Where are your ancestors from?

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[snowman]

Mine are from the tiny farming village of "Buj" in Hungary (it's pronounced "Booey"). I lived there for 3 years during the 70s.

Map [www3.sympatico.ca]

Close up [www3.sympatico.ca]

Closer [www3.sympatico.ca]

Landscape [www3.sympatico.ca]

Landscape2 [www3.sympatico.ca]

[Macguru]

As a ***, can I make something up?

[edited by: eelixduppy at 9:54 pm (utc) on Feb. 18, 2009]

[SEOMike]

Very beautiful land, snoman! Reminds me of some of the midwestern parts of the US.

I have grown up in the midwest of the US. I've lived in Lincoln Nebraska, Des Moines Iowa, and Overland Park Kansas (a suburb of Kansas City)

My ancestors are Germans from Russia who came to the US in the 20's.

No pictures to post, but that's where I've grown up!

[Automan Empire]

Cool. Now, what is a Euromutt such as myself supposed to do, post a photo of the Eastern Hemisphere? LOL!

[Essex_boy]

My MOthers side came here as protestant refugees (Hugueneots)in 1799, fleeing persecution in France - they were on the whole treated that same as Jews in Nazi Germany.

My fathers side came to the East End of London from an area of Scotland in teh 19thC seeking work, my surname Creighton is also the name of the area.

[Syzygy]

I know very little about our history barring the fact that, on one side, the family are descended from gypsies who settled in Hampshire (UK) many years ago. We are also bit of a bunch of 'freaks' (lol) as genetic abberations in immediate family members on the 'gypsy' side have included:

* eyes of separate colour (ie, one blue, the other brown)

* webbed toes

* six fingers on each hand (this family member tells me that, as a child, the 'extra's' were bound with cat-gut - in the same way you would have docked a dog's tail - so that they would drop off!)

* too many teeth

Luckily these 'abberations' appear to have skipped a generation as I, and my brothers, have escaped (or, maybe we're just freaks in other ways...).

Perhaps I'm hearing the sound of ancestral "duelling banjo's"? Lol!

Syzygy

[Essex_boy]

Now thats interesting! I love hearing about genetic traits passed from generation to generation.

The strangets one ive come across and seen was people descended from a German in teh UK he had a lock of hair at the front of their heads that was white.