If you could learn one secret or unknown fact about your distant ancestors, what would it be?

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Originally Posted by Celestia

I have one ancestor of mine that I am truly fascinated with. She was a mistress slave who ended up marrying my French ancestor after his wife died. They had 3 mulatto children together.. On his deathbed he took away all of her and their childrens rights and said they were property to his all white children from his previous marriage. She ended up taking it to court and won her childrens freedom but never her own so she fled to Mexico. I would love to talk to her and find out her whole story.

http://www.louisianalineage.com/marg...at%20Opelousas

this is some info on the court case I was able to look into.

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Thats so depressing.

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Idk anything at all about my ancestors lmfao so really, anything would be fine to learn

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Gosh, so hard to pick a single question. My great grandfather was missing two fingers, I assume it was an accident, but I'd like to know what happened.

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Originally Posted by IrisSelene

Thats so depressing.

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It is. But she fought for her kids freedom in a time where she was looked at as property. It’s very admirable too

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Originally Posted by Celestia

It is. But she fought for her kids freedom in a time where she was looked at as property. It’s very admirable too

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Its overall sad that she was a slave, then maybe she thought it was gonna get better when he married her and had kids, just to have it all fall apart again...

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I just remembered that my maternal great grandma was supposedly raped and nobody knows my grandmas real "father".

So, I would like to know what really happened, if it was really rape (my mom doubts it bc she says she was a terrible human being and a liar) and who the man was.

Also, i would like to know when did they all move to romania and why exactly

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If someone was in a concentration camp or died in the holocaust, or escaped death. Thats what I would like to know. I know my grandfather paternal who was half gypsy half serb, was a prisoner, a working prisoner, but not in a concentration camp.

I match a couple SNP's with Ostrogoth remains. I'd talk to Fritigern the Gothic chieftan. Also a few prominent Alans in my region like Saphrax.

I'd also like to meet my 2.7% Asian ancestors khan (whoever they were honestly don't know), and ask stuff about their culture. I'd like to meet Attila but I doubt I have any descent from him.

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Originally Posted by La Gallega

When did your Jewish ancestors first settle in Denmark? I know that the first Jews who arrived were Dutch Sephardim in the early 17th century.

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1839 in Randers (there used to be a Jewish community there), via Sweden. But they kept in touch with relatives in Courland.

Hard to say really, there isn't anything really mysterious about them. They are kinda generic even if they came from the upper class.