XmisterIS
Purveyor of fine nonsense
I tried to think back through my ancestry and imagine what my ancestors would have been like. Here's what I came up with (starting from me). I've prefixed each entry with <number>G, where <number> is the number of generations back from me. E.g. "2G" refers to my grandparents. The date in brackets is roughly when the person would have been born. I'm assuming approximately 30 years between generations.
0G (19??) - Me - living in South of England, sitting at a computer, middle-class man, living and working in a small post-war town in the middle of 'Aamshur. (ooaarr!)
1G (1945) - Mother - Went to America in the 1960's to study Art in California. She was (is!) a hippy.
2G (1915) - Grandfather - Bomber pilot during WW2. Came from North Durham, spoke Geordie.
2G (1920?) - Grandmother - Daughter of a Norwegian couple. More than that I don't know (she died when my mother was very small).
3G (1890) - Great-grandfather - gunner in the trenches in WW1. Also from Durham. Coal miner.
7g (1770) - Probably last member of my family to work on the land - after that, I expect they all worked in the "dark satanic mills" and mines of the industrial revolution. Would have lived up in Durham somewhere.
13G (1620) - Would have been an adult at the time of the Civil War ... I wonder if he was a royalist or a parliamentarian? Would have spoken an old dialect of Geordie, a bit like Old Norse.
19G (1410) - Could have been a peasant working on the land or a soldier at one of the numerous battles of the Hundred Years War. Would have spoken a Northern dialect of Middle English, a lot like Old Norse.
33G (990) - VIKING!!!! GRRRR!!!!
Possibly one of the last of the Viking Horde that invaded the North of England and went around raping, pillaging and generally being brutal. I hope he was a Berserker. I like the thought of being descended from a Berserker. 
(See attached image ).
65G (Birth of Christ) - Probably belonged to a nomadic tribe that lived up in what is now Scandinavia and Siberia, living rather like the Nomadic Sami people do today (I believe there are very few of them left).
So there we have it! That's my wild guesstimate of where I came from and what it may have been like!
What's yours?
0G (19??) - Me - living in South of England, sitting at a computer, middle-class man, living and working in a small post-war town in the middle of 'Aamshur. (ooaarr!)
1G (1945) - Mother - Went to America in the 1960's to study Art in California. She was (is!) a hippy.
2G (1915) - Grandfather - Bomber pilot during WW2. Came from North Durham, spoke Geordie.
2G (1920?) - Grandmother - Daughter of a Norwegian couple. More than that I don't know (she died when my mother was very small).
3G (1890) - Great-grandfather - gunner in the trenches in WW1. Also from Durham. Coal miner.
7g (1770) - Probably last member of my family to work on the land - after that, I expect they all worked in the "dark satanic mills" and mines of the industrial revolution. Would have lived up in Durham somewhere.
13G (1620) - Would have been an adult at the time of the Civil War ... I wonder if he was a royalist or a parliamentarian? Would have spoken an old dialect of Geordie, a bit like Old Norse.
19G (1410) - Could have been a peasant working on the land or a soldier at one of the numerous battles of the Hundred Years War. Would have spoken a Northern dialect of Middle English, a lot like Old Norse.
33G (990) - VIKING!!!! GRRRR!!!!
Possibly one of the last of the Viking Horde that invaded the North of England and went around raping, pillaging and generally being brutal. I hope he was a Berserker. I like the thought of being descended from a Berserker. (See attached image ).65G (Birth of Christ) - Probably belonged to a nomadic tribe that lived up in what is now Scandinavia and Siberia, living rather like the Nomadic Sami people do today (I believe there are very few of them left).
So there we have it! That's my wild guesstimate of where I came from and what it may have been like!
What's yours?
