The 75% of my family that is traceable is all Scottish and English, and recently so. Therefore, many things can be found. Woo!

Of course, the whole reason I signed up was that I didn't know my Grandfather's parents' names, and I *still* don't know that. (Neither does my Dad. In his defense, his father did leave home at 13. So.)

Paul's family is creepily American. I find mine more entertaining.

...so what explains my dream about being a pirate's daughter and needing to smuggle artwork into the US from a castle in Mexico so I could somehow save him? (no, I had not been reading trashy romances before bed!)

You had a better dream fairy assignment last night?

JZ! You're Mexican like I am Cuban!

My family is, in a way, creepily American. There's a branch that goes back to the Revolutionary War (although we have yet to determine which side, if any, they were on) but that branch married immigrants pretty close to once a generation. Very American!

I also don't like the FLDS connection, but I use it. However, my grandfather's father's name is John Taylor, and no family members know more than I do about the family, and it is HELL.

Amy, my iCloud account, apparently, sucks ass and isn't sending any messages? Feb 10th 11:00 AM is exactly right. I have your phone number and I'll call on speaker from my cell. My book club kids are excited!

On my mother's side, they've been here (well, or Canada) forever (literally almost 500 years in some cases), but on my father's side, my great-grandfather was from Germany and my great-grandmother was from the Cayman Islands. Which I learned on Ancestry. I knew someone was from the Caribbean, but wasn't sure who.

I knew a lot more than I do now, I forgot stuff. I know 1 of Mom's sister has done a lot of research into their dad's side, including a lot of stuff on his father, who was Comanche, and was in the same bad as Quanah Parker, although we aren't related to him.

Well done, Cash! You're on the A-Team.

My grandfather changed his name on purpose at Ellis Island, thinking he needed something short and snappy to make himself a Real American.

My friend Alison's family changed their name too for the same reason. They decided their last name was too Jewish so they changed it to something much more American. So they went from Wolf to Steiner.

the other thing about Ancestry is that people submit their family trees, and I don't always know how accurate the information is. I found some family stuff that seems to be verified, but I think it's just based on legend.

I think I recently mentioned that both my mother and father can trace their Mi'kmaq roots to the same relative, right? That's what happens in isolated rural areas.

I am much more of a Heinz 57 than I thought: French & Irish, but some Mi'kmaq and Acadian too. I wouldn't be too surprised if there was some Basque, consider St. Pierre was settled by the French and Basque.