18
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
this post was submitted on 18 Jul 2026
18 points (95.0% liked)
Ask Lemmygrad
1380 readers
71 users here now
A place to ask questions of Lemmygrad's best and brightest
founded 3 years ago
MODERATORS
They were already in their homelands, meaning the only lands they’d ever known. They were generations or centuries removed from where their ancestors were trafficked from, and intermixed such that none was from any one African people, place, or culture. Usually all familial history was lost. It’s hard for us wypipo to appreciate how much was lost. In contrast, I can trace my lineage back to the Mayflower and even before.
This is really strange to me. I have no knowledge on my family any further back than my great-grandparents, and that only through stories and photos from my grandparents. Beyond that i've never been really interested in the topic.
It was a source of pride in my family, and the lineage kept in family Bibles.
My great grandmother came over as an infant/toddler from Calabria, Italy in the 1920s. That's about as far back as I can trace my family history. If anyone knows how further back it goes I either never met them or they never shared it.
The United States is the only home I know, and much as I hate the empire and all it begets I'm not sure if I could live anywhere else and not feel like a stranger in a strange land.
Me neither, but my aunt was interested, and records of Mayflower descendants have been aggressively tracked by WASPs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mayflower_Society