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DC:

--- Quote from: Strichev on April 06, 2020, 03:18:33 pm ---According to old church books my ancestors have been living in the same valley (an area of some 50 square miles) since 1490's on my father's side and maybe a few decades less on my mother's side. They most likely originally came from what is today Serbia and relocated to today's Slovenia due to the Ottomans and stayed in the same area for the next 500 years or so. In fact both family names can be traced to their respecitve villages as far back as 1600's. My father's surname is mentioned in relation to "attempting to incite a peasant's revolt". The guy got punished with 30 strikes using a "light stick", tried to incite another revolt a few years later and got sentenced to 30 heavy stripes using a "heavy stick". No mention of defying authorities for the next 370 years after that. On my mother's side the surname is mentioned across several generations as clergymen or their brothers. More recently, one of my great great grandfathers came from Italy some time before 1900.

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That's cool to have such deep roots :D I've often wondered if I would feel differently about "things" if my family had lived in one spot for hundreds or thousands of years. I saw an Australian production about human migration. One of the people was an Aborigine and his mothers line had been living in the same small area for over 30,000 years. That's got to do something in your head. :D

bjrogg:
Pretty much like Pearl. German Catholic farmers . Came here after the big fire of 1881. There is one of the oldest Polish settlements in America about 10 miles west. I remember my dad telling me my grandma told him not to go out with those polish girls.lol. I was related to almost every girl in my school. Took me 36 years but I found a good German girl from another school closer to the polish settlement.lol. Being German wasn’t one of my priorities.

My cousin went back to the homeland  farm a few years ago. He brought some dirt. Gave everyone a little. I ate some and spread the rest on my farm.
Bjrogg

Marc St Louis:
My wife has done a lot of genealogy on both hers and my family.  My European ancestors came to Canada in the 1600's and are a mix of French, English, German and probably a couple others.  My native side is Mi'kmak, Abanaki and possibly Naskapi

Pappy:
My people came from England in the 1600 , settled in the NC then moved west to middle TN. :) :) In Early 1700, we were goat herders for the king in the 1400's and the king crested our family for that. I will put up a picture of our crest if I can fine it, pretty cool. :) I am just a typical European white male, nothing special. :)
 Pappy

Eric Krewson:
My first Ancestry DNA test had me a 48% Scandinavian, 30% english, 9% eastern european (Russia) 7% southern mediterranean and the rest undecided.

They updated the results lately and came up with about the same except the 48% scandinavian had been changed to eastern european and added that I had 1% from a tribe in the congo.

We have a long family history of Cherokee blood with my great grandmother supposedly being full. This didn't show in my DNA, I later found that Cherokees don't have a distinct genetic profile like western tribes. Their genetic code is diverse and mixed and can't be pinpointed, they even have Jewish DNA in their profile.

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