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03-23-2019, 03:36 PM | #2 |
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: KCMO
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My family is all from Sicily. Nonna Giovatelli-Gorgonzola always made a real spicy meatball and I call pasta sauce "tomato gravy"!!!!
/takes DNA test. Definitely just English with some mutt mixed in. |
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03-25-2019, 05:20 AM | #3 |
Fight, build, win!
Join Date: Sep 2004
Location: KC
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03-25-2019, 08:26 AM | #4 |
Curmudgeon
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: North by Northwest
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I find it interesting to see what parts of our history immigrants played a part in. There was a documentary on the Smithsonian Channel I watched the other day about an all Irish brigade in the Civil War that was pretty interesting. I did some research for my cousin and found this forgotten piece of history a little closer to to KC. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Cole_Camp_(1861)
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03-25-2019, 09:36 AM | #5 |
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Join Date: Aug 2000
Location: Utopia
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I wonder how many people find out bad things....like...you're a bastard and your mother let a stranger slip one past the goalie...
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03-28-2019, 07:57 AM | #6 | |
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Turns out that her 4th grandfather, the son of a well respected pastor in town, killed a man in a bar fight. Found a newspaper article that confirmed what happened. He was drunk, started a fight and killed the guy. Left a young wife and kids and was living in an hotel. Multiple arrests for public drunkenness. |
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03-28-2019, 10:53 AM | #7 | |
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03-28-2019, 05:11 PM | #8 |
Has a particular set of skills
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: On the water
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DNA doesn’t lie. Whatever it says is about as close to “fact” as anything about us, who we are that ever gets confirmed.
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03-28-2019, 09:34 PM | #9 |
Curmudgeon
Join Date: Dec 2011
Location: North by Northwest
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Hey, it's hard to court when dad won't let you borrow the mule.
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03-25-2019, 10:19 AM | #10 |
Go Beavers!
Join Date: Jan 2001
Location: Warshington
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My dad's side of the family is pretty well researched back quite a few generations but my mom was adopted so I did 23 and Me a bunch of years back to see what her background is and if I have any genetic ticking time bombs. Turned out that she was mostly from a very specific minority in Finland/Russia. So that was interesting, I guess.
The funny thing I found related to a great-great-grandmother that the family usually refers to as "Cherokee Mary". I was expecting to have at least a little Native American because of her but actually had 0%. I do have about 4% Sub-Saharan African DNA so now I expect that Cherokee Mary was actually Mulatto Mary. |
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03-25-2019, 04:19 PM | #11 |
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Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: West of the Equator
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My sister did the Ancestory DNA thing. We know our family history back to the 1400s. All my grandparents emigrated from Norway/Sweden in the early 1900s. It confirmed our history, but there was some Irish DNA. We figured one of our Viking relatives brought back a hot chick from Ireland after a raid.
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03-29-2019, 06:46 AM | #13 |
World's finest morphius
Join Date: Aug 2000
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My family name is very well documented. We got here in 1638, from England, and the first was a constable and tavern owner (must have been an interesting career path). My direct ancestor Nathan fought against the English in the revolutionary war. My relatives moved out of the Mayflower family area into Pennsylvanian, through Iowa and into MN as farmers. The first into MN also fought for the North during the civil war. My family stayed on that farm until my Fathers generation. Funniest piece was I looked up the manifest to the ship and saw the name of my team lead, at the time, and saw that name on there. When I talked to her she knew all about it as well. Basically found myself sitting next to someone in KC whose family came over on the same ship nearly 400 years before. Kind of a "small world" feeling.
My Mothers Mom was 100% Norwegian with both her parents migrating from Norway. We have info on the ancestors there, but it is a bit messy as Nordics don't really follow standard last naming convention. Her Fathers line escaped from Scotland to Ireland, than later moved to the Canada and migrated into the US from there. I have info on my other Grandmothers line, but I don't remember anything of note, other than it should also be Irish as well. |
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03-29-2019, 08:33 AM | #14 |
Kickin' it in Dobbstown.
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: Southeast Kansas
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3-4 years ago, my dad did the 23 & me thing... He passed away a year ago, and in reading his tree, I saw something that definitely didn't belong. Turns out, I've had a half sister for the past 50 years that NOBODY knew about. I mean, not ever even a hint. He took that secret to his grave. Apparently mom didn't know (she passed before he did). Since then, we've contacted her and learned that SHE knew but was sworn to secrecy. We plan on meeting up this summer when she comes to KC.
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03-29-2019, 10:27 AM | #15 |
Cheaterlover*
Join Date: May 2009
Location: RI
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I dunno, I guess this stuff is like going to a psychic: if they predict shit that hits close to home, it’s easier to believe in it. I know one set of grandparents is from Sicily, and the other set is either Sicily or southern Italy. Did Ancestry.com snd they nailed it.
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