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DominatorJacquesProud of it? IDK.
All western European ( French, Scottish, English) with Dakota Souix . Westen Euro. gave me dupuytren's. Hate that part.
dakota sioux huh? how do you feel about the fact that UND had to change their hockey team from the Fighting Sioux to the fighting Hawks?
Western Europe, English, Scottish and some Irish myself. My wife wants to do the 23 and Me as we are living in Scotland at the moment, she wants to trace her ancestors.
Proud of it? Of course, we all should be proud of what and who we are. All our ancestors worked hard to put where our families are today.
Love both my heritages and cultures.
Stressed lately with being torn by anti-chinese rhetoric in America and anti-american rhetoric in China.
But we're a skiing site here right?
The Renaissance of Asian female snowboarders and Japan edits in the last couple years has had a big impact on my life on the slopes.
My twin sister (sick freestyle snowboarder) and I held each other and cried when Chloe Kim won Gold at the 2018 Olympics.
It was triumphant... like suddenly overnight we became valid as athletes.
Before that, the attitude towards Asian female rippers was really dismissive and shitty... even tho her and I were going so much bigger than those brushing us off.
Welsh and irish. My last name is irish, neutered in efforts of avoiding discrimination at the time. Kinda interesting.
The part I'm most proud of though is my ancestors role in the US revolutionary war, one of which being a part of the pennsylvanian militia who was a scout hand picked by general Washington prior to the battle of trenton. Dude got captured by hessian soldiers and ended up escaping only to continue to fight. Badass MF for sure.
Flexible Flyer. Both my parents rode those things and neither one skied. Confusing way to grow up especially if you want to ride fresh snow. Eventually dad came around and got big tractor inner tubes so I could ride in the passes. Neighbors had snowracer GTs and I kinda thought I would get into that too. Luckily my school librarian organized the school ski bus so when she saw me looking at all the snowboard pictures in her Thrasher magazines she signed me up to ski
BiffbarfWelsh and irish. My last name is irish, neutered in efforts of avoiding discrimination at the time. Kinda interesting.
The part I'm most proud of though is my ancestors role in the US revolutionary war, one of which being a part of the pennsylvanian militia who was a scout hand picked by general Washington prior to the battle of trenton. Dude got captured by hessian soldiers and ended up escaping only to continue to fight. Badass MF for sure.
Love it. I have a few Patriots on my fathers side as well.
One relative on my moms side was a sharpshooter from Vermont during the civil war. Died in combat. Pretty cool reading articles about it.
I'm a bit if a European mutt. I know for sure that I'm English, Irish, Polish, French, German, and Danish; although, I probably have some other countries mixed in there that I don't about. My last name comes from the last high king of pagan Ireland who died after getting struck by lightning while leading his army through the alps.
oldmanskiWestern Europe, English, Scottish and some Irish myself. My wife wants to do the 23 and Me as we are living in Scotland at the moment, she wants to trace her ancestors.
Proud of it? Of course, we all should be proud of what and who we are. All our ancestors worked hard to put where our families are today.
honestly yeah. it blows my mind kinda. thinking about your ancestors sometimes, where you originated from, and how you're some of the first people of your families lineage to go and do/see/get involved with cool shit like skiing and mountains. total mind trip.
**This post was edited on Nov 17th 2020 at 6:52:34pm
Charlie_KellyLove it. I have a few Patriots on my fathers side as well.
One relative on my moms side was a sharpshooter from Vermont during the civil war. Died in combat. Pretty cool reading articles about it.
That's pretty cool.
We've got a few Wiki pages (in German) for our extended family. Mostly famous politicians or generals back between 1600-1900. Bunch of Generals and Colonels from the 30 Years War with a few in later conflicts.
Norwegian, Finnish, Irish, German. The Norwegian part is from a fjord in central Norway and has been traced back to the 1500s; The Finnish part is from southwest Finland but not much is known beyond that. Both immigrated to Minnesota in the late 1800s. I know nothing about the other half.
I always though it was cool that all my ancestors lived in states that got snow(Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, New Jersey, Delaware,Illinois and Washington).
The countries they immigrated from were England,Ireland,Scotland,Netherlands and Denmark(maybe Sweden not really sure lol.)
I was proud to learn that my 4th great grandfather fought in the Revolution when he was teenager. He also was first the settler in Concord, Vermont.
If you're interested in genealogy then it's worth watching the show Finding your Roots on PBS, which is a show where Dr. Henry Gates does research on his celebrity guest's ancestors.
Just read an interesting article on this. Pretty much everyone of European descent has the same set of ancestors if you go back a thousand years or so. Since the number of ancestors you have increases exponentially every generation, if you do the math, after quite a few generations you begin to have more ancestors than there were people alive at the time. That's impossible, so if you look at your family tree, you see that the branches will start to converge to the same individuals. Apparently almost everyone of European descent, if not everyone, is a direct descendent of Charlemagne; although, it's a much smaller percentage of people that actually have any genes that were passed on from Charlemagne.
Pretty sure it’s not just Europe but every person on the planet can be traced back to east Africa and the most current universal mother is known as mt-eve
it is also now scientifically accepted , that both “Adam” and “eve” came from Africa approximately 135,000 years ago , and while they may have not “met” , or even lived at the same time , all of our dna , for as far back as we can trace, can be traced back to one man, and one woman of that approximate time period and region and there is no detectable dna at this point to signify that they were anything but the first, nor is there much chance that there is any dna in any of us from before that point, so, even tho we’ve spread, evolved and adapted, we’re all brown folks !
SquirtleJust read an interesting article on this. Pretty much everyone of European descent has the same set of ancestors if you go back a thousand years or so. Since the number of ancestors you have increases exponentially every generation, if you do the math, after quite a few generations you begin to have more ancestors than there were people alive at the time. That's impossible, so if you look at your family tree, you see that the branches will start to converge to the same individuals. Apparently almost everyone of European descent, if not everyone, is a direct descendent of Charlemagne; although, it's a much smaller percentage of people that actually have any genes that were passed on from Charlemagne.
31st gen, King of Gregor, son of Dougal. King of Scots and Picts AD 882-897
As per someone above...............
29th gen, Constantine son of Dougal
28th gen Gregor na Bratic son of Constantine 961 AD
SavageBiffPretty sure it’s not just Europe but every person on the planet can be traced back to east Africa and the most current universal mother is known as mt-eve
it is also now scientifically accepted , that both “Adam” and “eve” came from Africa approximately 135,000 years ago , and while they may have not “met” , or even lived at the same time , all of our dna , for as far back as we can trace, can be traced back to one man, and one woman of that approximate time period and region and there is no detectable dna at this point to signify that they were anything but the first, nor is there much chance that there is any dna in any of us from before that point, so, even tho we’ve spread, evolved and adapted, we’re all brown folks !
I think if you go back roughly 3000 years or so almost everyone alive today that has ancestors from anywhere in the Europe, Asia, or Africa areas can trace back their direct ancestors in some way to the pharos of ancient Egypt. The only people that this won't be true for are people whose ancestors all came from places that were extremely isolated from the Europe, Asia, and Africa areas, such as anyone with 100% Native American ancestors, or anyone with 100% Aboriginal ancestors. You have to go back a bit further to find direct ancestors between those groups of people with European, Asain, and African people. There were many instances of migrations, and mixings of the gene pool in the Europe, Asia, and Africa areas throughout history.
SquirtleJust read an interesting article on this. Pretty much everyone of European descent has the same set of ancestors if you go back a thousand years or so. Since the number of ancestors you have increases exponentially every generation, if you do the math, after quite a few generations you begin to have more ancestors than there were people alive at the time. That's impossible, so if you look at your family tree, you see that the branches will start to converge to the same individuals. Apparently almost everyone of European descent, if not everyone, is a direct descendent of Charlemagne; although, it's a much smaller percentage of people that actually have any genes that were passed on from Charlemagne.
We are all a bunch of fng inbreds. All you suckers are related to me
