Where are you ancesters from?

[dragonorchid]

Well, I'm kiwi born and breed,

but my Dad's Dutch (but grew up in Belgium) and my mums Chinese (but grew up in the Philippines)... Her ancesters fled from China to the Phillippines. I look fairly asian, but I have thsee tall blonde haired, blue eyed cousins and second cousins in Europe. I find this amusing and cool. Family reunions (though not very freq due to distance) are lots of fun, and require lots of hand signals (lots of different languages spoken).

My parents met on a plane, and wrote letters to each other as penpals for two years before meeting up again, and deciding to get married. (aint that sweet!) I found some of my dad's romantic love letters and poetry the last time we were in the Phillippines.

Where are your parents/ancesters from?

[Malibu]

My dadsa father was born in australia, the rest of my family are kiwi but we originate from Britain, Ireland and Italy as far as I know.

There could be some Maori in my family way back on dad's mum's side but I'm not sure.

[Kristie]

My ancestors are from Earth.  Mostly.  

More specificly, my parents and grandparents were all born in NZ.  I was born in Oz.  My great grandmothers grandfather, apparantly, was from Ireland and jumped ship in Autralia and had three illegitimate children to a half aborigional woman.  

[JoshuaZahn]

As far as I know the main bits of me are Irish, French and Samon, however most have been born in New Zealand for the last 4 or 5 generations.

[Oliver Luck]

I was born in England, moved here when i was 3. Mum was born in southafrica but are originally from England, dad and his side are from england aswell. So pretty much my entire family is british (except my little brother who is a kiwi). Have Irish, English, and Italian bloodlines though.

[Geetadave]

i was born and bred in Melbourne, mum and dad both full blooded Austrian's as is the rest of the family

[Rob_Naquadah]

Hmmm my mums side are from Italy, and me old man is from the U.K. by way of LIVERPOOL!!!  (m.u.f.c. sucks rat anus). I was borne here in Auckland.

[simon_ishtar]

parents both grew up in England. My brother and I were both born over there and I came to NZ when I was 6.
within the UK pretty much sums up where my ancestors are from geographically. 'From' in other terms makes for more interesting reading.

 My Great grandfather on my Father's side came from an interesting place. He was a groundsman for the local lord of the manor and lived till he was 96. I think in this day and age he could have been a reality gameshow monkey or something or at the very least a very successful small time crim. My two favourite stories bout him are
1. He accidentally shot a man in the arse once while out poaching his boss's pheasants. The other man was a poacher too so he got round losing his job by saying he was only protecting the manor. The courts made him pay the man's medical costs though. He did this by taking his bicycle (keeping in mind few people had cars those days) down to the local quarry and holding a raffle for it with the miners. He made enough money to pay expenses, buy a new bike and had enough to buy a years worth of whiskey left over.
2. On his first wife's deathbed great grandather, now in his early 50s, meets up with a nurse about 25 years younger than him and the two start dating. It is a callous story but without the old bugger pulling some younger bird while wife 1 croaks my grandmother would not have been born and I wouldn't be here.

He was a tricky old bastard who bought an expensive bungalow on the edge of the forest, one cash payment, on retirement. My grandparents were not so savvy. Everything he passed down to them they spent on booze and gambling or hawked off to pay for bingo (including a first edition of John Bunyan's Pilgrims progress with close to 300 years of family geneaology scrawled onto its front cover).

On my mother's side they were all Irish folk who came over in the potato famine and opened market stalls. My grandmother was the last one to work a stall though (apparently she was running a greengrocer's stall and shop my great grandparents set up) and, since she has died, I'm not too sure what has happened to it.

[RoBsTaR 1]

My geneology is mainly maori on both mum and dads side but if you go back far enough (quite a few generations back) theres pourtuguese(sp) and scottish. It's quite funny, alot of people think I'm from India because of the mix of my maori and pourtuguese features.
My scottish heritage is starting to come out now aswell, both my kids have reddish hair. It's not fair, I want natural red hair!

[Xer0_Signal]

Im a mongrel too....
mums side are good ole fashioned.. 100% pure english and maori..
dads is english irish scottish german and norse..

theres something on his family tree tieing us via great great grandfather to being hitched to a german baroness....

hahahahah he stole her from her husband and she retained all the land and sh*t...

hahahah how typical of my family....

[Roxy]

No exciting storis from me  

My mum is 8th generation kiwi, my dad is 8th generation bajan who came over here with his cousins when he was 18.  He has about 70 first cousins (they breed a lot over there apparently!!) so I'm pretty much almost related to half of the damn island!!

Not so great for if I want to move over there....!

[Ant_Alpine Fault]

That's like me... bloody islanders!

[Geetadave]

hey michelle any of these euro female cousins of yours visiting nz anytime soon?  

Do they like Euro boys that play guitar? i'd be in!!!

[The Scarecrow]

Hmmm.  I'm such a munted mix - Polynesian/Danish/Croation/Japanese.... cultural smorgasbord.

[dragonorchid]

Mixtures rule!

[Yvette_Alpine Fault]

My dads family came from Scotland, and my mums family were from South Africa where they met. I was born in South Africa and then moved here.

Then i met Ant.
So my babies will be half South African-Half islander!!hahaha

[The Scarecrow]

Mixtures rule!

Yeah, I'm amused when filling out the "other" catergory on application forms.  And no one can pick my mix most of the time.  I always get blody spanish/italian or south american.

I suppose at the least, I'm not hideous.  

[dragonorchid]

So my babies will be half South African-Half islander!!hahaha  

Ohh look Ant, come back quick, all that housework and cleaning is making her clucky....
I imagine your babies would look very cute, and also be very musical from a young age

I suppose at the least, I'm not hideous.

No your not, you are nice to look at really. Let your hair grow a little longer again and you'll be the perfect Rock star.

[Chuck Madison]

Half Sedish/half pom... born in the UK, left when I was 25 to work in Hong Kong. Emigrated to NZ in 2000.

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