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Our tech team has launched updates to The Nest today. As a result of these updates, members of the Nest Community will need to change their password in order to continue participating in the community. In addition, The Nest community member's avatars will be replaced with generic default avatars. If you wish to revert to your original avatar, you will need to re-upload it via The Nest.
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Thank you.
Note: This only affects The Nest's community members and will not affect members on The Bump or The Knot.
Re: Poll: what ethnicity is your LO?
Great timing! I just finished a Heritage Project with my 8 year old daughter. Fascinating!!!
You should definitely take advantage of the free trial on www.ancestry.com
They have many, many records - every US census, birth and death records, family trees and even passenger lists when people immigrated to the US. They also have an option to search world records, but it is a fee.
All of my life, my parents said that I'm Irish, German and Norwegian. From the research, that seems mostly true. We have a couple of people that are hard to trace... ? from Russia ? ... from France?... or may be a mistake in the records... those things do not ring true with my mom.
I know my little one should have something from my side. However, dark genes seem to dominate. She has my exH's dark skin, dark hair, dark eyes. My guess is that she has some Italian genes.
My poor daughter may never know what ethnic mix she is. On her dad's side of the family, there were orphans. He could not even find information on them. He only remembered that "All of the old ladies spoiled me rotten". He called them all nicknames, Selma, Suma, Nanny, GrannyGreat, etc. I think there were 9 women who stuck together after the orphanage. I found them through ancestry, but do not know who their parents are... so, no country of origin. It is interesting. The census lists them in groups as "boarders" and the Head of Household is always "Sister Mary", "Sister Gerary", etc. There were several in a row. I wish that they would have listed the address or name of the orphanage. I think the only way to know who their parents were would be for exH to submit a request to the orphanage directly.
Other than that, you can find so much online. It's amazing that you can tap into records that prove how people are linked through so many generations.
I strongly suggest taking advantage of the free trial. Ancestry and several other genealogy websites have free trials.
Let me know what you find!
My neighbor was shocked to find that someone in her extremely religious family was pregnant prior to being married. The story that had been passed down was that they came to America, got married and started a family. Somewhere (maybe a ship's log) listed the woman as pregnant. Sure enough, when they found the birth record and the marriage record, it revealed that they put the cart before the horse.
Fun times.
P.S. I can't believe that anyone is 100% of anything. Maybe it is because I'm such a mix, but I just don't see how that is possible. For 2000 years, people slept with the same people?!
Newlyweds since 2007