Published on 12, July, 2020
II'm amazed at how many people here say English isn't thier first language and presumably thier heritage isn't either. How fascinating, in my stunning and vast ignorance I'd assumed that most people here would be from the UK, how international are we as a group of users? By the way I think multinationalism and multiculturalism are great, so I'm not trying to make anyone uncomfortable or unwelcome.
I'm English and have the usual English problems with language, I can be dyslexic in as many languages as you want to try me with, including English. I recently had my DNA tested with an ancestry site as I was researching my family history and found that I'm 84% southern English, which is apparently quite rare, most British people are a mix of Saxon, Irish and Scandi genes, so it looks like my families have been knocking about the place for hundreds of years.
Italian, but I lived in UK since 2011. I am more at home in UK than in Italy.
No idea about my origins, but I look like a young Saddam Hussein, so probably middle Eastern.
I agree I'm a Plymothian (you might not talk to me again I guess ). I've lived in South Devon twice in my lifetime and have moved home around 25 times so far (mainly in England). My family originates from England (Devon+Yorkshire) and ancestors from Ireland (County Cork specifically). My family generally tend to move home a lot e.g. some cousins emigrated to South Africa and some others to New Zealand, both in 1960s. Therefore I could 'end up' anywhere in my future, potentially
I would like to be more of an 'international citizen' too
Good morning from Texas. Hope y'all having a lovely day!
I searched up "place for autistic people to discuss problems" and NAS popped up as the first answer. At the time, I was planning to ask how to deal with these kids on the bus that won't let me have my assigned seat unless I gave them cookies. (I didn't get an assigned seat because I was being naughty, I asked the driver to assign my seat to me. I've dealt with the problem now, though.)
Most of my male ancestors seem to have been craftsmen of various sorts: iron moulders, gunsmiths, potters, stonemasons, watchmakers. I have a connection to Colonel William Careless, who hid Charles II in the oak tree, when he was being pursued by Parliamentarian solders after the Battle of Worcester.
Birmingham but some of the family from South Wales/Cardiff. A fair bit of Scottish & Norwegian dna too!
Yes, most of my ancestors were farm labourers but I think that just reflects the industry of the time?
So how did all those of you who arn't living in the UK come to be on this site?
Has anyone else traced their ancestry? I seem to be 100% peasant, many of the ancestors I've traced have worked on the land, a fair few criminals, murderers and fraudsters, its seem that every couple of generations has someone who's been in prison. No aristocracy that I've found so far and few of my ancestors seem to have moved far. I seem to be hitting a wall around the late 1700's, what records there don't seem to have been digitalised, or if they have they've often been mistranscribed. I think some of them have been recorded wrongly at the start, I can just see some of my peasant ancestors mumbling in a thick vernacular accent to some educated clark who can't understand them and writes what he thinks they've said. I have 7% Iberian DNA, that covers anywhere from Lebanon to Portugal, it must be on my Dads side as my Mum's DNA came back with no Iberian, but I can't find out where it came from. 7% suggests it's fairly recent, I have a possible candidate, but I'm finding it hard to go back further with them than the mid 1800's.
I am from the US. English is my first language. I also know some Spanish from school, but not really enough for a real conversation. This is an interesting thread!
Wow, what an international lot we are.
Although I am British, I find that I have rather an "International Citizen" outlook and sense of belonging in the World.
I believe this is for two reasons:
1) I have lived in and attended school in three very different places (Europe, Middle East and the Caribbean), and
2) I have often held roles in workplaces where it was usual for colleagues, suppliers and clients to be representatives from multiple countries / communities / ethnicities. / faiths / languages.
These days, my home is in Oxfordshire.
I probably have passed through this area by overnight coach and by train on my way to Holyhead via Chester from Manchester, heading for the ferry to Dublin on mainly SailRail
I come from Poland but living in Germany for 5 years already. I feel much better here than in Poland.
I’m from the Bucks / Herts border, if you hit a six at the village cricket club it can land in a different county.
I come from Germany and have been living in Berlin for a long time.
I like Essex. When visiting family, I was 14 at the time, we went to see Colchester Castle and I found it such an interesting experience. I think it's a very interesting place to visit - Essex = history and that means it's my kind of place!
Haven't been since unfortunately. But undoubtedly I'll visit there again one day.
Nice thread
I like knowing where people are (alongside from) so that when they talk I can visualise them sitting somewhere on a map.
I am a Portsmuthian. Pompey. Portsmouth.
I'm from Hampshire UK
North Wales - East - near to Chester.
Essex.
Don't look at me like that.