Your Ancestors

[Olaf The Great]

Is it even possible to trace your ancestors back to like 1400?

My family has several books that trace our ancestry back far, mine even goes to the 800's.

It has a lot of names but few stories, one notable one is a rather tall guy Egil Skalurgrimsson that axed a kid when he was 8.

[Horatius Flaccus]

There are enough examples of colonial powers massacring the people in their colonies. We Dutch for example have the massacre at the Banda Islands.

[Hax]

Did the English slaughtered the Zulus or Indian natives?

Eh...yes, they actually kinda did!

[brennas]

Eh...yes, they actually kinda did!

So...why attacking always the Conquistadores?

[baal_amon]

So...why attacking always the Conquistadores?

I imagine its the bad propaganda, afterall, like you said, the casualities was for war... the atrocities came after that... but the crimes after war, inflicted on the defeated wasnt exclusive of the spanish, that happen in many wars across the history of mankind... but in the case of spanish in the America,wasnt the massacre the important, it was the mixing of the blood, that make the real diference with other wars, that create a mixed new culture, with elements of both, the aborigen and Iberian... the spanish american culture ( cultura hispanoamericana). There is the real consecuence. i am a consecuence of that jejeje

[Hax]

So...why attacking always the Conquistadores?

Two wrongs don't make a right. The Conquistadors were still murderers. As were the English colonists.

Seriously, can't we close this thread? It's going nowhere and I don't think it's fit for these forums.

[sumskilz]

Seriously, can't we close this thread? It's going nowhere and I don't think it's fit for these forums.

Okay, so it doesn't have anything to do with DotS but I don't see the harm in letting it continue. Though if the Dutch and Spanish feel they must argue about la leyenda negra, they can take it to Vetigia Vetustatis. I added an off-topic label to the subject if that makes you feel any better.

[Hax]

It does!

[brennas]

I added an off-topic label to the subject if that makes you feel any better.

I don't give a damn
I was just trying to do something useful on this thread.....and I failed

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Two wrongs don't make a right.

Yes they do.

[tibu17]

My anchestors are germans and poles and hungarian nobles and cuman nobles.
I have german name but this name is little different.

[Ixor_Drakar]

Im sure my ancestors were killing each other at one point or another. On my father's side I'm french which is where I get my last name Juckette and I have no idea what it means and Dutch, van der Heyden. On my mother's side I am Polish and Lithuanian, Olshefski and Miskunish. That side all migrated here to the U.S. in the early 1900's. Juckettes have been here since colonial times. My dutch grandmother was adopted so I don't have any information about that heritage unfortunately. Safe to say I'm descended from poor record keepers .

[Co22]

I don't know much of my ancestors but it is said that my last name , Wisse, is old Dutch for "the sure" ( I don't know how to translate it correctly) but it is related to a guy who joined a crusade. Thus guy was very good with bow and arrow and he was very sure of his shot. That is also the reason why our family weapon has 3 golden arrows in it. Our family comes from the dutch province Zeeland (Sealand).

[Hax]

I don't know much of my ancestors but it is said that my last name , Wisse, is old Dutch for "the sure" ( I don't know how to translate it correctly) but it is related to a guy who joined a crusade. Thus guy was very good with bow and arrow and he was very sure of his shot. That is also the reason why our family weapon has 3 golden arrows in it. Our family comes from the dutch province Zeeland (Sealand).

Dat is geen Nederland meer! Dat is bijna...Vlaanderen! >:|

[Heart of Madness]

I claim descent from many different English houses. For one Plantagenet. Although I'm mainly Greek and Italian, I'm also part English.

[Co22]

Dat is geen Nederland meer! Dat is bijna...Vlaanderen! >:|

kom jij daarvandaan dan toevallig? ;-)

[Hax]

kom jij daarvandaan dan toevallig? ;-)

Ach nee, hoewel ik Vlaanderen zeer zeker meer waardeer dan het huidige Nederland, zowel politiek als cultureel. Zelf kom ik uit Driebergen, bij Utrecht.

[brennas]

Ach nee, hoewel ik Vlaanderen zeer zeker meer waardeer dan het huidige Nederland, zowel politiek als cultureel. Zelf kom ik uit Driebergen, bij Utrecht.

It was easier when both of you spoke Spanish...

SHAAKMAT!

Btw, nobody is going to close this thread?

[Miroslav Klose]

It was easier when both of you spoke Spanish...

SHAAKMAT!

Btw, nobody is going to close this thread?

You mean schaakmat

My ancestors are German/Prussian/Twents.

Ik woon in Enschede

[Hax]

It was easier when both of you spoke Spanish...

Don't forget I'm related to the Almoravids too, so, shut up, peasant! I've not forgotten about Toledo Tulaytulah, infidel dog! ¬¬