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If you were adopted, how do you view your heritage and ancestry?
Do you consider the ancestors of your adoptive parents to be your ancestors?
Have you “adopted” their heritage, culture and history?
Where do your adoptive grandparents fit into your history/roots?
I’m mainly Irish, Scottish and English. I absolutely look it, too. That comes from my genetic makeup. I’m particularly proud of my Celtic heritage.
My aparents were Polish and Czech. They didn’t practice a lot of the cultural traditions, though, so there really wasn’t so much to adopt. My adoptive grandfather on my father’s side did make beautiful traditional Eastern European art. I really did like that quite a bit. (I don’t have an artistic bone in my body, so I won’t be carrying that on.)
I do enjoy genealogical research. It’s name certainly implies that it follow the genes, and I do so. I have traced back several centuries.
I also like to research my aparents’ lines, though. Even though I don’t fit in the strictest sense, I still am a part of it in a sociological sense.
Genetically, my first family are my ancestors. Sociologically, both families are. When someone asks my nationality, I give my genetic nationality, as this is normally what people mean. Adoption doesn’t change my genes.
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Historic Print (L): Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil Control sta., San F $57.00 Historic Print (L): Residents of Japanese ancestry awaiting the bus at the Wartime Civil Control sta., San FThis is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. Date: 1942 April.Subject: World War, 1939-1945–Japanese Americans–California–San Francisco.SOURCE: Library of Congress… |
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Historic Print (L): San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 – residents of Japanese ancestry registering for evacua $57.00 Historic Print (L): San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 – residents of Japanese ancestry registering for evacuaThis is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. Date: 1942 April.Subject: World War, 1939-1945–Japanese Americans–California–San Francisco.SOURCE: Library of Congress… |
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Historic Print (L): San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 – residents of Japanese ancestry, in response to the US $57.00 Historic Print (L): San Francisco, Calif., Apr. 1942 – residents of Japanese ancestry, in response to the USThis is a museum quality, reproduction print on premium paper with archival/UV resistant inks. Date: 1942 April.Subject: World War, 1939-1945–Japanese Americans–California–San Francisco.SOURCE: Library of Congress… |
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Cheatin Hearts $1.75 Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 11/14/2006 Run time: 88 minutes Rating: R… |
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Head-Smashed-In: Our Ancestry Preserved (A History of the UNESCO World Heritage Site and the Head-Smashed-In Interpretive Center) … |
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Roots: The Next Generations $4.83 Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 10/09/2007 Rating: Nr… |
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Family Name $9.71 Studio: New Video Group Release Date: 09/23/2008… |
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The Keeper: The Legend of Omar Khayyam $6.00 Kamran is a 12 year old boy who is consumed by the responsibility of keeping the story of his heritage alive for future generations. His travels from the U.S. take him to England and Iran as he pursues the life story of his ancestor the 11th Century Mathematician Astronomer poet of Persia Omar Khayyam. The film takes us from the modern day to the epic past where the relationship between Omar Khayy… |
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DUNNE, DUNN AND YOUR IRISH ANCESTRY: THE FASCINATING STORY OF IRELAND, YOUR HISTORIC ROOTS & PROUD IRISH HERITAGE (VHS TAPE-1992) … |
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Family Tree Maker (Jewel Case) $2.96 Family Tree Maker Special Edition makes it easier than ever to discover, preserve and share your family history. Discover a rewarding hobby that lasts a lifetime and beyond, with this incredible genealogy program! Once you’re done, you can showcase your family history with your own personall, stylish touches. Publish directly to a Web page to share with the world… |
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Ancestry.com 65-piece 12×12-inch Scrapbook Album Kit $31.49 This is the perfect scrapbooking kit to document your family historyAncestry.com includes one 12-inch postbound scrapbook album with photo and name plate windows on frontPhoto album features high-quality coated paper covering |
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Jesuit Order As a Synagogue of Jews (Hardcover) $139.65 The history of Jewish conversos in Spain has been the subject of serious historical research and often wildly inaccurate fiction. However, the story of the role played by men of Jewish descent in the foundation and early years of the Jesuit Order is la… |
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Voices Raised in Protest $93.06 Bangarth (history, U. of Western Ontario) offers a comparative analysis of the wartime treatment of Nikkei–people of Japanese descent–in Canada and the U.S. in the 1940s. Coverage includes an overview of policies enacted by the governments of both co… |
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The Language of Nazi Genocide (Hardcover) $73.39 In the Nazi genocide of European Jews, words preceded, accompanied, and made mass murder possible. Using a multilayered approach to connect official language to everyday life, historian Thomas Pegelow Kaplan analyzes the role of language in genocide. … |
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Saving What Remains (Hardcover) $15.64 A best-selling memoirist and Holocaust survivor recounts her journey to her family`s hometown in Samorfn, Czechoslovakia, to exhume the bodies of her grandparents from a Jewish cemetary that would soon be flooded by a new dam on the Danube River, and t… |