Question of the Week: Do you have Eastern European roots?

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Do you have Eastern European roots? Tell us about them with an answer below! You could also answer on Facebook or share  the question image on your social media to get your family and friends talking.

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Yes l live in Australia. My  ancestors on my paternal side are from Scotland, and date back to the Vikings.  I also have Scandinavian  in my DNA

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My husband side has ancestors in Poland, Germany, Austria. I love researching the Polish records ❤️

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I see a lot of places I've always considered to be more Western or maybe North- Northwestern Europe as opposed to Eastern European but I have both fairly equally...which is interesting genetically speaking because one parents has virtually no DNA to show these regions and the other parents shows low single digit comparisons whereas my DNA will match to those same commuities (including Belarus/ Russia / Latvia / Poland etc) with the low end usually around 25-30%-so instead of my usual (Cheers!) Here are some others...

 Na zdrowie! Terviseks! Priekā!

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Map based on QotW answers.

Answer 1

https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/%D0%A0%D1%8E%D1%80%D0%B8%D0%BA%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%B8%D1%87%D0%B8-2 My 28th Great-grand-father!

Answer 2

My father's family (both maternal and paternal) emigrated from Lithuania to Boston, Mass. in the early 1900s.

Answer 3

You bet.

Grandpa was listed as a Slovak born in Hungary when his mother brought him to America, along with his younger brother and sister, to join his father. Eventually each of the three kids took a different spelling of the surname; Sabo, Sabol, and Szabo. 

My grandmother came over to America from what was then Czechoslovakia to join her brother who had a boarding house where my grandfather was living.

Answer 4

Yes, I do! My mother's parents were both from Galicia (Poland/Austria) and came to the US about 1909. Their surnames were Ochab and Salamon. My father's mother's family came from Bohemia. Their surname was Blecha. My great grandfather immigrated in the 1880s. They all settled in New Bedford, Massachusetts.

Answer 5

Not confirmed yet but there's high chances my 3x GG José Moschiar was of Hungarian origin despite being from Aquilea, Friuli, Italy

Answer 6

I found out this past year my grandfather was born in Hungary much to my surprise. No one in my family new he was Hungarian. They though he was Irish because he changed his name upon arriving in the US. His mother was Czech and father Hungarian. I'm 85%  Irish ans 15 % Baltic. My sister had 2 mother's day's this year! Hungarian mothers day is celebrated one week before US mother day according to Google calendar. haha

Answer 7

Yes, both my parents emigrated from Hungary during the 1956 revolution.  Although both parents had aunts/uncles that had come over earlier.

Answer 8

I also have Eastern European roots. My paternal grandmother---her Dad's father was from Posen, Prussia (today's Poznan, Poland)!! : ) And, as well, I have Hungarian roots, from Borostyanko, Vas, Hungary, from my mother's father who was born there!

Answer 9

My French side is probably eventually connected to the Bulgaria region ... "Bar" ...

Answer 10

My great Uncles wifes family all originate from Bohemia.
Surnames of: Karl, Wirth, Remiger, Kalbarn, Dobner, Krippner, Russek, Fritsch, Schramm, Schaffer, Schuster.
From the districts/towns of Mantau, Untersekercham, Auherzen, Dobrazan, Cech Probnitz Moravia Austria, and Tlutznau nurscah Bohemia Austria.Kostelzen Bohemia, Worhabschen Bohemia, Staab Bohemia, Stříbro Bohemia Czechoslovakia, Wasseraujedz, Stich.
To name a few!!
Its an ongoing research project for me...

Answer 11

Yes, very distant, very far back. They're technically Ukrainian, but stem from a Viking line. Rurik conquered & settled down As Grand Prince of Novgorod & Kiev/Kyiv, down his line you run into Grand Prince, Yaroslav I, the Wise, who married Princess Ingegerd Olofsdotter, daughter of Olof Skoetkonung Eriksson, King of Sweden & Estrid of the Obdorites. They had Princess Anna/Anne Yaroslavna, who married Henri Capet I, King of France, They had Philip Capet I, King of France! Jack MacDonald-Hilton.

Answer 12

Yes, my paternal Ida  Auguste Wilhelmina Petersohn grandmother was from Grumsdorf, Kr. Neustetten, Pommern, Prussia.  My paternal grandfather's parents August Friedrich Fick was from Kr. Saatzig and Anna Sophia Krause, was from Kr. Pyritz, Pommern, Prussia

Answer 13

Entirely Eastern European. My ancestors came from what's now Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, and Latvia.

Answer 14

Yup. My maternal grandmother was a ware bride from Germany. I also submitted for a dna test and found I am of Ashkenazi descent also on my father's side.

Also my ex came from Poland in 1975. So my kids are 1/2 that and my Ashkenazi together

Answer 15

My paternal great grandmother was Henriette Schwandt. Her father was Johann Ludwig Schwandt (born 1800 in Echfier Deutsche Krone West Prussia). Her mother was Caroline Wilhelmine Zuch (born 1804 in Tankow Friedenburg Neumark Brandenburg Prussia. They were both living in Emielenthal Deutsche Krone when they died.

I live in Queensland Australia.

Answer 16

My biological family are from Lithuania and Latvia.

A cousin has created an extensive website with our and many other families

https://www.edgoldberg.com/TNGFiles/browsetrees.php

Part of the additions I've made are KOPPERT from Germany, with ancestors in Holland and Poland.

If anyone is knowledgeable, I am happy to add you as a trusted member in order to further the global bush

Answer 17

Definitely. My mother is 99% Eastern European and my father 30%. My Mother born was in Silesia, now Poland.

Answer 18

Yes, my grandfather and his parents emigrated from Romania to NZ in 1905. His brother emigrated to Australia. I understand through family talk and notes that my great-grandparents also were from Romania. Their parents may have been from other parts of Eastern Europe. I have found it very difficult to trace their ancestry. Family last names are Altman and Negrescu. My Altman and Negrescu great-grandfathers were both tailors. My grandfather was a furniture carver and sculptor; he set up his own business in NZ.

Answer 19

Yes, my great great grandfather was born in what was Hungary and is now a border town in Austria. They were German, but my DNA shows a reasonable amount of Eastern European background.

Answer 20

My maternal ancestors were from the Bohemia and Moravian area of what appears to now be in the countries of the Czech Republic and Slovakia. Some records also state Austria. I am brick walled due to a language barrier.

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Ždánice is one of the place names for some of my ancestors.