The Buffistas are all related.

We have more Czech peasants? That's the only bit of my ancestry I can trace.

IOfreakyrelationsN, the Boy Who Might Be My Boy (If We Ever Manage To Be Sober At The Same Time) (BWMBMB (IWEMTBSATST) for short), is probably distantly related to my ex. Another one of those far-removed Scottish cousin things.

My Irish great-great grandparents came in illegally via Canada. On the other side of the family, my great-great grandmother was shipwrecked - twice - on the way over from Germany (this is the one who has the line in her diary that reads "All of my best children are dead.")

We have more Czech peasants? That's the only bit of my ancestry I can trace.

Slovanian, actually. Is that close enough?

Slovanian, actually. Is that close enough?

Middle Europeans unite!

I'm also Swedish! Does that get me anywhere?

I'm sticking with the theory that I'm Chilean/Samoan.

"All of my best children are dead."

Wow, that is such a goth and/or folk lyric in search of a song.

I'm mostly Polish/Jewish, though my grandmother was a German Jew. (She claimed her husband's family was Austrian, but he was actually the first generation born in Vienna -- his parents were from Poland.) As far as I know, the only American wars that people in my family served in were WWII and Korea. (My grandmother was an army nurse during WWII, with the Harvard Medical Corps. She was in the first medical team at Normandy after D-Day.)

My (seven times) great grandfather was a loyalist and ran off to Canada when the Revolution began. My family's been border hopping back and forth, every couple of generations since then. It might be my turn to head north.

My maternal grandfather was a decendant of Calvin Coolidge. And, apparently I qualify for DAR through my maternal grandmother's side of the family - the Heiby's.

Yeah, we won't discuss that I'm also half Iranian. I'm sure they would love that.