Originally Posted by
Damocles
Interesting. My grandfather (the one that adopted my half Native American father) was the first of that side of my family born in the US after migrating from Russia just 10 short years before the revolution. We were among the Germans that Catherine the Great brought over that lived near the Volga. While it isn't my genetic heritage, that was all hosed up and lost with the adoption (until DNA tests brought some light to that), it is part of the cultural heritage that made me. One of the reasons I learned to speak Russian.
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