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[morphius]

Originally Posted by BigVE

My fathers family history is mixed. My great great grandfather was mexican, my great grandfather married a part native american/mexican, my granfather married a woman who was a 1/4 native american and the rest mexican. NOBODY can honestly trace what type of native american in either case. My original family name should have been Hernandez but my great great grandfather had such a bad reputation that his son took his mothers maiden name, hence my name today. This also makes it tough to trace. My moms side is secretive at best but I do know that it's mostly from a strong german descent from my grandfathers side...german enough that he was ashamed to mention some of his families past while they were in Germany. There was also a name change in there somewhere. My grandmother called herself Heinz 57 because she was some sort of mix of dutch, welsh, irish, german and who knows what else. It's all pretty interesting to me but the real details are mysterious and secretive so there's not a lot to go on other than hand me down stories. One interesting story is that my great great grandfather road with Pancho Villa, thus causing his son to change his name later on. My grandfather was an official Texas Ranger (non-baseball,lol) and helped with translating when they would apprehend those who didn't speak english. I have a kick-@ss picture of him in his uniform with his rifle and side-arm in hand. So I guess when it comes down to it I'm basically a mexi-germerican .

With all the name changes its surprising you aren't a serial killer!

The Norwegian side of my family would be hard to trace, as with many of that nationality their last name was changed to Moe when they moved to the US.