What was their deal?!

5/20/2013 4:01:15 PM

I don't know because white people didn't keep records and separated families to break our spirits.

Their deal was that they were going to work in exchange for free unrequested beatings.

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5/20/2013 4:07:34 PM

Time: 1979, after the Vietnam War
Reason: Escaping genocide

http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TR0110763/

5/20/2013 4:14:46 PM

in 1662, my ancestor was tried and imprisoned for not going to church and not paying court fees. after he was released in 1680, he and his family came over with some quakers looking for religious freedom

5/20/2013 4:16:38 PM

Tell him I said thanks for that underground railroad shit

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5/20/2013 4:18:27 PM

1730-something. Dude from what is now Northern Ireland was protestant and in love with a catholic girl so they ran off to America to be together.

5/20/2013 4:19:22 PM

One side is Bradford, they've been here since the beginning*. Other side was from Hungary in the early 1900s

Beginning of the whiteys that is.

[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 4:23 PM. Reason : ~]

5/20/2013 4:19:39 PM

Quote :

"Michael A. Gaffney, born in Granard, Co. Longford, Ireland, in 1775, emigrated to America in 1797, arriving in New York and moving to Charleston, South Carolina a few years later. Gaffney moved again in 1804 to the South Carolina Upcountry (The Upstate) and established a tavern and lodging house at what became known as "Gaffney's Cross Roads." The location was perfect for growth because of the two major roads which met here, one from the mountains of North Carolina to Charleston and the other from Charlotte into Georgia. Michael Gaffney died here on September 6, 1854."

we founded Gaffney with a bar.

5/20/2013 4:23:40 PM

i honestly have no idea on my mom's side period. On my dad's side, his dad's family came from England..at some point. My dad's mom was born in Hungary and her sister born here after their parents moved their family here.

5/20/2013 4:23:46 PM

I don't know. As far as my family knows the surname from both my mothers and fathers sides are English in origin. It seems like people with the same last name as me are concentrated near the mountains around North Carolina, Virginia, and Tennessee.

5/20/2013 4:36:01 PM

some in the early-mid 1700's. some between then and mid 1800's. some 40,000—16,500 years ago.

5/20/2013 4:41:04 PM

On my paternal grandmother's mother's side: My great great grandfather Karl August and his wife Margaretha Caroline (Scheimer) Mitsch emigrated to the US from Germany in 1881.

My paternal grandmother's father's side: My great grandfather, John Carrell Beam, his father was Christian Hofmeister, and his parents John & Dorothy Beam emigrated from Mecklenburg, Germany before his birth in 1851, I don't know the exact date of their emigration off the top of my head.

On my father's paternal side I don't know much and on my mother's maternal side I know old family stories always said that they came over on the Mayflower. On my mother's paternal side I know nothing.

[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 4:50 PM. Reason : ,]

5/20/2013 4:42:00 PM

^^ Immigration hipster

[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 4:43 PM. Reason : Ddd]

5/20/2013 4:43:35 PM

5/20/2013 4:55:44 PM

1995. Result of post Vietnam war politic.

5/20/2013 4:56:51 PM

I have no idea

5/20/2013 5:09:37 PM

1950's

not sure about my mom's side...long time ago.

5/20/2013 5:12:21 PM

Fathers direct line came over in the 1680s to PA to settle Quaker land with William Penn.

5/20/2013 5:23:03 PM

mid 1800s. Tater Famine.

5/20/2013 5:28:24 PM

1993. We flew US Airways. My dad got a job transfer.

5/20/2013 5:35:55 PM

Late 90s - dad did what was supposed to be a 2 year global deployment with his work

5/20/2013 5:37:03 PM

Sounds like a ClassicMixup

5/20/2013 6:20:00 PM

We were some of the first settlers of the Montgomery County area and at one point owned a few hundred acres in Anson County but I don't remember the year we first got here some time in the mid to late 18th century I believe though

[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 6:22 PM. Reason : first not founding, we weren't important, just there]

5/20/2013 6:21:07 PM

Quote :

"Darb5000: 1730-something. Dude from what is now Northern Ireland was protestant and in love with a catholic girl so they ran off to America to be together."

That is awesome.

5/20/2013 6:26:30 PM

My family came over whenever they damn well pleased because they felt like.

Now what? Bitches.

5/20/2013 6:42:38 PM

1634 he was a physician, so i guess the settlements needed some medical care.

5/20/2013 6:45:11 PM

1980.

My dad came over from Afghanistan. They were an EXTREMELY wealthy family there, and had butlers, drivers, etc. He was out with friends one night, and while walking back home was stopped by a neighbor up the road. Neighbor told him that the Russians had taken over his house and he should not go back home.

He (and many many others) walked for 20+ days through the mountains to Pakistan with only the clothes on their back. He wasnt able to get in touch with any of his family members for another 6 months.

After living in Pakistan and then Germany for a year or two, he came to the US as a refugee when a Presbyterian church sponsored 2 refugees to come over here and start a "new life".

He was one of them, and came over with a duffel bag and $10. They set him up with a shitty factory job making below minimum wage and he worked 80+ hour weeks to make ends meet.

He then met my mother when her (and her mother's) car broke down. He stopped to help them fix their car and she invited him to her birthday party that night. He spoke about 10 words of english at this point, btw. (that must be where I get my MAD swagger from...)

They married about 6 months later, and I was born a few years later. We were poor as fuck, and couldnt even afford a fan for our 1 room house, but he worked his balls off, and kept food on the table for us. Life wasnt lavish by any stretch of the imagination, but we had a good life and the basic necessities.

30 years later, my parents are still married, he owns 2 successful businesses, has a HUGE house, and has put two kids through college (my sister and I).



[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 7:02 PM. Reason : .]

5/20/2013 7:00:14 PM

don't know, don't care

5/20/2013 8:28:25 PM

My mother's side has lived in Jones county since the 1770s. My dad's side received a land grant from King George in 1760 something I think. It is now known as Garner, NC. Kinda cool to me, but that's all I really know.

5/20/2013 8:44:32 PM

Daniel I. Melvin was my gr-gr-gr-gr-great grandfather. His father (name unknown) died when Daniel was young. His mother (name unknown) placed him with a sea captain friend of her dead husband. Daniel was a cabin boy on a merchant ship that was captured by Blackbeard (pirate) off South Carolina coast. Two sailors from Daniel's ship lowered him in a barrel and swam to shore with him. He wandered to Bladen County, NC where he was raised to adulthood by Francis Thomas family. He married Thomas' only daughter, Jane. All Melvins in Bladen County, NC are descendants of this union.


Or so my Granddad says.

5/20/2013 8:54:56 PM

^That's really REALLY cool.

They don't make 'em like that anymore.

5/20/2013 9:10:22 PM

Mom side

Grandfather: mixed European since the 1600's
Grandmother: Hungarian around 1910

Dad side

Grandfather: Irish during the potato famine
Grandmother: French Canadian no idea from when.

5/20/2013 9:16:20 PM

Quote :

" My mother's side has lived in Jones county since the 1770s. My dad's side received a land grant from King George in 1760 something I think. It is now known as Garner, NC. Kinda cool to me, but that's all I really know. "

My family has lived in jones county (both my mothers and fathers side), where I live now as well, since at least as long. Small world.

5/20/2013 9:24:15 PM

James Burke McDavid and his wife Mary Anne Allen left Antrim, Ireland between 1715 (the birth of their second son) and 1720 (the birth of their third son in Delaware).

William Weeks from Middlesex, England arrived in Maryland in 1650.

[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 10:04 PM. Reason : My ethnicity is ultra white. ]

5/20/2013 10:00:25 PM

Quote :

"Time: 19796, after the Vietnam War Reason: Escaping genocide http://library.thinkquest.org/trio/TR0110763/ "

to France

1988, to USA

5/20/2013 10:05:57 PM

Dad's Side:

One of the earliest names to be found in recorded his-
tory is that of James Watkins, an emigrant who came
over in the Phoenix in 1607, and mentioned as having
accompanied "Captain John Smith' in his explorations in
the New World, especially of the Chesapeake Bay.

Mom was adopted. No clue.

Quote :

" My family has lived in jones county (both my mothers and fathers side), where I live now as well, since at least as long. Small world."

This is where my mother's adoptive family live. Last name Phillips.

[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 10:10 PM. Reason : .]

5/20/2013 10:08:35 PM

Dads side-grandma and grandpa came straight off the boat from Ireland and Scotland.

Moms side- not sure, but I know we are German.

5/20/2013 10:09:43 PM

I think my white ancestors immigrated in the mid-1800s; Mom's dad was a Cherokee and his ancestors were in the NC area since before European settlement.

5/20/2013 10:19:25 PM

^^^i know a bunch of Phillips. I had several teachers with that last name.

[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 10:22 PM. Reason : .]

5/20/2013 10:20:09 PM

What resources do you use to find out?

5/20/2013 10:21:39 PM

HS or Elementary? Uncle Don taught HS and Aunt Faye teaches 1st grade. Uncle Horace is a County Commissioner I think, or he was.

^My dad has a book a very distant relative put together several years ago.

[Edited on May 20, 2013 at 10:23 PM. Reason : .]

5/20/2013 10:23:14 PM

What resources do you use to find out?

5/20/2013 10:26:33 PM

Yep, I know that family very well. I had both don and Faye as teachers, and my dad was county manager with Horace for years. Really good family.

5/20/2013 10:28:05 PM

If you have a couple of generations worth of information to start with, then Ancestry.com is a good place. If you're really lucky, you'll have some 10th cousin who is already on Ancestry that you can link up with to keep on digging.

5/20/2013 10:28:59 PM

My grandma married a Smith, but Don and Horace are her little brothers. She lives right across the road from Don and Faye. They are excellent people.

5/20/2013 10:29:56 PM

Some from England, some from Scotland, and I think one female ancestor from Ireland. Late 1600's to mid-1700's. I'm not sure about the reasons.

5/20/2013 10:33:45 PM

My mother says that her father's family (Adams) are the descendants of two brothers who ended up ship wrecked off the coast of NC and just stayed. Of course with a last name like Adams and 0 ingenuity when it comes to names (Jack, John, James...), so I haven't really taken time to dig and verify this story.

5/20/2013 10:41:50 PM

1790

5/20/2013 10:50:39 PM

Quote :

"Fathers direct line came over in the 1680s to PA to settle Quaker land with William Penn."

5/20/2013 10:58:06 PM

1787 - From Swansea, Wales. They were Separate Baptists and wanted to flee persecution of the Anglican Church. The whole family up and left. Settled in Back Creek, NC. Near Asheboro.


I love my Family history.

5/20/2013 11:06:40 PM