60% seems really high to me.
If you go back in time long enough, everyone is related to everybody else.
We're not gonna die. We can't die, Bendis. You know why? Because we are so very pretty. We are just too pretty for God to let us die.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Natter 66: Get Your Kicks.
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Tom Scola - Jul 01, 2010 4:50:25 pm PDT #10050 of 30001
hwæt
brenda m - Jul 01, 2010 4:50:32 pm PDT #10051 of 30001
If you're going through hell/keep on going/don't slow down/keep your fear from showing/you might be gone/'fore the devil even knows you're there
I suspect it's the definition of roots that's suspect. So to speak. I'm doubting it's direct ancestry.
Matt the Bruins fan - Jul 01, 2010 4:51:08 pm PDT #10052 of 30001
Oh honey, the mentally unwell people have been in the fanbase since Game Changers was Stucky fanfiction on the internet. The calls have been coming from inside the house the whole time!
It doesn't sound off to me that the bulk of Americans have at least one ancestor who was here before the 1780s.
Jesse - Jul 01, 2010 4:52:43 pm PDT #10053 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I had people in North America well before the Revolutionary War, but in Canada. Does that count?
Calli - Jul 01, 2010 4:53:58 pm PDT #10054 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
That is awful, ita.
An email from ancestry.com tells me that 60% of Americans have "Revolutionary War roots."
Maybe? A lot of later immigrants may have married into earlier groups. My dad's family came over around 1900, but Mom's was here before the Revolutionary War. So 75% of my nuclear family (my sister, parents, and I) had RW roots.
In other news, I flew a plane today (Cherokee Warrior PA28). After we took off the instructor turned to me and said, "I don't really like flying all that much. You take her around for a while."
I said, "Sure. Just as long as you like landing." Then I got to wander for miles over the NC countryside. Sharon Harris Nuclear Plant is rather fetching from 3000 feet up.
Tom Scola - Jul 01, 2010 4:55:20 pm PDT #10055 of 30001
hwæt
You could have had as many as 128 Great Great Great... Grandparents alive in 1780, Jesse. Can you be sure that none of them were in America?
tommyrot - Jul 01, 2010 4:57:25 pm PDT #10056 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
ita, that's awful.
I flew a plane today (Cherokee Warrior PA28).
Go you!
Jesse - Jul 01, 2010 4:59:26 pm PDT #10057 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
You could have had as many as 128 Great Great Great... Grandparents alive in 1780, Jesse. Can you be sure that none of them were in America?
No, I can't, it's true. I'm 90% sure about half of them, but that still leaves a bunch!
tommyrot - Jul 01, 2010 5:01:32 pm PDT #10058 of 30001
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Kitty is looking a little better. Plus she's eaten more. But there's blood in her poo again. But at least it looks like a normal poo, and was in the litter box this time.
I'm supposed to call the vet tomorrow anyway....
megan walker - Jul 01, 2010 5:01:56 pm PDT #10059 of 30001
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Catching up on FNL. It KILLS me.
I know, right? Also, WTF Riggins?