Other than tracing the origins of my dad’s parents and grandparents last names and when the first of that name arrived in NA, I don’t know much about that side. My dads parents died before I was born, my dad was the 11th of 12 children and both of his parents were the final children of large families too. So most of the family records went to the first borns.

Get Ancestry.com kit. They actually try to match you to relatives

I just know that my dad's side is ethnically Kashubian, and I can look up what region Kashubians are from. That's my method for tracing my ancestry.

@Sam Southern - TN lmao enjoy your meal fam, I’ll dm you later

you might find someone who is related who has traced their ancestry

Imo heritage organizations would be an easy front for us to get some influence in

Ancestry makes you pay for European records.. nahh fam

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Plus, my dad’s side came from poverty.

@Conway - OK my mawmaw’s side were all poor as hell

@Conway - OK gotta track down those first borns' kids

lol my ancestors were peasants, there's not gonna be any records on them

Can we get the Dalai Lama to speak at our conference?

Dude we were cotton sharecroppers

My maternal grandmother was literally an Appalachian depression era sharecropper

my great-grandma jumped trains

My paternal grandmother was the granddaughter of a senator and the daughter of the president of the Canadian land bank

Swedes would only move to an area equally as cold and fertile as Sweden. AKA MN.

Great grandma had babies with four diff landowners. My dad said if you were a woman you were picking cotton, wearing a dress, and getting raped. Those things were for sure

I have an ancestor who fought for the Confederacy in Tennessee

*you get the beeeest of both worlds*

@missliterallywho I’d like to but my dad’s oldest sibling was born in 1925. I never met her.

If I do a DNA test, I'm going to get the cheapest one and then use codegen.eu to analyze my genome

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