22 Aug 2009, 12:20 pm
Norwegian, living in Norway. 
Mother's side: Norwegian (earliest records of ancestors from around 1100)
Father's side: Norwegian. In the 1700s my paternal grandmother's ancestors immigrated from Germany (earliest records from 1388).
22 Aug 2009, 1:06 pm
22 Aug 2009, 1:09 pm
elderwanda
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Joined: 17 Nov 2008
Age: 59
Gender: Female
Posts: 1,534
Location: San Francisco Bay Area
22 Aug 2009, 7:53 pm
b9 wrote:
i think my earliest recognizable ancestors cane from pangea.
they were descended from primordial slimes that were cooked up in a natural calderon of organic "soups". "amine" production is my lineage's genesis.
they were descended from primordial slimes that were cooked up in a natural calderon of organic "soups". "amine" production is my lineage's genesis.
Yep! Me too! I am raising my children to be aware of and proud of their slimy heritage.
EVERY frigging year at school, my kids get another ridiculous "heritage" assignment. We live in an area that is ethnically diverse, and so there's no end to the "heritage" projects. It is assumed that each kid has a slew of living relatives from Ukraine, Lebanon, Thailand, and Peru--and that each relative has passed a recipe and a folk song/story to the kid. I personally come from a family line in which there was zero transmission of culture, unless alcoholism and vague autism counts. So, when they get one of these assignments, I try to remind them of how ultimately, we all came from exactly where you just said. For some reason, teachers get all flustered when kids decorate their "Heritage Dolls" to look like uni-cellular organisms, though. Strange.
23 Aug 2009, 3:19 am
elderwanda wrote:
I personally come from a family line in which there was zero transmission of culture, unless alcoholism and vague autism counts.
. Mine too.
Mother's side: Swiss, English, Italian
Father's side: Belgian, possibly some French.
23 Aug 2009, 7:10 am
LosFrida wrote:
elderwanda wrote:
I personally come from a family line in which there was zero transmission of culture, unless alcoholism and vague autism counts.
. Mine too.Mother's side: Swiss, English, Italian
Father's side: Belgian, possibly some French.
On my father's side going back four generations some of my ancestors came from the 4th planet around the star that earthlings call Sirius. It turns out my star ancestors had compatible DNA with native human stock.
I am made of Star Stuff, to quote the late Carl Sagan.
ruveyn
23 Aug 2009, 10:53 am
elderwanda wrote:
b9 wrote:
i think my earliest recognizable ancestors cane from pangea.
they were descended from primordial slimes that were cooked up in a natural calderon of organic "soups". "amine" production is my lineage's genesis.
they were descended from primordial slimes that were cooked up in a natural calderon of organic "soups". "amine" production is my lineage's genesis.
Yep! Me too! I am raising my children to be aware of and proud of their slimy heritage.
EVERY frigging year at school, my kids get another ridiculous "heritage" assignment. We live in an area that is ethnically diverse, and so there's no end to the "heritage" projects. It is assumed that each kid has a slew of living relatives from Ukraine, Lebanon, Thailand, and Peru--and that each relative has passed a recipe and a folk song/story to the kid. I personally come from a family line in which there was zero transmission of culture, unless alcoholism and vague autism counts. So, when they get one of these assignments, I try to remind them of how ultimately, we all came from exactly where you just said. For some reason, teachers get all flustered when kids decorate their "Heritage Dolls" to look like uni-cellular organisms, though. Strange.
in a universe where life is almost non existent, cells of "slime" may be the closest thing to "god's children".
i am not religious but i wonder who god loved before he could love humans.
and if he once loved each slime cell, then does he no longer love them because there is more complex life around? is he a snob?
that is not a good question to ask a religion teacher at school.
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apparently my mother was swedish and my father was german. i was adopted at an early age (2 weeks) into an australian family.
