What's Your Ancestry ?

British, Irish, French, Native American.

My earliest ancestors on my mother's side came here prior to the American Revolution. My grandmother was a D.A.R.

One of my great, great, great . . . . grandmothers was the first white woman to cross the Rocky Mountains. Her husband founded a little town called "Spalding, Idaho".

My dad was half Native American.

 

I got some Dutch, Irish, English & Cree. I'd guess there's no inbreeding here for over 150 years. My passport says Canadian...good enough for me. Any foreign born ancestors were born before 1870.

 

Dino was never the same after his son died.His son was his pride & joy.
Was making a name for himself in the Tennis world and died in a plane crash
while a Captain in the California Air National Guard.
Dino spent the last half decade of his life in his favorite restaurant in his
specially reserved table in the back.Ate and drank the same routine every night.
He brought along his favorite LP records and dined alone,most of the time.

 

- 50% Sicilian
- 50% Swedish
- 100% American

 

Although a few Americans were involved in the three tunnels, no American escaped in the ‘Great Escape’ they had been moved to an American camp before the tunnel was completed. So McQueen and his bike are pure fiction.

Oh and Col. William Tavington presumably recovered from being skewered by Mel Frances, returned home, became a Member of Parliament and lived to over eighty.

Lesson – never get your history from Hollywood.

 

One of the men from the Great Escape was a member of my
Parents Country Club.That would be Acacia Country Club in Cleveland.
My grandfather had a beautiful custom built Ranch house on Green Road
where the backyard was adjacent to the Famous Canterbury Golf Course
in Shaker Heights,O. I was born in Shaker heights.Paul Newman was also born
Shaker heights.His father owned the popular Downtown Sporting Goods store
Newman-Stern Co..Paul was expected to take over his Father's business
but wanted more zest out of life.Paul Newman somewhat considered himself
Jewish.

 

I'm Metis Canadian. Birth mom is Cree and father is French. Never met my birth family so I have only my adopted family's history to talk about. Adopted father's side- my great, great grandfather was a protestant landowner in the Wicklow area of Ireland (old English). Every time there was a rebellion his estate was a target. So there was some small uprising in the mid 1830s, the rebels came onto his estate and slaughtered all his livestock and torched all his out buildings. Well he was fed up with it all, sold everything, and immigrated to Canada with his wife and my great grandfather in 1837.
Mom's side- Mom was born in a farm house in Nebraska to Danish immigrants. Her first language was not English but Danish. Along with several other Danish families they all left the US in 1930 to start a Danish farming community here in my province of Alberta, in irrigation country. Have cousins all over the USA, so I was raised to love my country and love England and of course the United States.

Pictures of the Metis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhc4Pi-BIq8