Let me see if I can count my ancestry off the top of my head. (I had an aunt get a bit fanatic about this as to *specific* tracing, I'd have done better on my 10th grade school report of she'd gotten interested earlier. :=) (Unfortunately, she's also big in flying saucers, VonDanikan, and so forth, but I think I trust ancestrial fanaticism more than I do Von Danikan.)

Some Cherokee. The ancestry on my grandfather's site is not very clear, but you can *see* some Indian (and family lore says it is Cherokee). The rocking chair in his home would (supposedly) rock with the Ghost of Redfox. Someone able to point me toward some supposed Cherokee Indian named Redfox, please do.

"Harris". That implies England. (unless you Nordish, Australian, or European people can come up with another explanation.)

Some Scottish. Clan MacNeil, via my fraternal grandmother who was supposedly (but never actually) adopted. Illegitimate birth, married my grandfather. Haven't traced that back to point of immigration, but my crazy aunt is convinced of it. (That's reasonably good.)

Some German (might be hard to trace exactly, but "mingus" is a clue). Possibly immigrants in the post-Civil War era. (Alternately, it might be from German Hessiens from the Revolution. Establishing a homestead in Kentucky might have been pretty attractive to the former Hessien mercenaries stranded in the now-United States. Record keeping there would be scanty at best.)

Africans? Have no idea. You've seen the murkiness of my lineage, may very well have some.

I can't say for sure my American ancesters weren't slave-owners, but before I'd even consider reparations, I'd want any claimants to document *exactly* my ancestry through a slave-owning person, and the *exact* ancenstry and lineage of any person wishing to make a claim upon me.

If they could actually do so, the cost of actually documenting it would probably exceed any cost I might repay, good fucking luck, you dumbasses.

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