Yeah, I'm a Muirhead -- my grandmother was Flossie Muirhead, which is as Scottish as it gets. From the Glasgow area. Married another Scot, John Hanger, who'd come over and crossed the US to Washington State, where he met Flossie, who'd been brought to Canada (BC) with her father, a lumberjack. It's all actually quite romantic and rustic. And I look mostly like the Scottish side, though with my mother's (see below) slightly Sephardic tint to my skin.
Other side of the family was French and German -- my mother was born in France and brought over as a child. Unfortunately I have no relatives on that side: turns out they had refused to come to the US during the war and apparently none survived; her father was an Ashkenazi and her mother Sephardic, and their families all were killed. Not so romantic or rustic, but very angsty story.
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Date: 2008-10-25 10:19 pm (UTC)Other side of the family was French and German -- my mother was born in France and brought over as a child. Unfortunately I have no relatives on that side: turns out they had refused to come to the US during the war and apparently none survived; her father was an Ashkenazi and her mother Sephardic, and their families all were killed. Not so romantic or rustic, but very angsty story.