Asatru: If you could speak to a long lost ancestor, who would it be?
So many people these days could hardly care about two generations ago, that their history is just the highlights of high school history books (and only to be good Americans at that).
After an extensive genealogy search and DNA study of my family. One that started in Sudan for someone in my family, made it to Italy, through the Alps, and landing in Scotland before coming to America, I really wished I could have known some of these people. Less I forget to mention my German and Austrian connection! In fact, my DNA test told me that either though my genes have been stateside for 300 years, I have no known developed American genes, as apparently my family's genes never stayed in one place more than a couple of generations.
Although I am American, actually Texan more than anything, I feel deep down that I am probably more than anything feel more European than a melted American.
So back to my question, who would you talk to if you could talk to long lost ancestors?
Wendy C, you will have to tell me where y'all hang out?
I don't really care so much about the long-lost...my half-brother died when I was six, and I'd rather talk to him again than anybody else in the world.
I would talk to my Grandpa Christopher. He came over on a boat from Sicily, (had to change his name and make a new life) and he made so much of himself here. I would just love to be able to enjoy him now that I'm an adult, he died when I was 5.
i would want to talk to someone important in history like a king of course if i would be related to one u never know with genetics but that's fantasy in real life I'd wish to talk to my great great grandfather
According to relatives, I'm related to a Cherokee Princess (daughter of a chief), a Choctaw woman, The Younger Brothers (cousins of Jesse James), an Amish, a Quaker, Sir Isaac Newton and Sir Alexander Graham Bell. Any of those or earlier would do.
Wouldn't it be neat to go back in time and solve a dilemma at the time. Like one of my ancestors was persecuted as a witch in Salem. Wouldn't it be nice to explain the hallucinations cause by eating fermented rye. Of course, being back in those days, they would have strung me up too.
A lady by the name of Martha (Wade) Fullingim, who was lost until I found her almost forgotten grave in an overgrown cemetery in Wise co, Texas. She is now re-found. She is an ancestor to my children, but spiritually, I have a huge connection with her.
With the exception of Native Americans, we are all products of immigration, from Europe and many other places.
You do know, you SHOULD be hanging out here in genealogy with us, right? We care. (and we have several Texans here too)
Asatru: If you could speak to a long lost ancestor, who would it be?
