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[Laura14]

So this morning I am awakened by a text from my mother who is striking a sexy pose near a naval base in southern France.

Why you ask?

It is where my great grandmother picked up an Italian sailor who became my great grandfather before they sailed for America.

Some families go on religious pilgrimages.  My family finds the local street corner where we literally all began.   

That pic is going on the front of the family album.  Happy Wednesday all!   

[happycat]

Awww, I love it!

[aggravated]

Great story!

My parents were introduced by their local parish priest who thought they were both getting too old to not be married at that point.  I'm sure he meant well but the marriage turned to absolute, total and complete disaster - he should have minded his own business.

Edited to add:  since everyone is talking about the ancestry - my father's family emigrated from Germany. My mother's family emigrated from Canada - they were French.

[Sweet Caroline 1]

Hot Cha Cha!!!    I've always been a romantic.  My parents met on a blind date, they went to a dance and photos were made.  They were both beautiful, dad in his suit and mom in her dress.  Love is where it's at baby! 

[geezerette]

Very cute!  It’s sometimes hard to remember our parents and grandparents were young once too!

Both sets of my grandparents had arranged marriages.  One grandmother was a mail-order bride.  My parents met in a beer garden.🍻🙂 

[StephfromIdaho]

can you post it for us to see?  I love those kinds of pictures and the history behind it

[Laura14]

@StephfromIdaho  The pic is in a text and I don't have a 12 year old handy to show me how to move it from text to here.  Below is a pic of the naval base from whence this part of my family tree sprung.  My mother had the street view and of course herself.  

[StephfromIdaho]

Thanks for posting, just love it!  My aunt Katie left CA for Hawaii to “waitress” she cam back with an Commander!  

[jeanlake]

(Thank you, family stories and Ancestry.com) Dad's family comes from British Isles, all countries associated with that area represented, but dad liked to think of himself as Scottish. He had an engineering mind and connected with a stereotypical Scots' personality. Mom's family was English - migrated with roots from Portugal, Spain, Italy, Greece -- which explains her olive skin and dark, wavey hair. They met after WW2 and married in Asheville, NC. 

Recently surprised to discover I am 20% Finnish and Scandinavian. Husband said that explains my minimalism and orderly ways. But he did it with an eyeroll. He has zero of those qualities. Ha.

So, we all come from somewhere else - so what's all the prejudice in the world about? Will never be able to process this.       

[151949]

According to ancestry dna I'm 76%celtic - Irish & Welsh. The other 24% are spread all over western Europe.Just draw a big circle around all of western Europe except Spain & portugal and that's me. I have had ancesters in the USA since before the Revolutionary war - so that is probably how so many different countries got into the mix. As my DH said - you are typical all American mix.