Family & Relationships What's your Background/Ancestry?

[Catfish Alley]

Grandparents from Italy and Greece. Both families moved for a better life and basically tossed up between Canada, USA and Australia. I feel they made the right choice.

I similar thing happened with my family a couple of generations ago. Some left England for Australia while others went to Canada. I've sort if completed the circle I guess.

When my grandparents got to Australia they hated it. People were very hostile towards the English. They decided to try New Zealand but it was even worse.

 

[Inferno]

Dad's side is all English as far as I'm aware. Mum's side is half English and half German by way of (pre-Israel) Palestine which is a very long story, but does qualify us as the anti-Jews I guess

We've always been closest to Mum's side and every Christmas and most family gatherings involve German food but besides that it's all pretty stock standard Aussie.

 

[jamaican_eagle]

Ha, now that you mention it, that did come across as casually racist. I'll edit.

which part was racist?

 

[DT2000]

Dad is 1st gen Aussie to Italian parents.
Mum is 1st gen Aussie to Brazilian parents.

Huge family on both sides full of beautiful people and amazing food!!!

 

[The Lemon]

Dad is 1st gen Aussie to Italian parents.
Mum is 1st gen Aussie to Brazilian parents.

Huge family on both sides full of beautiful people and amazing food!!!

Nice.

my family is full of campaigners I want dead

 

[DT2000]

Nice.

my family is full of campaigners I want dead

lol - we have one or two of those but one is in jail and the other lives overseas

 

[Gough]

Nice.

my family is full of campaigners I want dead

We just ignored each other for ten years, absence, and facing middle age from either end does actually make the heart grow fonder.

 

[bombersfan4000]

Half German & English, on my dads side my grand farther was a nazi in WW2 as I like to raise people when talking about family ancestry to see what kind of reaction it receives. Then carry on with it wasn't for beliefs or choice, but for the fact they were made to

 

[NotAMagpieBogan]

I'm Australian for a until my great great grandparents I'm pretty sure, and they're just English so nothing exciting.

The interesting part in my family is no so much where they come from, but how they came together. I don't really know much about my dads side, but on my mum's dad's side, my great grandparents, my great grandfather was Jewish while my great grandmother was Catholic. That would've been quick odd at the time and from what I know, the relationship between them and their parents wasn't a particularly strong after that, both parents supposedly being very traditional. When they had my grandfather and siblings, my great grandmother forced the children to be brought up as Catholics. I'm not sure how long they negotiated for, I'm sure it would've been interesting. It continues to get interesting when my Nan and Pop came together. Pop coming from his catholic upbringing was a very devout catholic and went to church every weekend for as long as ever up until probably a couple of years when he couldn't really get there. My Nan on the other hand is super against religion, completely atheist. So here we have Pop, a very catholic man, and my Nan, completely against every religion, coming together and being married for what will be 62 years this weekend. My mum and aunties and uncles were brought as Catholics and so was I, although none us apart from mum a little really care about religion at all.

 

[The Lemon]

We just ignored each other for ten years, absence, and facing middle age from either end does actually make the heart grow fonder.

Not when those campaigners destroyed the family over money. Ill never forgive those pigs

 

[Off The Couch]

Not when those campaigners destroyed the family over money. Ill never forgive those pigs

Root of all evil doesn't begin to tell the story sometimes. Death shows you the true character of those left behind

 

[jamaican_eagle]

Not when those campaigners destroyed the family over money. Ill never forgive those pigs

Life's too short for fighting. You'll learn that one day my friend.

 

[The Lemon]

Root of all evil doesn't begin to tell the story sometimes. Death shows you the true character of those left behind

Oh it does.

Life's too short for fighting. You'll learn that one day my friend.

**** them. They will die alone and i will laugh. campaigners.

 

[jamaican_eagle]

**** them. They will die alone and i will laugh. campaigners.

What a chaming man. Stay classy BigFooty.

 

[ShanDog]

Father was born in Tripoli, Lebanon to a Lebanese father and Syrian mother. He moved with family to Australia as a 14 year old in the late 60s.
Mother was born in Australia to a Dutch father (born in Holland) and English-background mother (born in Australia).

So effectively 50% middle-eastern, 25% English and 25% Dutch bloodline. I look far more English/Dutch than middle-eastern, same as my youngest sister, but my other sister looks very Lebanese. Genetics can be funny stuff.

 

[imadodgyumpire]

French/Canadian, English, Zimbabwe, bastard child of Empire.

Continuing reading the thread. Your mum is French Canadian?

That's cool!

Dad is 1st gen Aussie to Italian parents.
Mum is 1st gen Aussie to Brazilian parents.

Huge family on both sides full of beautiful people and amazing food!!!

That's cool!

The only thing better would be Japanese Brazilian!

 

[the fly]

The only thing better would be Japanese Brazilian!

When my family hosted exchange students in the late 90s/early noughties, one of the students in the area came from Brazil and had the surname Tanaka.

 

[Gough]

Continuing reading the thread. Your mum is French Canadian?

That's cool!

Mum's maiden name is the same as a very common Shona name, only her's had an accent over the e at the end. When my grandparents announced their engagement in the Herald in Rhodesia they didn't put the accent on her name, and most assumed my old man was marrying a black woman, which wasn't the done thing over there in the late 60s.