I'm not sure if you said it or not; your Danish right?

50% Danish, right off the boat from Copenhagen.
47% Scotts/Irish/Mutt with 3% from a Cree Indian about 4 generations back.
I gotta say, those Scotts/Irish are some tough SOBs.
That's the kind of genes that make me hard to kill.
My mother actually survived a burst appendix...without surgery!
Penicillin was not available at that time.
Amazing!

 

I've never heard of that, did she just heal?

 

I've never heard of that, did she just heal?

Yes. I don't know the odds on that, but it seems nearly impossible.
Any doctor today will tell you a burst appendix with no medical treatment is fatal.

Maybe that's how I came through 4 compound fractures without any detectable infection.
I have an immune system that eats steel and most plastics.

 

On an allied note, anyone ever used one of the mail in DNA test sites?
Max.

Yea. They told me I was half insane monkey. I guess it worked.

 

I'm not sure if you said it or not; your Danish right? So, am I but if I do a DNA test it most likely will result this way.


kv

One other often discovered unexpected result some have is the presence of the Neanderthal gene , proving that Humans did mate with them.
Max.

 

One other often discovered unexpected result some have is the presence of the Neanderthal gene , proving that Humans did mate with them.
Max.

That explains why my grandmother told my mother, "Be careful who you fool with or your babies will be back to dragging their knuckles within two generations."

 

Maybe that's how I came through 4 compound fractures without any detectable infection.
I have an immune system that eats steel and most plastics.

Surprisingly there are a lot of us with that genetic trait towards above average physical resiliency and healing running around.

I've proven I am one of them since the day I was born. I heal freakishly fast and that's been acknowledge several times by the standards of the few doctors who ever had work on me for anything.

The last one was a few years ago where I got bad second and third degree burns on my arm from my elbow to the tip of my thumb. At the second visit to the skin specialist, where he had intended to start measuring me for skin grafts, I had already filled in all my burned skin and most of the hair as well and only had some mild short term scarring and even that went away after about 6 months.

 

I can't top that. I got some flaming tar on my fingers in 1959 and I still have the scars.

 

Really wish I could get my Poison Ivy immunity back though.

As a kid I used to be able to be around that stuff all day and never get so much as an itch.

Now just thinking about it almost makes me break out.

 

I got you on that one!
I played in a poison ivy patch for 3 years before somebody told me what it was.
64 years old now and still haven't had any of that sort of thing (poison ivy, poison oak, skin inflammation caused by external irritants).

 

#12 and TCM, maybe you guy's are related to the wolverine?

 

#12 and TCM, maybe you guy's are related to the wolverine?

Which one?

 

I think we're both more physical than most people, pretty much fearless...tempered with some expensive lessons we had along the way. Then I doubt some of the characteristics, like webbed feet, furry tail...

 

Well I am rather surly most of the time and my hair does tend to look like either one depending on the day I am having.

I like to think of it as work hardened or maybe it's just that the abrasives in my personality that are where the hardness comes from.

 

One other often discovered unexpected result some have is the presence of the Neanderthal gene , proving that Humans did mate with them.
Max.

Don't know how good this is but; kind of interesting.

http://www.ancestraljourneys.org/looks.shtml


They are still trying to figure out what "Gene's" causes what and why; Blue vs. Brown or Blonde vs. Black or Brown. Humans Migrating from the Middle East could cause an influx of Genetic composition in the last 10,000 years.


kv

 

Some people feel disproportoinaly "proud" of their own ancestry... as if they ever had a say on who their ancestors, let alone their family members, would be...
Anyway, I have (had, he's been gone for 3 years) an uncle who once traveled to Spain and stayed there for several months researching all he could about the Martínez family... and his hard work payed off... he found official registries dating all the way back to the year 900, just before the first crusade and when the famous Mio Cid poem was written... He said he found ancestors from all walks of life, with a spectrum ranging from princes and royals, down to pirates and criminals... He was even offered a large amount of money by our then current Governor, who just so happened to be a Martínez too... which is not that hard really, it's an extremely common last name down here.... He didn't accept the money, saying that he had done it for his family, and not other's... But then you know what he did? He sealed all the documents and info in a time capsule and placed it in a safe being maintained by a trust found which was not to be opened in another 50 years!!!! He was always an interesting guy.

 

I got curious several years ago and asked up the chain. My grandma was dying (she didn't die after all, still alive & kicking) and my aunt was also ill. Thought it might be last chance. They told me about my grandparents and their parents and I took it from there. Did all the math and deduced that I am 100% mutt. My "ethnicity" is divided all the way down to the 1/32nds and when you add up all the little fractions that are Native American, I'm actually just shy of 50%.

You won't hear me claiming to be Native American though, I'm just American. My ancestors never claimed any sort of .gov cheese and neither will I. I probably couldn't if I wanted to; probably not enough of any one flavor to qualify for anything. But I think it might explain my 12 chest hairs and how I get bronze after half a day in the sun.

 

@strantor
You sound like my brother from another mother.
Three days in the sun and you can't tell whether or not I'm Jamaican.

 

Odd one here. I'm as generic white as a person can get and I tan like a full baked Mexican even though I have blue eyes, brown hair and a red tint to my beard if I let it grow in.

Right now I am way darker than my Turkish wife.

Now my grandpa however burns just walking past a high wattage light bulb.

 

You won't hear me claiming to be Native American though, I'm just American. My ancestors never claimed any sort of .gov cheese and neither will I. I probably couldn't if I wanted to; probably not enough of any one flavor to qualify for anything. But I think it might explain my 12 chest hairs and how I get bronze after half a day in the sun.

Yes, 100%. For me it's not ancestry, it's Heritage. You don't have control of who your parents are but you do control your view of the world and how you interact with others.