How did your ancestors live?
How did your ancestors live?
Levi Russell
Evan Nguyen
Well enough that I exist.
Tyler Adams
James Gray
Alexander Ortiz
Which ones? I have thousands.
Eli Russell
Freezing their ass off and drinking vodka + eating potatoes. Some of them were muslims and didn't drink alcohol for 100s of years. In the end I don't know which genes winned out in me, the genes that tolerate alcohol well or the ones that didn't. I can drink just fine but idk.
Nolan Cooper
Unironicly rich as fuck. Before revolution most of them built an manor or estate, some even had servants. They were peasants but work hard and got a lot of money. I have like 50 photos from 1880-1920
Noah Phillips
My Ancestor :)
Matthew Jones
Cameron Ramirez
parties 24/7
Landon Gutierrez
op's pic
Mason Hall
grirmly
Jacob Powell
some as men, some as kings, and some as conquerors
Camden Perez
Same
Levi Anderson
Henry Mitchell
The paternal side of my family has always been rich and educated, the maternal side are some shit albanian peasants
I identify with the maternal side more because I'm stupid
Jack Jones
Better then yours desu
Wyatt Collins
Similar to this. Mothers side didn't need any help losing it though. My grandmothers brother drank it all away during the interwar. Grandma married a fairly well off a farmer, but they weren't as rich as before. He died of cancer not long after the war, I don't know much about him. Grandma was left with a farm to run and 9 children. Farm got collectivized and they got moved to a smaller house out in the country, shared with another family, but they were still allowed to keep some animals and work a bit of land, because there were a lot of kids to feed.
Fathers side got commie'd hard. Grandfather built schools and churches in villages and small towns of Samogitia. Had a "manor" out in the country, but moved into a house on the main street in one of the towns. Germans came and grandpa got sent to a labor camp. Moved back after the camp got liberated. Found out that his son had died, country house was taken away and the town house had three more families living in it. The building itself got demolished in '87 or '88, shops got built over it. Grandpa got a 2 room commieblock apartment for it. Worked as a foreman in a factory until retirement.
Grandma died in the 70s, never got to meet her either. Her great uncle was one of the signatories of 1918 act of independence. Apparently her side of the family didn't approve my father marrying my mother, so we basically had no contact with them, and still do not. I only saw them once, on my fathers funeral.
Parker Ortiz
>make a long ass post
>thread on its way to page 10
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Xavier Collins
Bump it up for you
Isaac Stewart
On the frontier
Dominic Baker
Pretty interesting. How do you learn all this about your family?
Ayden Torres
Talking to my parents, mostly my mother while driving her to visit graves of our relatives on all saints day. The topic kind of just comes up naturaly. Oldest graves being the great grandparents of my mother. This year we went looking for even older graves in one of the cemetaries, but the old tombstones are so weathered its impossible to read anything off of them. Ended up just walking circles around a bunch of unintelligible tombstones, with my mother saying "it should be RIGHT here". If we were serious about it we could probably check the church records.
As for fathers side, when my grandpa died my aunt took all of his stuff, and since she didn't have any children, and my other aunt and her family live in Ukraine, I got all of it. It's not much, but there are a couple old paintings, some books, and a boxfull of pictures, some as old as 1880s or so. During her funeral some of my grandfathers work friends showed up and told me a fair bit about my grandfather. During my fathers funeral his cousin came, and we talked a bit as well. They still carry the same surname as the signotary.
Grayson Jenkins
Unironically this
Samuel Sanchez
Daniel Smith
Mom's side is mostly german/polish peasants, dad's side has a lot of royalty from Wales and England, which leads to royalty all over Europe from Spain to Russia etc. My mom is not very smart but my dad is MENSA+ tier, does it mean something?
Aaron Hughes
Based hobbits
Grayson Rogers
I think everyone has a few ancestors like that, it's just a question how far back you're looking.
Alexander Nguyen
Well this is a bit sad.
Wyatt Edwards
like this
toilet was located outside the house and everyone would wash in a washtub.
Jeremiah Hughes
I always wondered why we called that 'poljski wc'
Gabriel Nguyen
>'poljski wc'
wtf xD
the traditional toiled lacated outside the house is called 'sławojka' here
btw. Poland was allways very forested, so basically everyone was living in a wooden house, old stone houses are rarity here.
Benjamin Reed
personally I really like those timber framed german-style houses, we have quite a few of them in Poland.
They were built mostly by Germans and Dutch settlers, but Poles also built them.
the pic rel was built by Dutch Mennoits and is located in Żóławy Poland.
Jonathan Long
from 19th/18th to early middle ages
Ryan Lewis
most are still used
David Cox
A bunch of Pictish farmers with outdated farm equipment as weapons btfo the America of their day
Benjamin Hall
Hudson Lopez
I feel you guys. My greatgrandpa had law firms and was one of the first to own a car in southern brazil at the time of the first immigration wave. Knew many languages, was a cultured man who had to buy newspapers from Rio de Janeiro at the time (1200km away). His sons splooged it on gambling and booze and my grandpa was at the bottom of the barrel. My generation was the first to be able to pursue careers like Law, Medicine (cousins) and myself at engineering.
Jaxon Campbell
these were still used in end of 19th centuary by poor people
Dylan Cook
My maternal family comes from Bretagne, my father's from Drôme
Elijah Gomez
middle ages
Julian Bell
German mennonites in BR also built them in the Itajai Valley.
Jack Rodriguez
We had MAMMOTHS
Adam Rodriguez
these are built on "terpen or therps"
artificial hills to protect from floods
Jace Richardson
Carter Myers
cool
Dutch settleres were populating Żóławy since middle ages, the whole area was very swampy and they managed to drain it.
Caleb Garcia
Is the rest of the house buried?
Tyler Sanchez
Another one of my grandmothers brothers went to live in Brasil after everything the family had got wasted.