My great aunt’s hobby for the past 40 years has been extended family geneology. Apparently before she started my (American) family thought we came from like two places, she’s mucked that up and proved that we’re total European mutts with at least 8 origin nations and also thrown at least one of the original supposed origins into question. She’s found a slave-holder in our lineage, several failed homesteads in the pacific northwest, and multiple names on the monument at Ellis Island.
That might be Czechs, the land has been traversed by countless nations in the past 2 millenia and the genetics reflect that. Still, racism is rampant… We did have Habsburg rulers, notably Rudolph II, but none of the major ones took advantage of the gene pool. Nowadays, there’s lots of Ukrainians, Romani, Vietnamese and the current Head of Parliament is half-Japanese (the infamous anti-immigrant immigrant).
Sounds a lot like my 1st cousin twice removed. She and her mother used to go all over the country to court houses and libraries to get information and she self published her findings. Having been 101 in the early 2000s when she passed, she had some interesting stories. My favorites were the pranks that the young men in her home town would play. Like swapping the wheels on their wagon front for back on saturday night so when they went to church they were riding way up in the air, or dissassembling the outhouse and reassembling it upsidedown on the roof of the barn.
My great aunt’s hobby for the past 40 years has been extended family geneology. Apparently before she started my (American) family thought we came from like two places, she’s mucked that up and proved that we’re total European mutts with at least 8 origin nations and also thrown at least one of the original supposed origins into question. She’s found a slave-holder in our lineage, several failed homesteads in the pacific northwest, and multiple names on the monument at Ellis Island.
That might be Czechs, the land has been traversed by countless nations in the past 2 millenia and the genetics reflect that. Still, racism is rampant… We did have Habsburg rulers, notably Rudolph II, but none of the major ones took advantage of the gene pool. Nowadays, there’s lots of Ukrainians, Romani, Vietnamese and the current Head of Parliament is half-Japanese (the infamous anti-immigrant immigrant).
Sounds a lot like my 1st cousin twice removed. She and her mother used to go all over the country to court houses and libraries to get information and she self published her findings. Having been 101 in the early 2000s when she passed, she had some interesting stories. My favorites were the pranks that the young men in her home town would play. Like swapping the wheels on their wagon front for back on saturday night so when they went to church they were riding way up in the air, or dissassembling the outhouse and reassembling it upsidedown on the roof of the barn.