Where are you from? European Ashkenazi version

Log in / Sign Up

List of Forums + New Post Recipe Box Usergroups Following My Posts Bookmarks

Private Messages Rules New User Guide FAQ Advertise Contact Us

Forum -> Judaism

1 2 3 Next

View latest: 24h 48h 72h

Where are your great grandparents from?

France

[ 1 ]

Germany/Austria

16%

[ 12 ]

Poland

30%

[ 23 ]

Italy

[ 1 ]

Hungary

18%

[ 14 ]

USSR

18%

[ 14 ]

Netherlands/Belgium/Switzerland

[ 0 ]

Czechoslovakia

[ 4 ]

Romania

[ 3 ]

other: which?

[ 3 ]

Total Votes : 75

Ruchel ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:11 pm

The ultimate "where are you from" poll, revisited.
If you are not of EUROPEAN ASHKENAZI descent, please skip to the next poll! If you are of mixed ancestry you can vote in more than one poll. If you have more than one result in one poll vote for the one most of them were and post the other, anon. if you need!

Sorry for those I had to join together!

entropy ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:17 pm

As a Lithuanian I refuse to vote for any of those options!

chaylizi ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:20 pm

I'm from 4 of the above options, what do I do?

I'll just post here. I am from Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary & Russia.

Last edited by chaylizi on Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:21 pm; edited 1 time in total

↑ Ruchel ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:21 pm

Isn't Lithuania USSR?

If you are of 4 origins and not one with more ancestry, just post which ones if needed anonymous lol

↑ chaylizi ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:26 pm

I edited.

sequoia

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:29 pm

Since this poll is asking about our GREAT GRANDPARENTS, it's not ussr, it's the Russian Empire.

Isramom8 ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:40 pm

Do you realize that a person has 8 biological great-grandparents? (Not more, because at that time you couldn't have, say, the egg of one woman in the uterus of another.)
But I'd guess there could really only be 4 places of origin, because the man and woman would only have met if they lived near each other.
And the only way I can think of for one's grandparents could have met if they came from different countries was if they met in America.

4 of my great-grandparents were from Poland, 2 were from Russia, and 2 were from Hungary.
Two of my grandparents were born in America.

↑ entropy

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:52 pm

Ruchel wrote:

Isn't Lithuania USSR?

Sometimes. Other times it was Poland, which is why we can't even vote "other"!

↑ Ruchel ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:54 pm

I first started with more than 15 options. But you can only have ten, unfortunately.

Seraph ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 3:57 pm

Oh boy, this is complicated. Two of my grandparents were born in the US, one was born in Germany and one was born in belgium.
BUT...
My grandfather, american born,'s background is tracing back to tchernovitz, a city/village/idunnowhat in moldova/romania/Czechoslovakia depending on where the border was at the time. My american born grandmother's family traces back to hungary.
My german born grandmother's family traces back to spain, and my belgian born grandfather's family traces back to tchernovitz as well.

Raisin ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:03 pm

you can't post anon in this forum.

↑ Isramom8 ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:10 pm

My great grandparents are also from tchernovitz, in Poland, I thought. Maybe there was more than one town with that name? Berekson/Bergson. Are we cousins?

shalhevet ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:17 pm

entropy wrote:

Ruchel wrote:

Isn't Lithuania USSR?

Sometimes. Other times it was Poland, which is why we can't even vote "other"!

Wow. The land of the GRA, Reb Chaim Ozer Grodzinsky, the Chofetz Chaim, Reb Elchanan Wasserman, the Brisker Rov and many others just becomes an insignificant option that doesn't even get a choice. I'm in this with you, entropy.

↑ chaylizi ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:21 pm

I thought Radin was in Poland (sometimes).

↑ shalhevet

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:26 pm

chaylizi wrote:

I thought Radin was in Poland (sometimes).

A lot of Lithuania was sometimes somewhere else LOL

GetReal

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:40 pm

This is really confusing, most of us have great-grandparents from a few different countries. Personally, Russia, Poland, Germany and Czechoslovakia. This poll will be way off.

hadasa

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:43 pm

Chernovitz is currently in Ukraine, in am area called Bukovina, that used to be Romania.

I'm partly Russian, partly Lithuanian, partly Galician, I think some Hungarian mixed in as well...

↑ Ruchel ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:44 pm

So tell Yael. And anyone is allowed to start a poll so make a better one.

Last edited by Ruchel on Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:46 pm; edited 1 time in total

↑ Seraph ↓

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:45 pm

Isramom8 wrote:

My great grandparents are also from tchernovitz, in Poland, I thought. Maybe there was more than one town with that name? Berekson/Bergson. Are we cousins?

I've got Beizer and Horowitz sides from tchernovitz...
I doubt there was more than one tchernovitz. Can't be that common of a name of a city...

MaBelleVie

Sun, Dec 06 2009, 4:53 pm

Seraph wrote:

I have a grandmother from Czernowitz too- I usually refer to it as Romania, because that's what it was for most of WW2 (when borders really mattered). Now it's part of Ukraine. It's definitely a city though- it's the capital of the province of Bukovina.

Czernowitz had a large Jewish population, so I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few of us with great/grandparents from there. . .

Page 1 of 3

1 2 3 Next