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3 unusual facts about ancestry


Ancestry Magazine

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Eden Gray

Birth information is from the 1910 U.S. Census (on Ancestry.com) and death information is from the Social Security Death Index, also on Ancestry.com.

Rowena Farre

This is confirmed by family trees published on Ancestry.com and elsewhere which show Daphne Lois Macready as the daughter of Brig. Gen. John Macready (1887-1957) and Marguerite Mary Milling (1890-1982).


1920 Canton Bulldogs season

Thorpe, who was of mixed American Indian ancestry, left after the season to organize and play for an all-Native American team in LaRue, Ohio.

Aaron Burr, Sr.

He was of English ancestry (his grandfather Jehu Burr had been born in Lavenham, Suffolk, England, in 1625, settled in the Connecticut Colony as a young man, and died there in 1692).

Anders Hackzell

The cultural importance of the Bure family genealogy in Sweden is demonstrated e.g. by the novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou, which in part compares with the early Bure family ancestry.

Anglo-South American Bank

The Commercial Bank traced its ancestry through the Cortés Commercial and Banking Company back to Banco de Nicaragua, founded in Managua in 1888.

Arabian Knights

In one episode, he is revealed to have red hair shaved to a topknot; an indication of Galatian ancestry and of being enslaved.

Asian-American jazz

Most of the first musicians associated with the movement were of Japanese or Chinese ancestry, though more recently musicians of Filipino, Vietnamese, Indian, and Iranian descent have also become active.

Baron Waleran

The name of the barony, with its spelling being a variant of the family name, appears to have been chosen to suggest a possible ancestry from Waleran the Huntsman, feudal baron of West Dean, Wiltshire, at the time of the Domesday Book of 1086, which was held by the Waleran family until the death of Walter Walerand in 1200/1 leaving three daughters his co-heiresses.

Blank family

The Blank family is a family of Jews, some of whom converted to Orthodox Christianity in the Russian Empire, mostly notable as the immediate ancestry of the maternal grandfather of Vladimir Lenin according to various published researchers who suggest that Lenin's maternal grandfather was a Jewish convert to Christianity (Alexander Blank).

Bure kinship

The cultural importance of the Bure family genealogy in Sweden is demonstrated e.g. by the novel The Knight Templar trilogy by Jan Guillou, which in part compares with the early Bure family ancestry.

Cephalic index

The usefulness of the cephalic index was questioned by Giuseppe Sergi, who argued that cranial morphology provided a better means to model racial ancestry.

Charles Blahous

Blahous was born in 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA, the second of three children of Charles Paul Blahous II of Czech descent and Marjorie Alice Robertson of Scot/English ancestry.

Cuil

The Irish ancestry of Anna Patterson's husband Tom Costello sparked the name Cuil, which the company states is taken from a series of Celtic folklore stories involving a character, Fionn mac Cumhaill, they erroneously refer to as Finn MacCuil .

Dahba

The tribe claims shoodar ancestry of Hindu caste, and descent from one Khoga, a servant of the Mughal Emperor Akbar.

Daniel Christian

Born in 1983, Christian grew up in the town of Narrandera in the Riverina region of New South Wales and is of indigenous ancestry (Wiradjuri).

Darby Field

Of Irish ancestry, if not born in Ireland, he was in Boston, Massachusetts, by 1636 and settled in Durham, New Hampshire, by 1638, where he ran a ferry from what is now called Durham Point to the town of Newington, across Little Bay.

Demographics of Zimbabwe

Many, however, can also trace their ancestry to the Dutch/Khoisan mulatto clans of the Cape.

Diosdado Macapagal–Arroyo

His mother, Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo, is the daughter of the late former President Diosdado Macapagal whose ancestry can be traced to Lakandula.

Dwayyo

Several University of Maryland students wrote that they had investigated the origin of the unknown creature and had traced its ancestry to the Dway which according to the researchers the Dway is an animal which inhabited the left bank of the upper Amazon River and the Yo which apparently immigrated from the Yangtze River plateau via the glacier bridge which connected Alaska and China.

Elaine Tan

Elaine Tan (born 28 June 1982) is a British actress of Chinese Malaysian ancestry.

Familypedia

Familypedia does not have any notability requirements for the people listed, but it does have many prominent families (including the royals of France, Germany and the UK) and people (such as the ancestry of every president of the United States) as well as trivia facts (such as the relationship between Brooke Shields and Charlemagne).

Frances Ward

Another regal grandparent is the French countess Félicité Perpétue Catherine de Paul de Lamanon d'Albe, ("Albe" is the French vernacular of Alba, a region in Spain), whose regal ancestry can be traced back to the foundations of Rome; and who descends from the Duke of Alba Fernando Álvarez de Toledo d'Albe.

Gerry Marks

Gerry Marks is a Canadian First Nations artist of Haida ancestry.

Hasyim Asy'ari

Hasyim Asy'ari's ancestry can be traced to Sultan Joko Tingkir (Hadiwijaya) of Pajang, and further, to Brawijaya VI (Girindrawardhana), the last king of Majapahit.

History of Visalia, California

Visalia was named after Visalia, Kentucky, a place to which Nathaniel Vise can trace his family ancestry.

Indonesian Australian

Ben Hollioake, sportsman (cricketers), Australian and Indonesian ancestry.

Jan Albin Goetz

Jan Albin Goetz (Jan Goetz-Okocimski) (born July 18, 1864 in Okocim, Poland, died April 24, 1931 in Okocim) was a Polish brewer of German ancestry, head of Okocim Brewery, a philanthropist and patron of the arts, a "Freiherr" (baron) of the Hapsburg Empire, a conservative politician, activist and a member of the Austrian parliament and Polish sejm.

Japanese in New York City

As of the 2000 Census about over half of the 37,279 people of Japanese ancestry in New York State lived in New York City.

Jón Loftsson

The poem Nóregs konungatal was composed in Jón's honour, tracing his ancestry to the Norwegian royal line.

Kutcha butcha

Famous actresses such as Merle Oberon and Vivian Leigh hid their Anglo-Indian ancestry, as did ex-Beatle Pete Best.

Lemba people

#The old Lemba language was a dialect of Karanga – which is spoken today in the Masvingo area of Zimbabwe; (thus, the Lemba female ancestry was probably derived from the MaKaranga).

Lou Agase

Lou Agase (August 2, 1924 – June 26, 2006) was a Gridiron football player and coach of Assyrian ancestry.

Manuel de Acevedo y Zúñiga

There are other Zúñigas with Jewish ancestry or related to the powerful and wealthy Dukes of Béjar for instance, besides other branches.

Manuel Mujica Láinez

In spite of their proud ancestry, the Mujica-Laínez family was not notably well-off by this time, and Manucho went to work at Buenos Aires' newspaper La Nación as literary and art critic.

Nikita Willy

The artist with Minangkabau ancestry has since become more famous, with the Dime Novel role in a soap opera with Evan Sanders Willy training mixed martial arts and judoka.

Ostrožská Lhota

Charles Paul Blahous III (born 1963 in Alexandria, Virginia, USA) – former Special Assistant to US President George W. Bush for Economic Policy – is a fourth generation descendant of Czech ancestry originating from Ostrožská Lhota

Philippina Espenshied

Her husband was a member of the oldest living German family in the world, whose ancestry was direct from the Roman family name Superbus.

Pittwater Council

At the 2011 Census, the proportion of residents in the Pittwater local government area who stated their ancestry as Australian or Anglo-Saxon exceeded 75% of all residents (national average was 65.2%).

Putte, Netherlands

The noted artist Marguerite Wildenhain, who was forced to leave her teaching post in Germany because of her Jewish ancestry, came to Putte in 1933.

Robert Lee Moore

Although Moore's father was reared in New England and was of New England ancestry, he fought in the American Civil War on the side of the Confederacy.

Roger de Beler

That the family was settled in Leicestershire we know from a license obtained by the judge in 1316 to grant a lay fee in Kirkby-by-Melton, on the Wrethek in that county, to the warden and chaplains of St. Peter, on condition of their performing religious services for the benefit of the souls of himself and his wife Alicia, his father and mother, and ancestry generally.

Scartho

Like 'Grimsby' the etymology of the word Scartho can be traced back to having Old Norse origin, more than likely due to the ancestry of the surrounding area.

Spiteri

Sharleen Spiteri, Scottish singer (of Maltese ancestry) and frontwoman of the band Texas

The Land of Lost Content

The book is divided into seven chapters, respectively covering Chenevix-Trench's ancestry and early childhood, his education at Shrewsbury School and Christ Church, Oxford, his military service in the Malayan Campaign during the Second World War, and his successive spells of teaching at Shrewsbury, Bradfield, Eton and Fettes.

Washington State Legislature

The Washington State Legislature traces its ancestry to the creation of the Washington Territory in 1853, following successful arguments from settlers north of the Columbia River to the U.S. federal government to legally separate from the Oregon Territory.

William H. Worthington

Both his grandfathers were well-known Kentucky frontiersman Edward Worthington and Gabriel Slaughter and his ancestry can be traced to President James Monroe.

Wolfgang Fürstner

This explanation was a pretext to disparage Fürstner due to his background; Fürstner, along with fencer Helene Mayer and hockey star Rudi Ball, was one of the few people with Jewish ancestry connected with the 1936 Olympics.

X Brands

Although Brands was of European ancestry, his portrayals of American Indians earned praise for their authenticity, as was also the case with Keith Larsen, who was of Scandinavian roots.

Zoltán Glass

However in 1936 he was dismissed from the newspaper Berliner Tageblatt due to his Jewish ancestry.


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