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Paul Donahue's avatar

Amazing.

Amazing that you have all those details.

I know very little about my ancestry, it's like I fell out of a coconut tree.

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Dennis M. Sienkiewicz's avatar

Don’t know much about my ancestry as most records from my father’s side of the family were lost in two World Wars and my mother’s side in Japan is also pretty muddled through another war and intermarriage with other families. It’s really complicated but let’s just say my grandparents all emigrated to the U.S. to escape starvation or forced conscription into imperial armies. When I asked my father if he ever wanted to go visit where Grandpa came from, he said “Nope, if it was such a great place, he never would have left it in the first place.” The U.S. offered hope and opportunity, something that wasn’t there in my grandparents’ home countries.

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