What Country Are You From ?

[Captain Jim]

Tropical Tip of Texas... though we do wander a lot.

[Pitar]

Originally Posted by Kip Carter

I'm from a country called Alabam. We are currently occupied by a foreign power but the south is gonna rise again!

It floats?

[Pitar]

The land of the big BX (base exchange). Born in West Germany and have been globe trotting under my own steam since I turned 18. I claim the US but will probably renounce citizenship at a certain point to retire abroad. The US is the only country that imposes its income tax laws on its citizenry even if their total earnings are from employment off shore. That's total income, meaning, a foreign born wife who does not have US citizenship will also have to pay a portion of her income to Uncle Sugar if filing jointly. The only way around that is to renounce citizenship. Currently about 3000 people per year are doing just that.

At the moment I'm near Disney World in central Florida just off the I-4 corridor.

[Steve DeRosa]

NYC all the way - born on the Lower East Side, moved to Brooklyn in time for the Dodgers' last season (but a bit too late for the trolleys), lived there (Gravesend/Bensonhurst) for 50 years, presently in Staten Island...

Originally Posted by zabdart

"Canarsie... where everybody looks just the same..." -- Frank Zappa

Used to shop at Royal Music on Rockaway Parkway & Seaview Avenue once in a while; this guy was far enough off the beaten path that there was always a great selection of NOS - he still had brand-new Kalamazoo Epiphones and pre-Norlin Gibsons hanging in his showcases in the early-80's, and an ex-bandmate scored a circa-1966 Harmony Sovereign 12-string with warranty/tags and original SSC (one of two they found in the basement) in 1994. Had some friends living out in Canarsie back when - walked off into the swamps (excuse me, "nature preserve" ) down by the Belt Parkway one day and nobody ever heard from them again ...

Originally Posted by Kip Carter

I'm from a country called Alabam. We are currently occupied by a foreign power but the South is gonna rise again!

When you do, count me in...

[kydave]

Originally Posted by Teleman52

I want to know where you and kydave get this info?

I'm interested in my own family history, I have ancestry.com actually but I've only paid for the american records so far and actually seem to be stuck right now. There's just a blank spot on both sides of my family tree at this point.

Just curious, were these stories passed down through the family? I wish I had stuff like that. All I know right now is that we've been here in Texas for a long long time

On Dad's side of the family I was raised with it.

Back in the' 20s a lady (Lillie DuPuy VanCullin Harper) with a family having ties to mine did serious research and wrote a book called "Colonial Men & Times: Containing the Journal of Col. Daniel Trabue". Later someone used some of that material and wrote "Westward Into Kentucky" about early colonial Trabues.

The Men & Times is a rare book and in the Kentucky Room at the main Louisville Public Library, but we had a copy in our home as I grew up.

In the early 2000's someone did a paperback reprint in a limited run.

[Teleman52]

Originally Posted by Pitar

It floats?

Haha that's pretty clever

She's a floater!!!

[chitz]

U.S.A. Florida's panhandle.

[Photojeep]

I was born in a US Navy hospital in Great Lakes, Illinois (the "S" is silent)
For the past 34 years I've lived in Las Vegas. Yep, THAT Las Vegas.
Wayne Newton sends his regards...

PJ

[Wade Hampton]

After I mentioned that I have French Huguenot ancestry, Teleman wrote:

Originally Posted by Teleman52

I want to know where you and kydave get this info?

I'm interested in my own family history, I have ancestry.com actually but I've only paid for the american records so far and actually seem to be stuck right now. There's just a blank spot on both sides of my family tree at this point.

Just curious, were these stories passed down through the family? I wish I had stuff like that. All I know right now is that we've been here in Texas for a long long time

Tele, it's just from old family stories being told repeatedly - a lot of these stories would get recited when we'd visit Charleston where my mother was from. It all checks out, though, and is well documented.

There were lots of similar stories on my father's side, as well, dating as far back as the French & Indian War. My mother's family stories go back further, to France and the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre, where some kinfolk were killed and others escaped by the skin of their teeth.

The American Civil War (or War Between The States, as it was officially called at my house) is like the day before yesterday to both sides of my family.

So, yes, the stories got told and retold, and growing up my kids heard them, too. Presumably they'll inflict them on their own children.


Wade Hampton Miller

[pf400]

Eight nonsense answers don't help, but here's a summary of all posts to date:

United States of America - from almost all areas
Canada - from alll areas except the prairie provinces in the middle
England and the UK -all areas
Germany - Berlin
Born in China , residing in USA
From England but living in USA
From West Germany but living in USA
Serbia
Born in USA, living in Turkey
Sweden - south
Austrailia
Indonesia
France - Paris

...others ?

[DesolationAngel]

Born 'n' raised in England... lived in Paris, France... then California, USA... now beautiful British Columbia.

[flaggerphil]

I was born in Seattle, Washington, U.S.A. In the U.S. I have also lived in Utah, Delaware, Alabama, Louisiana, California, Colorado, Hawaii, Illinois, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Missouri, and currently live on the Space Coast in Florida.

I've also lived in the Philippines and Japan.

[sbeirnes]

Raised on a farm in southern Ontario, near Owen Sound.

I have lived in Brampton (a suburb of Toronto) since 1988 so now I am a city boy but I still own a nice littlemlog cabin on a lake 10 minutes from where I grew up.

Great part of the world.

[Saltamontes]

Born in Chile, moved to Alberta, Canada in 1976, been here ever since

[Kingshill]

Originally Posted by Brucebubs

South.
Deep South.
No, further ...
Try the Southern Hemisphere.
Australia.
(.. now metric b.t.w. )

I'm even further south, Tasmania, Australia. Home of the Tasmanian devil.