That is really cool. :) I love the bit about the house! I guess with shifting borders and everything, things like that happen, but it's always so crazy! :P
My mom's people have pretty much always lived exactly where they still live, in County Galway, for centuries and centuries. They were already there when the city (Galway) was built in the 1100's. It's apparently known for being the most "Irish" part of Ireland, where people still speak Gaelic/Irish and apparently my clan (the Kellys) are known for being, and I quote: "stubborn and argumentative, even for the Irish". :P
I know more of my adoptive German relatives (who are Mennonite, so very much like the PA Dutch, really! -> the Mennos around here did the whole Switzerland->Germany->Ukraine/Russian route before coming over, but they're primarily German (my branch, at least). They're still just my adoptive relatives, but whatever. I've stayed with some of them in Germany and it's been fun. :)
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Date: 2006-09-05 10:22 pm (UTC)My mom's people have pretty much always lived exactly where they still live, in County Galway, for centuries and centuries. They were already there when the city (Galway) was built in the 1100's. It's apparently known for being the most "Irish" part of Ireland, where people still speak Gaelic/Irish and apparently my clan (the Kellys) are known for being, and I quote: "stubborn and argumentative, even for the Irish". :P
I know more of my adoptive German relatives (who are Mennonite, so very much like the PA Dutch, really! -> the Mennos around here did the whole Switzerland->Germany->Ukraine/Russian route before coming over, but they're primarily German (my branch, at least). They're still just my adoptive relatives, but whatever. I've stayed with some of them in Germany and it's been fun. :)