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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:39 AM
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What's the nationality of your surname?
I advise you not to post your actual surname. My surname/last name is French. Though I'm really mostly British Isles and Italian. I have some Hugonaut heritage, and the name stuck.
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KitchenWitch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:39 AM
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1. Slovak
my maiden surname is Irish
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deadparrot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:40 AM
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2. Very, very German.
People ALWAYS mispronounce it. I'm mostly German, but with some Irish, Swiss, and Belgian thrown in.
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radfringe Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:04 PM
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132. german
and italian on my mom's side
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ZombieNixon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:41 AM
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3. Same as the nationality of my first name.
Indian (as in from India, not Columbus' Indians)
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:18 AM
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92. self-delete
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 11:19 AM by grace0418
wrong place
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Lone_Star_Dem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:41 AM
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4. My married is Scottish my maiden is Italian
I hyphenated. Let me tell you, it doesn't roll off your tongue with ease. :P
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TheFriendlyAnarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:36 PM
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127. My surname is Scottish nt
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:55 PM
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159. You are wicked.
I love it!

:rofl:
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CaliforniaPeggy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:42 AM
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5. Both my married name, and my maiden name......
are English! But I have Irish, Scottish, German, French and Swede blood in my veins too.....

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XemaSab Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:42 AM
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6. Scots-Irish!!!!
REPRESENT!!!!!! :headbang:
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:15 PM
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101. I've just realised
I don't actually know what your surname is.
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:43 AM
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7. Welsh.
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SeattleGirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:45 AM
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8. Celtic
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EFerrari Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:48 AM
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9. Maiden name, German, married name Italian, my given names
are Spanish, French and English.

Heinz 57 here. :)
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BikeWriter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:52 AM
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10. My surname is a derivative of Easthope, a peaceful place in Britain.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:53 AM
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11. Welsh
Or a part of England over that way, anyway. It means "People of the bog." :blush:
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REP Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 05:25 AM
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41. Ancient Welsh
Ieuan is the root word; my brother's first name is another derivative of it (Evan) but one part of the surname was Scot-ified; the other part is a very old name for the vernal equinox.
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Lady Effingbroke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:55 AM
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12. English.
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 01:56 AM by Lady Effingbroke
100% blue-blooded royalty. of course.
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tuvor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:55 AM
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13. Norwegian
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Skittles Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:37 AM
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27. same
:)
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Cobalt Violet Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:15 AM
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57. Same. First name too.
But there are a lot of Irish and English with the name as well.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:48 AM
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84. Norwegian as well
In fact, my entire name (first, middle, last) is Norwegian.

Of course, I am from Minnesota, so Scandinavian names are hardly unusual. Moving back here, I was surprised how many Norwegian names there are among the members of my Episcopal parish.
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Kathleen04 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:20 PM
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148. My first name is Norwegian
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 09:21 PM by Kathleen04
in fact, I use my middle name online, 1st name is too uncommon..

Surname...I'm actually unsure. It's simple though, I'm guessing English.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:57 AM
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14. German
And people frequently mispronounce it even though it is the surname of a famous TV star who also did at least one movie.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:58 AM
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15. Maiden name is English, married surname is MADE UP from a
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 01:59 AM by Radio_Lady
Russian name, which my husband wanted to change. We changed the name legally in 1973 to something easier to spell and pronounce.

I use my maiden name in all professional ventures.

Funny thing is that neither name really reflects our heritage. We are both Jewish by birth, but prefer the inclusive doctrines of Unitarian-Universalist faith, if any at all.

Husband was born in Massachusetts is of Russian and Roumanian heritaget (His father and family were driven out of Russian by the "pogroms" and his mother was born in Brooklyn, NY.)

I was born in Pittsburgh, PA, and so were both of my parents. However, my grandparents came from Russia, Hungary and Czechoslovakia.

We can only go back about four generations with some names. After that, it's lost in antiquity.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:04 AM
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17. My mom is a genealogist
She's traced her mother's side of the family and my father's father's side of the family through 12 generations! It's easier to trace the Hugonauts and the English, though. They left a lot of records.
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Radio_Lady Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:34 AM
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25. Most Jews just made it to England or another port -- by the skin of their
teeth. My husband's father left from Southhampton. My grandmother was a two-year-old and I don't remember the name of the ship or where it embarked from.

Not many records at all. My aunt (mother's sister) did manage to get to Prague to see where her father had lived. He came as a teenager and not with his family. Not sure if he even used his real name. There were two prominent names in my mother's family, one Czech and one German, if I'm not mistaken.
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u4ic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:02 AM
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16. Ukrainian n/t
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Nicole Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:08 AM
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18. Dutch n/t
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jpgray Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:10 AM
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19. I'd never post my actual surname
:eyes:
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Mr. McD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:12 AM
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20. Highland Scot
I am Scottish, Irish, and German mostly some English ancestry also.
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:17 AM
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23. I know I have Scottish and English
Some of them later went to Ireland.
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:17 AM
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21. German
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flamingyouth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:17 AM
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22. Swedish.
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IChing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:21 AM
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24. It's Irish but with a Scotish accent. But basically American
It is 300 years of inter breeding in America is my
heritage.

really it is

The prince of wales, the future king of England, holds part of our Scottish title

But we lost that over
260 years ago.

No kings here.
even of the realm of this place.

I am just an
American
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:36 AM
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26. Hyphenated last name.
German-Italian. :)
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realisticphish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:50 AM
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28. French/Belgian
ends in "ex" so it kind of narrows it down
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mohinoaklawnillinois Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:05 AM
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29. Irish, both maiden and married..n/t
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datsafact Donating Member (55 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:07 AM
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30. Black Dutch
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flygal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:52 PM
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118. ok, have to ask because it IS the lounge
Is that a Blazing Saddles reference?
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flygal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:53 PM
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119. Danish
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:11 AM
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31. I'm not 100% sure, but I think it's British/English.
My grandmother's name is Tuscarora indian. I wish my name was less, how shall I put this, ridicule worthy.
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Starbucks Anarchist Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:31 AM
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32. Indian.
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HarukaTheTrophyWife Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:48 AM
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33. Irish...
apparently, from the northwest portion of the republic...not that northern Ireland mess.
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:50 AM
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34. Ok. let's get complicated here
Mine is German. German Jews - can you see where this is going?

My actual ancestry is is mostly Welsh, Irish, Black and Native American and Jewish.. But I'm the perfect Aryan stereotype. If you go back far enough, I'm a mongrel. Thank the gods! Most of my family came to America a long time ago. Some of my family came to America to escape the Holocaust.


See, the cool thing about being a mongrel - I can't hate any one without hating myself. And I have a rich heritage. Btu my surname is german.

Khash.
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Boojatta Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 10:02 AM
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88. Next you'll say it's impossible for someone to hate his or her parents!
See, the cool thing about being a mongrel - I can't hate any one without hating myself.


Can't you hate Jeffrey Dahmer? (Any cannibal serial killers in the family tree?)
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khashka Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 06:16 PM
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160. I meant groups not individuals
But come to think of it, I don't really hate any individuals, either. I get very very angry at some people. But people like Dahmer.... no I can't hate him. Angry and disgusted, yes. But hate? Mostly I just feel pity. How sad that someone can become so twisted that they set their internal demons loose on innocents......

As for your question... the only cannibal serial killer in my family I know of is me. I've eaten many unborn babies.

Khash.

(OK that last sentence was vile - Khash channeling Crowley and making rather disgusting comments about oral sex. Grow up, Khash, and people will like you better. Sheesh!)
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northofdenali Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:06 AM
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35. Maiden name is Irish.
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 04:10 AM by northofdenali
Married is Welsh.

Kept it all in the Celtic family, I did!

C'mon guys, kick this one for me, hmmm? http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x4853003
I haven't started a new post in months and I really need the ego trip! :loveya:
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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:07 AM
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36. British, and now Irish...Oddly
We ran to the Ireland when them protestant buggers were persecuting our catholic asses
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TheMightyFavog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:08 AM
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37. German
Although the translation of the word possibly implies Gypsy heritage.
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MrSlayer Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:17 AM
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38. German. n/t
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njdemocrat106 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:40 AM
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39. Irish
I'm half-Irish and half-Polish, however.
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Guava Jelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 05:00 AM
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40. My surname didnt exist until my family came to america
it is believed that it was either schaublin schieble
but was morphed into shively in the new country.
but it is of german origin
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 05:35 AM
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42. Scottish
although back in the dark ages the patronymic line is Angle (ca. 6-7th Century)
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Road Scholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:57 AM
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54. Ditto on the ancient Scottish. nt
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dolo amber Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:03 AM
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56. Aye...me three
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Road Scholar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:18 AM
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60. Aye, Langen, Logan
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:29 AM
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95. Hae ya seen the Wikipedia, en Scots?
http://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_leid
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TheBaldyMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:21 PM
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115. the scots language society has a mental website

http://www.lallans.co.uk

or should that be a dippet wabsite
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ariesgem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 05:36 AM
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43. My last name is
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 05:37 AM by ariesgem
scottish although I'm African American.
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LaurenG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:21 AM
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44. Both of my parents have surnames
derived from Scotland. Therein lies the secret to an interesting family history.
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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:27 AM
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45. Ellis- Island- Ish.
:hi:
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Xipe Totec Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:37 AM
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46. Asturian
Edited on Tue Mar-07-06 06:39 AM by Xipe Totec
No, not Austrian, Asturian; from Asturias, a province of northern Spain.
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LostinVA Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:52 AM
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47. Sicilian
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Lumily Donating Member (225 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:53 AM
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48. Irish.
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laylah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:02 AM
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49. Maiden name
German, married name generic but originally was Jewish until WWII for obvious reasons.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:15 AM
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50. English...
as is most of my ancestry (the majority of my ancestors being part of the first wave of immigration to what were then the colonies, pre-1700). I also have Irish, German, Welsh, Scots and Dutch ancestors, but most of them seem to've been English.
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:39 AM
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51. French
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rbnyc Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:20 PM
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141. also French (nt)
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rug Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:23 PM
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142. Bon Soir Madame
I'm only 1/8 French though. Great Grandfather Louis went fom Normandy to Quebec to Brooklyn.
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In_The_Wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:48 AM
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52. My maiden name is Anglo-Saxon.

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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:54 AM
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53. It should be Greek
but for some reason, my 100% Greek grandfather changed it and now it's a german/austrian surname. :shrug: go figure?
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Misunderestimator Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:03 AM
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55. Dutch
I changed my surname to something else though in my 20s.
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mainegreen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:16 AM
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58. Swiss/French
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sendero Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:17 AM
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59. Scottish...
... and well-recognized as such :)
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eyesroll Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:19 AM
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61. It's German-Jewish, although I don't have any known German ancestry.
My ancestors came from Russia and Poland.
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Gormy Cuss Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:51 AM
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70. There were German towns in Poland and Russia
Perhaps that's how your family acquired the surname. I researched a friend's ancestry and found they they were from Poland but lived in a German settlement area. They were also Jews who had a German surname.
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Lydia Leftcoast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:53 AM
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85. The Polish and Russian Jews fled east when there was persecution in
Germany during the Middle Ages.

The language of the shtetl, Yiddish, is based on medieval German. That's why so many surnames that are considered typically Jewish translate into meaningful German words.
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samplegirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:21 AM
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62. British & Irish
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mcar Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:30 AM
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63. Irish
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Call Me Wesley Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:31 AM
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64. Italian. (nt)
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Ravenseye Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:35 AM
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65. Arabic
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gollygee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:35 AM
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66. Maiden name - French. Married name - English.
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two gun sid Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:37 AM
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67. Irish, but it was Anglicized from the original.
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Trigger Hippie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:44 AM
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68. French
:)
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:47 AM
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69. Irish--slightly anglicized.
Surname maps of Ireland place most of us in Tipperary, but my grandfather was from East Galway. His town was used as Cromwell's HQ while Irish were being moved "To Hell or to Connaught"--perhaps that's how his ancestors got there.

"Burke" is a real name in that branch of the family tree. From the Norman "de Burgos" doncha know! Pretty far removed, from what I know of my family's situation.
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Beware the Beast Man Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:55 AM
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71. English.
I have a pretty common, WASP-y last name, though I am mostly of Eastern European descent.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:59 AM
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72. German.
RL
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Bossy Monkey Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:07 AM
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73. Misspelled Swiss-German n/t
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ProfessorGAC Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:13 AM
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74. Sicilian
It's quite unambiguously roman in origin and southern italian in derivation.
The Professor
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purr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:15 AM
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75. german
my maiden is serbian/slovak.
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Radio_Guy Donating Member (875 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:18 AM
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76. Scottish
Though I have been accused of having a "Scotch" surname. :)
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1gobluedem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:19 AM
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77. Scottish -- same name as a city in Scotland
But I won't say which one.
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justabob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:44 AM
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78. Irish nt
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Lavender Brown Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:45 AM
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79. Italian
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SiobhanClancy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:46 AM
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80. Irish!
as are all the surnames in my family:)
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purji Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:47 AM
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81. My maiden name is French
My married name is English,but I am mostly German and Hungarian. :shrug:
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riona Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:47 AM
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82. italian
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Burma Jones Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:48 AM
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83. Scottish
Although there's much English there too....My father's ancestors had to leave because of Oliver Cromwell .
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bigwillq Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:54 AM
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86. Italian (nt)
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DanCa Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:57 AM
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87. My names original pronunciation is Sitehammer
It got changed to Caithamer (Kay-the-mere) when my grandpa George played for the white sox in order to make it sound more American. You can check George Caithamer and white sox for more information on this.
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catmandu57 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 10:14 AM
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89. Scottish
Very old Scottish.

Our tartan.
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El Fuego Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 10:16 AM
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90. Finnish.
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atomic-fly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:16 AM
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91. Scotch
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Benfea Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:19 AM
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93. Norwegian. -NT
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grace0418 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:19 AM
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94. Greek, although the shortened version my grandfather made up
is actually a French word. Oddly enough, most people think I'm Latino.
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lizziegrace Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:16 PM
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121. My grandfather did the same thing
before he married, Papoo shortened his name and now it's a German/Austrian surname. Not Greek at all!
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:31 AM
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96. Czech (Bohemian to be exact)
Although I am as much border country Scottish/English as I am Slavic. I'm also Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, German and Slovak. A little of this, a little of that, a little of the other.
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fishnfla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:26 PM
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105. another bohunk here
family name goes back to the 14th century. Chods, guarded the border in the Bohemian Forest
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:49 PM
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154. That forrest ain't going to guard itself, that's for sure
I wish my lineage was as noble. We were merely poor rock-farmers on some of the most infertile land in central Europe. Which is also why we're now in this country, too. :D
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azmouse Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:34 AM
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97. My maiden name is German.
My married name sounds French but my husband's grandparents came from Poland. :shrug:
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miss_american_pie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:34 AM
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98. both married and maiden are German
But my ancestry is German, Slovak, Polish, Croatian, English, and Swiss.
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scarlet_owl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:07 PM
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99. My married name is German, my maiden names were
Spanish and English.
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hedgehog Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:15 PM
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100. Hard to say - the name is German, but the pronunciation is French
My husband's family came from Alsace. My husband would like to go back and look up his roots some day, but as near as we can make out, the area his family came from was scoured pretty throughly in both World war I and World War II so I don't think there's any family left there to be found.
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huskerlaw Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:17 PM
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102. Very German
but I'm also Irish, English and Danish.
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LibertyLover Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:23 PM
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103. Anglicized Celtic
with some help from the US Immigration Services in Boston about 140 years ago when my grandfather came over from Ireland.
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nickinSTL Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:23 PM
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104. Anglicized German
you can still tell it used to be German, but I guess it was a little hard for English-speakers to pronounce.
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malmapus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:27 PM
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106. French, got changed a bit on Ellis Island
But origin is French
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I Have A Dream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:30 PM
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107. I made my surname up and had my name legally changed. n/t
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AlCzervik Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:31 PM
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108. Russian Jew.
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City Lights Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:31 PM
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109. Maiden name German, married name German. n/t
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Momgonepostal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:37 PM
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110. French, married name is Anglo-Saxon nt
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sakabatou Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 12:43 PM
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111. Israeli
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Left_Winger Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:01 PM
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112. English
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rene moon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:06 PM
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113. Mexican
And I see that I am the only one one so far!

Viva la raza!
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fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:44 PM
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128. viva la raza hermana!
sista by marriage at least, I am as white as they come. :-)
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seemunkee Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:08 PM
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114. Ellis Island
Got changed from one Swedish name to another and no one knows the history of why.
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sg_ Donating Member (152 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:30 PM
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116. It is...
"Exclusively an Ulster surname it is a variant of *********, the prefix *** being substituted for *** and the * aspirated,giving *** **************. It occured in the Tyrone Hearth Money Rolls of 1664 . It is now numerous and is located mainly in Co. Antrim."

:thumbsup:
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:10 AM
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167. Formerly Mag Thoirdhealbhaigh?
(Google knows all & tells all!)
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:32 PM
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117. Murkan, you commie liburl
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mvd Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:27 PM
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124. LOL
Some of the ignorant RWers would say I have a Freedom name.
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leftofthedial Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:44 PM
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135. Mine is German-ish
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MrScorpio Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 01:53 PM
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120. English
Vurrah English
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supernova Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:19 PM
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122. English or Scots
Not sure which.
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jane_pippin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 02:22 PM
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123. Polish
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fleabert Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:31 PM
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125. origin may be Celtic, principally from Santander, Surname Origin: Spanish
from http://genealogy.about.com/library/surnames/bl_meaning.htm
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TroubleMan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:34 PM
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126. Lithuanian

nt
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:44 PM
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129. Ellis-Island-type Anglicization!
(originally Irish, Anglicized upon immigrating here, during the "no Irish need apply" era)
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Bucky Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 03:48 PM
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130. American
My patrilinear ascent is American as far as they eye can pierce
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KamaAina Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:03 PM
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131. Austrian
I ran into a fellow in NYC once who told me it was quite common in Salzburg.

So, should I move to Collie-four-knee-ya? :-)
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DemonGoddess Donating Member (364 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:29 PM
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133. Spanish, via the Philippines
my hubby's last name is Anglicized German
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arwalden Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 04:43 PM
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134. One Of The Most Ancient Anglo-Saxon Names From Britain...
... or so this site would have me believe. But I kinda think they're just hyping it up a little bit so that I'll buy one of their Coat-Of-Arms printouts.


http://www.houseofnames.com/xq/asp/s.Walden/Origin.EN/sId./qx/coatofarms_details.htm
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yvr girl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 05:34 PM
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136. English but if you trace it back far enough
it was Viking then French morphed into English.
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Nikia Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 05:47 PM
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137. English
I took my husband's last name. He is adopted. His adoptive father who has that last name got it when he was adopted by his step father.
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FarLeftRage Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:52 PM
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138. Italian
I am a second generation Italian-American with some French, Irish, Scotch-English and German/Dutch thrown in for good measure.
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salin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 06:57 PM
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139. german
anglosized in the US; first name - Scandanavian - closer roots.
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Xithras Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:02 PM
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140. Anglicized German. n/t
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JitterbugPerfume Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:26 PM
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143. German
Ziglar is very very German
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Ava Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:29 PM
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144. Scotland
i wish i had my mom's last name. my mom recently traced back our ancestry far enough to find out we are direct decendants of Charlemagne. He is my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, so on and so on, grandfather.
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NJ Democrats Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 07:45 PM
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145. Mine is German
I'm Jewish and also have Russian, Polish and Latvian blood (that I know of).
I'm about 50% Russian 45% German and 5% other nationalities
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BlueStorm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 08:23 PM
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146. Italian... it's my father's surname
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Matilda Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 09:02 PM
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147. German.
Although my principal heritage is English/Scottish.
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Swede Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:18 PM
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149. Swedish.
nt
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blue neen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-07-06 11:28 PM
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150. Maiden name--German
Married name--Irish. Mother's maiden name--Swedish. My given name--French.
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bumblebee1 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 02:10 AM
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151. My maiden and married names are both German.
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 02:14 AM by bumblebee1
I'm British from my mother's side of the family. My grandmother came over from England after WWI. She married my grandfather in Philadelphia. Unfortunately, I never had the chance to meet her as she died three weeks before my mother graduated from high school.
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pokerfan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 03:09 AM
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152. die Deutschen

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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 05:14 AM
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153. Scottish. And if it's nae Scot, it's crap! :>) n/t
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 05:15 AM by KrazyKat
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mikeytherat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:49 PM
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155. Really, really French
mikey_the_rat
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BrotherBuzz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:51 PM
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156. Swiss
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SteppingRazor Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:53 PM
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157. Irish...
Heck, my brother's first and middle names are Sean Patrick, if that gives you any idea of how Irish my family is. On my dad's side, my father is the first generation in this country. On my mom's, the fourth. And with a single Scotch/English exception, every one of my ancestors traces back to the Auld Sod.
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WritingIsMyReligion Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 04:55 PM
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158. Sco'ish.
Edited on Wed Mar-08-06 04:56 PM by WritingIsMyReligion
(Scottish)

;) ;)

The first name is Italian, and the middle name, English.
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maveric Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 06:17 PM
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161. Irish, but mistaken for French.
Lenane. It was changed during the Ellis Island experience from O'Lennon.
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 10:13 AM
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168. My Irish surname can be mistaken for Arabic or Farsi...
I've had people ask if my father was Egyptian or Lebanese. And I got a mass-mailing last year, instructing me how to compute my contribution for Ramadan.
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LiberalEsto Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Mar-08-06 06:22 PM
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162. Estonian
I kept my maiden name. Husband's is German, though he's more Irish than German.
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Kerrytravelers Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 09:41 AM
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163. Both me and Mr kt are mixed Scottish and Irish- 50/50 on both sides.
Edited on Thu Mar-09-06 09:43 AM by Kerrytravelers
We both know a bit of our family history. I also know what Klan (Scottish thing) my family is from- the same one as William Wallace.
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Orsino Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 09:49 AM
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164. Scottishy, I think.
There's an "official" tartan and everything, though I'm not sure what that might prove about the name's origin.
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Bassic Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 09:55 AM
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165. I'm french-canadian, but my surname is english (though it came from a
scotsman)
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AngryAmish Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu Mar-09-06 09:57 AM
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166. Donkey Irish
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