Genealogies

Not much going on – rather, much going on. We’re taking a brief holiday, over at my folk’s house in the woods of northwestern PA. Furious relaxation going on. Eating like royalty. Finished my Poe book, read a bunch of poems and some of St. John of the Cross. Watched a marathon of “Big Bang Theory,” our current favorite teevee show. Little One doing book reports. Patch amazing us all with her newest form of communication: sentences. Football games. A perfect lazy Sunday afternoon.

Also spent an hour figuring out the girls’ ethnicity. The wife and I are both mutts, genealogically speaking. Just about every European country is represented it seems, with the exception of the continent’s left and right sides. So, FYI …

I am:

25% - Italian
25% - Czech
12.5% - Austrian
12.5% - Hungarian
12.5% - German
6.25% - English
6.25% - Irish

I won’t go into the wife’s, but if you add hers up with mine, our girls come out to:

25% - German
15.6% - Irish
12.5% - Italian
12.5% - Czech
12.5% - Polish
6.25% - Austrian
6.25% - Hungarian
6.25% - English
3.1% - French

So Little One and Patch are German-Irish mongrels (no disrespect intended, of course). With Italian last names, nonetheless. And, with a tiny fraction of Ashkenazy Jewish blood on the wife’s German side. The Ashkenazys are the super-achieving overly-representative subethnicity on the intelligence bell curves of all major groups. So that’s a welcome bonus, in my opinion.

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Back to our regularly scheduled blogging mañana.