Post by Ravik on Jun 26, 2006 2:36:35 GMT -5
Alright, I'm usually very sure of who I am and all, but something happened the other day that kind of messed things up for me on a large scale.....
Appearantly, my great grandfather (my mother's side) did some research on our family history. He wanted to find out more about the DeBoard family line, he spent most of his life hating himself for being French (he hated the French when fighting for them in WW2) and he wasn't happy being French. So he looked into it, and found out that the name DeBoard was not French at all. Our family line leads to 500 A.D. in Northern England....
So, I'm.... not French at all? I spent my entire life telling people I was French, when it all was a lie? Now what? I mean, I believed I was part French for my entire life only to find out I'm brittish. I'm bnot upset with being Brittish at all, but, I kind of feel as though I've lost a part of myself.
What makes this even more strange, is that we found out that the German family line is also not in our line.... So, I'm English...... and..... Scottish only? (Scottish on my father's side). Something just does not fit well here in my mind. I lost sight a little of who I was, and just find myself dumbfounded, and a little well, I don't know.....
I had to get that out there, I wanted to talk about it.....
Appearantly, my great grandfather (my mother's side) did some research on our family history. He wanted to find out more about the DeBoard family line, he spent most of his life hating himself for being French (he hated the French when fighting for them in WW2) and he wasn't happy being French. So he looked into it, and found out that the name DeBoard was not French at all. Our family line leads to 500 A.D. in Northern England....
So, I'm.... not French at all? I spent my entire life telling people I was French, when it all was a lie? Now what? I mean, I believed I was part French for my entire life only to find out I'm brittish. I'm bnot upset with being Brittish at all, but, I kind of feel as though I've lost a part of myself.
What makes this even more strange, is that we found out that the German family line is also not in our line.... So, I'm English...... and..... Scottish only? (Scottish on my father's side). Something just does not fit well here in my mind. I lost sight a little of who I was, and just find myself dumbfounded, and a little well, I don't know.....
I had to get that out there, I wanted to talk about it.....
