What do you know about your ancestors?
I learned that my mom's family, Liu, are descendants of 刘邦 Liu Bang, emperor of the Han Dynasty (Yes, I'm a princess :P). My aunt did genealogy research and confirmed it. How cool is that?
And I'd like to think that once upon a time, all the Lees 李 (dad's family) in the world were relatives, so it might be likely that I'm related to 李白 Li Bao, 李小龙 Bruce Lee,and 李连杰 Jet Li. I learned 3 kinds of martial arts growing up, so it might be in my blood and poet Li Bai's a writer, so...
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My paternal great grandfather was a Lithuanian writer and freedom fighter and when I first visited his grave, I was pleased to see that the government had erected a memorial in his honour.Also that side of the family had many teachers including my grandmother. My paternal grandfather was drafted into the Czar's army, then later served as a Colonel in Independent Lithuania's army and was awarded 4 medals for bravery.He and his family were forced to flee their country during WW2 in order to avoid being sent to Siberia by the invading Soviet army.His brother who was a priest was transported to the concentration camp at Belsen and was awarded Martyr of the Faith after his gassing there. My grandfather's other 7 brothers perished during the war.My maternal ancestors were farmers and my grandparents also managed to find refuge in Australia after WW2 where they had to work anywhere the government sent them to, to pay for their passage here.
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Hmm..
I know that the white part of me is English and the Native American part is Seminole. The black part...I don't know what country that's from, but I think it'd be cool to find out.
I do;however, know that one of my GREAT grandfathers or grandmothers was a runaway slave, and they ran away and entered the tribe of the Seminoles (tis how I got my Native American part)
My great grandfather was friends with Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and drove him to a church to make a speech. He said "This one's [Dr. King] gonna be a good one; I know it!"
I don't know of any people, but your princess discovery is so cool! It makes me wanna go into my geneology and see what I can find out.
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a long long time ago, my ancestors came to earth on a spaceship. later, they decided to settle in this big old rock.
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well, there's a huge population in China,your words remind me of an old Chinese saying that "五百年前是一家" which means two strangers or friends who share the same family name might be relatives 500 years ago.So that is quite common when two people meet in China, who happened to share the same family name, they may laugh and say this sentence to each other.
As for me, my father's name wong or wang 王. which may make me related to 王安石 Wang Anshi (an author and statesman in Song Dynasty)王羲之 Wang Xizhi (a calligrapher in Eastern Jin period)
my mum's pu 蒲is a very rare familly name in China, the only one comes to my mind is 蒲松龄 Pu Songling ( an author in Qing Dynasty)
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My ancestors came from China...that's all I know.
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