Do you own a respirator mask? If so, do you wear it every time when you go outside? (surgical masks doesn't count, since they don't protect from virus)
I would do 23 and Me for the extra info they give, traits and medical susceptibility. It’s just a lot more expensive. I’m a big genealogy and history nerd!Here’s the Graveline sign in the area where I grew up.
Thank you, that’s so nice. I wish the same for you. 🌷
Please show a pic of your dulcimer
Say hello to Dolly the Appalachian Dulcimer. 😊
Who in your family was Choctaw?
Her name was Christianized to Suzanne, but of course it wasn’t her real name. My 7x Great Grandfather was Jean Baptiste Baudreau dit Graveline of Montreal, Quebec. (His father was first settler and Land Trustee of Montreal, which was called Ville-Marie back then.) Anyway, JBB migrated south with d’Iberville and settled on the Mississippi Coast. He had a child with the Choctaw woman who we know as Suzanne. About 12 years later, they reluctantly married because their son Jean Baptiste II was illegitimate and being treated as such. So JBB wanted to try to legitimize him. Later on, JBB2 (the son) grew up to be a notorious lawbreaker, and was eventually charged and sentenced to death by breaking wheel, which occurred publicly in front of St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. Thankfully, before that happened, he had children, including a daughter named Catherine Louise Baudreau. Louise married a settler from Poitiers, France named Joseph Bouzage. They received land from the Spanish via grant, and founded Bayou La Batre, Alabama. They are my 5x Great Grandparents, and the reason I am both Creole and Cajun. Here’s a link about JBB2 on Wikipedia. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Baptiste_Baudreau_IIThere is a ton of public info about this family line on the internet and in genealogical writings. I’ve been able to trace them back to 1566 France. But to answer your question, Suzanne was my 7x Great Grandmother. It shows up as 1% on my Ancestry due to the generational gap, but I’m impressed they found it at all to be honest. I do have cousins whose Native DNA didn’t show up on their test results. If you Google “Graveline historical marker Mississippi” you’ll find a couple of photos of roadside signs referencing JBB.
Ancestry dot com is strictly heritage DNA. Based on what I knew about it already, the results they gave me were agreeable. I’m 99% European (France mostly, some Germany and U.K., fair percentage of Ireland, tiny bit of Sweden) and 1% Native American (this is MS Choctaw but they don’t determine that, it’s something I knew already). They found my Gulf Coast and North Carolina first settlers. They missed the Pfalz, Germany-Philadelphia, PA-Philadelphia, MS connection, but it’s confirmed in my genealogical records elsewhere. I bought the test on sale and I was happy overall.
The word quasi is defined as “something that is a resemblance”, so a quasi-mom would be someone who resembles a mom. I’m not a mom in real life, but I sometimes act like a mom giving advice on Ask. :)
Thank you for the 🔥
I hope you’re doing fine today
Thank you, I appreciate it! 🌷
Who is your favourite author?
I enjoyed the Jules Verne novellas. Around the World in 80 Days 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea Etc.I’ll have to make an author list sometime and post it. Stay tuned.
Guilty pleasure food?
Gosh, there are so many. :(Fruit snacks Pizza Cheese dip Chips and salsa Bacon Bread Alfredo sauce Frappe Chocolate maltsMy willpower with food is getting worse every day. I gotta get a handle on it, to be honest.