Except for Native Americans, We Are All of Immigrant Stock!

[LeftInTX]

38. Same with my mom's family. I know they were here for quite a while, but didn't know anything about them.

On my dad's I'm Armenian, and well, there just isn't info besides my great grandparents.

Since I'm so pale, I took a DNA test to determine my ethnicity. On my mom's side, I quickly found out that my 4th great grandfather served in the American Revolution. She never knew this. (She had died year's prior). They were southerners, who sometimes would say, "We have royal blood"...LOL Hence, I likely do have royal blood, but it's sure diluted. Lots of people of this stock can trace lineage to William the Conqueror etc.

Unfortunately, I'm not related to any US presidents, but I am related to a few known criminals, like Bonnie Parker. I was supposedly related to Charles Manson, but I think there was an error in the records, so I'm not.

I'm distantly related to Armenians who took the test, but have no idea how we are related because there are no records that go back beyond Ellis Island.

I found out most of this on a free site called Family Search.


Then, my husband did his DNA. He's Mexican-American. He's related to all sorts of interesting people. Unlike the US, early Mexicans did not move about the country very much. Conquistadors married daughters of conquistadors, so if you're related to one, you are related to numerous. Cities like Monterrey grew and there wasn't much migration. If there was, it was usually from towns nearby. There also wasn't a population explosion until the fairly recently. People from northern Mexico all seem to be related to each other. His 13th great grandfather founded Nuevo Leon. (Diego Montemayor) His 8th cousin was Venustiano Carranza, former President of Mexico.

Lots of people are related to Diego Montemayor:

Montemayor was a real bad ass. He murdered his wife, because she had an affair, but he got away with it.