Family Backgrounds & Accomplishments

I'm mostly Italian. But I'm also Irish, German, French, and English.

I don't think my family has acomplished anything, really...we aren't that special x3

On my mom's side, we all own a vinyard in Sicily, does that count?

My father's side of the family is completely Irish and has in in the U.S. since the 1850's, and my mother's side of the family is Irish and Austrian. My great-grandmother on my grandpa's side immigrated here from Ireland when she was a little girl, and my grandma's side is Austrian.

We haven't really accomplished anything from what I've heard.

Except that one relative who started that program where teenage girls go to nursing homes and make old ladies feel pretty.

Ehh, I seriously don't know anything else.

This seems like an OVP topic to me, not an OC one.

My family is of Western European decent: Dutch, French, Scottish, Irish, English. Call me Whitey McWhitesalot. I think I'm related to the Pilgrims, but I might have just been confused by my school lessons when I was younger.

My grandfather was a doctor in WW2 and one of my ancestors founded a nowhere town somewhere in the Midwest. I have so much to live up to.

I've got a couple of interesting notes from when I did research on my family for a project in high school...

My mother's family is fully Hispanic of Mexican and Spanish origin. My grandmother was descended from King Philip I of Spain. One of my Great-grandfathers on that side was evidently involved with the Mexican Revolution, fighting second-in-command under Pancho Villa.

My father's family is Irish...Scottish maybe...just generic white folk. They married into Hispanic families several time in their history, so my dad himself is half-and-half. One of my great-great-great grandfathers here was a signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and two of his sons fought at the Alamo.

I'm American, but I also come from a Mormon family. They were badass and walked across half the country with only covered wagons and stale bread, and that was after they were persecuted for being different than other people (lol irony). Or something like that. Yeah.

Italian descendany on my Dad's side, not sure how far back it goes but apparently comes from a couple of brother's who same over to England to sell cutlery and then got told to come up Sheffield because of the steel industry.

Mum's side, now idea, never been looked into.


Nothing special on either side as far as I can tell though.

I don't know, but I really wish I did. I thought I knew before, because my parents have this thing hanging on the wall that supposedly talks about the origins of my last name and such, and what some ancestor did.

It turns out they got it from freakin Camelot or some theme place like that.... *Facepalm*

My father is all Italian and my mother is Italian, Irish, and Portuguese.

My grandfather is 3rd cousins with John F. Kennedy making me whatever that is to him.
I also have another relative who is the Speaker of the House in Massachusetts.
Somehow on my mom's side I'm related to the singer Patty Smyth.

So technically no one closely related to me did anything spectacular.

Italian, Irish, Swedish, English.

One of my uncles was a defensive-lineman for the Seattle Seahawks and one of my aunts was one of Troy Aikman's and Drew Bledsoe's sports agents during their careers.

im irish, english, french, and german. mostly irish. i am related to george potts who went down horshoe falls in niagara falls then went down through the rapids in a barrel and lived.

that's the most important person in my family i know of besides obama. that was a joke. haha im so funny.

On my father's side, I believe I am English, Italian, German, and a little Scottish... My grandfather served in the U.S. Air Force and eventually raised seven children in a nice neighborhood.

On my mother's side, I have no clue, but based on her look, I suspect she is of some sort of Hispanic or Native American origin. Anyway, her foster parents owned a pretty nice farm in Texas. I never met her home nor family; just heard her stories.

I'm of Dutch, Czek, and Prussian descent (more or less Polish) xD

In terms of accomplishments, nothing overly neat but my father's side of the family, the Dutch, were apart of the group of Dutch who hid Jews during WWII.

My great-great-grandfather and great-great-grandmother were cousins, if that counts >.>

Actually, one of my great-uncles, Octavius (apparently he was actually called Leslie but as he was the eighth child...) was at the Battle of Loos, as a member of the 9th Battalion, the Black Watch and died there. For anybody who's interested, he's the one at the top left in the photo.

EDIT: I just found out that I'm also related to omebody important enough to have their own wikipedia page o.O I am in shock.

As far as I can remember, I'm part Norwegian, Sewdish, Scottish, French, Metis, English, Austrian and Hungarian. I'm pretty sure there's a couple I'm missing, but I can't think of them right now.

My family's claim to fame is being a descendant of Louis Riel. He was the leader of the Metis people in Canada, and he was the founder of one of the Canadian provinces, Manitoba. I remember learning about his life in History a few years ago, and was fascinated that my family came from such an important part in Canadian history. He was eventually hanged for executing a man.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Riel

My cousin is also related to Peter MacKay, a man that almost became the Prime Minister of Canada in 2003.

My great/great-great granddad (I don't remember which) James Matthew Barrie created Peter Pan.

One of my uncles was in a famous Scottish band. That's about it.

Every family member I know is entirely English, so I assume I'm pretty much 100% English.

Dad's side of the family: Most of the men I know of have been in the army at some point, my great uncle was apparently a high-ranking officer at an RAF base, can't remember what rank. That's about it as far as I know.

Mum's side of the family: I don't know them, but my mum said something about her dad being on a submarine and his brother being in the RAF, so I guess the military again.

I'm related to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fred_Astaire

In terms of ancestry, my mum's side is full Irish, of some gypsy origin, as well as Moroccan. Nothing really much interesting though, unless you count my great aunt's family, who are rich, Jewish, and the son looks like Prince Charles.

I am Purto Rican. My grandmother, and her family moved from purto rico to america, and my grandmas grandma moved from spain to purto rico. My grandma was dirt poor when she moved to america, and throw capitalism she was able to start her own business, and later buy her own apartments. Making my parents life, and my life a lot easier, financially wise.

On my dads side they where all Catholics, but on my moms side they where all Protisian. My dad grow up catholic, and when to a catholic school. My dad lived in a Jewish neighborhood tho. Williams burg, New York. My mom lived in a Spanish, and Irish neighborhood with lots of brownstones. <3

On my dads family most of the men where real sailors back when they lived in Spain.

Genetically my family are all very skinny, but strong. They are usually on the tall side. Most of the men in my family died of liver frailer. From drinking too much. :c
Most people on my moms side of the family have high blood pressure. Also every body in my moms side has "O" Type blood. ( And so do I :D)