A family tree

[drmcsexypants]

So I got a family tree in my email today, from my aunt, who spent money on this kind of thing

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[smarriveurr]

Groß-Rohrheim is indeed a town in south-eastern Hessen, celebrating their 1,225th anniversary this year.

Assuming an average generational issue every thirty years, you, sir, are officially at least 0.048% Hessian*. Ei gude, wie?

* - Math not done before coffee now indicates far more significance to this value than previously miscalculated. There is, officially, more Hessian in a factory-standard Dr. McS than Carbon Dioxide in dry air. And more than half as much Hessian as Argon!

-Edits: Math, names changed to protect the... innocent?... HTML corrections-

[drmcsexypants]

Ah, but you fail to recognize exactly how many of my /other/ family tree members hail from the region.

Like 50%.

The other ones are Polish/Irish

- DrMcS, the Hessian

[magdelane]

Yay for strange family revelations. This spring I found out that I have colonial era relatives on more than just my father's German side. I also have my Mother's(Mother's Mother's Father's) Hugenots escaping France in the 1630's and spending a bit of time in young New Paltz NY. Those effing French tromped all about the country, setting up missions (Presbyterian?) throughout Missouri and even in Lawrence Kansas before making their way to California just after WWI. God help me, my ancestors tried to 'civilize' the natives.
Assholes; this makes me a flippin' froggie.
But, B is amused that I am the Hugenot to his Catholic. Quite fitting.

[paperkingdoms]

My dad's side of the family's very "into" the whole family tree thing. It can be sort of interesting. But is now to the point where to get further back involves roaming the Irish countryside looking for parish records.

[zietvuszer]

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