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Oct. 10th, 2004 02:07 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaalaI should be asleep but I have to mention my new default userpic. It depicts three maternal relatives, a grandfather and two great-aunts, from Kentucky. (The little girl on the right is still alive, well, and living independently, and I met her for the first time the summer before last.)
This photograph is one of the clearer demonstrations I have that my family tree contains some fairly recent mixed-race ancestry. People never believe me when I mention it because I have such pale skin. Mum has developed a recent interest in genealogy and her hypothesis (largely unprovable) is that some of our Appalachian ancestors were Melungeons.
Intriguing stuff.
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Speaking of my American ancestry (and my American citizenship): my absentee ballot has not yet arrived. I'm getting worried that it won't. Oh well. It's not like another anti-Bush vote would make an iota of difference in New York.
This photograph is one of the clearer demonstrations I have that my family tree contains some fairly recent mixed-race ancestry. People never believe me when I mention it because I have such pale skin. Mum has developed a recent interest in genealogy and her hypothesis (largely unprovable) is that some of our Appalachian ancestors were Melungeons.
Intriguing stuff.
* * *
Speaking of my American ancestry (and my American citizenship): my absentee ballot has not yet arrived. I'm getting worried that it won't. Oh well. It's not like another anti-Bush vote would make an iota of difference in New York.
