Or what is your ancestry.Ask that in many parts of Kentucky and invariably you get some version of Indian { Apache,Shawnee, maybe Sioux,even more maybe Kickapoo.Sometimes Seminole }. Because a good many folk in Kentucky don't know their Ancestry. So they embellish. This is a rural thing.Those in the big city like New York know exactly where their Grandparents and Great Grandparents came from. Because it was discussed at the Dinner table so often it's like impregnanted into their psyche. I know exactly what my makeup is. I am 75% Czech and 25% German. Maybe 2 % halfass Bohemian bullcrapper since becoming an adult.
My Dad's family came from an island in the Adriatic Sea. My Mom's family was from the American South. Not sure what my exact makeup is on my Mom's side but it probably included Slavers and the Iroquois tribe. Go figure.
Scottish, English, Choctaw Indian, whatever else? Most of my family comes from East Texas near Winnsboro and Pittsburg for the last 120 years. They had ancestors from Georgia, Mississippi, Oklahoma, and further back from Scotland and who knows where.
Because of my childhood - no father, taken from my mother when I was 9 and put up for adoption when I was 10, the only thing I know is remembering my bio mother saying she was German and was told by others my father was a Norwegian. Being born very blond w/blue-eyes, probably so....... For some time now I've been curious about my ancestry, so when Xmas rolls around and family always asks me what I want for Xmas, I will be saying I want to know what my ancestry really is...and I agree about we're Americans.
I'm sorry Charlie.This isn't like a Starkist Tuna commercial. You can't make generic Ancestry. Like ... Oh I feel like a Mick { Irish } today. Or a Bohunk ... maybe when lunch arrives.
I've seen commercials on TV where fat slob bohunks get the girls. All he needed was a case of Bud Light.
The native Americans from that area tend to be Cherokee. I have no idea what other things are going on in your head, but leave me out of them.
I have to and going to have it done. I find it amazing what they can discover about a person's ancestry....who knows? I may be related to the Queen of England!
They've had sites for going on 2 decades now that almost guarantee one's lineage.Even determining one's family crest. I tend to be old fashioned about this.I rely almost exclusively on what my Grandparents say about coming here on the boat.Grandparents from my era did not tend to lie.Plus DNA is rather new.It cannot determine who are grandparents were unless we dug up their graves.I don't think one's grandparents have leftover DNA on their old clothes.With DNA one requires a sample.Yes,a lock of hair would do.
Why I think it's just wunnerful that you had grandparents who told you stories about their mother land, but there's millions of people like myself, who had been taken away from bio family early in life and never had bio grandparents to hear their stories. Many yrs ago and I think it was 60 Minutes had a segment on DNA and it's accuracy...there can be 10, 100, 1,000 - doesn't matter how many grandmothers and 1 child. Take DNA from all the women and child and they will find the biological grandmother of that child. Being old-fashioned is fine to an extent, but you should try to understand the progress made in medical science. I'ts quite amazing.
If you're asking why no specifics, it's because I don't generally specify here. I don't really get why specifics are required. I know them, and that's the question you're asking .... if we know where we come from. The answer to that is: yes, I know. But if you prefer more precise information, try Welsh, English, Norwegian, East Asian, & Indigenous. That's as good as you'll get in this forum. - - - Updated - - - Stranger things have happened. Well, similar (though to a slightly less grand extent) have happened.
I've done my DNA testing through NatGeo. My people came out of Africa over 100,000 years ago...settled in Northern Africa for a short while...went on to Lebanon for period...and from there to Italy. I have somewhere between 2 - 4% Neanderthal markers. My father was born in Italy...and came to the US as an infant. They were from the Caserta provence. My mother's side came from the Rome area.
Born in Morocco to an American father and a Spanish mother. Father was first generation American from parents that just came from Hungary.
Yup. You a bona fide Liberal,of course.Buy entirely into whatever nouveau Kitschy meme the leftists are pushing. Ask yerself.Would your Grandparents,let alone Great Grandparents cotton the notion of Universal Rest Rooms for all.No Ladies Rooms.Or Men's Room. Do you even comprehend how you've been corrupted in thought.? Which of course leads to action.Or lack thereof.
Gee How touchy.That of course is the new Meme.That one should feel offended by having to defend what our Greatest Generation adults ROUTINELY felt compelled to Defend.meaning their Ancestory. This is How Obama and his Leftists win. By removing the Importance of Marriage as an Institution and also ones Heritage. While Obama's entire Heritage is a magnificient Front. Unless you think Obama has ANY semblance of resemblance to his Mommy { Stanley Ann Dunham }. Of course this entire debate could go into Obama's Heritage and his DNA. But ... we'll be told that is Racist See how easy a Society can be : - Fahrenheit 451'd -
