Well, my roommate's easy, so it's no big deal. Only anomaly was the cherokee that was what, 5 generations back (hrmm, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32... yeah, 5).
Somehow my mom knew a lot about my dad's ethnic heritage and made sure we knew, especially the cherokee. English is obvious with names like Lee and Gillow in the family. Because my mom knew all that I started doing family tree stuff and found huge amounts of data on the German names, as well as Gillow. I've had mucho problemos on Lee (too many lines to figure the right one, and not much data available from my family other than pictures) and the swedish (mainly because I can't read swedish).
It's really not that rare over here. Most people I know at least know what makes them up, if not the actual percentages. I think it's because we Americans know we are all born from immigrants and have no culture of our own (ethnically speaking), so we want to know what we are.
I've discovered Americans and Canadians seem to be the biggest into genealogy.
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Re: Makes sense...
Date: 2005-04-25 04:00 pm (UTC)Somehow my mom knew a lot about my dad's ethnic heritage and made sure we knew, especially the cherokee. English is obvious with names like Lee and Gillow in the family. Because my mom knew all that I started doing family tree stuff and found huge amounts of data on the German names, as well as Gillow. I've had mucho problemos on Lee (too many lines to figure the right one, and not much data available from my family other than pictures) and the swedish (mainly because I can't read swedish).
It's really not that rare over here. Most people I know at least know what makes them up, if not the actual percentages. I think it's because we Americans know we are all born from immigrants and have no culture of our own (ethnically speaking), so we want to know what we are.
I've discovered Americans and Canadians seem to be the biggest into genealogy.