Your Four Main Family Lines

[Gwydion]

What do you know about your four primary family lines, namely the origins of your four grandparent's families? How far have you traced them back? Where were they from, what was their ethnic background?

To start, here's mine:

Paternal Line: Scottish but an ethnically Anglo-Saxon family line (prominent in the Southeast Borders of Scotland and Northern England historically.) Unfortunately I have yet to discover the exact origin of my paternal ancestor, only know that he was born in Scotland around 1745.

Father's Mother: English, originally from Longbridge Deverill, not too far from the famous Stonehenge. I have them traced back to the late 1500s.


Mother's Father:: German, from Kallstadt in the Rhineland in Germany, same village Donald Trump's family was from. I only have the direct line back to the 1790s.

Mother's Mother: English, from Cadney in Lincolnshire just prior to immigrating to the United States, but likely from Northumberland around Morpeth originally. I have this line traced to the early 1600s.

[Mikula]

Paternal Line:
Czech speaking, protestants, from northeastern Moravia, from the village where I live, I traced back the line until 1643

Father's Mother:
Polish speaking, protestants, from Silesia (today situated at Czech Rep.), I traced back the line until 1825

Mother's Father:
Czech speaking, Roman Catholic, from central Moravia, from the village where I live, I traced back the line until 1685

Mother's Mother:
Czech speaking, Roman Catholic, from western Moravia (de facto at Bohemian-Moravian borderline), I traced back the line until 1778

[GreentheViper]

Paternal Line: I don't know anything about this line, save they were Mexican and a few first names.


Father's Mother: Mexican. Don't know much about her family, save that her last names and her parent's last names are of Spanish or Basque origin. Only traced back to early 1900s but still on the hunt.

Mother's Father: English primarily with some Irish, from Wiltshire, Yorkshire and Northhamptonshire, all protestants as far as I'm aware. They spanned out across England primarily, and the ancestor with my grandfather's last name came to Canada in the 1800s. My family has traced the line back to the 1700s.

Mother's Mother: Dutch, German and Northern Irish, from Belfast. The most recent ancestor was from Belfast who came to Canada in the 1800s, others were German and Dutch but farther back. My family traced the line back to the 1700s.

[Bogdan]

Paternal Line: Danish and German, from the state of Schleswig-Holstein, which has gone back and forth between Germany and Denmark’s ownership throughout history. Immigrated to the US in the late 1800s, around 1892. So far I have them traced to the middle 1800s. Father’s grandmother was Irish (Cork) and English (Somerset.)

Father's Mother: French Canadians with some Scottish blood. Immigrated to the US around 1864. Roman Catholics during my father’s childhood. Traced to the early 1700s.


Mother's Father: English and Polish. The English side of his family were farmers. They could can be traced back to the earliest settlers of America and further onto 1500s England in various areas there, many from Bedfordshire. The Polish side I have so far traced back to the early 1800s in the province of Podlaskie. Christians.

Mother's Mother: Austrian and Slovak (immigrated to the US around 1906, traced to late 1800s,) French Canadian (traced to late 1700s.) Factory workers and Christians.

[Profileid]

Paternal Line: Goes directly to Somerset England,left for America sometime in the mid 1600s.West Virginia but originally from Virginia.

Father's Mother: Most Scottish,English and Irish. In that order.Originally from Virginia as well.

Mother's Father: Germans that ultimately came from Austria, as far as I can tell.A few Irish ancestors.

Mother's Mother: German from Baden-Wurttemburg. Minor English and Scottish from colonial times.

[Richmondbread]

Paternal Line: Germany, Lithuania
Father's Father: Son of Germans. His mother was from Pffedersheim, and his father from Saxony. Most all German
Father's Mother: Daughter of Lithuanians. From Vilinus Lithuanian/Baltic

Maternal Line: Ireland, Scotland, Wales, American Indian, French, Spanish
Goes way back in Virginia and all over the American South.
Mother's Father: Old Virginian British, Native American, French, Spanish
Mother's Mother: Old Virginian. British/Irish, Scottish, tiny bit of German.

[amerimutt]

Paternal Line
Father's Father: Czech and German, Catholic, can trace back ancestors to a town in South Bohemia near the Czech-Austrian border and to a town in Eastern Germany
Father's Mother: Czech, Catholic, can trace back ancestors to a town in Eastern Bohemia
Maternal Line
Mother's Father: Czech and French Canadian, Catholic, French Canadian ancestors were colonialists to Quebec and Czech ancestors originated in Prague
Mother's Mother: Irish and Norwegian, Catholic but had a Lutheran Father, Irish ancestors came from the south east side of the island and I have no idea where the Norwegian ancestors came from