I’m happy women’s rights have progressed the south needed it

You can get all kinds of cool information about what diseases you might inherit, what behaviors you're predisposed to, etc.

Women were literally slaves

I don't really care about the ancestry stuff because I know I'm white

At least the poor folk

Nah man you've got white privlege and you need to pay for dem programs

Nothing bad ever happened to white people

it's science

My grandmother tells stories about her mom winning an award at the county fair for making overalls out of sackcloth

She white tho so she gotta pay up

I do know on my mom’s side her paternal grandfather was in the Oklahoma land run of 1893. He came from Northern Kentucky where his father was a Union soldier taken prisoner at Andersonville at 13 years old.

My grandpa was one of 14 kids in Arkansas, wore hand me down dresses till he was 6 and bags on his feet cos they were so poor

Ouch Andersonville

My paternal side of my family emigrated from Eastern Europe around the 19th century, iirc

You guys know all these detailed stories about your grandparents and I barely even knew my grandparents

@missliterallywho Arkansas ehh that’s cool

I have an ancestor from Switzerland that we all thought was French because of his last name

Delachaux

Tbh I like being a melange of New England bluebloods and southern sharecroppers

Comfy

@Sam Anderson Can confirm, I'm Swedish and my mom is from MN. There are lots of Swedes and Germans there.

@Isabella Locke-MT the westernmost part of Switzerland is francophone

@Isabella Locke-MT well he probably was ethnically French, I don't think "Swiss" is an ethnicity

His kid moved to London and his kid moved to the US

My mom thought her maiden name was French-- nope, post Norman conquest Anglo.

Romandie, it’s called

Some people think my last name is French

@Jacob I know what your last name is and they’re retarded

I mean I see why they would think that

I don’t

Some people even capitalize the third letter because they think it's like a separate word lol

I can speak French and I don’t think your name sounds remotely French. If I had to guess I would have probably said Hungarian tho.

@Jacob I barely knew my grandparents too, just have a couple stories from my mom's side.

My last name does exist in Hungary, so that's a reasonable guess

Most of what I know has been independent research

I barely know my grandparents on my dad's side, they both died when I was pretty young. But my grandmother's family was German

I found out my great grandfather wasn’t biological so I’ve been carrying the wrong family name

I love doing genealogy research. I’ve thought about doing pro-bono research for IE members since I have a real-Nina ancestry.com sub but that would require them to give me a lot of person information

Which they might be uncomfortable with

My mom's bad relationship with her mom and then my parents' divorce is the reason I don't know any of my relatives

@ophiuchus Id be open to it