Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: I wanted to know if I am mixed or would be considered mixed nationality because my grandparents are syrian, indian, arawak, and European?” plus 3 more |
- Question: I wanted to know if I am mixed or would be considered mixed nationality because my grandparents are syrian, indian, arawak, and European?
- Question: What is wrong with this view of one's ancestors?
- Question: Am I related to Aberham lincoln by blood?
- Question: The name Platherine What nationality would it be?
| Posted: 19 Aug 2014 09:04 AM PDT I wanted to know if I am mixed or would be considered mixed nationality because my grandparents are syrian, indian, arawak, and European? My dad side of family looks spanish and indian but not too sure... |
| Question: What is wrong with this view of one's ancestors? Posted: 19 Aug 2014 12:31 AM PDT This comes up every month. Imagine an island with magic people, 50 men, 50 women. They all marry at age 20, have a pair of twins (one boy, one girl) at age 22, die at age 40. The kids repeat the pattern. When the parents are 23 - 40, there will be 200 people on the island. Right after generation N dies and just before generation N+1 has its twins,there will be 100 people on the island. Although the first generation will not be related, some of the second, most of the third and all of the fourth generation will be married to their cousins. The magic island can go on forever, never having more than 200 or less than 100 people. That's what we humans did, only the "Island" is the earth and we don't have such neat and tidy birth and death patterns. |
| Question: Am I related to Aberham lincoln by blood? Posted: 18 Aug 2014 11:34 PM PDT Am I related to Aberham lincoln by blood? I'm related to Daniel Boone I think Anne boon his cousin had 10 kids my name is Eric scot Robinson so what does that make me. Sorry for bad English |
| Question: The name Platherine What nationality would it be? Posted: 18 Aug 2014 06:18 PM PDT https://familysearch.org/search/record has 0 results for the name. By contrast they have over 150,000 for "Pack" and over 28,000,000 for "Smith". Ancestry.com doesn't have any records for the surname either, but it is not free. Familysearch is free. Google gives me a query on a genealogy board for a John Platherine Houser, who was alive in 1822. That's about it; after that the search engine assumes I want to know about "Catherine", too. It's trying to help. So, it is VERY rare and the national origin is unknown. It's very possible it was something slightly different in Holland/Germany and the spelling changed in the USA. The first English/Dutch marriage in my tree was in 1691. The English and the German/Dutch married each other all the time in what became the USA; as long as everyone was Protestant, it was fine. "Houser" is German. "Platherine", in "John Platherine Houser", looks a lot like someone's mother's maiden name. It could be German, Dutch or English. We corrected your usage, but we know what you meant; some of us are more tolerant of mistakes than others. |
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