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Apr. 1st, 2003 05:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kz_blogorambling1. What is your lineage? Where are your ancestors from?
My mom is 100% Dutch--she's not an immigrant, but her parents were from a little all-dutch community in Iowa. My dad is 50% Czech. His other half was a mystery but he's done a lot of research and it appears we have some Irish in us, and English. Not sure what else, though he would know.
That makes me 50% dutch, 25% Czech, and the rest a mix. Even though I'm more Dutch than anything, I feel like I'm more Czech because I look so much like my Dad and his Czech side of the family.
2. Of those countries, which would you most like to visit?
I'd really like to go to Ireland. But frankly I'm interested in all of these places as a chance to learn more about my heritage. I'm fascinated by it, really. I know my Czech relatives escaped a very hard life (although I think it was more of the same here in the U.S.) and I'd like to see the physical place where they came from. I believe they were farmers.
3. Which would you least like to visit?
Hmm. Well, I don't know. I'll say the Netherlands, but only because I've visited there already.
4. Do you do anything during the year to celebrate or recognize your heritage?
Well, only sort of. I have a pair of wooden shoes which I admire periodically. I feel a special affinity for tulips. I would like to do more via foods or festivals to make a bigger deal out of this, though. You know, make kolaches at a certain time of year, take my son to the tulip festival, learn how to make cabbage rolls and have them be a holiday staple, etc. My husband's family is all German, and they decorate with nutcrackers at Christmas and his dad speaks German at some family celebrations. We should do more, though.
5. Who were the first ancestors to move to your present country (parents, grandparents, etc.)
Oh my. Well, according to my Dad we have one relative that came over real early. But I'm sort of prouder (or maybe, more intrigued) by the ones who came over more recently. I believe my great-grandfather came over from the Netherlands in 1917 or thereabouts. Alas, I think he was dodging military service.
My mom is 100% Dutch--she's not an immigrant, but her parents were from a little all-dutch community in Iowa. My dad is 50% Czech. His other half was a mystery but he's done a lot of research and it appears we have some Irish in us, and English. Not sure what else, though he would know.
That makes me 50% dutch, 25% Czech, and the rest a mix. Even though I'm more Dutch than anything, I feel like I'm more Czech because I look so much like my Dad and his Czech side of the family.
2. Of those countries, which would you most like to visit?
I'd really like to go to Ireland. But frankly I'm interested in all of these places as a chance to learn more about my heritage. I'm fascinated by it, really. I know my Czech relatives escaped a very hard life (although I think it was more of the same here in the U.S.) and I'd like to see the physical place where they came from. I believe they were farmers.
3. Which would you least like to visit?
Hmm. Well, I don't know. I'll say the Netherlands, but only because I've visited there already.
4. Do you do anything during the year to celebrate or recognize your heritage?
Well, only sort of. I have a pair of wooden shoes which I admire periodically. I feel a special affinity for tulips. I would like to do more via foods or festivals to make a bigger deal out of this, though. You know, make kolaches at a certain time of year, take my son to the tulip festival, learn how to make cabbage rolls and have them be a holiday staple, etc. My husband's family is all German, and they decorate with nutcrackers at Christmas and his dad speaks German at some family celebrations. We should do more, though.
5. Who were the first ancestors to move to your present country (parents, grandparents, etc.)
Oh my. Well, according to my Dad we have one relative that came over real early. But I'm sort of prouder (or maybe, more intrigued) by the ones who came over more recently. I believe my great-grandfather came over from the Netherlands in 1917 or thereabouts. Alas, I think he was dodging military service.
