Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Finding lost relatives?” plus 5 more |
- Question: Finding lost relatives?
- Question: Why did my partner's ancestor speak Bulgaria but was born in Greece/Macedonia?
- Question: Where does the surname 'Gershanoff' originate from?
- Question: I found out that my ansester background has a history of being slave owners and my sister married an African American man.?
- Question: What is death date for Minnie Smith Gerold born Germany 1864 died in PA or NJ in 1920s?
- Question: Am I a Ukrainian?
| Question: Finding lost relatives? Posted: 09 Jan 2016 06:58 PM PST I'd like to find my birth father who left when I was a couple of months old. I don't have much to go on, I know the areas he lived in but changed his surname by deedpoll just before I was born. I don't have his original surname and the surname he chose is pretty generic. I don't have much more than that, although he was married to my mum, she has long since lost the divorce papers. He's not on facebook, the last my mum ever heard was that he was living on a houseboat and had gone blind due to his diabetes. I don't have details of relatives or anything, except his mothers first name. Where do I even start? I'm from the UK if that helps. Thank you. |
| Question: Why did my partner's ancestor speak Bulgaria but was born in Greece/Macedonia? Posted: 09 Jan 2016 06:21 PM PST My partner's ancestor Stavre Tole Gershanoff was born 1893/1894 in Xin Nero, Greece (Macedonia back then). His father Tole Gershanoff and mother Sophia M. Mackuzeva were also born around that area as well. Would his family be called Greek, Macedonian, Slavic, or Bulgarian? |
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| Posted: 08 Jan 2016 07:08 PM PST You can say your ancestry is 1/2 Italian. Your ancestry is 1/4 of each grandparent. Since one grandparent is Puerto Rican, that would make your ancestry 1/4 Puerto but you are 75% of 1/4 Ukranian the way you stated your question. Therefore I assume 25% of 1/4 Polish, maybe. Actually it appears your ancestry is more Italian than anything. Now DNA wise you cannot divide your ancestry so simply. If you are a male you got Y from your father only and X from your mother only. Then you got 44 Autosomes and that is what most of your DNA is. You got Autosomal 50% from each parent but not necessarily 25% from each grandparent. The reason why there usually will be a bias in what you inherited from grandmother and grandfather on both sides of the family. You could have inherited anywhere from 0 to 50% from any one grandparent and how you inherited any bias will not be how your siblings inherited it unless you have an identical twin. Also the X is tricky for male. You got X from your mother but she got X from both her mother and her father. Whose X did you get???? Your maternal grandmother's or your maternal grandfather's??? No definite pattern. So while your ancestry is mostly Italian, your nationality is whatever country in which your are a citizen. Your ethnicity is the culture you practice. You can call yourself whatever you please but unless you are a Ukranian citizen then you are not Ukranian and it is a small part of your ancestry, even if you have a Ukranian name. I feel trying to divide ancestry up is really a waste of time. I got so much mixture I just call myself a Pedigree American Mutt. Also a Puerto Rican's ancestry can be a mixture of many things just like those of the 50 states of the U.S. |
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