Family history

[oldjim]

As you guys gals and convertables know ive got a interesting family tree or forest depending on information as it comes to hand.

Another hand written letter unearthed today by sister or half sister to be precise now suggests my father was ukranian rather than hungarian as first thought.

Matches DNA from ancestory dot com that showed 32% baltic 33% russian 30% nw Europe then rest with dashes of swedish danish welsh??

Interesting.

Also in this letter two of the 3 siblings given up for adoption 2 are full brother/sister

It can get a little confusing due to borders in Europe shifting with each war, etc. My father in law came across a paper that said his parents were Austrian yet the town they were from is in Ukraine now. The old Austro-Hungarian empire covered much of the area that is now broken down to individual countries. The church in Scandinavian countries kept detailed records of the population and there's many genealogy societies over there that will assist anyone trying to trace their ancestry.

[shtferbrains]

If you see Scottish and Metis there is a fair chance you might encounter the Hudson Bay Co.
Many workers came from the Orkney Islands where there is a Germanic influence

Manitoba still has all the payroll records with name's going back to 1700's but as Blaithin pointed out they weren't to fussy about getting them correctly recorded.

Cumberland House is one of the oldest settlements in western North America going back to 1774. 250 yrs this yr. Many of the Metis there have Scottish names.

The Spanish had the first European settlement in California at San Diego in 1769.

[Blaithin]

Saint Boniface Society will do a Metis genealogy up to 15 generations back. I believe they’ll touch onto HBC and NWC records if they’re in the family.

[url]https://shsb.mb.ca/overview/?lang=en[/url]

[makar]

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The Spanish had the first European settlement in California at San Diego in 1769.[/QUOTE]

Russians in 1812.