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To: PressurePoint
I always tick the "Other" box when filling out a form since, short of a genetic test, I really have no way of knowing or proving who my ancestors slept with or were raped by.

Even with testing, you can't prove all of your ancestry. I had the Ancestry.com test, and it showed English/Irish/Scandanavian/Iberian peninsula/Italian, plus smidgeons of Asian (from the "-stan" countries) and African (Bantu tribe). Some coworkers were surprised that, with my name, I have no German ancestry. If I look at my family tree, my name did originate in Germany--but the German genes didn't stick around over the next 300 years.

43 posted on 06/13/2015 4:42:14 AM PDT by exDemMom (Current visual of the hole the US continues to dig itself into: http://www.usdebtclock.org/)
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To: exDemMom

Go with Bantu!


54 posted on 06/13/2015 6:51:48 AM PDT by silverleaf (Age takes a toll: Please have exact change)
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