I don't think I qualify for citizenship anywhere else. My Irish relatives have no idea when they got here, and my Italian relatives have been here too long.
Willow: Yes. Hi. You must be Angel's handsome, yet androgynous, son. Connor: It's Connor. Willow: And the sneer's genetic. Who knew?
'A Hole in the World'
Delurking 1: Because we don't always check our e-mail.
sj - Oct 28, 2016 9:53:48 am PDT #2814 of 3094
"There are few hours in life more agreeable than the hour dedicated to the ceremony known as afternoon tea."
WindSparrow - Oct 28, 2016 9:57:34 am PDT #2815 of 3094
Love is stronger than death and harder than sorrow. Those who practice it are fierce like the light of stars traveling eons to pierce the night.
The DAR recognizes other patriotic activites than soldiering for our ancestors. If your ancestors supplied food to the Contnental Army, they might qualify.
Trudy Booth - Oct 28, 2016 10:13:11 am PDT #2816 of 3094
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
I may qualify for Spanish citizenship under the reparations they started a few years back to descendants of people who were kicked out of the country during the Inquisition.
I did not expect that. ::ducks::
I should look into that too. Wonder if we're distantly related!
Barb - Oct 28, 2016 10:17:44 am PDT #2817 of 3094
“Not dead yet!”
Anything's possible Trudy! Apparently, my maiden name is one of the most popular in Spain. Who knew? (Clearly, not me.)
I've seriously been thinking of doing one of the DNA tests to see what, exactly, lurks in my genetic woodpile. I know so little about my father's extended family.
Volans - Oct 28, 2016 10:56:03 am PDT #2818 of 3094
move out and draw fire
I'm eligible for Irish citizenship since my grandfather was born there.
Me too! But while living in Greece I was always happier to use the Diplomatic line at passport control, rather than the huge line for Schengen.
This is me: one grandfather came over from Ireland and married a DAR Quaker. One grandfather came over from Germany and married a Choctaw woman. I don't know that it gets more American than that.
But 23andme swears I'm East Asian.
meara - Oct 28, 2016 11:05:23 am PDT #2819 of 3094
I wish I qualified for some other citizenship. All my grandparents were born here (most of their parents were the immigrants, except my mom's father's father, whose family seems to have been in Missouri for a very long time??)
Beverly - Oct 28, 2016 12:13:16 pm PDT #2820 of 3094
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
I'd have to do a DNA search, since my adoption was sealed. I love being able to celebrate Cinco de Mayo *and* St. Patrick's Day *and* Bastille Day, though. I mean, I *could* be any of those. Who knows? Wait wait, don't tell me.
NoiseDesign - Oct 28, 2016 12:21:25 pm PDT #2821 of 3094
Our wings are not tired
sealed adoption high five
I should do the DNA thing at some point
esse - Oct 28, 2016 1:07:09 pm PDT #2822 of 3094
S to the A -- using they/them pronouns!
I want to do the DNA thing too, just to see if the family rumors are true and I'm not just a soup of Nothern European whiteness.
billytea - Oct 28, 2016 2:06:07 pm PDT #2823 of 3094
You were a wrong baby who grew up wrong. The wrong kind of wrong. It's better you hear it from a friend.
I have dual citizenship, Australian and British. (My mother was born in London - she was technically a Cockney - while my grandfather was posted there as an air raid warden during WWII.) It's a thing that felt rather more impressive prior to Brexit.