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Where is yo family from?

Postby Kealhofer » Sun Sep 26, 2010 9:32 am

I am curious about how many German-American folks are around here. My great great great grandfather Jacob Kealhofer came over from outside Hamburg, Germany and each generation moved a little farther south. My moms came over around the same time and were Hager's. I always hear about Asian-American, African-American, and so on. Lets see where ya'll came from.
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby donia » Sun Sep 26, 2010 10:22 am

scotch/irish

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*edited to add grandparents' maidens
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby davidees » Sun Sep 26, 2010 11:06 am

We Dees' are from Mississippi. :D
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Postby skuna » Sun Sep 26, 2010 12:04 pm

Herrin/Dyal/Crawford/Thrift/Coleman

All Scotch, Irish, and Welsh as far as I have been told and what I have found out tracing history. Tracked most back to the Carolina's during the 1700's or coming across the Atlantic as indentured servants in the late 1600's and early 1700's. They migrated down to south Georgia in the late 1700's and early 1800's.
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby marshmaniac » Sun Sep 26, 2010 3:24 pm

I guess I am a heinz 57 but my last name (Lassabe) is (Cajun) French descent. Mom was a Hollingsworth which has English/Irish roots if I am not mistaken. I have been wanting to do a lookup for a while now. Lassabe/Cuevas, Hollingsworth/Ladnier. Wife is Norwiegan/German: Knutson/Schindler. My poor kids, LOL!
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby Relentless » Sun Sep 26, 2010 4:04 pm

Meisemann...german/american as it gets
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Postby driveby » Mon Sep 27, 2010 7:54 am

I'm all mixed up. My last name is Kiker so I've got the German on my dad's side. Also on his side is a little Irish (Phillips) and my great grandmother was a little full blooded Cherokee squaw. On my mom's side I have more German (Bizjak) and English (Watts).
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Postby Blake Williamson » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:00 am

Williamson/English
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby ScottyLee » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:06 am

scotish/ irish


traced back to when the folks came over and first landed in Georgia back in the 1700's. as far back as i can follow anyways....

still totin the name Dunnam

it was originally spelled Dunham. but somewhere's in the midst of never learning to read or write it got changed to Dunnam.

even found the names to some of the old slaves / and sharecroppers. :D

great great grandaddy said theey was real good folks, and good cooks too :mrgreen:
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby cwink » Mon Sep 27, 2010 8:16 am

100% German with family names Winkler/Duderstadt/Rudolf/Kraetchy all from Germany.. My maternial grandfather moved to Mexico from Germany in the 30's. He then moved a cotten gin from Mexico to South Texas down the street from my Grandmother's and that's how they met. And had the German accent until the day he died. He bought several pieces of land down there that we still own. Never met him, he died when my mom was about 13, but I wish I had.
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby donia » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:02 am

driveby wrote:.... Cherokee..... German.



i bet you can get just as mean as my wife when spurned :shock: german/apatche i always say i married her for her spunk, i just didn't know it would be turned against me as often and with such furvor that it is!! :shock: :lol:
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby LawDawg » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:08 am

greek.
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby driveby » Mon Sep 27, 2010 9:28 am

donia wrote:
driveby wrote:.... Cherokee..... German.



i bet you can get just as mean as my wife when spurned :shock: german/apatche i always say i married her for her spunk, i just didn't know it would be turned against me as often and with such furvor that it is!! :shock: :lol:

LOL!!!! Have you been talking to my wife? She has a lot of Cherokee ancestory as well. That coupled with the fact that she was red headed when she was little (it later turned brown but you can still see some of the red in the sun) means I have my hands full with her as well. :mrgreen:
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby kwacksmacker86 » Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:12 am

welsh/english/german

last name is himmel mothers maiden name was jones and my grandma was a smith.
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Re: Where is yo family from?

Postby eSJay » Mon Sep 27, 2010 10:54 am

driveby wrote:I'm all mixed up. My last name is Kiker so I've got the German on my dad's side. Also on his side is a little Irish (Phillips) and my great grandmother was a little full blooded Cherokee squaw. On my mom's side I have more German (Bizjak) and English (Watts).


i thought you were albanian :lol:
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