Genealogy and family research is a trip. My dad's side is really straightforward; two farmer kids from Denmark met in the USA, got married, had kids. Their family were farmers in the Slesvig-Holsten area for many generations, with one minor change when they moved to the US of dropping the leading "Y" on the last name and going with the more modern/American "J" instead. My Mom's side was much more pompous... there's a signer on the Declaration of Independence with their last name (my middle name) that they claimed to be a relative.... but they aren't. And there was "George Washington's sword" held proudly by the family... until it turns out that there was a gimmicky thing the US Govt did where they handed out these things to people as tokens or honors, but they had nothing to do with Washington. That part of the family comes firmly from Scotland, with both Buchanan and MacGilivray blood well-established. So yeah. I'm a white northern european dude.