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On my dad's side: 1400s in Austria. One of my uncles did most of the research, and he used church (Catholic) documents. Supposedly one of my cousins found our ancestor's grave while backpacking through Austria 10-15 years ago.
On my mom's side: Sometime in the 1700s, Cherokee. My great-great grandfather was a storekeeper in Oklahoma in the late-ish 1800s and kept detailed journals, written in Cherokee (The Cherokee language is really f'ing hard). They were mostly business ledgers, but he also wrote family stories and history in them. Someone had read them to my family so we could get a general idea of what was in them, but last I heard one of my great aunts was working with Cherokee tribal officials to get the journals translated.
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