Message from @William Russell
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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
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
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
Maybe after the holidays
I really want to know what exactly my great uncle did to get removed from his position as school principle by the communist government
I know it was for political reasons
@William Russell feel free to drop me a line. I’m under an NDA so it’s not like I’m going to do anything nefarious with the info.
Even if I wanted to
Who here /NDA gang/?
I’ll keep that in mind. I’m just concerned I got it wrong and I’m generating folks who have no connection to me
Anyone with access to the roster I think
Venerating
Wonder if my NDA still applies since I quit coordinating
My lips are sealed either way
Do they expire? That’s a good question
Or perhaps they’re tied to positions not necessarily time
I'm 75% English/Welsh/Scottish, 10% Irish, 8% Norwegian, 5% German and 2% 'european Jewish' which I'm pretty sure is just BS added by the DNA company to make me feel like I'm part of the tribe