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dna all over the place
Mar. 18th, 2016 10:49 pmI fell down one of those genealogy k-holes recently thanks to relations and my mom. Awhile back I found and matched up this one line of my mother's family. And then some of my mom's cousins found the work I had done and got on this one website and they are looking for long-lost cousins in the old country. (Norwegians galore going back a few hundred years. They all seemed to live along time and half of them are named Lars.)
Then my Mom mentioned how not much was known about her maternal Grandma. My Mom told me how she asked her Mom and her Mom said, "we don't know about them." It seems Grandma T (as she is known in the family) had family and didn't really keep in close contact with them. Grandma T was named Zelma and she had all these sisters, Helma, Alma, Melba, and Mabel. Melba had worked as a maid at the Camelback Inn in Arizona and that was where this one recipe for scalloped potatoes (that everyone in the family makes) came from. and Alma dyed her hair red well into old age, was a drama llama, and married inappropriate men. (which cracks me up. We all need Aunts like that.) We know that Grandma T's family was Swedish (and to think she married a Norwegian... mixed marriage!) and that she spoke Swedish at home until she went to school. (her parents were immigrants) And they lived in Iowa but no one knew their names. (except their surname.)
BUT it was enough for me to go on, and with a little research (thank you Mormons.) I found them, and got a better idea of the story. It turns out there were some brothers, they lived near my mom's grandpa's family. (everyone lived around the Iowa/Minnesota border.) My great great grandmother came to the US when she was about 10. She married when she was about 21. (my great-great grandfather had just arrived in the country at the age of 20/21) They had at least seven children.
The picture has become a bit more clear. Weird being able to track dead people long ago and their migrations.
In other paperwork I am now officially registered to vote in the UK. I can vote in the upcoming referendum. Watch out world!
Then my Mom mentioned how not much was known about her maternal Grandma. My Mom told me how she asked her Mom and her Mom said, "we don't know about them." It seems Grandma T (as she is known in the family) had family and didn't really keep in close contact with them. Grandma T was named Zelma and she had all these sisters, Helma, Alma, Melba, and Mabel. Melba had worked as a maid at the Camelback Inn in Arizona and that was where this one recipe for scalloped potatoes (that everyone in the family makes) came from. and Alma dyed her hair red well into old age, was a drama llama, and married inappropriate men. (which cracks me up. We all need Aunts like that.) We know that Grandma T's family was Swedish (and to think she married a Norwegian... mixed marriage!) and that she spoke Swedish at home until she went to school. (her parents were immigrants) And they lived in Iowa but no one knew their names. (except their surname.)
BUT it was enough for me to go on, and with a little research (thank you Mormons.) I found them, and got a better idea of the story. It turns out there were some brothers, they lived near my mom's grandpa's family. (everyone lived around the Iowa/Minnesota border.) My great great grandmother came to the US when she was about 10. She married when she was about 21. (my great-great grandfather had just arrived in the country at the age of 20/21) They had at least seven children.
The picture has become a bit more clear. Weird being able to track dead people long ago and their migrations.
In other paperwork I am now officially registered to vote in the UK. I can vote in the upcoming referendum. Watch out world!
