Everyone has Cherokee blood on their grandmother's side, like there were no Indian men. What's that about?
Not many women came over alone, I would imagine is part of it.
Saffron: You won't tell anyone about me breaking down? Mal: I won't. Saffron: Then I won't tell anyone how easily I got your gun out of your holster. Mal: I'll take that as a kindness.
'Trash'
Natter 71: Someone is wrong on the Internet
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Jesse - Nov 23, 2012 10:55:03 am PST #1888 of 30001
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Calli - Nov 23, 2012 11:12:47 am PST #1889 of 30001
I must obey the inscrutable exhortations of my soul—Calvin and Hobbs
My Dad's grandparents all came to the US from Finland, and he was proud of his Finnish heritage. I dug around via ancestry.com, and once you go back a ways there's all kinds of input from Norway, Sweden, and Denmark. So it's more of a Finno-Scandanavian melange. Dad would have been a bit disappointed, but I'm not. If anything, it makes my Viking fascination make more sense.
There's no Native American genes on either side of my family, that I'm aware of.
Connie Neil - Nov 23, 2012 11:25:24 am PST #1890 of 30001
brillig
Mother was not pleased to discover German heritage, but she grew up in World War II and tended to pick up weird antipathies. She didn't like the Irish part, either. I never told her about the Dutch/Moroccan pirate.
ION, Hubby's frying bacon. Baa-aa-acon. Num.
Ginger - Nov 23, 2012 11:40:37 am PST #1891 of 30001
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
Much of the mixing of Indian and African American genes probably came from the fact that runaway slaves were adopted into or were at least allowed to live with Indian tribes from when the Spanish brought the first slaves to the New World.
Many Indian tribes already had slaves, usually captives from other tribes, when the Europeans arrived. It was not usually a hereditary slavery, though. As someone said, the Cherokee adopted the form of slavery of their Southern neighbors, as part of their futile hope that becoming "civilized" would allow them to keep their land.
aurelia - Nov 23, 2012 12:43:38 pm PST #1892 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
My grandfather was 1/4 Pawnee. There are also stories of Sioux and another plains tribe I can't recall in my ancestry, but I don't know if those are verified. They do seem more likely than the story about Daniel Boone being one of my ancestors.
Amy - Nov 23, 2012 1:03:16 pm PST #1893 of 30001
Because books.
They do seem more likely than the story about Daniel Boone being one of my ancestors.
I'm supposed to be related to him through my Boone relatives. Someone apparently did the genealogy, but I've never seen it.
Juliebird - Nov 23, 2012 1:08:14 pm PST #1894 of 30001
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
I ended up fleeing the house this morning because I was about to twist the head off of my dads bird. Got an oil change and then discovered that Black Friday in nh ain't so bad. Been back for an hour and a half and need to get out of here again. Seriously considering blowing off the hike tomorrow and heading back a day early.
lisah - Nov 23, 2012 1:08:43 pm PST #1895 of 30001
Punishingly Intricate
I am also supposed to be related to Daniel Boone!
aurelia - Nov 23, 2012 1:26:04 pm PST #1896 of 30001
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story. Tell me a story.
Ha! How many Buffistas are related to Daniel Boone?
flea - Nov 23, 2012 1:27:34 pm PST #1897 of 30001
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My mother in law told me yesterday she was supposedly descended from Daniel Boone.