Hey, today is a great day to call your oldest living relative or the relative that knows the most about genealogy to get some information that may not exist for long.
My dad started compiling our family history about a decade ago, and I’m doing a deep read of it now.
I’m mostly German-English-Scots. Scattered great and great-great grandparents named Wilhelm, Adolph, Matilda, Gordon, Donald, James. So fun to learn. And explains all those recipe cards I remember from being a kid at various families’ houses in rural Oregon written in idiomatic German. I saved some, like pfeffernusse, schwarzbrot und weisswurst :)
Whoa. One of my great-great grandparents was from now-Ukraine. Ever hear that there’s rice Europe and potato Europe? If you mashed all the potato Europe, you’d get me :)
Your family won’t be around forever. Ask the questions now.
Side note: there’s a moment in Band Of Brothers where they come across a German soldier with the most ice-pure Oregonian accent who says he had returned to Germany to fight for a pure German bloodline. If that had been real life, that could have been a fourth cousin and it was absolutely chilling to hear. So many twists go into making us all up and I’m quite glad some of my ancestors were too poor to make it in Germany and had to get on a boat.
If you call a family member, tell some stories!!
Tarah Wheeler 🖖♦️ /
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