04-02-2021, 10:58 AM
Done the survey as well. Hope my answers were useful, but I may have brought in more questions than I answered. I couldn't even answer the one about my own ethnicity straight.
[1] All of my overseas born ancestors arrived in Australia between 1802 and 1882. So I have at least 4 native born generations of Australian in me. In the previous generation their were English, Scottish, Germans and Maltese and they links to damn near everywhere.
[2] I have ancestors from most European countries. The only countries I haven't found ancestors from yet are Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. And most of these people were the ruling class: kings, queens, princesses, princes, dukes, duchesses, earls, etc. But am I of their nationality when those ancestors are 1000 years old? or more? The oldest was a Welsh Chieftain who was born in 40 BC. Do I call myself a Frank, as I have Charlemagne as an ancestor along more than 40 lines? A Saxon, as I have Alfred the Great as an ancestor? A Roman, as I have Alexius Comnenus and Romanos IV as ancestors? A Viking? Ivar the Boneless was one of my ancestors, as was Thorfinn Skullsplitter and Olav the Holy. French? There are probably only a thousand or so people with a better claim to the Kingdom of France than I have. Or how about Asian? I have almost all of the Kings and Queens of Jerusalem as my ancestors. The Judges of Corsica. The Kings of Aragon, Castille, Navarre and Portugal. Prince Vladimir of Kiev. There is one line in my family tree that claims to have Parsifal and the Knights of the Grail as ancestors: like I believe that one! German Emperors. Lombard kings and nobles. Polish Piast rulers, the Arpad dynasty from Hungary. Where do I draw the line?
I just say that my ancestry is pan-European.
[1] All of my overseas born ancestors arrived in Australia between 1802 and 1882. So I have at least 4 native born generations of Australian in me. In the previous generation their were English, Scottish, Germans and Maltese and they links to damn near everywhere.
[2] I have ancestors from most European countries. The only countries I haven't found ancestors from yet are Albania, Bulgaria and Romania. And most of these people were the ruling class: kings, queens, princesses, princes, dukes, duchesses, earls, etc. But am I of their nationality when those ancestors are 1000 years old? or more? The oldest was a Welsh Chieftain who was born in 40 BC. Do I call myself a Frank, as I have Charlemagne as an ancestor along more than 40 lines? A Saxon, as I have Alfred the Great as an ancestor? A Roman, as I have Alexius Comnenus and Romanos IV as ancestors? A Viking? Ivar the Boneless was one of my ancestors, as was Thorfinn Skullsplitter and Olav the Holy. French? There are probably only a thousand or so people with a better claim to the Kingdom of France than I have. Or how about Asian? I have almost all of the Kings and Queens of Jerusalem as my ancestors. The Judges of Corsica. The Kings of Aragon, Castille, Navarre and Portugal. Prince Vladimir of Kiev. There is one line in my family tree that claims to have Parsifal and the Knights of the Grail as ancestors: like I believe that one! German Emperors. Lombard kings and nobles. Polish Piast rulers, the Arpad dynasty from Hungary. Where do I draw the line?
I just say that my ancestry is pan-European.
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