A fun Question for the curious?

Question

I want to know the religion of your grandparents on both sides of your family and where you descend from - where your ancestors are from. I'm studying geneology and love the information. Thanks!

Answer 1

My mother's parents were Christians, descendants from England and Scotland. My father's mother was a devout Baptist and was of English decent. My grandfather on my father's side was Jewish and immigrated from Germany in the early 1900s.

They were all deceased before I was born except my maternal grandmother who died when I was five. I never knew my grandparents which I consider a great loss.

I am a devout Christian and so is my husband and our children.

Answer 2

All of my extended family is located in California. I was born in California.

Mother's side--

Grandmother was Catholic, although not really dedicatedly until she had a vision of the virgin mary, or she claimed to, its not like I was there...

Grandfather was, I don't think commitedly anything. Though he probably went along with Grandma to mass. He died before I was born.

Grandfather's side was originally from Scotland, I believe Aberdeen.

Grandmother's --I think originally way back when came over from Ireland.

Father's side

Grandfather -- I have no idea what his religion was. He and my grandmother on this side split up a year or so after they were married, and my grandmother didn't reveal my father's dad's identity until very shortly before his father (my grandfather) passed away.

Although I do know that he was primarily Welsh in familial orgin

Grandmother-- Majorly into Christian Science, unfortunately I do not know her long term orgins, though she was born somehwere in the South.

Answer 3

My mothers side is Christian. My great grandparents came from Russia, but were German immigrants living in Russia because the Russian goverment was offering land to anyone who wanted to become farmers. they migrated here is 1910.

My dads side is Mormon, My Grandma and grandpa had 14 kids and they are descendants of Native Americans (We have ancestors on the Cherokee "Trail of Tears")

Answer 4

Dad's side (both 2nd-generation Irish-Americans living in Brooklyn and later Long Island, NY): both grandparents were Roman Catholic. Dad was an atheist. Their Irish roots came from Cork, Kilkenny and Cavan, with a lone Kraut from Stuttgart mixed in for good measure.

Mom's side: Grandparents were off-the-boat Germans.

My grandmother (from the Herz Mts of north-central Germany) was some sort of Protestant Christian... German records call her "Evangelische" or something like that, but she was nothing like today's Evangelicals. Over here, she was in the Lutheran church for a long time. I never met my maternal grandfather (he was from the North Sea area of Ostfriesland, 10 miles form the Netherlands border); he was either Lutheran or Catholic. My mom was raised (in NJ) Lutheran, but switched to Reformed.

Answer 5

I recently read an obituary of an ancestor alive in the 1400's in Norway, He was Christian, which has been a common theme all the way to the present. I have a couple of great Uncles who settled in Alaska and have places named after them. I have the etched glass window of the farmhouse where my dad was born. He was the youngest of 12.

Answer 6

Mine's quite interesting (well it is to me). I'm English. Both my parents are from Liverpool, which is near-as-dammit Ireland. Both my Grandfathers where English Protestants (Bill Lloyd and Cecil Lewis) who married second-generation Irish Catholic girls (Kitty Doyle and May Cullen) and then converted to Catholicism. Bill's ancestry went back to Northern Ireland and from there back to Scotland (many Scots Protestants were settled in Nothern Ireland to try and flood Ireland with Protestantism). There's some Welsh in there as well (where else do you get a name like "Lloyd" from?).

Answer 7

Mother's parents-Christians, family descends from Ireland and England. Father's parents-Christians, family descends from France.

Answer 8

On my mother's side, my grandparents are Irish, English, French and Cherokee Indian. They were from the hills of Kentucky and Tennessee. They were Protestant (Pentecostal). On my father's side my grandparents were German Swiss from Switzerland; relocated to Indiana. They were Protestant also.

Answer 9

my mother is a 5th generation Canadian of Polish decent. Her ancestors were all Catholic as far as I know.
my father is a 1st generation Canadian of Polish decent. His father was raised Catholic and as far as we know, so were his ancestors on his father's side. His mother was an orphan of sorts. Her father dressed her one day, walked her down the road to a friends house and left her there, never to return or be heard from again (her mother had died). She was raised Catholic and came to Canada in the early 1900's.
I was raised Catholic, but now I am a born again Evangelical Christian, and I and my husband are raising our children in the faith.

Answer 10

My maternal grandmother is Muslim, she came from a very strong Muslim family (her father was Arab Muslims). My grandfather was roman catholic. So from their twelve children,six became Muslims and the rest are catholic and protestant (my mom is protestant).
My father's side of the family, my grandfather was a pastor. He left his royal family when he converted to Christianity. Although he still carrying his royal name all his life. (The royal family in Java Island, especially Jogjakarta, are 100% Muslims) I don't know my grandmother, she died after WWII. But all my father's brothers and sisters are strong Christians.
I grew up in a christian family, raised and live by it. I became born again 7 years ago.