Read embryology, you will get the idea.

Sometimes I forget why I came into the kitchen....

Nope don't care.

Im not sure I'd trust those Ancestry DNA tests. Some are pretty vague about ones ancestry.

If you have any famous people in your family, then this site is good. But don't just rely on it and use other resources as well. You type in your ancestor to see if there is a match up. They give your ancestor a CODE and you link it to other famous people on the site automatically. They show the genology family history. WIKITREE.COM

The Frankish Kings, Cornish Scottish and French.

I was created by God.

Mine is, May as well just say I'm a descendant of Scotland with a heritage of Alcoholics. :)

Viking/isle of Man/ Welsh/Irish & some English, Roman & French cos everyone invaded everywhere. All Aussie.

My father always told my brother and I that our family arrived in England with William The Conqueror. He knew that for sure and had researched the Doomsday book even seeing where the surname changed as it was misspelt. I always believed him but when I was diagnosed with a rare blood condition I wondered where it had come from so did a DNA test. When I got the results it was just as my father had told me, but what really surprised me was just how much Norman blood was still in the family. They must have inter married for generations and I have very little British blood in my DNA. For quite awhile I had next to no matches but during the first lockdown in England I got 50000 matches, some very close. The best match I had was my fathers cousin who knew nothing about my father or his family. It was sad when I found out that his sister had lived in Canberra for many years and none of us ever knew about each other. She unfortunately passed away about the same time as my father. My mother also took a DNA test and wasn't that fun. All of a sudden I was contacted by people wanting to know how we are related because there is no way of tracing as many don't know who their fathers were. We even discovered her family name isn't their real name. It did give me a bit of a headache trying to work out how we are related. In the end I had to give up. So dad's side was as he had always said, but mum's side is a mystery.

I can only go back to grandparents (Mothers side ) & great grandparents (Fathers Side) On my Mothers side my grandfather was born in Bombay India. I wonder about my heritage some say his mother was Indian ???I wish I could find out .On my Dads side his mother was born in Wales& all the rest were from Southern Ireland .My mother was Irish so all that side (with the exception of great grandmother )we assume were all Irish .I have tried to find out but Irish records are very difficult to navigate most are thru the Catholic church & you need to know the Parish

That's exciting Paul. When people asked my Mother about her ancestors she used to say they were pirates. I have researched back to the 1000s on one branch of the family and 1400s on another branch. It is very interesting. Haven't found any pirates yet but my Mum may still have been right. Martin D., you can get information by joining free genealogy sites - I do and also get history from my sister who was given a subscription for her birthday. We compare notes every now and then. It is time consuming but worthwhile.

Sadly there are so many secrets kept that some of us got intrigued too delve deeper then we find out things we didn't really want too know bit were maybe always suspect about

Nope. These days I don't care. I know soon I'll be curious but I don't really care at the moment.

Yes I have been tracing my family tree, mostly east european and balkans

Tried to research the family tree but it costs too much. Last time I looked it was $40 per month with no guarantee of finding anything.

My great-great-grandparents emigrate to Czech from Russia about 1900s. I don't want even know more after this discovery.

My Mother was born in Inverell NSW . I think they were in the first fleet - probably with manacles round their ankles. Don't know about my Dad's family line and not willing to spend too much cash on finding out.

I found out I am part English and part Scottish - going back about 3 generations. It was very interesting..........

I know who I am from about 2 generations before me. But my daughters are not interested in knowing that and prefer to be busy with everyday things.

Too late to do much about it.

I know exactly where I have come from as we have 2 books about both sides of the family tree. One was written by my Mum's brother and he did his dad's side and was going to do his mum's side but it was too tragic and he decided he didn't want to. The other book is my dad's side and wow the dates in there go way back to like 1600's so we know a lot of the family really. Maybe more than most. The big book my aunt brought to Australia because it was so big. Plus some of the portraits of our ansecestors are in the London Museum maybe not on display but they are there I do believe. It is very interesting. My Ma was a poor potato farmers daughter and very much unwanted and she had a hard upbringing. Loosing Pa during the war wouldn't have helped either. Not knowing wether he was alive or dead for 4 years and having 2 children to raise by herself. She managed quite well and they lived in WA at the time. Pa ended going to Grace Hill to recuperate after WW2 so Ma had to go back to Ireland to be with him.

No idea and not worried about it at all

Don't know, don't care and does it really matter?

scotland

I come from a long line of Cockneys.

I can go back a far way but find it can turn into a brag feast when this conversation gets started. So, like everyone else I originated with stardust.

sometimes these ancestry sites give info that is not always correct, make sure info you are given can be verified Many people want high powered people in their background.

No but I do wonder where I’m going

While my ancestors held from Ireland, Scotland, United Kingdom, and other isles of Europe

Apparently i was dropped off by a stork...

I was really into genealogy years ago. I am Irish, English and Scottish decent. I was also told that one of the names in my tree is actually French. I have Blanch in my tree and was told that in French it La Blanc. I use to tell people I was related to Matt La Blanc from Friends and one person actually believed me. I was also told that I have a bit of royal blood. An ancestor worked in a royal palace and got pregnant by the King. He shipped her off to Australia and she gave birth to a girl onboard. This baby married the son of a convict

Even with Ansetsery, I can only go back 4 generations. Edited 28-May-22 16:36pm

I have done some family tree stuff on dad's side as from Denmark. Very hard to do it as in days gone by when a couple married the bride kept her maiden name and children took parents name .Boy-father .girl-mother. So off I goes to trace the link from grandfathers name but went out on wrong branch as his name is common over there.Mothers side was easy [thanks to a cousin] and Scottish and go back to 1770's.In fact we have a very heroic person in our list and he went to WW1-2 as a Salvo chaplain. On returning home he later became head of the Salvos for Eastern Australia. William McKenzie is his name and if you get books to read about him he was sure brave

Ordered a DNA test and discovered that my fathers family were not part Native American but were instead Jews from Mali. They were forced from their land in the 14th century when an Islamic ruler decreed that everyone convert to Islam or be killed. They made their way to Ireland then left during the famine, changing their last name and burying their religion.

My partner is Scottish and I have traced back to Robert the Bruce on his mums side. As for me, so far all I have found are a bunch of Italian peasants HAHA. I do a lot of family research and volunteer at a family history library.

we can trace our scottish side back to robert the bruce. we have a full ancestry done of all our family and we have english,irish,scottish,australian and a little spanish. it was very interesting to see.

I am getting more interested as I get older. We are going to Europe next year so I am interested where my family came from. I know why they came her and that was to get away from poverty in England at the time. I am doing a bit of research each day.

Sir Joshua Reynolds, portrait painter for the King, was my great, great, great grandfather.

It's really not that relevant, according to DNA researchers we are all related to four women who lived in the Middle East quite a few years ago, and then since each generation going back widens your antecedents(4 grandparents,16 great grandparents, 64 great great grandparents,)and with a reduced population mean s that we are all pretty well inbred, but I always believed that maternity is a matter of fact whilst paternity has always been a matter for conjecture.

Yikes! That sounds genuine.

One lot of Grandparents were Scottish and English. The other Grandparents were Maori and English.

I am from German, English and Irish decent.

My in-laws where English and very patronising of us convicts. I was horrified to discover via DNA that I am English! Nooooo! I'm Aussie!

Mum and Dad. That's as far as I go

Yeah definitely. It's pretty interesting and good to know who you are related to as well.

Nah not greatly, more wondering what the hell is going to happen where i'm heading.

i came from God

As I originally came as a babe, known by God before my first bits were ever formed, that is enough for me. That and the knowledge that I wil shortly return to Him, My Heavenly Father, through the sacrifice that Jesus Christ made on the Cross to save me from sin and from eternal damnation in Hell. But I, a sinner, am saved by Grace and my acceptance that unless I confessed my sins and asked the Lord Jesus to forgive them and for Him to come into my heart and to cleanse me from all unrighteousness! As for the rest it's just DNA! I know that I don't WANT to know because there are skeletons hidden that should NOT see the light of day. Have a good day all.

I work on my family history every day. I really enjoy it but at times I really am disturbed by my desire to dwelve into the past. Part of it really does break my personal morals re. personal privacy. Some of my relatives would be horrified to know that I have read their personal medical histories and know some of their secrets that they very carefully guarded. There is a fine line between using history for knowledge and enjoyment....and going too far in not respecting the dead's right to not having their life evaluated and picked over. So as much as I love being a detective and experiencing great joy when I uncover something new....I also have to deal with some guilt over not leaving things as is. There is also the joy of finding out wonderful things that should be shared and celebrated. There are definitely two sides to genealogical research.

"sir names" ? Did you mean surnames ?

I did a ancestry DNA test with results being English, Scots/Irish, Welsh and Eastern European and identify with my Scots ancestry. I know my maternal GGG Grandmother immigrated to NZ from Scotland as a young woman, Fanny Morton Cameron (Cameron Highlanders) I havent looked further at this stage mainly due to costs

A very interesting discovery!

Genealogy is an interesting past time, now we each have two parents (apart from Jesus) then they each have two parents so we are at grandparents (4) then they each have two parents, great grandparents (8) then we get to great great grandparents (16) and that’s where things start getting really murky, in my own case welcome to the pioneering days of Australia/New Zealand two of my great x 3 grandparents were hand selected by the best judges of England for a free trip to Australia on board the good ship Neptune, if you keep going back the numbers of ancestors keeps multiplying and the world’s population keeps getting less

A bunch of convicts on my dad's side who contributed to the Tasmanian workforce back in the days. Not as fancy as royal lineage but bloody interesting history literally.

is that where the chase stopped? how about what happened in France?

Been there, done that

My parents haha Yes it is very interesting… I was made in England but don’t have one drop of English blood in my body lol Nigel is an odd French name

No. I already know

I came from a womb.

I’m so mixed as the rest of humanity...

I have done the Ancestry.com spit test so I may not know everything but I know more than I used to. A few small details are different than I thought but all of the larger details are what I expected. The test is on sale a lot so check for the 50% off and take the test. They do tell you some history along with your background and where your family fits in.

Nope! I know where I came from, and science has proven it, for those of you who believe more in science than in theology. Science has proven we all come from the same 2 people...Adam and Eve, of course! After that, I don't much care. My mom's parents were from Turkey, and my dad was German and English, and that's all I need to know, although I do enjoy the TV show "Finding Your Roots" a lot! ;-D

Love finding out about my family history

Yes, I am very interested in my family history and where they are from based on my mother side of family and my father side of the family.

I'm very interested in my genealogy. I was always told I had Norwegian in me on my dad's side. Then we found out my grandma was adopted so now we aren't really sure and grandma and my dad have both passed on

Hell…..actually my family goes back into 903. We are from the British Isles Edited 27-May-22 03:43am

i came from a very dark and warm place, then one day out i popped and some old dude slapped me on my ass and here i am, a bunch of years and a lot of miles later,, i am 1/4 Cherokee, a true native American ;-)) Edited 27-May-22 05:43am

Yup

I am a descendent of all man kind and of a leader of Russia although I am so I am a direct descendent of all women kind, I am Russian a Malcheezadeck descendent but I am also a United States Citizens grew up in the United States as Well. I would like to go and see the people of my heritage some day maybe I will you can never tell what will happen.Edited 27-May-22 02:36am

Not at all.

I know where I come from, a long line of resilient people and various cultures that I am very proud to be a part of.

I think there are lot of people under 30 who could not give a stuff about family history or history in general. I don't think many have the intellectual capacity to be able interpret it .

Surnames were brought into being by William...in England. But I believe that France did have usage for some surnames...as the one with my ancestry had a surname before coming from France. At least that is what they think. Some surnames were first used in France in the 11, Century. But many didn't become common until the 14. Most likely it was the Elite that were probably first given Surnames. You might even find a... Coat of Arms, in your family. I've found several. Very old family tree.Edited 27-May-22 01:20am

Nigel sounds like he was a knight.

I've always liked history...but when you start getting into family trees it can be amazing. Its always nice to know what we came from, way back in time. One of my relatives started a family page and I learned so much from what he wrote. Did some of my own research too. I believe on my mum's side we might go all the way from UK, to Normandy France. Not entirely confirmed last time I checked, around two years back. But some people with that name had a French linkage. I know some with that particular English name...tho had a few different changes to the spelling, some were definitely from scandanvian- french ancestry. They came from France after the Conqueror came too England. They took over England. It was a land grab by William as he felt he was entitled to claim England after killing his foe. They were mean times back then. My last ancestor could only be traced back to early 1500s. He was captain of a Royal navy ship, but can't find any more details. They might not have recorded much info about him. Edited 28-May-22 00:59am

Hmm. I've looked into mine and it was a major surprise! But someone, a relative, who is no longer alive knew, but didn't advise us when alive. It was kept a secret and I don't know why? I think because one or more of them were famous in their day, back centuries ago. Yes, I was told on the maternal side of family...that we have ancestry linked to UK royalty. There was one ancestor who was very famous, he had a female relative who married a male ancestor of mine. It appears im directly linked to this person, and its not someone I wanted to be related to, as he was controversial and well known. Prefer not to say who! He did have something to do with Ireland and to some extent Scotland in a major way. There are others too.

Yes I have researched my genealogy for years and have gone back to the 1400's where I too am descended from French ancestors who escaped the St Bartholomew's Day massacre by the skin on their chin. If he had not I would not be who I am today. It is interesting to find out the somebody's in the family of whom I have quite a few historical figures.

I know where I came from and where I am going.

I often wonder how accurate genealogy services are. But, yes, I have wondered.