Heritage Display March 2017

By Rebecca Tischler, Reference Department

Last Month, we had an interactive display upstairs. Patrons could add their ancestry to a world map and see where some of their neighbors came from as well.  Some had many ancestries, and some only had one, but it was interesting to see how diverse our patrons were.

And those who didn’t know their background, we pointed them to the Special Collections department, where patrons can get some help doing genealogical research with databases such as Ancestry.com and HeritageQuest.  If you want to know more about where your family comes from, ask one of our wonderful Special Collections Librarians for help.

But for now, take a look at all the responses that were left at the display.

1. English, Welsh, Polish, German, French, Scandinavian, Scottish
2. Welsh
3. Greek, English
4. Snowbeast (AKA Canadian)
5. Venezuela
6. Indian
7. Hispanic
8. British
9. Tamil, Hindi
10. Prussia, Austria, Germany
11. Italy, Germany
12. Norwegian, German
13. African American, German
14. German, Prussian, Polish
15. Scottish
16. Thai
17. English, Welsh, Italian
18. Tamil, Hindi
19. Alien
20. Chinese
21. China
22. English, Scottish, Norman French
23. Mongolia
24. French, Great Britain
25. German
26. Brazilian
27. Mexican, Spanish
28. Mexican
29. French, Mexican
30. Italy, Germany, Europe
31. English, Irish
32. German, French, Irish
33. Cuba
34. Armenian
35. Scottish, English, French
36. Swedish, German
37. Deutschland
38. Swiss-German, English
39. French, Irish
40. Polish, English, Irish
41. China
42. Chinese, Hunan
43. Thai, Chinese
44. German, Swiss
45. Antarctican
46. Kiwi
47. Canadian
48. Pennsylvania Dutch
49. Ireland, Germany
50. Guatemala
51. At this library we found out the Hill family from Texas is the Hill family from ESSEX U.K.!
52. Irish, Italian
53. Norwegian, Icelandic
54. Czech, Dutch, German, English
55. Norwegian, French, Polish
56. Brazilian, Italian, Irish, English
57. Irish, German
58. Mexican
59. Tartar Kazakhstan
60. Italy
61. Swedish, English, Scottish, Irish
62. Scottish, Scandinavian, Polynesian, German
63. Mexicana Latin of African and Spanish ancestry
64. Venezuela, Peru
65. Black, Irish, Blackfoot
66. Balkar
67. Cherokee, English, French, Scottish, Irish, German, Swiss, Nordic
68. Germany
69. Mexico
70. Mexican
71. Spanish, Mexican
72. Columbian
73. Portuguese, Spanish, Brazilian
74. Mexican
75. Indian, German, Dutch, English
76. Italy
77. Syrian
78. European
79. Vietnamese
80. Anglo-Irish, German-Polish
81. Scottish, Welsh, English
82. Spanish, Scottish, French, Polish, Welsh, Irish
83. Haitian
84. Irish, Cherokee
85. Spanish, Italian, Greek, English, Scottish, Irish, Moroccan
86. Indian, Irish, German, English
87. German, English, Irish, Dutch
88. Spanish, Scottish, Irish, English, Danish, German, French, Ecuadorian, Incan
89. Ghanaian, Haitian
90. German, Irish, Scottish
91. English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, French, Swiss German, Cherokee
92. Haiti
93. Celts, France, Ireland, England/Wales
94. French, Scottish, Cherokee
95. Canadian
96. Italian