My Lineage
I'm an Ashkenazi Jew, so it breaks down like this:
Father's Paternal side is from Warsaw, Poland
Father's Maternal side is from Minsk, Belarus
Mother's Paternal side is from Hungarian
Mother's Maternal side is from Audtria, but before that Russia.
3 of my grandparents were born here. My mom's mom was born in Austria, and walked, with her family, from Austria to Denmark in 1917 to take a ship, in steerage, to Ellis Island.
An interesting thing about my lineage happened in the aftermath of the Cuban Missile Crisis. After 45 hours awake, and in the air, my father (an airman aboard a B-52) informed his CO that one of the final potential targets, for his airplane, was Minsk. His mom's family was from Minsk. The Air Force investigated and gave him an honorable discharge.
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