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

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

NDA means that you're confirmed by Patrick Casey to be white. Stands for "Not Dark At-all".

Haha ashkenazi here