A nation of immigrants
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 12:15
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So, you are from the Americas or perhaps Australia. This naturally means that at least some part of you came from somewhere else. Which raises a question: If you were to remove as much emigration as plausible in your family tree and have it remain, well, a single tree, where would you be now? (And for foreigners who feel left out: consider your ancestry - where, if anywhere, would they have likely moved, had they gotten a mind to? A harder question, to be certain.) For myself, somewhere in the Irish south. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 12:23
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The Highlands of Scotland for sure. -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 12:45
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Without emigration of some kind, I could not exist. My ancestors were mostly scattered throughout Europe, mostly in Spain, Sicily, England, Ireland, France, and so forth, but one smallish branch is Native American. Nothing really outweighs anything else, though. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 12:54
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All my family comes from Caucasia. -------------------- "We can learn a lot from crayons. Some are short, some are dull, some are sharp, some are tall. Some have funny names and they are all different colors, but they all learn to live in the same box." "Happy is the man that has wisdom and gets discernment. For having wisdom as gain is better than having silver as gain and having wisdom as produce is better than gold itself" Proverbs 3:14-3:15 The horrible part about life is, you'll never get out of it alive. Currently boycotting: AngelFire, GameFAQ's, Macintosh PC's Posts: 818 | Registered: Tuesday, July 9 2002 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 13:11
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We're all immigrants from Africa, unless we live in Africa, of course. :P Posts: 950 | Registered: Thursday, October 4 2001 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 13:15
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Partly Silesia (Polish, former East German) and partly Northern Germany, though I've never tried to pursue my ancestors further than my grand parents. It doesn't mean that much anyway. Except that I have what is probably a faintly Slavic-sounding name (ending in -ka), which would be due to the Silesian grandparents. -------------------- Encyclopaedia Ermariana • Forum Archives • Forum Statistics • RSS [Topic / Forum] My Blog • Polaris • I eat novels for breakfast. Polaris is dead, long live Polaris. Look on my works, ye mighty, and despair. Posts: 8752 | Registered: Wednesday, May 14 2003 07:00 |
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Off With Their Heads
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 13:18
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quote:I had no idea that you were Colombian. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 13:27
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Wow, I didn't know there was actually a place called Caucasia. -------------------- "We can learn a lot from crayons. Some are short, some are dull, some are sharp, some are tall. Some have funny names and they are all different colors, but they all learn to live in the same box." "Happy is the man that has wisdom and gets discernment. For having wisdom as gain is better than having silver as gain and having wisdom as produce is better than gold itself" Proverbs 3:14-3:15 The horrible part about life is, you'll never get out of it alive. Currently boycotting: AngelFire, GameFAQ's, Macintosh PC's Posts: 818 | Registered: Tuesday, July 9 2002 07:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 14:29
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This is where the 'race' refers to. Posts: 794 | Registered: Tuesday, October 11 2005 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 14:35
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My family tree is very much a part of American immigration. Russia and Austria don't mix in Europe. Italy tends away too. There were also those Irish Protestants, but they came to America so early that they were the oppressors of immigrants, not the oppressed immigrants. —Alorael, who even supposedly has an ancestor from Spain who bailed out, swam to shore, and learned English really fast when the Spanish Armada started losing. Posts: 14579 | Registered: Saturday, December 1 2001 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 14:39
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Hmm. Let me see. Equal parts English, Irish, Russian and Ukrainian, with a bit of German thrown in. I think that about covers it. [ Wednesday, December 14, 2005 14:45: Message edited by: Thuryl ] -------------------- The Empire Always Loses: This Time For Sure! Posts: 9973 | Registered: Saturday, March 30 2002 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 15:18
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My fathers parents were born in New Zealand and no-ones really sure where their parents where from. My mothers dutch so I guess I'd be in Holland or something. [ Wednesday, December 14, 2005 16:07: Message edited by: Kingy ] Posts: 776 | Registered: Friday, July 4 2003 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 16:01
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I'm pretty much a mutt with a small portion of Native American (I think Cherokee), so I really wouldn't exist. -------------------- There are two kinds of game players...those who are newbies, and those who were. Posts: 322 | Registered: Monday, April 12 2004 07:00 |
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Shaper
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 19:25
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My fathers parents: His mother, Dutch, and his father, Scottish ancestry. My mothers parents: Her father, a remote part of Italy, and her mother, Ireland. That covers it. -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. :ph34r: Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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Fire! Fire! Fire! Fire!
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 19:44
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I'd be... uh... somewhere in the English Channel, I suppose. I'm mostly English and German, and equal parts both. -------------------- And though the musicians would die, the music would live on in the imaginations of all who heard it. -The Last Pendragon Polaris = joy. In case of emergency, break glass. Posts: 3351 | Registered: Saturday, April 6 2002 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 19:57
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I suppose England, specifically Plymouth. Ancestors on both sides of my family were on the same boat that eventually settled south of Boston. *this message sponsored by the family tree maker* -------------------- quote: Posts: 4114 | Registered: Monday, April 25 2005 07:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Wednesday, December 14 2005 19:58
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quote:That isn't necessarily true. It is quite possible to be pure Aborigine. For myself, I'm half Malay with a taste of Chinese, three-eighths English and one-eigth Irish. Posts: 356 | Registered: Saturday, August 23 2003 07:00 |
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Warrior
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written Thursday, December 15 2005 02:37
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I´m a nearly entirely pure austrian with a bit of America and Russia, or so I heard from my parents. :confused: -------------------- You know, why the Sliths are green - because of their scales. Maybe you know why some slith eyes were once red - ´cause the demons, which led them were red. But why are the eyes of the Slith Lord Followers red? Because they see the remains of their enemies always before the battle begins! Posts: 179 | Registered: Friday, November 25 2005 08:00 |
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Lifecrafter
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written Thursday, December 15 2005 09:53
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I'd probably be Swiss. That or Welsh. Mm. -------------------- Frisbeetarianism is the belief that when you die, your soul goes up on the roof and gets stuck. 'Spiderweb Software' anagrammmed: 'Word-bereft A**wipe' Posts: 702 | Registered: Wednesday, October 3 2001 07:00 |
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Guardian
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written Thursday, December 15 2005 11:24
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I'd be in southern India. Not too much emigration at all in my tree, unless you count the Aryan invasion, without which I likely wouldn't exist. -------------------- Stughalf "Delusion arises from anger. The mind is bewildered by delusion. Reasoning is destroyed when the mind is bewildered. One falls down when reasoning is destroyed."- The Bhagavad Gita. Posts: 1798 | Registered: Sunday, October 5 2003 07:00 |
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Mongolian Barbeque
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written Thursday, December 15 2005 11:32
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I have the geneology of a mangy alley cat: a little bit of everything, and nobody's been keeping careful track of where each cat in the feline family tree came from. I've got blood from most European countries, mostly British of all varieties but also some Dutch, but with a bunch of American Indians thrown in during the last couple of hundred years. And, based on my love of barbarians (Vikings, Mongols, etc.) and my taste in fantasy literature and RPG games, I suspect I have a bit of Cimmerian mixed in there as well. But since I'm the only one in my family with these, uh, "enthusiasms," I think it's a heavily recessive gene that pops up only once in a hundred generations. [ Thursday, December 15, 2005 11:38: Message edited by: IRA Witch Herd ] Posts: 907 | Registered: Monday, July 15 2002 07:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, December 15 2005 16:10
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I'm reasonably certain that I'd be somewhere in Poland right now. Somewhere distinctly Central Europe-ey... -------------------- Gamble with Gaea, and she eats your dice. I hate undead. I really, really, really, really hate undead. With a passion. Posts: 4130 | Registered: Friday, March 26 2004 08:00 |
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Shaper
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written Thursday, December 15 2005 16:52
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quote:I don't think there are any on these boards. There may be a no-poster who is native to Austrlaia, but none that I know of. [ Thursday, December 15, 2005 16:53: Message edited by: Spring ] -------------------- I'll put a Spring in your step. :ph34r: Posts: 2396 | Registered: Saturday, January 29 2005 08:00 |
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Law Bringer
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written Thursday, December 15 2005 16:55
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quote:Don't forget the Native Americans. There could be some of them on this board. Of course, even the Aborignees and Natvie Americans were not orginally from Australia aand America, but that's a whole other debate. [ Thursday, December 15, 2005 16:57: Message edited by: Tyranicus ] -------------------- "You're drinking liquor because you're thirsty? How nasty is your freaking water?" —Lazarus Spiderweb Chat Room Avernum RP • Summaries • OoC • Roster Shadow Vale - My site, home of the Spiderweb Chat Database, BoA Scenario Database, & the A1 Quest List, among other things. Posts: 1556 | Registered: Sunday, November 20 2005 08:00 |
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Shock Trooper
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written Thursday, December 15 2005 19:40
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My Dad's parents were WW2 immigrants. His dad was Polish, and was in at least three death camps, escaped 2 and was freed from one. Immigration aside, I wouldnt be alive. That being said, 1/4 from Poland, 1/4 southern Germany, and 1/2 standard london commoner, going back about 4 generations (fairly early australian immigrants on my mums side.) -------------------- A Sucaran Child is standing here. You say, "hello" The small child looks at Preserver Aldous wide-eyed and awed. Posts: 269 | Registered: Friday, July 19 2002 07:00 |