Stealing this from twitter but I liked the concept: put in the tags where were your 8 great-grandparents from (given modern borders) ?
#interesting! let’s see#Mom’s dad’s mom is the one I know the most about#she was born in WA state and raised in New York City#(Pace voice: NEW YAWK CITEH????)#mom’s dad’s dad was from Oklahoma#though that was the black sheep off shoot from the Kansas homestead (which still bears the family name!)#mom’s mom’s parents were probably New Englanders#I know her dad was a popular music composer in the 1920s#so he was probably in Boston or New York#(grandma grew up in Connecticut)#I know next to nothing about dad’s dad’s parents#but grandad was from Iowa#dad’s mom was first generation so I know her folks were from Galway#we are classic American mutts and can trace ourselves back to the War of 1812 stateside through Mom’s side#but dad’s mom is our most recent immigrant story so my siblings and I mostly identify as Irish Americans#we’re pretty sure dad’s dad’s side was Scotch-Irish#supposedly we’re as Dutch as we are Irish if you go back far enough but my brother tried 23-and-me and it showed no Dutch-ness#so who knows!#…. I mean#someone does#there are people on both sides of my family who are super into genealogy#which is part of why we know as much as we do#the other reason is that mom’s grandparents were fairly well known public figures in their era#so there is a generational wealth of knowledge to go with my you know generational wealth#I lucked out with who I was born to yes
