My Ethnicity

I saw this August 8, 2009 post on Cheryl Fleming Palmer's Blog "Heritage Happens." It was about ethnicity and calculating ones ethnicity by looking at your 8 great grandparents' ethnicity and giving each a value of 12.5%. This works with relative newcomers to the USA, however, 7 of my 8 great grandparents were born in Indiana.

• 3 - Howard County
• 1 - Miami County
• 1 - Clinton County
• 1 - Pike County
• 1 - Daviess County
• 1 Bas-Rhin, France

So, that would mean I have 12.5% French

Aside from that French line, the next generation back, great-great grandparents were born -

• Indiana - 7
• Virginia - 4
• Ohio - 2
• North Carolina - 1

So no new ethnicity to add in that generation.

The next generation is no better in revealing ethnicity. (3rd great grandparents)

• Virginia - 10
• Pennsylvania - 6
• Kentucky - 5
• North Carolina - 4
• Indiana - 1
• unknown (US) 1
• Tennessee - 1
• Maryland - 1

The previous generation (4th great grandparents) reveal some German, Swiss, a Scot and an Irish. I still have many things to discover about many of these ancestors and find the immigrant and document it. Although this little experiment did not give me the results I was hoping for, it did reveal some areas I need to work on.

What is your ethnicity? Try this and learn or be satisfied that you are an American of the Heinz 57 variety.

Happy hunting! Debby

I uploaded over 300 new entries to the Peru Mount Hope site last week. I continue to work on adding from the burial books. The recent additions are burials from Section D and most are not later than the 1920's. Most are pre-1900.

Debby

My silence

This has become a difficult summer for me. I became the economic cut-back in Kokomo-Howard County Public Library's Genealogy & Local History Department. I learned this on July 16th. I have shed many tears, as I loved this job and being emersed in genealogy & local history and working with the wonderful folks who call themselves genealogists and historians.

I do count myself among the fortunate people who have been able to find a job doing something we love. I miss it terribly, but I know whatever happens, God is with me.

Debby