Family history keeps popping up in my life over the last few weeks. Today as I was filing papers in my room I came across a folder of more family tree pages and this copy of a ledger from a ship on which some of my ancestors traveled to New York from Rotterdam in 1852. Though I have always thought of myself as an unidentifiable ethnic mutt (I mean that in the best, most American sense of the word), I was excited to realize that I could account for about fify percentage points of my ancestry. Drumroll please......I am 12% Swiss, 12% Irish, 12% Viennese, 6% Dutch, 6% Nova Scotian (if that is possible), and 50% I have no earthly idea! So that's fun.
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