i didn't really do much research, but i drew a family tree of four generations from info i got from my parents and grandmother. funny thing is no one really knows anything about my other grandmother's parents although she was a sort of famous actress in her time
Have any Bernds done research into their families? If yes, what did you find out?
I managed to research family members up until the 1700s. They were all dirt-poor, though. Just labourers and farmhands, very few people who actually owned anything. And the few that did, had it taken away. So my grandparents basically started at zero and were all traumatised from events during the war. My family is so poor, nobody even had photos until the 1960s and no phones until the 1980s.
Some of my ancesdors :))))) had done family research several decades ago. So I could go by what my grandparents told me and also these books (Stammbücher). One was created as homewörk during nazi times (they were supposed to write down hereditary diseases in it, too, which I found kinda funny), a great aunt of mine was kinda active in national socialist circles and also did family research, the third book comes from Kaiser's times and was some kind of official document, I think.
Interesting. Any Egyptians or veterans from the Finno-Korean-Hyperwar?
Ebin störy. Do you know more?
Fathers side apparently came from Livonia over 400 years ago, then they settled at an big island on the southeastern coast where they stayed as fishermen.
World War 2 caused them to move, I think the island was evacuated because of possible Russian invasion, and there my grandfather blanda upp with grandmother who's family came as refugees from Karelia.
My mother side of family I don't know much about, she might have some really distant Polish ancestry
My relatives on my fathers side were draft dodgers who escaped Germany's wars of unification in the mid to late 19th century. They fled to South Dakota where they set up a farm and learned the local Indian language. Unlike my paternal relatives, my mother's parents are more recent immigrants. Both of my mother's parents came from the UK (Bristol Specifically) after WW2. My Grandfather delivered messages on bike to the different firefighting districts of the city during the blitz. After the war, he moved to the USA with a girlfriend from Bristol. They settled in SoCal and worked for defense contractors during the cold war.
Have any of you tried DNA Testing? I was searching about it and it turns out that in Germany there is this stupid law that "a health genetic test for diagnostic purposes can only be carried out by a doctor", which means that accessing stuff like 23andMe's Health reports is impossible.
Does anyone know any loophole or have any idea where to look? I tried 4c*** but my threads got ignored, but on EU and US time zone ranges.
no, but aunt has done a lot of research and sits us down with old photos and such describing family going back many generations. Some were pretty powerful and rich in New England but apparently were loyalists and fled during the revolution. There goes my patriotism. I am ashamed to discuss this irl with people
