Family trulee
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I’m kind of upset the Habsburg’s reply is cut off
Back in the day it was a lot harder to move. People obviously did, but your great grandparents are about 80 years older then you. If you are are 40, then they might have been born in a time without planes and cars being pretty rarer. If you wanted to cross an ocean you took an ocean liner and most land travel was done on trains. Even those only became really big in the 1850s in many places in the Western world. Sure people moved, but it was somewhat rarer and a massive decision.
Also when 1 out of 16 did make a big move, then you still got a quite long history in that place.
Laughs in Ottoman Empire
Genealogy is just an exponential choose your own adventure where nearly every chosen path is the man. It's retconning an entirely narrow slice of your history based on whom you want association. It's Your Storyline Plinko.
I don't really get this obsession some people have with their "origins". Like... why is it so important to trace your ancestors so you can say that a 3% of you is... idk... persian?
I just think it’s pretty cool. Geneology and the movement of populations is fascinating. My genetics are overwhelmingly from a particular part of the world, and it makes it interesting to read about history of that area and think, “Huh, so that’s something my ancestors went through.”
It’s not crucially important to know, and I haven’t sought out any DNA tests (I know what I know because a sibling took one.) It’s just interesting, especially to a nerd like me.
I may have worded it poorly. What you describe is understandable. What it's not is going to those lengths as to take dna tests to know the percentage of you is from each country.
It's good to know your ancestors, but do you really need to know how much of you is Irish to annunce it publicly as if it was something to brag about?
Ngl I have never met anyone who actually brags about their ancestry like you describe or like the internet portrays Americans on this topic. Mostly it’s just a neat thing to find out.
The unsettling thing about everyone's family tree is there a lot more incest than anyone would be comfortable with in it. The various royal families of the world just wrote it down.
It's not incest when you get to the point where overlapping lines are mathematically impossible
Reminds me of when I played Fallout Shelter, I made a spreadsheet to keep track of all my vault dwellers' families.
With the population of a tiny town, it did not take very long at all for the whole vault to become one clan.
Honestly, a family history of inbreeding doesn't mean much for the individual so long as it's not directly involved in their own birth. The issue with inbreeding is that every family has a few rare recessive conditions that simply don't manifest because they're rare enough to never be shared with the other families that they're having kids with, but if 2 people from the same family have a kid, that kid is way more likely to end up with 2 broken copies of the gene and have the familial condition.
However, even if your own parent has both broken copies, they can only pass 1 to you, and if your other parent is from another family, they likely won't have the same condition, so they'll pass you a working copy guaranteed and you're good. It's certainly not ideal, because it does concentrate the broken genes over time in a family if inbreeding continues, but a family history of inbreeding isn't really much of a red flag health-wise if your own parents aren't related.
I mostly reference 4 different ethnicities because I have grandparents whose families originate from 4 different countries.
My great grandparents and great-great grandparents all had children with families who also emigrated from the same country their own family did, and before that they were all living in their original countries, presumably having children with other people from those same countries.
It wasn't that long ago when, in America at least, people didn't often associate much with people outside of their own country of origin. Polish and Italian people were especially avoided from what I've heard, and those are both ethnicities of mine.
The Irish were treated quite badly for some time in the US as well. My family assumed a Scottish surname to try to avoid that when they crossed the pond.
