Ancestry

[LivingNumbers6.626]

The diverse native American cultures in the states really should have been something to preserved, but just because they were converted to Christianity doesn't really mean that their belief system was any better.

The western world has done some terrible things, but it also had a lot to share. Besides it's racism and religious intolerance for anything not Christian, the western world had a lot of cool stuff to share.

But I'm not saying they did it the right way.

And yes, the treatment of native Americans was certainly a terrible thing and it's pretty hard when first discovering some of the tradgedies.

[John V]

I'm descended from William the Conqueror, through an illegitimate but historically recognized line. So I got that going for me.

[StuW]

Best I can do is that my G-G-Aunt (Lilly Martin) was a member of a world famous ladies football (Soccer) team called Dick Kerr's Ladies in the 1920's. They started as an exhibition team to raise money to aid soldiers in the Great War and ended up travelling the world playing other women's teams. The team still exists today as Preston ladies.

http://homepages.sover.net/~spectrum/kerrladies.html

[Welsh cake]

The further back I go, the more and more complex it gets.

I know relatively nothing about my father's side. They called me a bastard-son and my father had a DNA test to prove them wrong, and yet they still called me illegitimate, and so, he hasn't spoken to them since.

Families are wonderful things aren't they? >.>

On my mother's side, most of the family always remained in Wales, its very difficult to establish a family tree when people all share similar surnames, or change their names over disputes. Some records show some originated from the North of England, whereas others have been traced back to France, Normandy as far back as 1600s before records start to fall apart.

Biologically speaking, I'm white, yet have a benign Mongolian deep blue spot birthmark that's really clean, circular shape and very predominant on my wrist, which is a source of much intrigue.

I'm white. These spots appear on 5-10% of babies of full Caucasian descent. Quite rare.

Now, where the birthmarks are common among persons who are of Asian, East Indian, and African descent, they are very rarely located on the arms or legs, and they often disappear in a few years into infancy, and are almost always gone by adolescence.

My sister's lost theirs, but mine on my wrist has never faded away. o_o

It must be a really dense and deep collection of melanocytes in my skin if its a dark blue colour. The fact that they can be inherited, may say something about the genetics in my family?

Maybe DNA tests and not historical records is the way to go?

[Mister Agenda]

If it weren't for Irish and Cherokee mixing, I wouldn't be here today. And I like being here.

[CapnAwesome]

My ancestors on my father's side were largely German Quakers who settled in Pennsylvania. Interesting is the fact that two of my direct ancestors were expelled from the Quakers, one of them for supporting the American revolution (the Quakers are against all wars) and the other for getting a girl pregnant and then not marrying her. My mother's family was expelled from Russia during the Jewish Pogroms of the early 20th century.