Recent content by willyjp

Very interesting. Thank you for that. And of particular interest is the Mayo history. I didn't go into what I know of my own recent heredity, but my most distant, fully known Prendergast ancestor is only 4 generations back, born in Portland, Maine. He always reported his parents as both born...

You could be right on about anything having a German flavor. The US underwent a profound "de-germanification" between 1915 and 1918, and folks in your home state of Wisconsin were affected as much as anyplace in the US. Germans made up the largest of all immigrant groups to the US from...

As far as Halloween, the "holiday" has become totally secularized and it's meaning entirely forgotten in the US. At least amongst those who haven't been to Mexico for Dia de los Muertos. Once you've experienced that, the silly corruption of the holiday (which of course is just a contraction of...

In investigating my surname, in connection with family genealogy research, I have learned that my surname, "Prendergast" has the uncommon, if not rare, history of being traceable to its origin in Ireland in a single individual (or at least his immediate family). Maurice dePrendergast was a...

One error of thinking that marks the original post is the error of associating to much in the way of hereditary somatic characteristics to the Y haplotype. Please do not forget that, when speaking of the Y chromosome, we are talking about a TINY portion of the total genetic information. Y...