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ThurberMingus  ·  643 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: June 22, 2022

Nobody in my direct ancestry has stayed in place long enough for 'proper heritage' of any sort, and any 'West Plains heritage' was copied after WWII. The Native Texan half of the family mostly spoke German until the 1940s and half of them weren't even in Texas until the dust bowl.

The culture of my family is mythologized stories about great grand parents glued together with the local stuff wherever they ended up.

Even in the branch of the family with the most claim of heritage (Virginian, 'real English') my great grandmother ran away to Montreal for a decade to marry a Catholic and have my granddad.