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Show us your roots!
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#31
RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 5:30 pm
Nobody has claimed Adam and Steve yet? WTF!
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#32
RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 5:32 pm
I've never cared to find anything out about my family, so the only thing of note I know is that my great-great grandmother was 100% Choctaw. I think we have some German, French and Prussian in there, too.
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#33
RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 6:28 pm
A family member researched our geneaology and got much further than I ever expected he would. He made some interesting as well as what could be considered inspirational discoveries about our family's ancestry, and also uncovered some deeply disturbing facts that I would've preferred not knowing the details of; None of it mattered enough to cause me to alter or question my perception of myself or my life in general, though. I'm not certain how it could've, short of the possibility of an an inheritance somehow being involved.

I actually found my grandmother's informal, unverifiable, word-of-mouth geneaology to be more useful, in that her stories at the very least, had a high entertainment value.
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#34
RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 6:34 pm
Iggy, I'm not showing you any pictures or videos of my roots!

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#35
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January 25, 2016 at 7:07 pm
I might try the genealogy.com DNA test some day. I'm sure I'm a mut.

I really want to prove illegitimate descent from the English royal family, but so far, I've got nuttin'.
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#36
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January 25, 2016 at 7:20 pm (This post was last modified: November 28, 2016 at 7:01 pm by account_inactive.)
I genuinely have no idea where my family actually come from, although my second name sounds very Northern Irish-y. Might look into it some more one day.
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#37
RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 7:51 pm
Last name is a portmanteau of a Swedish last name and a Swiss (germanic) last name. No clue what areas, though. Be interesting to find out.
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#38
RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 9:08 pm
Dad's the Geneology freak in the family, and he's managed to trace his ancestry back to Charlemagne (with at least two places).

Then again, I read Richard Dawkins saying that, if one goes back far enough, everyone you meet will be either an ancestor of everyone or no-one. Apparently, from what I've been able to learn, it's becoming the consensus that, odds are, if you had an ancestor in Europe around 800 AD, Charlemagne was one of them.
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#39
RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 9:45 pm
(January 25, 2016 at 6:34 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Iggy, I'm not showing you any pictures or videos of my roots!

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RE: Show us your roots!
January 25, 2016 at 9:50 pm
(January 25, 2016 at 9:45 pm)ignoramus Wrote:
(January 25, 2016 at 6:34 pm)The Valkyrie Wrote: Iggy, I'm not showing you any pictures or videos of my roots!

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