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it is. and tbh ancestry is the least interesting part for me, since i more or less know my ancestry . however, the very distant cousins that i have found in US
by buboard 8y ago
it is. and tbh ancestry is the least interesting part for me, since i more or less know my ancestry . however, the very distant cousins that i have found in US and CA are very excited to know where they came from. This must be a mostly american thing.
- slfnflctd 8y ago> This must be a mostly american thing Part of the old-school American tradition many regions (mostly rural, which is where over 80% of residents lived at one time) was to have a bunch of kids and encourage them to spread out as far & wide as they wanted; this still continues in some places. The logistics of 'keeping in touch with family' have some pretty hard limits past a certain point, and recordkeeping can be haphazard/fragile. A great many people in North America have significant trouble tracing their ancestry back past their great-grandparents.