Somebunny
Executive Chef
What a great story Claire! See what I mean about a small world? What is it they say about 6 degrees of separation? Some of us DCers could even be related!
well, she lives in the heartland, and i live just outside nyc, so...
j/k. i don't know. but her dad's surname is my own, so we're talking within 10 generations or so on average.
Because Norway did not get it's independence from Sweden until 1905, your "Swedish" ancestors may have lived in Norway.My heritage isn't as interesting as some folks here...
English and French on mothers side
Irish, English and possibly Swedish on fathers side. I have been researching my ancestry for many years, but have concentrated on my father's side for the last few years. The reason that I say "possibly" Swedish is because of my family surname ending in "son", some of us assume that it is Swedish. I just cannot find anything proving that "my people" originated there. I can trace my father's side back to the 1700's but can't figure out how they got here, they just seem to have appeared out of nowhere! An interesting side note is that during my research I discovered that in this
I just find it astounding how much the population has grown over the last few decades. I still remember reading in my grade school "Weekly Reader" that the earth's population was estimated to be 3.5 billion. This was back in the 1960s. It's mind boggling when you consider that for every person on the planet back then, there are now two people. It took millions of years prior to that just to reach the 1 billion mark....As of today, it is estimated to number 6.987 billion by the United States Census Bureau. According to a separate estimate by the United Nations, it has already exceeded 7 billion."
My heritage isn't as interesting as some folks here...
English and French on mothers side
Irish, English and possibly Swedish on fathers side. I have been researching my ancestry for many years, but have concentrated on my father's side for the last few years. The reason that I say "possibly" Swedish is because of my family surname ending in "son", some of us assume that it is Swedish.
buckytom said:i'd learned from my norwegian relatives that you could tell if a person was swedish or norwegian by the way "son" was spelled on the end of their surname.
"sen" was norwegian, "son" was swedish.
My mother(alive) is Austro/Hungarian, my father(dead) was Polish.
Claire I drive around Slovenia on the way to Croatia,the people and country are great.The pig is king and there are still plenty of cafe's that roast them like this beside the roadView attachment 12810