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K-97 said
The coolest fact I know (should probably say I am Ugandan) is that on my Mum's side are relations to the Royal Family of Buganda (Province in Uganda). So theoretically if I wait long enough and a lot of people die I could be King of Buganda.
Better start hiring some very discrete hitmen. XD
Anyways, on my dad's side I'm primarily German with the occasional Irish thrown in there and French that goes back to the earliest days of the colonies in Canada. My grandmother's maiden name was Des Islets, which means 'Of the Islands', which was a very common surname (or it's many variants) for immigrants from France who were coming to start over and settle the New World. Someone on my dad's side of the family was pretty damn meticulous in keeping track of the family tree, so I know with a pretty solid deal of certainty where my family's from part way through the 1800s onwards. A particular point of interest was that somewhere in my grandmother's line, a Des Islets married a Frontenac, which may mean I am distantly related to Count Frontenac, a very famous and predominant governor of Quebec who was something of a badass. I have no way to confirm this past the coincidence of name and the fact that both families came from around the Quebec city region. If that's the case, it probably accounts for a great deal of my stubbornness. The lineage attached to my surname is German, and most of my German ancestors came from a region called Alsace-Lorianne around the turn of the century up to about 1910ish, back when it was under German control and before the Great War. Pretty sure they settled around Toronto/ Kitchener and my family's primarily been located in South Ontario ever since.
My mom's side I know far less about, I'm pretty sure it's mostly Scottish, although there's probably a good chance of Irish and English in there, too. No clue when they all immigrated over here, or generally where they're all from, it's kind of an enigma to me.