1. What is your lineage? Where are your ancestors from?
Well, on my mother's side, I have Austrian and Irish. We have Albers and Mayer along with Mulcahey and Killoran.
On my father's side, where the Frizzell comes from, we have English, with Faulkner. We always thought Frizzell was French, but I learned later it was a corruption of the French "fraises" or strawberries, and was more commonly related to Fraser/Frasier, which are Scottish. So I'm not sure on my dad's side what we all are. But I do know that we have Irish back in there somewhere too.
2. Of those countries, which would you most like to visit?
I want to go back to Ireland and England, but I've always had a desire to go to Scotland, which wasn't solved by a trip to I took to Great Britain that didn't have an extension to Scotland like I thought, but instead an extension in Ireland. Not that I minded visiting the Connemara region and Galway for those three days, but I did originally intend to go to Scotland.
I wouldn't mind visiting Austria, but it's not a burning desire.
3. Which would you least like to visit? Why?
Austria, I guess. The language would be part of it - I don't speak German, and unless I go with someone who can speak it, I'd feel terribly out of place.
4. Do you do anything during the year to celebrate or recognize your heritage?
Nope. I wear green on St. Patrick's Day if I remember, but we're not big into our heritage that way.
5. Who were the first ancestors to move to your present country (parents, grandparents, etc)?
Hrm. I think that my mother's mother came over as a young child, fleeing Austria with her family. I don't know when my mother's father came over. I have very little data on my father's side of the family, but I know it wasn't that long ago. We are SO not Mayflower children. We're very recent immigrants.