I just realized that I don't know much about my Southern ancestry. Should I take one of those Ancestry DNA tests, or is there a much better way of finding out my ancestry? I can't really ask my parents cause my mom is German, and My Dad doesn't know who is

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06/29/15 (Mon) 15:55:39 No.460

I just realized that I don't know much about my Southern ancestry. Should I take one of those Ancestry DNA tests, or is there a much better way of finding out my ancestry? I can't really ask my parents cause my mom is German, and My Dad doesn't know who is related to him past his grandfather, and even then he doesn't know much about his grandfather.

Also share your Ancestry ITT.

Anonymous 06/29/15 (Mon) 15:59:34 No.461

How long have y'all lived in the South? And being Southern isn't really genetic, but if you're mostly English and Scottish/Irish you probably have roots here.

My father's side (mother's family are dirty furriners) is mostly english, from what I've researched, but with a Welsh surname and some Scottish thrown in somewhere. Most branches have been in the South since the 1600s.

06/29/15 (Mon) 16:08:53 No.463

>>461

I've lived in Texas all my life, and my Dad was born in Arkansas.

Anonymous 06/29/15 (Mon) 16:13:39 No.464

>>463

I meant your ancestors, if you knew anything about that. And as a side note, I'd be careful about giving your DNA to anyone. Completely baseless but it makes me uneasy.

06/29/15 (Mon) 16:16:56 No.465

>>464

I just know that up to my great-grandfather I think we lived in the South. I'm a bit worried about giving out my dna which is why I asked if there was a better way to learn about my ancestry.

Anonymous 06/29/15 (Mon) 16:20:15 No.466

>>465

You're better off not bothering.

1 Timothy 1:4

Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.

Anonymous 06/29/15 (Mon) 23:24:51 No.494

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>>460

My granddad's side of family

>be some indentured servant

>have last name "fritzsteven" i do believe

>get money, move west

>make many children along way

>american revolution happens, we serve in that

>keep moving westward

>civil war breaks out

i know that I had a great granddad who served as a cavalryman in the confederacy, and i do believe that I also had an uncle infantryman

>war ends

>see some guy

>I hate this guy

>get in fight, kill him

>ohfuck.jpg

>we outlaw now

>move south

>while travelling, buy loads of land because I know I'm screwed, give land to children and ancestors

>family ends up in Texas

Not much is known about my grandmother's side, but here I go

>year is 1940

>have wife with last name "heitman" and two daughters

>join USA airforce as fighter pilot to kill nazis and japs

>die of heart problems

that pilot is my great granddad

his daughter meets my grandmother.

I come from what appears to be almost pure Germanic/Nordic descent.

Johnny Reb 12/01/15 (Tue) 17:55:38 No.1014

black scots-irish anglo, danish and french creole blood flows through my veins. 13th generation southron, and i cant trace my ancestors out of Virginia on my moms side.

Johnny Reb 12/01/15 (Tue) 17:57:19 No.1015

>>1014

I have confederate and revolutionary ancestry as wel.

Johnny Reb 12/02/15 (Wed) 20:27:37 No.1016

My two siblings and I were born and raised in Texas. Father was born in Tennessee, grew up in Georgia. Mother was born in Arkansas, grew up all over because her father was in the air force.

>tfw entire family took the ~~blue~~ yankee pill long ago despite living in the south