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What's your background?
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Matthias said:
LOL, you are obviously too young to have experienced the Muppet Show
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cleopa_of_emmaus
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From what I have learned, I'm a smattering of Polish, Russian and English. My grandmother and company came over from Russian occupied Poland to the USA. It is said that my great grandmother was Jewish, but had been raised Catholic. My father's side is English, traceable all the way back to the Revolutionary War.
~cleopa
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Kripost said:
Your culture is soooooo facsinating!!!
We have a lovely couple in our parish...I go to a Serbian church. And they were both spiritual children of our St. John Maximovitch of Shanghai....they have blessed my life more than I can tell you...
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Rick of Wessex said:Hello there!
On my father's site, Portuguese. On my mother's side Spanish, Syrian, German and Welsh. And Irish at heart.
Rick
Cousin!!!
When are ye comin' home?
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Ja, fer shuuuure!!!Andreas said:And with my 1/4 Swedish we may all be family.
And with my husband, he will complete the Family Circle....he can teach ya ta make the Swedish meatballs, ja????
My husband is Swedish-American and to me, an Irish woman, his accent is just too silly....I laugh every time he opens his mouth...he doesn't think he has an accent. I tell him he must have been meant for "Lutheran" baptism but hisparents missed the church... I hope he'll post here someday...you would like him!!!
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JA!Suzannah said:Ja, fer shuuuure!!!
And with my husband, he will complete the Family Circle....he can teach ya ta make the Swedish meatballs, ja????
My husband is Swedish-American and to me, an Irish woman, his accent is just too silly....I laugh every time he opens his mouth...he doesn't think he has an accent. I tell him he must have been meant for "Lutheran" baptism but hisparents missed the church... I hope he'll post here someday...you would like him!!!
Yeah, it would be cool to meet him.
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countrymousenc
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It's been fun reading about where everyone came from (or parents, gparents, etc.)
I doubly don't know about my background except for my dad's paternal family (German). I'm adopted, and neither my mom's family nor my dad's mom's family kept up with geneological information. Best guess would be (because they were all farmers in the NC foothills) Scots-Irish.
I doubly don't know about my background except for my dad's paternal family (German). I'm adopted, and neither my mom's family nor my dad's mom's family kept up with geneological information. Best guess would be (because they were all farmers in the NC foothills) Scots-Irish.
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My mom is a geneology nut, but my dad can't name one of his great grandparents or any relative beyond first cousins that lived in his town. Basically if he doesn't know them personally, he doesn't care to know anything about them. I asked him about this when I was a kid because the family tree I did for school looked so ridiculously lop-sided, and he said "I'm embarassed enough by the relatives I know, why should I go look for more?" It's really hard to argue with himcountrymousenc said:
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ufonium2 said:My mom is a geneology nut, but my dad can't name one of his great grandparents or any relative beyond first cousins that lived in his town. Basically if he doesn't know them personally, he doesn't care to know anything about them. I asked him about this when I was a kid because the family tree I did for school looked so ridiculously lop-sided, and he said "I'm embarassed enough by the relatives I know, why should I go look for more?" It's really hard to argue with him
You've heard the saying, "You can't pick your relatives."
My husband's dad might say the same thing as yours did.
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