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Well, my maternal line is K1a4a1h and I have a good paper trail to Holstein, in northern Germany circa 1650 and there is good historical evidence they were in northern Germany in the 14th century. Not terribly Jewish, though there'd be nothing wrong if they were.

You're a bit like my wife then. She wants "the book," to have the feel of it in her hands as she leaves (leafs?) through the pages. I'm cool with either. I suppose I like that both Jane Austen and Patrick O'Brian are my great likes (I also like The Influence of Sea Power on History). I've...

I should have mentioned Dick Francis. I've never found a book of his that failed to please (and there's so many to pick from!).

I could never get into poetry, but looking at my Kindle I can see that I frequently reread Pride & Prejudice, Wouk's Winds of War (I guess an American fits as a European author), Lord of the Rings (though I feel like a geek for saying so), Gone With the Wind, and the Patrick O'Brian seafaring...

People not training/restraining their dogs. Maybe it's a friendly dog (but only to you?), but that doesn't mean I want it jumping on me. Don't people train their dogs to heel, sit, lay-down anymore?

I think we've lost the thread of the original post . . .

Vogelwaarde Hulst, Zeeland, Nederland. This makes sense. My ancestry is north/west German, English and Dutch.

Spent a few days in San Antonio, near Austin. Loved the river walk, but like Angela says, the summer is a killer and I lived most of my youth in Phoenix so I know heat (or course I wouldn't go back to live there either).

I live in San Diego, California, which is pretty fine, so you'd need an atom bomb to pry me out of here. If, however, I had to pick a spot outside the U.S., it would be Switzerland. A beautiful country and one which is not on the front line of politics, which these days bores/scares me. What's...

For difference, here are my results (British Isles and Western Germany) and my wife's (Ireland and England). I've colored them for ease of viewing.

The problem with guilt is that it is imposed so unevenly. The Germans should feel guilty about Nazism, but the Chinese get a pass for Maoism? The English should feel guilty about the slave trade, but the Arabs get a pass for their role in east Africa (and southern Europe)? The French should feel...

This is not historical research or analysis. It's more like a 12-year old's time travel imagining . . . if you could go back in time, what would you change? Crush a butterfly and the Nazis win the 20th century (that's a literary reference). Yeah, if the western Roman Empire had stayed in place...

But, do you like having grey hair? I don't think I was terribly early transitiioning into grey maturity, I was middle-thirties, but I never regretted it. I like the look and, while I'm no Sean Connery, it provides a certain gravitas that I like. I would never consider hiding the grey. Would you?

Interesting, my own haplogroup, G2a, doesn't show up at all.

1991 was the beginning of a boom in the American economy and 2010, almost a decade ago, was the beginning of a slow recovery from one of the worst recessions the country had ever had. What would you expect for prospects for the middle class after that series of events? I expect the data today...

Hayley, I too am an American of mixed ancestry, but that's par for the course in this country. Some of the family came over as early as the 1600s, others in the middle 19th century. What I can prove is English, German, Dutch, Irish, and Scots-Irish (the early mix in this country), but my...

As most people will do, I thought I had an above average intelligence. Then I got assigned to the Pentagon and was chagrined to see how truly smart people can be. The elite intellects did rise to the top. It just goes to show you that the reason that things don't get resolved in DC, or places...

This destructive behavior is unhelpful and needs to be stopped.

Agree with the danger. It’s hard to work together when we’re ‘told’ other groups are so different that we don’t share the same “truth.”

Dumb, misguided, not properly schooled by their parents, many have mistaken sex for love, and substituted dick pics for connecting with another human being. We don’t understand ourselves any better than we do others. Real people are shy because meeting and understanding other people is...