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Offline Rick Wallace

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #15 on: January 09, 2015, 09:47:58 pm »
Scots-Irish Cherokee on my Fathers side.  I dont know much about my Mothers side except 1 Great grandfather was from Ireland,the other from England  I think.
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Offline sleek

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #16 on: January 09, 2015, 10:34:30 pm »
Who knows I may be kin to Del the Cat. ;) ;D ;D ;D that would explain my good looks /sharp wit and charm. ;) :) :) :)
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Offline sleek

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #17 on: January 09, 2015, 10:40:07 pm »
Scots-Irish Cherokee on my Fathers side.  I dont know much about my Mothers side except 1 Great grandfather was from Ireland,the other from England  I think.

Hey me too, on my dads side. Then add Seminole on my mothers. Sir John Hawkins and Sir Francis Drake are direct ancestors.  Had family serve under the great general Robert E Lee, who in every generation,  we name a boy after him. My middle name being no exexception, first born usually.
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Offline wizardgoat

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #18 on: January 09, 2015, 11:37:12 pm »
My dad is french / english, my mom is korean. Ive made some yew longbows, korean flight bows one day ;)

Offline Tower

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #19 on: January 09, 2015, 11:42:42 pm »
11th generation American.  The 1st Tower came to the shores of Massacusetts in 1637.  Irish & Cherokee on my mothers side. I'm 1/4 Cherokee.  English on my fathers . All the way back to 1066. That's when my family was given lands & titles.  There has always been a designated family record keeper. I have a family signet ring that is several hunderd yrs old.
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Offline bowsandroses

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #20 on: January 10, 2015, 01:24:09 am »
Mom's side is easy Great Grandpa was full blood Scott and Great Grandma was full blood Welsh. From a prominent family who helped found the Williams and Marry college, I think that's the one. Her Dad was Mostly Scott and a little bit Mohegan, grew up in the Red River Valley. Grandma was born and raised in Silver Lake Oregon. Dads side is not so simple. A little German with a German name, Scott, Irish, English, Shoshone, And I think Norwegian. Bottom line as Tim put it I too am an American Mutt and D@%b proud of it. Dad and parents came to Oregon from Arkansas 1949. Moms Grandparents came to Oregon from back east 1901 I think.
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Offline Tyke

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #21 on: January 10, 2015, 03:23:50 am »
Hillbilly on my moms side and redneck on my dads  :laugh:
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Offline Tyke

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #22 on: January 10, 2015, 03:25:39 am »
But the family name is swedish
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Offline chamookman

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« Reply #23 on: January 10, 2015, 04:46:55 am »
Scottish on My Dads side, German/British on My Moms. 100% Michigan Hill Billy now  :laugh:. Bob
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Offline Eric Krewson

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #24 on: January 10, 2015, 11:42:36 am »
I actually took a DNA test to verify the family NA component. Turns out the oral family history was incorrect, no NA bloodline in our history.

Scandinavian
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 British Isles
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 Eastern European
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 Southern European
 7%
 Uncertain 5% 
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Offline YosemiteBen

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #25 on: January 10, 2015, 11:59:47 am »
On my dad's side, Mountain Maidu from Northern California and perhaps a bit of somewhere in the UK, I have heard Welsh not sure though.
On my mom's side, Turtle Mountain Chippewa, French-Canadian, German, English and Irish I think.

Offline sleek

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #26 on: January 10, 2015, 12:39:39 pm »
I actually took a DNA test to verify the family NA component. Turns out the oral family history was incorrect, no NA bloodline in out history.

Scandinavian
 46%
 British Isles
 30%
 Eastern European
 12%
 Southern European
 7%
 Uncertain 5%

How do I go about that process and is it allot and accurate?
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Offline Knoll

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #27 on: January 10, 2015, 04:56:19 pm »
... Turns out the oral family history was incorrect, ...
Certain that's true for me.
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Offline JEB

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #28 on: January 10, 2015, 06:26:34 pm »
Stewart/McGrane =English/Irish

Offline JW_Halverson

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Re: Where did your family come from?
« Reply #29 on: January 10, 2015, 07:05:53 pm »
There is an entire "band" of Cherokee that has absolutely no native blood in them according to DNA!  Doesn't stop them any!
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