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What were ancestors doing in 1500?
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I'm descended from poor farmers from the northern Indus Valley, so, dunno

Farming?
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I come from WASPs.

My ancestors were busy being English noblemen.
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Farming and fighting wars.
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>>906506
Escaping a prison in the ottoman empire
We actually have a folk song about him
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raping natives
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>>906506
Being so poor he gets on a rinky dinky spanish ship to a ship Spanish colony to concubine him a slave girl.
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Minor nobles in Naples and possible Bari, as far as I can tell.
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sorry I'm am not white my ancestors have not a single drop of eurofag blood.
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Ruling Mecklenburg, no joke.
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Welsh traders actually
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>>906506
probably farming in Abruzzi
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>>906597
What nationality?
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>>906643
How the mighty Wends hath fallen.
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I'm American so my ancestors were all over the place. Sweden, England, France, Germany, Ireland... And by all over the place I mean Europe. Funny how history has made different people from different parts of the same glorified sub-continent seem diverse.
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My family owned land in Essex and served as officers in the navy and army with several of them serving under Sir Francis Drake.
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>>906668
Albanian
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>>906670
Ich kenne das Gefühl...
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Paternally my ancestors were Swiss Catholic farmers from the canton Obwalden, then Unterwalden I believe.

Maternally I have a more diverse selection of ancestors. On the Italian side they were probably poor Southern Italians. On the Portuguese side they were sailing the world, going to Brazil to rape sexy naked Amerindians. But of course on the Amerindian side they were getting raped, but also having fun living in a society with no clothes.
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>>906656
Mine too bro.
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>Maternally, Mom is Native Canadian

So probably working the rice paddies

>Paternally grandpa is Scottish and Irish
So probably just being poor and hungry somewhere

>Paternal grandma is Polish and Ukrainian
Probably also being poor somewhere but with less rain
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>tfw spic
>tfw glorious inca ancestry
>Tfw my ancestors were both the oppressed enslaved little brown people and the tall white men doing the enslaving
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There is no way to trace so many people anyway.
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>>906677
Gay
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>>906761
Dude, the people of the Andes were pretty badass. Some even think they had dedicated farms where they created better crops and techniques for growing food like pic related. Also I've never heard of a people being so productive on the side of fucking mountains. The Spanish were pretty barbarous though so not much to be proud of there.
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>>906761

EL PERUANO: DURANTE SU
NIÃEZ... ES OBLIGADO A ORDEÃAR
CABRAS..VACAS... LIMPIAR ESTABLOS
``EL PERUANO ``SIEMBRA`` PAPAS. CEBOLLAS`` Y HACE TRABAJOS
AGRARIOS!!..el peruANO NO SE BAÃA , NO ESTUDIA ,
NO VA A LA ESCUELA , AL COLEGIO NO VA A LA UNIVERSIDAD ES UN SER IGNORATE TORPE,
CERRADO , BRUTO , ESTUPIDO , SOEZ , REPUGNANTE

-QUE ES PERUANO EN ``LATÃN ???

*``INDIUS HEDIONDUS MONUS``

¿ COMO RECONOCER A UN PeruANO ES LA COSA MÃS FACIL, AQUI CITAMOS SUS PRINCIPALES CARACTERISTICAS:

0- SON FEOS, HORRIBLES, ABYECTOS, INSIGNIFICANTES...HEDIONDOS
1- SON MARRONES, COLOR CACA, TIRANDO PARA COBRIZOS, PARECEN MOJONES
2- SON ENANOS, 1M50 A 1M60, PARECEN DUENDES ANDINOS
3- SON PATAS CORTAS O PATA CHUECA , VERDADEROS ENGENDROS DE LA NATURALEZA
4- NO TIENEN CULO, NI HOMBRES NI MUJERES
5- NO TIENEN CUELLO, PARECEN GUSANOS CON LODO
6- TIENEN LA TREMENDA NARIZ, DE CONDOR, O TUCAN
7- SON OREJONES, YA LOS ESPAÃOLES LOS LLAMABAN ASI
8- SON ACHINADOS Y NO TIENEN PÃRPADOS
9- TIENEN POMULOS SALIENTES
10- TIENEN LA CARA REDONDA E HINCHADA , ESTOS CARA DE GUANACO
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>>906506
Farming in Ireland, mostly.
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>>906506
herding cattle and fighting the Chinks
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>>906826
Me encontro el argentino
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>>906826
¿Que putas chingadas madres dijiste de mí , pinche escuincle baboso? para que te sepas yo entrené en el gimnasio del señor Julio Cesar Chavez , tengo un record de 50 knockouts, fui al colegio militar de la ciudad de México y un doctorado en ingenieria nuclear , ¿sabes que significa eso? que puedo volar tu pinche cabecita hueca con una bomba que estoy preparando especialmente para tí , y no sólo eso también soy experto en el manejo de armas largas y tengo acceso a todo un arsernal de Uzis, Ak 47 y R-15s , si tan solo hubieras pensado un poquito más y no hubieras abierto el pinche hocico de perro que tienes, no tendrías que rezar por tu vida.

En estos momentos estoy rastreando tu dirección IP para ubicar tu domicilio , te vas a cagar cuando veas un chingo de camionetas esperando en la entrada de tu casa para acribillarte , mis hombres estan bien armados y son muy temerarios, saben hacer muy bien su trabajo y están dispuestos a exterminar hasta la ultima puta celúla más pequeña e insignificante de tu puta miserable existencia, escucha bien mis palabras nene, que ya no hay vuelta atrás , vete despidiendo de tu miserable vida cabrón, voy a convertir tus ultimas horas de vida en un autentico infierno , estás bien pinche muerto nene, estás bien pinche muerto.
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>>906849
t. Suomi
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>>906856
excuse me, the internet is American
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Ripping out the hearts of their foes atop glorious pyramids in offering to the gods before the Spanish faggots showed up and ruined it.
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Maternally whatever the Filipinos did in that period. Paternally they were Prussian Knights apparently.
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>>906506
Well, some of my were eating people to acquire their qualities (by the way, being captured is not exactly a good quality to acquire).

Some were killing others in some neighboring tribe.

Many (the most, in fact) were farming.

The rest were merchants in bazaars, warehouses, haberdasheries and markets.
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>>906864
ᠰᠢᠭᠠᠨᠠ ᠴᠢᠮᠠᠶᠢ ᠭᠥᠯᠦᠭᠡ ᠮᠢᠨᠦ
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>>906506
Farming probably.
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Anglo-Norman landholders somewhere in Ireland. They migrated from England to Ireland a few decades before, so they're most likely in the Pale.
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Probably farmers I don't know
I do know that they were Teutonic Knights from the formation of the Order up to the dissolution.
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>>906925
>Writing Mongol horizontally

And you still consider yourself Finnish?
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>>906506
Merchants in Genoa and Milan
Farmers in Tuscany and Sicily
And something in Savoy
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>>906972
I've failed my people anon, how to redeem myself?
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>>906506

>white sheep
What did they mean by these?
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>>907053
referring to the Ak Qoyunlu, or White Sheep Turkomans
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>>906506
Cattle thieving.
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Being a Conquistador, being a native Mesoamerican, being subjugated by the Turks, and being probably peasants in somewhere in England, somewhere in France, and definitely in the Ruhr valley.
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>>906506
>Bohemia-Hungary

Why can't Hungary do their own thing?
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doing weird tribal shit in africa and getting buttfucked by the english in Ireland
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>>907274
They always needed a crutch, Austria, Bohemia, Poland, Bosnia, Croatia. Just be yourself Hungary.
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>>906506
Shepherding and farming somewhere in Ulster.

Protestants pls go.
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>>906506
>All my ancestors are from Alsace-Lorraine
Judging by my last name and farming evergreens on the French-HRE border
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Being poor as fuck farmers/criminals in the Scottish Borderlands and being poor as fuck farmers/criminals in modern day Anhui.
>>907377
We kicked out the uncivilized inhabitants fair and square. We're the Irish man now
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>>906506

Trying not to die of plague in France and Italy mostly.
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>>907416
Comfortably avoiding the plague in the one cozy area it didn't blight. Learn this one trick to drive the continent mad: ave Maria, ave Polonia, m8
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Hungarian sellsword that later migrated to fight for swedish king
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>>906789
>The Spanish were pretty barbarous though
De Las Casas fuck off with your shitty propaganda
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>>906506
On my father's side: Farming, probably in England or France
On my mother's side: Tribal bullshit in Africa, and farming in Ireland
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On my Dad's side I'm a descendant of the Yolngu people (Australian aboriginal), so they were busy hunting in Arnhem Land. My Mum's side were farmers in Scotland.
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I've been told I'm mostly from Hungary with a little bit of Scotland, but I don't know. Should probably get one of those DNA ancestry tests done to see if they find anything interesting.
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>danish, "british", swedish, french/german
Farming.
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>>907051
Join in on the Hyperwar
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>>906506
In 1500? The French side was in Acadia at that point. The Polish and Germans were busy farming, building, and moving shit around (my great grandfather had the surname Carter... not hard to imagine what the ancestor's occupation was)
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Jewish who converted to catholicism in Italy

So farmers, merchants and workers.

yeah...
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>>906643
Sweet.
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>>907590
How long ago?

>>907610
/pol/ is the collective manifestation the sexual anxiety and delusional penis envy of a million racist teenage boys. It's hilarious and someone ought to analyze it in a scholarly way.
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>>906506
Probably piss poor farmers in Ireland, Wales, England and Italy.
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>>907613
Should get my PhD in Anthropology from it.

Fun fact, there was somebody who did their Anthro paper on 4chan. https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/41610497/404%20Not%20Found-%20%20An%20Anthropology%20of%204Chan%20_redacted_.pdf
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something, something, surrey
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Don't know, but how do I deal with the soul crushing feel that I might be up to 50% Saxon?
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>>907724
Raid the Franks.
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Farming in the Pyrenees / farming along the Rhine, depending on which side your talking about.
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>>907725
But I'd rather be a Frank than a filthy savage Saxon
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>>906506
Probably warring with the moslem kingdoms down south and amongst themselves while Lording it over people, before getting totally fucked by the Spanish in the mid-1500s.
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>>906631
>>906656
>>906703
>>907034
Fucking terroni
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>>907613
>>907634
kek, they removed my post with the "we wuz" image that I got from /pol. Sorry mods, just laughing with my fellow his/torians about the other boards
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>>907742
Conquer the Franks, adopt their culture.
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>>907752
Granadan?
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>>907742
Just kill yourself anon
It's the only way
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>>907742
>But I'd rather be a Frank than a filthy savage Saxon

Franks were shit tier at everything but conquest.
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Maternally I am descended from Brabander farmers, so they were probably ass-deep in Spaniards.

Paternally it's shoemakers from Birmingham at least as far back as 1700, so it's not a stretch to think they were still doing it 200 years earlier.
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>>907724
The fuck's wrong with the Saxons?
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>>907855
Shitty barbarians who didn't Christianize til Charlemagne. Most important contribution to history is the fucking Reformation.
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>>907870
I fail to see the problem. You don't see Greeks crying about being descended from pederasts.
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Enjoying a brief respite where the English were too busy to dick about in Ireland, I'd imagine.

Just kidding; they were probably too busy focusing on not dying of starvation to give two shits about fucking politics.
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>>907894
Enjoying your salted potatoes, chum?
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>>907890
The Greeks made positive contributions to humanity.
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>>906506
Removing Denmark from premises paternally. Failing to remove Anglo from premises maternally.
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>>907904
Swedish and Welsh?
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>>907901

>Implying I'm Irish

I'm a burger eater, thank you. I'm just of Irish descent.

Although, honestly, now that I think about it, how the fuck do I know where my Ancestors were in 1500? I know they were in Ireland about 3 or so generations ago, but they could've been from elsewhere before that; I don't fucking know.
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WE
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>>906506
You see that thing called "Small States" in the OP picture?

They were dirt poor farmers and hunters.
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>>906506
Probably doing stupid shit in Germany somewhere.
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>>906506
>ROBBING AND MURDERING PEOPLE AROUND TRIESTE
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Farmers from piedmont
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Have no idea about my ancestry or how to find out
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>>906506
Being middeling farmers in Holland
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>>906506
fighting for freedom against the church
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>>906506
>taking care of crops
>enjoying religious freedom
>watching noblefags and cityfag nearly killing each other for right to brew beer while king don't give shit and just chill somewhere in Hungary
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>>906506
Poor polish farmers
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>>906506
doing whatever german and norwegian nobles were want to do.
My family didn't lose their wealth and status 'til the 1800's.
Yes, I'm bitter.
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I can trace my family back to farmers who lived 30 kilometers away from where I live.
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>>906506
Being vassals to the turks, but otherwise peaceful times for once.
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>>906506
Who knows. Hard to extrapolate from our current condition, 500 years is too much. Considering where they lived tho, most likely some kind of sailing/artisan/trading profession.
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Not yet getting mad at the Spaniards.
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Farming and paying taxes to the turks.
Or fighting as haiduks.
Or selling things in Constantinopole as merchants.
I really don't know.
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being poor pleb farmers
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>>906506
Poor English nobles/ Knights likely
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Have both sides traced to year 900

>paternal side
Reconquista of Spain

>maternal side
Reconquista of Spain

Feelsgood.jpeg
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>>906782
May I enquire as to why it's gay? I honestly don't see how it is.
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>>906506
Probably just farming outside of Bratislava, or just traveling between there and Prague
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>>906506
My ancestors were the Sutherland clan of Scotland, and they seemed to have spent the vast majority of the sixteenth century fighting internecine conflicts amongst the other chiefs, lairds and Earls.
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>>906643
>the feel when you'll never have a claim in your homeland
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>>906506
Well partly Irish in Meath so not being happy under English rule and partly not yet enslaved in West Africa so happy on that part but I'm English so I don't really care.
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>>906678
>Albanian
>Nationality
Hahaha
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>>906506
>Paternal side
Greek Christian merchants (as high class as a christian could be at the time)
>Maternal side
Minor french/portuguese nobility and most likely some of the first settlers in colonial Brazil
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The family name comes from a former soldier (knäkt not sure how to translate) name. He just settled down to work the land and up untill the 20th century we were farmers and farmhands.
T.Sweden
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>>908871
>Sweden
>Not a descendant of a great Somailian pirate
Okay lad...
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Raping Natives and being raped by Whites. Being Guatemalan is complicated.
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>>906506

Doing something in eastern europe.
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>mothers side
Former Irish living at that time in the English controlled areas of Ireland. They came to Great Britain during the famine.
>fathers side
West Africans likely from the ivory coast (WUZ NOT KANGS). became British slaves in the carribian some time after under a Yorkist lord. Lineage ended up in Britain during WW2 and stayed.
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>>908791

>Dat ancient purity
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>>906506
The majority would have been farmers in Ireland and Germany. A few would have been recent refugees from Spain to Syria, attempting to practice Judaism under the rule of the young Ottoman Empire.
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>>906558
Most WASPs weren't descended from nobility, but instead from upper middle class farmers and urban merchants. Your ancestry is probably a lot less AS than you'd expect, due to the near-complete assimilation of Dutch and Scottish settlers into English colonial society.
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>>906506
Being German
Doing merchant shit in Italy.
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>>906506
being fish monger plebs in wales
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almost certainly working some farm in Jutland or on Funen, morning to night, every day of the year, except for the occasional visit to the church.

Perhaps a witch burning once in a while.
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>>906506
mostly farming i guess
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>>906506
Spanish side were all raping the Mapuches in Chile and subjugating them

Italian side was in Italy doing I don't know. Something (emigrated to Chile at some point)

That one French relative's ancestors were probably farmers (don't know much else other than he was a doctor in the Napoleonic war so idono)

really wish I knew more about my family history. It just becomes murky after 1890
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>>907870
What are you on? Augustine Arrived in Britain in 601. Penda was the last great pagan Saxon king, and he died in 655. Soon after the remaining Saxons turned Christian, as most of the powerful kings already had. Four of seven Bretwaldas were Christian.
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>>906506

Guess i have some teutonics and Poles. One of my ancestor was prolly beekeeper judging by my surname, Judging by my grandfather's surname i prolly also had some Swedish ancestry.

On the French side i have some French peasant prolly living comfingly in central rural France
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>>906826

Why are all South American /int/ threads like this, with copy pasta and caps-lock?

Their thread is 90% this.

Fucking freaks.
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Farming in Southern Italy
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>>906506
Mine were making stones in Saxony and farming in Lithuania
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>>909321
The whole world outside of the US is basically retarded monkey children shrieking at each other.
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>>909334
It doesn't help that all South American countries hate eachother with a burning passion.

What makes it worse is that there's a bunch of territorial disputes that further exacerbate things on both sides. The Bolivians are still assblasted about losing their coastline, and Peru still can't get over losing an extra 100 miles of inhospitable desert to Chile.
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>>907053
name of a turkic clan
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>>907453
They were though, destroyed countless of civilizations and much of humanities cultural heritage was lost.
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>>906506
Reproducing, surely.
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Probably farmers somewhere in ottoman anatolia.
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>>906506
Kicking some Safavid and European ass i guess.
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>>909531
Oh sorry i misread it as 1500s.
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>>908759
>haiduk

Fucking bandits
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My earliest family history dates back to the 1600s in Scotland on my mother's side, where a guy named David Farrie of Ayre was involved in converting locals to Protestantism. Coincidentally, we share the same first name.
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1) Being Farmers
2) Being Gypsies
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>>909255
Continental Saxons, not Anglo-Saxons
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>>906506
>Ireland
Farming
>Germany
Farming
>Poland
Farming
>Netherlands
Farming
>Greece
Farming
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>>909537
>t.t*rk
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>>909623
>t. b*dlo
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>>909649
>t.comar
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Being wool merchants/Anglo-Normans

my family history is comfy middle class mediocrity as far back as you can go, feels good senpai
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>>909360
I didn't know we hated eachother.

t. Brazilian
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Mother's side were grorious samurai fucking around in Tosa

Father's side were either minor nobles or desert nomads in Persia
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>>906506
Being lords as my family descend from some Viking noble and came to Britain with William as my family at the time where Nobles under William and so I guess they where living as lords do in 1500
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Craftsmen in England and Craftsmen in >>>
Haven't really done a lot of research on my family desu.
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dying

t. jew
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French soldiering, German farming, Dutch trading.
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>>910039
English scheming
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Being middling militaristic aristocracy in Pomerania. Family settled later in Finland, which then was part of Sweden. Unfortunately lost the estate near Helsinki in 19th century, the lands which would now be worth many, many millions. The pain is felt to this day.
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>>906506
Perfidious falconry
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One branch was probably farming in Swabia and the other in Hungary, although there is a slight chance the latter was a minor noble family even back then, I'm not sure.
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Latino, apparently my heraldry comes from a bunch of rich cattle drivers from Spain. Seeing as my last name apparently translates to Cattle Drive. Don't know much about his stuff but it'd be cool to get a good source.
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Enjoying restored order now that dirty horse barbarians are kicked out I guess. I don't know enough about my family ancestry to be any more specific, unfortunately.
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Probably killing catholics in Scotland or being paid to kill catholics on the continent.
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>>910866
NOT the right image

About 300 years too late
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Can anyone recommend a good genealogy test to figure out your ancestry?
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>>906789
That pic looks like it should be a boss area in Shadow of the Colossus.
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One side were probably farming in either England or France.

The other side were probably farming or fishing in Sicily.
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>>906506
Potatoes.
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>>906506
I descend from Sicilians and Spaniards so during that time they were both under Spanish Rule
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>>906506
Kicking danish ass.

- swede
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>>909984
But if that was so how did you come to be ?
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Farming. Just farming...
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>>908791
ahaha bullshit
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Herding Goats in the Carpathians
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Living somewhere half naked. In a hut somewhere. Doing the raindance or the dont rain dance...
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>>906506
>Anglo-Welsh peasants
Farming, dying from poverty related issues.
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Trading gold and slaves like there's no tomorrow.
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>>906506
Living in small states in Germany/Ireland. The later probably worrying about that there English enclave on the island.
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>>910890
my mom did all the ancestry.com one. it was pretty ok...didn't really go into great detail about anything, but it was only like $80 usd
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Burbage
>building the first english theatre
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farming in Bosnia. Probably wondering who will conquer them first: Hungary or the Ottomans.
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Damn you guys are too heraldic. My people didnt even have names and shit...they had onomatopoeia names...like woof woof, bam bam, baaah, hHngk, pfft and shit.
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>>906506
Being shitty natives in Olahoma (Shawnee), being shitty Irish farmers and being shitty Serbian farmers. And before the Irish, being shitty French farmers from Lacelle. Or Lassi. Or possibly just pure Irish. No one fucking knows where my last name is from.
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>>906506

>HRE maps
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revolting against habsburg rule
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>>911533
Dont get me wrong these people were highly evolved...when john the european stepped foot on this god forbidden wilderness, they were approached by my 20x great grandpa 'tis quantum. It left the yuripeons wondering, holy crap, he knows english and latin...they didnt need no yuripeons to figure out the concept of zero, but those old white men sure loved demonstrating it.
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>>911597
What in the fuck are you talking about? If they'd never met a European, how did they know English or Latin?
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>>906506
In East Frisia, I assume either farming, pirating, or both.
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>>911608
See you dont like to conprehend the concept of zero but hold the next person in reproach for it...god damned yuropeon...listen the concept of zero was here before john the merchant...
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>>911608
'Tis quantum was catholic. But i see yiur point.
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>>911647
Yeah, but why do you type like you're retarded?
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>>911669
My dear sir, if youre saying it. Its probably because i am. I see you have kept your long tradition alive. Of judging us poor natives.
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>>906558
Dude, if you're alive today then you have many many ancestors, some of them were probably royalty, that may be a very small percentage of your ancestry, but it's there.
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>>911679
The funny thing about that is..... [spoiler]my father was half-Shawnee Indian. Well, not fully half but his mother was registered.[/spoiler]
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>>906506
Killing Turks.
Mounting Turkish heads on spikes.

Know this one for a fact, since they were gentled for it.
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>>906506
My family only know back to the 1800's.
I had an ancestor who fought as a German mercenary for Emperor Maximilian of Mexico, and one from the other side who rode with Pancho Villa, but that's about it.
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>>907474
quarter negro?
>>907527
Embrace your inner mongol brother!
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>>906506

Dad's side: Celts living in Ireland and Wales
Mum's side: Scots, Norwegians, and English.

My ancestors were almost certainly trying to kill one another.
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>>906506
German peasants, Ukrainian peasants, English peasants
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Being English peasants, unruly scotsmen, being German farmers, and trying to make it big as merchants.
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>>912412
>trying to make it big as merchants
Jews?
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>>912415
Yes. My dad's got a bit of southern European ancestry as well so maybe they were Sephardic, but who knows.
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I have no idea. Wish I knew anything about my ancestors and where they came from. The most I can go back to is my mom's grandparents
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farming
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I'm half sicilian, quarter Canto, quarter cajun. I have no idea, but we were all over the fucking place.
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>>911074
Beheading you in Stockholm.

- Dane.
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>>912619
kalmar union was a mistake
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>>906506
mujahideens
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being completely unknown Spailpin Fanach somewhere in Ireland, most likely Munster
maybe farmers
maybe fenians

>mfw continuing their proud memory by being NEET in Dublin
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>>908890
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Probably fighting and hiding from the t*rks
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My mom heritage
My oldest ancestor was a greek janissaire who lived in damascus where he married a girl and his descendants lived here until the 17th century after they lived in algier

Dad heritage
The only thing that i know is that they were some random kabyle farmer
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mucking about in the dirt of Scotland
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Subsistence farming, which they would continue to do until passing the Court exams around the 1700s, becoming scholars and military officials. Though a good chunk of the family still remained as farmers in the mountains.
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All I know is at some point a Bonafoux made his way to Puerto Rico in the 19th century, so probably dirt farming in france or something during he 1500s.

My we wuz Ancient Ashanti side? I've got no clue what they were doing, but my great great grandmother said we actually wuz kangz. Too bad she died before I could ask her to elaborate.
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Building an empire
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>>906506
>1500
>500 years ago
>assume 1 generation = 25 years on average
>21 generations

So I (and all of you) have as many as 2^20=1,048,576 direct ancestors alive at that time. Of course we all have much less than that, since people marry their distant (or not so distant) cousins, but it's safe to say we all have thousands, and it's extremely likely we all have at least a few in common.

So everyone talking about "their family" is full of shit. I mean, you may be descended from those people you know about, but you're also descended from countless other people. And you're no more related to them than you are to a stranger.
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>>907274
And Hungary-Bohemia. Bohemia was conquered in 1470s I think.

Hungary became centralised under the rule of King Matyas, but after his death the noble got too much power again, they elected a czeh prince and let the Kingdom degrade, until the Ottomans utterly destroyed in in 1526.
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>>907453
>propaganda
lol sure senior tex-mex
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Chilling in Northern Hungary.
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Probably farming in Bangladesh or Nepal
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>>906851
El 90% de esos shitposters son chilenos
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>>909377
The weak fall to the strong, my friend. I am not Latino by the way.

It's easy to take pot shots at the strong and to take sympathy for the underdog
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>Father heritage: Farming in Northern Italy, probably in Piedmont. And the other part probably being merchants or something in Madrid

>Mother heritage: Being lazy fucks in southern Spain
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>>906506
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Field_%28proto-Copernican%29

Modernizing the English calendar
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>on moms:
getting enslaved by spaniard
peninsulares doing business in colombia

running business in Canton province, china

>dads:
criminals from padula, salerno.
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>>908592
that fucking picture

my sides hath left this mortal plain
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>Being so poor he gets on a rinky dinky spanish ship to a ship Spanish colony to concubine him a slave girl
>Tfw my ancestors were both the oppressed enslaved little brown people and the tall white men doing the enslaving
>German farming
>herding cattle
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>>906506
Fighting each other
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>Fishing
>Farming
>Fucking
>Fighting
>Failing to resist English occupation
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>>906506
Everyone is descended from noble or gentry version:
Paternally: Kidnapping and raping our way into Cawdor
Maternally: Being wardens.

Realistic version:
Paternally: Sheep farmer supporting the takeover of Cawdor
Maternally: Farming, in an area that used to have wardens.
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>>906506
Being Catholic in Egyptian occupied Levant territory. Hope they turn out ok under that Muslim rule.
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Bernini is my ancestor. Central Italian master race.
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>>907527
>I'm mostly from
>I'm
>from

Fucking damn it, I'm a burger myself but come the fuck on.

OT :
My mom's side is descended from Swiss/Kraut poorfags and refugees who came to North Carolina with Christoph von Graffenreid. Been living in Eastern NC for generations. Pic related.

Dad's side is way murkier. Probably scots or irish originally, but thoroughly americanized far enough back to lose that identity. 1800s until recently they were poor farmers of some kind or other in central NC. His generation shifted toward white trash, but my cousin and my brother and I will most likely bring the line up the socioeconomic ladder.
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>>917650
oh shit, 1500s, missed that

Idk, being poorfag mountain euros I guess
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>>906506
Speaking swedish and fishing, i guess
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>>907752
Flip?
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Probably farming in either Warwickshire or Leicestershire.

Their descendents would settle in Boston circa 1639.
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Raiding lithuania
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Being all /comfy/ in Cyprus.
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Well half of them were being clan chiefs in southern Ireland, and the other half doing fuck knows what somewhere in west Africa
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>>906506
My ancestors were farmers who left the Rhineland for Ireland in 1709, so I imagine they were probably just farming and shit in Germany somewhere
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defending serbia from kebab
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>>906506
Probably farming mud in some backwater shithole in brittany/normandy, poortugal and germany.

Perhaps fishing for the former 3 if they were lucky. For all I know, they might very well have been somewhere else at the time, but I guess life as peasant was probably more or less the same wherever you were.
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>>906506
Probably farming and being merchants

>tfw British, Yiddish, and Swedish ancestry
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>>906506
>Scottish
Farming, probably
>Dutch
Maybe farming, maybe trading, maybe resisting the Spanish
>swarthy unknown heritage dad side
Anywhere from Mediterranean stuff to Mesoamerican stuff to hell, maybe even some black stuff. Who knows.
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>>906506
Trying to survive , fucking ottomans m8
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>>918890
ye
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On mothers side
>fighting turks from horseback
Fathers side
>working with wood cause every male ön my fathers line was a carpenter
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>>906506
Farming in France
Farming in Ukraine/Poland (not sure where, they could be either 2bh)
doing god knows what in Austria
Being a rich fuck in Milan

Its mostly the first two though
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Being peasants in Scotland and Ireland, doing Cherokee stuff in Oklahoma or whatever.
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Noodle farmers
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North Germans, so I guess farming and speaking Low German/Old Saxon.
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>>906826
butthurt chilean detected
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Potato farmers in Ireland and croissant farmers in France. Of course that's an assumption, I don't know how people find out precisely who and what their ancestors were from 500 years ago.
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soldiers and farmers
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