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Ooh, me too! Posted by The beautiful Goddess Miao on 10/10/2006, 1:50 am, in reply to "too funny NOT to share" 68.162.124.133 My last name comes directly from the tribe I'm decended from who eventually joined the Ostrogoths and assimilated with them :) --Previous Message-- : Life was sooooooo less complicated before my : wife started dabbling in geneaology. : : All my life (remember, longer than almost : any two of the regulars here combined, Tass : excluded) I have believed family lore that : my father was of German-Jew heritage and : mother was some English and a little : Scotch-Irish. : : Okay, so we have found out that maternally, : I'm mainly English, with a small bit of : Irish. Must have been more than a : "wee" bit, cause the Celtic is : coming out strong in me lately. : : But here's the hoot: It seems that my : father's family is mostly English from as : far back as we can reasonably be certain, : with a strong possibility of deeper ties to : a region (long ago and far away) in Gaul : populated by . . . : : (drum roll) : : . . . Visigoths. : : Well, I'll be darned. Looks like I'm a : "goth" after all. : : Old Grey : (Visi)Goth and proud of it! : Message Thread: too funny NOT to share - Old Grey 10/4/2006, 4:43 pm Ooh, me too! - The beautiful Goddess Miao 10/10/2006, 1:50 am Hmmm.... - Tass 10/10/2006, 3:12 am Re: So you must NOT be . . . - Old Grey 10/10/2006, 2:07 pm Re: So you must NOT be . . . - Tass 10/11/2006, 2:34 am Re: Related to King Christian - Old Grey 10/12/2006, 2:11 pm « Back to thread Post a Response