"I'm a WHAT NOW?!" or the Unusual Anscestors Club

[Reverend Joe]

Earlier today, I made a rather odd discovery in my Org wanderings: there is a strong hypothesis that suggests that Eastern European Jews may be partially (read: to a great extent) descended from the Khazars. I did a litlle research, and this is indeed a strong theory. I, myself, am half Eastern European Jew- Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian. So, whether it is actually true or not, I hereby declare myself to be partially descended from Jewish Khazars.

Getting to the point, I have decided to form a loose club for people of unusual descent; whether it be from obscure peoples, races that were long thought extinct, or just plain odd, you are welcome.

[Geoffrey S]

Would British count as 'odd'?

[Steppe Merc]

No one is sure how many Khazars became Jews, and evantually most converted to Islam anyway... But it is possible, certaintly in Russia and other areas where the Khazars lived.

Well I'm Polish, and while some Polish nobility in the 17th century I think claimed Sarmatian ancestory, I'm not sure how much proof there was, and it was mainly because they were jealous of Western Europian's claims of being decedanded from the Romans. So while I would like to claim Sarmatian ancestory, I can't in all good concieous do so.

My uncle was a Lieutanant in the Civil War for the Union... My uncle has his sabers. I'm still angry at my grandma for giving him the swords instead of my Dad... all he got were some letters.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

30% Bavarian (my Berlin cousins say I speak like one too )
40% Swabian (is that the right English translation?)
30% Prussian/Bradenburger

In other words....

[King Ragnar]

Im sure i have a mix of Irish British and scottish, i was born in thbe wrong country because everytime i visit Scotland i feel at home i mean i just love the place the people its great.

[Uesugi Kenshin]

Despite being mostly Irish and Scottish I have a tiny bit of Bohemian, which I get from my grandmother who has a very small amount of Bohemian, but I'm not sure where it came from before that.

[Mouzafphaerre]

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All Muslim Turks up to where I can dig. My grand-grandmother might have had some Kurd connection though. No Asiatic features can be observed in anybody in any branch of our family. Seems there must have been a long, settled period of saturation before the era of perpetual migration that is documented.
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[Reverend Joe]

Who are the people who have shovel teeth and knots on the back of their head? I forget their name, but where are they? I would say that qualifies as an unusual ancestry.

[JimBob]

about 1/100th Cree but you'd never tell. And the rest is combined Euroness with your Dane, German, Irish, English...

[GoreBag]

Nothing too unusual here. Scottish with some German and Dutch sprinkled in. I know a guy who's 1/8 native Siberian, though.

[Strike For The South]

Italin and welsh prettty plian for an american

[ShadesPanther]

I am Northern Irish (yooo England ) although I suppose I could say Scottish and a bit of English as thats where they came from during the Ulster Plantation, So basically Ulster-Scot.

[Steppe Merc]

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All Muslim Turks up to where I can dig. My grand-grandmother might have had some Kurd connection though. No Asiatic features can be observed in anybody in any branch of our family. Seems there must have been a long, settled period of saturation before the era of perpetual migration that is documented.
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What country do you live in? Just wondering, because I know that Turkish tribes absorbed the Iranian tribes that they defeated, certaintly causing genetic mixings.

[BDC]

I am Northern Irish (yooo England ) although I suppose I could say Scottish and a bit of English as thats where they came from during the Ulster Plantation, So basically Ulster-Scot.

Remember the Scots were Irish anyway...

Some of my distant relatives were prime ministers and viceroys of India and all sorts of exciting stuff. Then you hit the 20th century and they all go into the Church...

[Viking]

I got some danish genes. That`s weird.

[ShadesPanther]

Yes, We went over, decided Scotland isn't that great and came back again

[Azi Tohak]

"My granpa was lesbian, so that makes me a quarter lesbian."

-Eric Cartman

Azi

[Reverend Joe]

Yes, We went over, decided Scotland isn't that great and came back again

Well, technically, you started out in Scotland, then left for Ireland, then came back several hundred years later, then went back to Ireland... Yeah, I would call that pretty wierd.

[LeftEyeNine]

I am a Yoruk who are mobilized pure Turkish people. Yoruks have many "tribes" in detail. My whole family lives and have roots in city of Aydin. It is the city that 50-60 kilometers away, Mustafa Kemal Ataturk's father's family were living once. They were Yoruks who had roots in Karaman as well. I am proud of that and there is a strong probability that our Yoruk tribes were close and related. Because his families and my whole family have similar looks. I mean all habitants living around these parts.

[Mouzafphaerre]

What country do you live in? Just wondering, because I know that Turkish tribes absorbed the Iranian tribes that they defeated, certaintly causing genetic mixings.

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Turkey.
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[LeftEyeNine]

Mouzzafphaere, which city ?

[Mouzafphaerre]

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Istanbul.
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[LeftEyeNine]

Memnun oldum, ben Izmir 'deyim..

"Glad to meet you, I am in Izmir"

I never saw you in the backroom. You keep away from politics, I think ?