Shocky1;842598787 said:
there are a lot of terrible things going on in the world right now based on hate & a lack of tolerance of those that are different from themselves and that have different points of view
my take is that if everybody was a mutt, if we were all somehow related, that there would be less war & conflict in the world
kiss your favorite mutt today, just do it
future real talk topic?#
Www.ancestry.com
Only thing I knew was back to my g grandparents and a couple G&G grandparents. I found SO much I never had a clue. Was able to:
* get back to European origins on many lines
* Ben Franklin 1st cousin 7 gens removed
* wife and I share 3 sets of grandparents in CT in 1600's and 1700's, 10th and 7th cousins.
* descended from William Brewster of a Mayflower fame.
* presidents in my family tree as often 8th cousins 6x removed or something like that: grant, fdr, both bush, Coolidge, Adams both, I forget who else
* a gg grandpa who stole a cash box at 16 in England 1843 and was sent to 10 years transportation Van Diemen's land (jail Tasmania Australia)
* rev and civil war vets, as well as loyalists who went to Canada
* uncle who died in Andersonville
* cousins who married a Cherokee princess and now have a casino in OK
* an in-law ancestor who some history book says owned 40 slaves in clay county Missouri
* a 5g grandpa who was captain of a ship from Nantucket who sailed in 1790's to London, Cape Verde isles, Jamaica, around horn of South America, Honolulu, canton china. He brought back 12,000 elephant seal hides from mocha island and sold in NYC, bought a farm up the Hudson. I wonder if he ever impregnated any global moms giving me cousins afar.
* my wife is distantly related to a stepsisters husband, to my moms sisters husband.
It goes on, but battery is dying.
Did you know an estimated 10% of us can claim mayflower ancestry? And only 50 of 100 survived.
Ancestry has so many digitized searchable records you'll be amazed what you can find.
Watch shows who do you think you are, and Henry Louis gates' most excellent pbs Finding Your Roots!!! He does an awesome job of blending races together in this country. Chris Rock's episode was hilarious - dude has been on stage making fun of white-black relations, with angst against the white man. Turn the page Chris - there's a photo of your grandfather from the mid 1800's. "But he's white?!" That's right, and so are you. "Wow, I'm gonna have to work out a new routine."
Yes, we are all mutts of one type or another. But the mystery of how doesn't have to remain unknown. See spencer wells Journey Of Man for the DNA tale. It's 2 hrs on YouTube.
You're right. It is SO stupid for us to be fighting each other when you see how closely related we all are.
To anyone reading this and intrigued, take the adventure and see what you find. You'll be amazed.
