I'm half Croatian....my grandparents came to America around 1916. I remember my grandmother ranting against the Communists. She was so proud to be an American.
She had 9 American children and those children had 5 to 8 children each. We're all proud of our roots and being American.
There's also some hot Turk blood that runs through the Croatian :)
Hot blooded and hot headed pretty much covers it :)
(we get mistaken for Italian or hispanic quite often....)
Thanks. I would never have mistaken Vali's looks for Italian or Hispanic. In fact, I met a young man this summer who looked a lot like him. That young man was half English (whatever mongrel blood that might include) and half Tunisian! He was tall, thin and very light eyed and complexioned. Since I do genealogy, I'm always trying to tell by sight where someone's ancestors may have come from. I'm dreadfully bad at it. My question about this man was that his family still lived in Kosovo and his father worked for the government, er, the commune, there. All the kids are leaving. But I could never get a handle on how this young man stayed in Italy for so long without a job. My mommies' antenna did not allow me to encourage my little puppette to remain in that relationship. But he was very nice and very, very polite. Mommies like that!
Glad that your family found their way to America.