Dennis Tate
Banned
I wanted to start a thread where members can share about their ancestry and family.
I will start. According to the research I have done within my family I am a German, Polish, Irish, and Russian American. I was born in the US and I still live there.
I did some research on some family surnames but I discovered that a surname can belong to one culture or another and is different for each person.
My great grandfather served in the US army during World War 1 in France. My grandfather joined the US Navy in 1946.
I am thinking about getting one of those ancestry DNA tests to find out more about my ancestry.
My last name Tate is either English or Scottish......
one of my mom's grandparents was from Southern Ireland so..... it is quite likely that some of my dad's ancestors may have committed atrocities on some of my mom's ancestors and relatives in southern Ireland.........
I strongly suspect that some of my relatives across North America may well be guilty of shooting buffalo from the windows of trains......
as well as of participating to some degree in the extinction of passenger pigeons that we boiled, barbecued, trapped, snared and shot into extinction........
through our greed, ignorance and lack of self control over hunger.............
On some levels my tendency toward "guilt" in some form or another might indicate a past life as a Jewish person..... (assuming the validity of the Dr. Ian Stevenson research)?????