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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Just found out my grandfather was a drug dealer. Whats your family heritage?” plus 5 more

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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: Just found out my grandfather was a drug dealer. Whats your family heritage?” plus 5 more

Question: Just found out my grandfather was a drug dealer. Whats your family heritage?

Posted: 30 Sep 2016 06:07 PM PDT

Gypsies, farmers, lamp lighter, comptometer operator, shopkeeper, butcher, professor, teacher, nurse, barber, builder, bus driver, quite a mix!

Oh, & one was a crook, well a dodgy investment banker, who brought down a major international bank!!

Question: What ancestry do I seem to have?

Posted: 30 Sep 2016 02:17 PM PDT

You'd have to research your ancestry to tell for sure. While the stereotype Mexican is a Mestizo - someone with mixed Spanish and American Indian blood - there are other possibilities. The reason Mexican beer is so good is often the fact the founders of the brewery were German. Some Germans went to Wisconsin, where the climate was similar to good old Bavaria. Others said "The heck with nine months of winter; I'm going to blue skies and sandy beaches" and went to Mexico. That's also why large mariachi bands have tubas and accordions.

This is from Wikipedia, so there are source citations:

Aside from the original Spanish colonists, many Europeans immigrated to Mexico in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Non-Spanish immigrant groups included British, Irish, Italian, German, French and Dutch.[22] Large numbers of Middle Eastern immigrants arrived in Mexico during the same period, mostly from Syria and Lebanon.[23] Asian immigrants, mostly Chinese, some via the United States, settled in northern Mexico, whereas Koreans settled in central Mexico.[24]

Here's the complete article:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographi...

Question: Im Black and I have white ancestry do you think that's weird I'm 33 years old how can I have white ancestry slavery being over for 150 year?

Posted: 30 Sep 2016 07:47 AM PDT

> do you think that's weird?
No; you are average.

> how can I have white ancestry?
I'm guessing you don't have a lot; less than half. You can have it because a number of your ancestors were the result of white slave owners having sex with their slaves. The sex ranged from flat out rape to what today would be called on-the-job sexual harassment. ("Lucinda, how'd you like to be a house maid instead of chopping cotton?")

Henry Louis Gates, the history professor who had a genealogy show on PBS, has a web site. These two pages:

http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/...
and
http://www.theroot.com/articles/history/...

have estimates from 5 DNA testing companies for the average African American:

Ancestry.com: 65 percent sub-Saharan African, 29 percent European, 2 percent Native American.

23andme.com: 75 percent sub-Saharan African, 22 percent European, 0.6 percent Native American.

Family Tree DNA.com: 72.95 percent sub-Saharan African, 22.83 percent European and 1.7 percent Native American.

National Geographic: 80 percent sub-Saharan African, 19 percent European, 1 percent Native American.

AfricanDNA: 79 percent sub-Saharan African, 19 percent European, 2 percent Native American.

Question: Who is beverly j. adler married to (searching family tree)?

Posted: 30 Sep 2016 01:07 AM PDT

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