Discussion»Statements»Rosie's Corner» Did any of you know we have an Answermug member who can trace one branch of his family back FORTY THOUSAND YEARS?
We can't exactly, we just know they were in Australia for at least that long. There's no record of who begat who, all aboriginal Australian languages were illiterate.
Give or take a few thousand years then R? Still and all I remain bigly impressed. Of course we can all take ourselves back to IN THE BEGINNING can't we? Or at least some of us can either via religious beliefs or science. There was a beginning somewhere for all of us. Thank you for your reply! :)
That's way more than I got. Why? Because stoopid me NEVER ASKED! Too soon old too late schmart! Thank you for your reply E. That's almost 200 years! That's dam* impressive! :)
I have partial (4%) Neanderthal DNA ... which can be traced to a "branching" of human evolution over 200,000 years ago.
I, as everyone else, can trace my Maternal Haplogroup back about 180,000 years. We can also trace our Paternal Haplogroup back about 275,000 years.
While it may be interesting to know where we came from, there's really no "bragging rights" associated with who our ancestors were. Even if we can trace our lineage directly to someone famous in their time - we had nothing to do with it. If you think of it, claiming we are "special" because of who our ancestor was, is like saying we're "special" because we once glimpsed some celebrity at a traffic light. (I haven't seen Slartibartfast claim he's "special" because of his heritage. I'm just saying in general.)
I have a former in-law who constantly tells people she is related to William Wallace's second-in-command. My response to her the second time she brought it up, trying to "put me in my place": "So ... what have YOU done?"
What I find interesting ... is that out of the thousands of men and women who lived during those times ... everybody's DNA goes back to ONE man/woman. (not one couple, as they lived thousands of years apart.)
So the bloodlines of thousands of men/women died out in those intervening years. Makes me wonder what happened to them all.
Oh Walt! You blew it bigly! Glimpsing something and having DNA from a gazillion years ago is not the same thing. You don't know that? C'mon! You gotta know that it. It is elementary my dear Watson. What's wrong with being PROUD of where you came from? You aren't? Sheesh Thank you for your reply Walt. What if anything floats your boat rings your chimes turns you on? Are you a parade rainer 24/7 organically or is it sometrhing you put on when you want to distance yourself from normal stuff? No joys anywhere within you to celebrate! Just wondering. Thank you for your reply. SIGH.
This post was edited by RosieG at August 1, 2019 11:45 AM MDT
You can be proud of where you came from ... but it doesn't make you any more special than anybody else. YOU had nothing to do with where you came from.
Unless there is some belief system, where our "souls" decide where they will be born. But I couldn't believe in that system, either. As everybody would want to be born in the best circumstances.
Years ago there was a guy at the gas station I stopped at. He looked familiar, but I couldn't place him. He asked me how to get to a certain club. (He was on the right street, but due to the local numbering system, he just hadn't gone far enough.) I drove on past the club on my way home and noticed who was performing that night listed on the sign.
Turns out I had give directions to Mac Davis. (At his commercial peak in the mid-'70s, Mac Davis was one of America's most popular entertainers, a countrypolitan-styled singer and actor who found considerable success in both fields. Born Scott Davis on January 21, 1942, in Buddy Holly's hometown of Lubbock, TX.)
So you would say that alone wouldn't make me special either?---lol
I did the Ancestry DNA test. It told me that I'm 99% European and 1% Italian. Unless you pay for a subscription to the site, you can't trace your entire history. Since I'm satisfied knowing this much information, I don't see the need to pay for more.
European is a broad spectrum L. French, Italian, British? Do they all boil down to one thing? Isn't Italy in Europe? It's so confusing! Thank you for your reply! :)
I know I was born in Oak Park Hospital. In Oak Park, Illinois. I know who my parents were and theirs and my great grandparents.
What happened before that, is of little consequence. I am mildly interested but no more than I am in your lineage. I mean if you tell me that your ancestors were from Tim Buck TWO who cares. It is interesting from an historical standpoint, but from a personal one?
So what? I shall tell you. If your son called you from a Mormon Ancestry Registry open to everyone and asked you specific questions you could not answer would you be thrilled to the gills for having FAILED your child BIGLY? I was and am and can do nothing about it Sharon. Your So what is my pain. Your so what has nothing to do with wanting to know WHY you are what you are. Perhaps you are the duplicate of a very long ago relative. A mirror image. You don't care to know why you are what you are? Different strokes. Your so what satisfies you apparently. It doesn't satisfy me. SO WHAT?
This post was edited by RosieG at August 1, 2019 11:51 AM MDT
I don't even KNOW what the HECK you are babbling about. WHAT PAIN? Why are you in pain because of some Mormon census?
SO WHAT? You seriously are telling me that you are in PAIN because you cannot answer a census question?
I don't even pretend to comprehend what it is you are trying to express here.
I said I don't care because I don't care what body started the body I am in. Sorry, it is not my area of concern.
The fact that you could turn this answer of mine into some personal PAIN you experience is as insane as getting mad at me for your other son's death. I had NO idea what your question was about in that instance and I have NO idea why you are in pain because I don't care where my great great great great great grandma came from.
You say it's not about wanting to know why you are what you are and then you turn around and contradict just that. Then you say THIS: You don't care to know why you are what you are? Different strokes. Your so what satisfies you apparently. It doesn't satisfy me. SO WHAT?
You know what this is about ROSIE? YOU KNOW WHAT THIS IS ABOUT? You want me to be polite like you and not say things like so what?
THAT IS IT ISN"T IT?
I am supposed to politely disagree or better still not answer at all. This is Answer Mug. I answer and I am not insulting you or your family.
According to one Jehovah's Witness posting online, the JW's "believe humanity began with Adam and Eve and that HUMANITY is about 6000 years old. However we recognize the Earth to be some 4.6 billion years old. We also recognize that the universe as a whole is far older than that."
I have never explored my ancestry (neither my parents or grandparents were interested in talking about it---for whatever reasons).
Can you give me a sentence or two that explains how one traces their ancestry back for 40,000 years?
Archaeologists have determined that human settlement in Australia dates back at least 40,000 years and possibly as much as twice that. I have one g'g'g' grandmother who was native Australian. QED. The whole thing arose from a q of Rosie's about being first generation American. I'm probably 2000 generations Australian at least.
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