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pontiac, michigan; usa

In the USA I'm told new worlders always love to see what countries they came from why is why genetic testing can be a bit fun. I've always wanted to hear more about my mother's and father's family, personality and employment they had when they were alive. Thought this could be a very interesting thread.

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Myrtle Creek, OR

I told my mother-in-law the next time she wants a letter from one of those ancestors tracing places to just pay me half what they were asking and I would generate a letter that was probably as accurate and would even include any particular mentions that she requested in the letter.

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 privateer4hire wrote:
I told my mother-in-law the next time she wants a letter from one of those ancestors tracing places to just pay me half what they were asking and I would generate a letter that was probably as accurate and would even include any particular mentions that she requested in the letter.


Indeed it seems be astrology 2.0, now with science. and to be honest I don't need to know how tainted my hobbit DNA is with Welsh and French

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This is something Mum and Dad worked on quite heavily, and Dad has continued.

Mum’s side are a proper Heinz 57, as it seems Grandad Robinson’s side couldn’t keep it zipped up.

Granny Robinson’s side are pretty standard. Certainly I don’t recall being told any scandals.

Dad’s side are pretty much Orkney (Grandad) and Shetland (Granny). I know the most about the Orkney side, as we went on holiday there earlier this year. I met quite a few of the older generation there, and have a file from Dad all about it. This includes photographs from the family, and a rather tragic tale of, well, a Cuckoo in the nest, as I almost certainly can’t type the common word for it on Dakka. And even if I could, let’s just say it’s become a lazy trope in the modern era, so I want to avoid to avoid confusion.

What I can tell you is the history of my brother and I’s height was solved. See, I’m 6’2” and my brother is 6’3” or 6’4”. We tower over every other family member, who are of distinctly average or less than average height.

In Dad’s historical spelunking, we found a relative, who was either a Great Uncle or Great Great Uncle who was 6’1”. We know this to be reasonably accurate, as he was the first Policeman in Edinburgh to be shot. He survived of course, but it’s still an interesting story. He’s the only other person in the family we know to have been of above average height.

If I can be bothered to fire up my PC, and find the USB stick I can probably dig up and share the same links.


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On the DNA thing? Dad had his sequence, and it largely matches his own research. But, perhaps surprisingly given the Orcadian and Shetlander ancestry, no Vikingesque DNA was found.

The rest of the research was done through trawling public records.

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Denison, Iowa

I am the youngest child of my family, as is my mom. We were both near change-of-life babies. This means that my grandparents were ANCIENT. So old my Grandfather remember reading about the Titanic sinking in the newspapers.

My grandfather has two dark stories in his past.

In 1919 he was 17 and apprenticing to a gunsmith in Denver. The Gunsmith liked his booze, didn't check to see if a weapon was loaded, and shot my grandfather through his eye. He lost the eye, and almost died. They bullet was lodged in his brain. They bandaged him up and put him on a train by HIMSELF to Omaha to see a specialist. He stepped off the train on September 28, 1919, just in time to walk through the Omaha Race Riot, see a body dragged behind a car, and set ablaze.

Later in life his young family was pretty much the definition of abject poverty, so he thought he hit the jackpot when he landed a decent home in a sharecropping community. Right after moving in they informed him of one other mandatory duty of living there. Let's just say it involved nighttime activities with white sheets. My grandfather gave lip service to the Klan for two weeks until he could arrange to slip out in the middle of the night with his family, getting as far away as he could. Having to wear those robes disgusted him the rest of his life.
   
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I don't know much.

Dads side
Grandmother- Cherokee/stay at home mom.
Grandfather- Irish/Iron Worker

Mom's side
Grandmother- German/stay at home mom
Grandfather- Navajo/ worked for NASA

Past that I hardly know anything. My mom's parents were dead before I was born. My dad's parents were dead by my early teens. My family has A LOT of prior military in it though.
   
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My mom has a Doctor's degree in History and has even written a book about our family's legacy. One of these days imma read it, but that day has still not arrived hehehe!
   
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From my family:

from moms side we (or better I) don't know that much. They don't get along at all and haven't talked for decades. I know that my grandparents came from the czech side of the german-czech border and belonged to the german minority there. After the war they relocated to a small city east of Berlin were my fathers family lived.

On dads side: his father was abandoned as a baby (not sure with the verb. I mean that his mother gave birth in a hospital, but left him there). So he grew up in different childrens homes. We indeed know his mothers name, but never really tried hard enough to find out what became of her and why she abandoned him. As he was born in the late 30s in Germany it might well be that she belonged to one of the groups fearing repression and hoped he would have a better chance of survival on his own. But it might as well be that she just couldn't care for him. What's interesting though is that his (and his mothers) last name is quite rare in most all of Germany but relatively common in the north-east coastal region, so we have at least a suspicion were they came from.

His mothers side seems to have lived in the mentioned city in the east of Berlin and its immediate surrounding for at least two centuries. Here one funny thing was that my father, who is really into old books, once found a family bible on a flea market that was some >200 years old, where the owners had written their his families birth- and death dates on the last pages. And one of the last entries were my fathers grand- and great grandfather.
Also while most of that family side seemed to have never moved out of the region, there was one brother who suddenly wanted to "get out into the world". He lived in Egypt for some time, later in south africa before moving to eastern Canada and founding a family. When my parents were on holiday in Canada some years ago my grandmother called those relatives up (looks like the "main family" had never stopped contact with them) and my parents visited them. Nice folks, pretty interested in what became of their german relatives.


On my wifes side I found the story of her parents rather interesting. Her fathers family originally lived somewhere in what is now Poland but was Germany back then (I guess a lot of european families have this kind of story), but moved to the region of Hamburg (so Western Germany) after the war. Her mothers family seemed to have lived not really far away but were ethnic poles. Borders moved around a lot, but today their place of origin is near the Belarus border on the polish side. Anyway her grandmother moved to Gdansk/Danzig where my mother in law was born. Meanwhile my father in law moved from Hamburg to Western Berlin to dodge the draft. Both were enthusiastic musicians (violin and oboe) and by chance were both selected to go on a concert trip to the USA where they met and fell in love. Back home my father in law drove to poland a couple of times and after a to me rather frightening low number of visits they decided to marry and move to Germany - note that he didn't speak polish and she only some bits of german, so they communicated with what english both of them had in the beginning. Turns out that while the iron curtain was tight for eastern germans, it was rather loose for poles, so my mother in law had no problems applying to leave the country. They are married for over 40 years now, so obviously it was the right decision.

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Southampton, Hampshire, England, British Isles, Europe, Earth, Sol, Sector 001

I come from a military family. Can trace our service back on the english side to the napoleonic wars (both army and navy). Had grate grandfathers fight on bothe sides of the Grate war. Burns died at the battle of the Somme (english), Tunbridge at Verdun (german), grate grandfather Fletcher (english) survived the war became a career soldier. Became a bomb disposal officer during WW2 and got blown up while siting on the bomb he was working on.
I know how that sounds, the story goes that while he was working on an unexploded bomb he and his mates stoped for lunch after stoping the clockwork timer, so to stop any one playing with the thing he sat on the top of it while his mates ate in the pub across the street. The bomb at that time desided to explode, the blast throws him into the are taking his left leg at the knee and thigh as well as his hearing in his right ear and sight. His mates in the pub die instantly.
Grandad Fletcher was in the Korean war as an artillery gunner.
Uncle Cunnings was serving on HMS Bristol, doesn't have a good thing to say about Prince Andrew and always said that "He's a wrong'ng".
I'm the dis apointment of the family as I was discharge from basic training as my knee blew out and the recovery time would have put me over the max recruiting age by a month so I'm the one that has broken the line of service.

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