Alans, Visigoths, Moors and "Christians" until modern times.

[Hurrem sultana]

Eastern Bosnia