A day late. Had it ready to go last evening…life…and then i fell asleep before posting it. I owe you one more Stanza for today 😊
penned in history’s tomes the story of a clan
who’s roots trace back to greatness, to the loins
of Charlemagne; a certain noble lineage
Trowbridge, one such name, of Thomas and
Elizabeth, great grands from whence I came
~kat
For Jane Dougherty’s August Stanza Challenge.
It has been said that many people can trace their roots to Charlemagne. When one considers that families back in the day had a dozen or more children, generation to generation, it is not hard to believe that his progeny are legion. But I was certainly surprised to find my own family line weaved into that infamous tapestry. My 12th great grands, are Thomas Trowbridge born in 1598, who was the first Trowbridge to cross the Atlantic to America, along with his wife Elizabeth, nee Marshall. I am a descendant of their son James and all the begats thereafter.
I was thinking…I might even be related to some of you. It’s possible you know. From the beginning of humankind to now, Adam and Eve aside, I believe we are all kin. Wouldn’t it be nice if we could all get along? 😉
August 8th, 2018 at 10:13 am
Yes, we are all foreigners, aliens, immigrants. I wonder where I should be deported to?
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August 8th, 2018 at 10:19 am
I’m afraid I’m stuck here. ☹️
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August 8th, 2018 at 10:16 am
Sweet. 😎🥀
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August 8th, 2018 at 10:20 am
I thought it was pretty cool.
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August 8th, 2018 at 11:29 am
Charlemagne now? Your grandmother certainly got about 🙂
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August 8th, 2018 at 11:30 am
This strain is from my maternal grandfather’s side…
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August 8th, 2018 at 11:36 am
Oh, okay. I thought you only had one you could trace back.
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August 8th, 2018 at 11:43 am
Grandma O’Malley, I can only trace back to her grandparents…and even that is iffy. Then there is my dad’s father…the Swede and German…still only a few generations. My Mom’s Mom Russia/Czechoslovakia…only 1 generation back. It is my Mom’s father that is the mother lode of our family tree, weaving all over Europe, dipping into Afghanistan, that I can trace back to the second and third centuries. My DNA places me heavily as descending from the British Isles…with a touch of Eastern Europe and a smidge of the Middle East. Like I said…a mutt. 🙂
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August 8th, 2018 at 12:05 pm
It’s good to have a varied gene pool 🙂
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August 8th, 2018 at 3:07 pm
Tell me about it. I live near Appalachia. Plenty of inbreeding in them thar hills. 😀
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August 8th, 2018 at 4:09 pm
Where do they hove from?
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August 8th, 2018 at 6:21 pm
Many claim melungeon roots a mix of European, Native American an African, Kentucky backwoods and West Virginia.
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August 9th, 2018 at 3:35 am
Just about everything except Chinese then?
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August 9th, 2018 at 6:31 am
Yep. It seems so. 😉
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August 9th, 2018 at 8:33 am
🙂
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August 8th, 2018 at 11:32 am
Basically I’m a mutt with a dose of pedigree intermingled…but still a mutt. 😊
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August 8th, 2018 at 11:36 am
I’m just Irish 🙂
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August 8th, 2018 at 11:46 am
They don’t call this country the melting pot for nothing! 😉
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August 8th, 2018 at 12:06 pm
Maybe they should have stopped melting a while back 🙂
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August 8th, 2018 at 3:06 pm
These days the sludge is rising to the surface. If we could skim the top, we might actually be able to turn things around. 🙂
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August 8th, 2018 at 4:08 pm
You need a guillotine. Lots of guillotines.
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August 8th, 2018 at 6:24 pm
Yep! 🤣
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August 8th, 2018 at 2:33 pm
And who are you to be needing your sleep, I might ask? 😆
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August 8th, 2018 at 3:05 pm
Haha! I fell asleep with my computer on my lap. Been pulling 10 hour days at work 5 days a week and trying to keep up with my writing…the important stuff. 😉
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August 8th, 2018 at 3:39 pm
Poor kid. Tell ’em eight hours is e-*#/@-nuff!
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August 8th, 2018 at 6:34 pm
I know, right?!
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August 8th, 2018 at 8:49 pm
🤔
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August 10th, 2018 at 6:47 pm
I agree if we could all just get along 💜💜💜
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August 10th, 2018 at 9:17 pm
Wouldn’t that be nice. 🙂
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