My grandfather's family came from Missouri to S. Kansas (picked up some Delaware blood there in the form of my g-grandmother) and then settled in the Protection, KS. area. Eventually settling in the Freedom/ Alva, OK. vicinity. While technically not the panhandle, you couldn't tell the difference by looking out the car window. 😉
Any two people who trace an ancestral trail to the same area in Colonial times are probably 10th cousins or closer. I've demonstrated that by noticing that a guy doing genealogy research in the local library had the book I wanted. We discussed who we were looking up and were 10th cousins. A guy at work was big into genealogy and mentioned Rhode Island, which I had ancestors in. We compared and found we were 10th cousins. Later we found the connection to make us 8th cousins.
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Most people with British ancestry also have about 30% Scandinavian due to the Vikings, a wild and crazy bunch of guys.
I have Scandinavian by way of my Danish Great-great Grandparents.
Dave Karoly, post: 423517, member: 94 wrote: Most people with British ancestry also have about 30% Scandinavian due to the Vikings, a wild and crazy bunch of guys.
I have Scandinavian by way of my Danish Great-great Grandparents.
My direct paternal lineage made it to this country in 1877 from Denmark to Baltimore. There to Chicago and then down here to the Indian Territories where he met up with the rest of my blood.
I've often felt Vikings were a misunderstood society and got a bad rap in the history books. They gave us lots things like the magnetic compass and healthy robust women folk.
They also gave us the basis for our 2nd. Amendment Rights. From the ancients: HÌÁvamÌÁl (verse 38), a Viking-age poem of advice, tells us never to be more than one footstep away from our weapon, no matter where or when. If you lived life like they did you probably slept with one eye open....;)