Who do you think you are?

[imedi]

im supposed to be a distant relative of some guy called connie mack who was once famous in the world of baseball but seeing as i have no interest in baseball it means nothing lol

[MLP Midnight]

I'm Irish, Italian, a little bit of Chinese, and half Thai. It's really cool, especially the Thai part, which is my mother's side of the family. We've been back to Thailand 4 times to see her family, and I tell you its one of the best experiences of my life. I find it fascinating being in a place completely different from my own.

[mdmomof7]

I am doing a family tree and have come up with some interesting info.

I have traced my great-great grandfather to Carroll Co. Maryland, born in 1818.  His father was born in Ireland.  He was the town's shoemaker.  I find it fastinating to know that my family was here during the War of 1812.  Maryland has lots of history with the Star Bangle Banner being written by Frances Scott Kay of Carroll/Frederick counties.

You are talking about my neck of the woods now! Actually, I was born in DC, but now live in the county south and east of Carroll. We've been to the Carroll County Farm Museum which I'm sure you'd enjoy. The Carroll family was quite important to our state.

On my hubby's side, his mom did all the research - tons and tons - even going to remote, small graveyards in the south - his mom can trace her family back to Daniel Boone. Thus, our girls are eligible to become Daughters of the American Revolution. However, we've never participated with that.

My mom is adopted and has a mix of German, French, Scottish and Irish depending on which day you ask her. Hope she never drops the Irish part. 

My dad is German and French, but no one has traced his side of the family back as far as my mother in law did for hers.

[imedi]

I'm Irish, Italian, a little bit of Chinese, and half Thai. It's really cool, especially the Thai part, which is my mother's side of the family. We've been back to Thailand 4 times to see her family, and I tell you its one of the best experiences of my life. I find it fascinating being in a place completely different from my own.

i miss the thai sand and water in samui and koh chang what part of thailand is your family from

[ABloodRedSky]

I'm a 1st generation Hispanic-American, with both parents born and raised in Guatemala. The shite thing about genealogy for us is that since it is a third world country and all, records haven't been kept well, or they've been lost, or burned. Thus we can't trace our roots back so far.

I do know that my mother's grandfather, my great-grandfather, was born in Spain. It's really interesting, being a "mestizo" you really have two sides to try to trace - the Indian side (Aztec, Maya, Inca, etc.) and the Spanish European side!

[Discotheque Girl]

LOL everythime I see this thread I start singing:"Who do you think you are? Running around leaving scarrs,collecting your jar of hearts"

[Droo]

Droo, I don't know anything about my father's side either.  But, I went to the library today and they have an account with Ancestry.Com.  All you have to know is a grand parent's name and where they lived.  You can get started from there.

I don't know that either. All I know is my mother's first name.

[maymay]

Everybody seems to have so multi-cultural roots!

Living in the "old world", all my ancestors (both sides, until my parents) have all born, lived and died pretty much in the same small rural villages/ nearby regions.

On my mom's side we know some names and birthdays back to 1470's. Dad's side we have a family tree made back to early 1600's. Mostly peasants, crofters etc on both sides. My great grandfather (born in 1880's) was the first ones to travel abroad - he travelled to the USA/Canada (twice!) in the early 1900's to work as a lumberjack but eventually returned to his home village.

[Velvet Dress]

I'm mostly various ethnic subtypes of South Chinese (largely Cantonese, some Hokkien, a little bit of Teochew), with Malay and Sumatran stirred in.

The trouble with trying to trace poor South Chinese peasants who migrated to Singapore is that they generally didn't bother with naming females: women were just addressed/referred to by their relation to their male relatives!   So for instance my paternal grandmother's Chinese name on current official records is 'Moi', but that just means 'little sister', which is presumably what her family called her before they were killed during the war...and so she never knew if she had any other given name.

[Inishfree]

I am doing a family tree and have come up with some interesting info.

I have traced my great-great grandfather to Carroll Co. Maryland, born in 1818.  His father was born in Ireland.  He was the town's shoemaker.  I find it fastinating to know that my family was here during the War of 1812.  Maryland has lots of history with the Star Bangle Banner being written by Frances Scott Kay of Carroll/Frederick counties.

You are talking about my neck of the woods now! Actually, I was born in DC, but now live in the county south and east of Carroll. We've been to the Carroll County Farm Museum which I'm sure you'd enjoy. The Carroll family was quite important to our state.

On my hubby's side, his mom did all the research - tons and tons - even going to remote, small graveyards in the south - his mom can trace her family back to Daniel Boone. Thus, our girls are eligible to become Daughters of the American Revolution. However, we've never participated with that.

My mom is adopted and has a mix of German, French, Scottish and Irish depending on which day you ask her. Hope she never drops the Irish part. 

My dad is German and French, but no one has traced his side of the family back as far as my mother in law did for hers.

Thanks for the tip.  I want to go there. 

My great great grandfather Edward Kelly was a shoemaker.  Whom lived in Union Bridge.  No relation to the Bennett-Kelly Farm.  My great Uncle, Upton Kelly served for the Union during the Cival War.  My grandfather Ernest was Methodist by faith and Carroll Co. has a history of what they called the Ulster Men.  This leaves me to believe that the Kelly's may have immigrated from what is now Northern Ireland and we may have Scottish history also.

I wasn't able to find out Edward's father's first name.  I know he was born in Ireland.  Edward's mother who's first name is unknown to me was born in Maryland.  Edward was born in 1819 in Maryland, United States.

[Inishfree]

I have traced another family line back to 1807 Pennsylvania, United States.