Re: Any Swedish ancestry, "North-Flower"?

Post #48,323 by molbdron 8/6/02 5:56:25 AM Reply	Re: Any Swedish ancestry, "North-Flower"? Yes. I am a "mutt" Swedish/Finnish/Canadian/Scotch/American Indian and God only knows what else.......... As far as I know that is the translation of the surname. Some of the mis-pronunciations of the surname are a riot!! ........if it's free...... it's for me ;) (Syntactically corrected)
Post #48,328 by ben_tilly 8/6/02 6:42:10 AM Reply	Sounds like me Replace the Swedish with some Finnish suspected to be descended from Swedes. Canadian isn't a race so give me that nationality. Replace Scottish with Irish (anyways the name Scottish derives from scotti, and old name for the Irish), and drop some hints about what might or might not lie in the "God only knows what else" bit. That's me. :-) Cheers, Ben "Perl is like vice grips. You can do anything with it, and it's the wrong tool for every job." --Unknown
Post #48,424 by molbdron 8/6/02 3:25:32 PM Reply	Re: Sounds like me Very interesting point regarding Swedish/Finnish. As I understand it for me the territory where my "folks" came from was a Finnish island under Swedish rule (I don't remember which island at this point......... I know...... I got homework to do to figure which one it was.......). I am not sure which of decent I truly am (I have been lost a major part of my life so.... it is a space I am comfortable with). Scottish/Irish at a base level Celtic ........ would explain my appreciation of Spinal Tap :) Good to "meet" BTW........ I have heard good things about you but I "Plead the Fifth" as to the source ...... ;) ........if it's free...... it's for me ;) (Syntactically corrected)
Post #48,489 by ben_tilly 8/6/02 9:50:47 PM Reply	Don't believe anything you have heard about me... Unless it is that you should give me all of your money! BTW why are you looking for protection to an amendment of a foreign country's Constitution (assuming that you are Canadian)? :-P Cheers, Ben "Perl is like vice grips. You can do anything with it, and it's the wrong tool for every job." --Unknown
Post #48,490 by bepatient 8/6/02 9:53:11 PM Reply	Correct...we understate everything about you ;-) You were born...and so you're free...so Happy Birthday! _{Laurie Anderson} [link\|mailto:bepatient@aol.com\|BePatient]
Post #48,501 by ben_tilly 8/6/02 11:01:19 PM Reply	Except stories about how much beer Scott got me to drink? "Perl is like vice grips. You can do anything with it, and it's the wrong tool for every job." --Unknown
Post #48,532 by CRConrad 8/7/02 2:09:30 PM Reply	"Ain't no such thing", alt. "Used to be all of it". The Flower of the North confides: As I understand it for me the territory where my "folks" came from was a Finnish island under Swedish rule (I don't remember which island at this point......... There's no such thing as "a Finnish island under Swedish rule"; there haven't been any border disputes for pretty much exactly two centuries now, so all islands under Finnish rule are Finnish and all islands under Swedish rule are Swedish. Oh, sure, there are pockets of the opposite language (and thus I guess you could say "culturally Finnish islands under Swedish rule") in both countries... but everybody is pretty much satisfied with the citizenship they have; I know for sure that Finland-Swedes cheer on Finnish, not Swedish, athletes at international competitions. Unless you mean your ancestors emigrated before 1809; then all Finnish islands -- as well as the mainland -- were "under Swedish rule", because they were just simply a part of Sweden. But that was no kind of foreign "rule" (as your way of putting it seems to imply); there never was an independent entity "Finland" before the Czar created the semi-autonomus Grand Duchy out of his newly-acquired ex-Swedish territories. Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #48,558 by molbdron 8/7/02 4:02:03 PM Reply	Re: "Ain't no such thing", alt. "Used to be all of it". The statement is what I got from my father. I do not know if my "folks" were originally Finnish or Swedish though the Surname points to the latter. Your point is well taken :) ........if it's free...... it's for me ;) (Syntactically corrected)
Post #48,373 by CRConrad 8/6/02 11:24:18 AM Reply	Aha... Thanks. And in case you were the least unsure about your "AFAIK", from now on you can be certain: Yes, "North-Flower" IS the literal English translation from Swedish of your surname. (That's why I sked in the first place, you see... Want some meatballs? Bork bork bork! :-) Christian R. Conrad Microsoft is a true reflection of Bill Gates' personality - the sleaziest, most unethical, ugliest little rat's ass the world has seen unto this time. -- [link\|http://z.iwethey.org/forums/render/content/show?contentid=42971\|Andrew Grygus]
Post #48,427 by molbdron 8/6/02 3:37:05 PM Reply	Re: Aha... Thanks. I appreciate the confirmation of translation :) Pass on the meatballs.....it HAS been a while since I have had gl\ufffdgg...and probably better that way ;) ........if it's free...... it's for me ;) (Syntactically corrected)

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