St. Patrick's Day

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(03-17-2016, 11:23 PM)bfine32 Wrote: We have a family reunion every year, has been going on for about 80 years (Sunday before Labor Day). We have a genealogist that works for us (same one for 40+ years) and each year she comes and shares "new" things she has found and shares some of the older.

I recommend folks look into it. Not expensive at all (currently $2,000ish/year). Last year she said she found a Scandinavian influence that surprised her, so she wanted a DNA test from an adult male. As a Military man mine is on file, but she said that was the wrong test. My uncle has his taken per her request. Curious to see what she finds this year.

She absolutely hates the online services.

My mother's father's side is traced back to the town in Italy that they came from.  Everything else has been found by me because no one really cares other than to say they are "100% Italian".  And they have a reunion every year also, same day as a matter of fact!  I never went to one until I was in my 30's due to a family feud that started long before my mother was even born!

My dad's side is mostly mutt.  His great grandparents came from Germany.  He said when he joined the Air Force they did a family search on him for that reason and he did have relatives in East Germany (this was 1963) but not close enough to stop him from being deployed to West Germany for most of his time.

After I took the DNA test I started reading about all the other ways to have it done and may have another one this year.  The Ancestry one was a matter of convenience to tie in with the work I had done there.