Message from @Perihelion - CA
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@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
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