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Betty's  Monday morning question:

What is your ancestry?

My ancestry is mostly Scots/Irish:

      On my mother's side, her father's family is from Ireland (County Claire),

              and her mother's family is a mixture of French,

               Irish and just a smidgin of American Indian.   

On my father's side, his father's family is from Scotland (surname Dowell which is from the Clan MacDougal).  Above is the Dowell Tartan, coat of arms and family motto.  Fortis in Aruduis means Brave in Difficulties (I have also seen it translated as "Strong in Adversity"), ............

and his mother's family, the Williamses, are from England, and we have been able to trace them in a straight line all the way back to the 1500s.                                       

There is also a great-grandmother from Germany on his mother's side, so we have a lot of German as well.                   

I love finding out about my heritage!

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• #5 Comment from rdautumnsage
  3/27/08 9:29 AM | Permalink

  Loved learning about your heritage. Unfortunately mine is kind of tricky to track. Add the fact neither of my parents was forthcoming with information, add to that neither were their parents. Apparently my mother hails from the new age thinking Indian (rolls eyes). In other words you make sure you marry into the blood, but deny everything else indian. She was actually the first to break that tradition by marrying my father. Which leaves me a halfbreed (I have no problem joking about this part). My father is straight up German. His parents came over from Germany. The name was changed from Mueller to Miller (so never been my name, mother's choice) So there you have it in a nutshell, half Cherokee, half German and the temperment of that mixture is daunting at times. (Hugs) Indigo
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• #4 Comment from bhbner2him
  3/10/06 11:32 PM | Permalink

  I wish I knew more about my ancestry.  It is really very sketchy.  And I'm not about to pay a fortune.  I have a niece that researched her fathers family extensively on her own.  But I don't have the time or energy for that.  Maybe I'm not that curious after all.  lol    I do know that I am a child of the King.  And that counts for a lot.   -  Barbara
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• #3 Comment from pharmolo
  3/9/06 6:20 AM | Permalink

  If you know where your ancestors came from in Scotland or Ireland, there are lots of resources to go right back in time. Interesting read!
• #2 Comment from chaispice1023
  3/7/06 6:37 AM | Permalink

  so ye be a scottish/irish lass, do ye?
  
  
• #1 Comment from lv2trnscrb
  3/6/06 10:37 PM | Permalink

  the pictures didn't come through; I wuld love to see your coat of arms. So interesting you know so much about your heritage! Thanks for playing :)
  
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