BALLINS SAMPFER WELT'S AMAZING and BEAUTIFUL STEAMSHIP HISTORY CHANNEL on YOUTUBE

I've found that this YouTube poster, BALLINS SAMPFER WELT, has done a fine job of presenting the exterior and interiors of many of the great steamships that figure in our ancestors travel to America and back to Europe. The videos are of fine quality, have good music, and you can read more about the history of the ship in the text.  Here is one on the S.S. Amerika...  Over 600 ships featured.

There are many other ships presented on this channel including ships on the Anchor Line, The Canadian Pacific Line, and ships that went from Hamburg to South America as well as some non-passenger ships.

I wonder who this mystery person is and where they are located! Now this is how YouTube is used best, so...

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WAS LEONARDO Da VINCI'S MOTHER A WHITE SLAVE?

 A DOCUMENT has been found that is steering academics and researchers to the notion that Leonardo Da Vinci, the genius artist, was not 100% Italian.  Rather his mother had been sex trafficked and started life as a woman from the Caucus of Central Asia.  Called White Slaves to discern that we are not talking slaves from the African continent, it is true that people were captured and put into slavery repeatedly in Europe, in particular the lands that are now the Ukraine.  That's me talking.

Here is one of the articles about this discovery: Arstechnica - Science - LEONARDO DA VINCI's MOTHER A SLAVE  The article mentions various theories that have spawned books on his genealogy.  It mentions that Leonardo's father married a few times and had a great number of children.

Excerpt: As for Vecce, he acknowledged that his own research had been "guided" by the slave hypotheses put forth by Paratico and Vezzosi, although he initially resisted the idea.  But then he discovered a document dated November 2, 1452, six months after Leonardo had been born. emancipating an enslaved Circassian woman named Caterina on behalf of her mistress, the wife of Donato di Felippo di Salvestro Nati.  The notary who signed the document was none other than Ser Piero, Leonardo's father.

ROYAL and AMERICAN ANCESTRY OF MEGHAN MARKLE? JUST HOW GENETICALLY RELATED ARE WE TO SOMEONE WHO LIVED 700+ YEARS AGO?

AMERICAN ANCESTORS ORG ; MEGHAN MARKLE ROYAL and OTHER ANCESTORS 

There are no charts showing the connections, but this article from the New England Historical Genealogical Society, is based on Meghan's father's heritage, which connects importantly to one specific immigrant to early Boston who descended from King Edward III (who died in 1377.) For Anglophiles, the connection to aristocracy that the Duchess of Sussex has will especially impress. More so, this article is about (GENEALOGICAL) PYRAMID COLLAPSE, which is, that the further you go back, the more chances there are that you will find familial connections with the same persons on more than one line. Among royal houses, this seems to be especially common since there were arranged marriages that kept them in land and property and aligned with allegiances.

The population was smaller. People tended to marry local or within their class or status. Earlier death often meant earlier marriage and quick remarriage, step and half siblings. And sometimes a person might just have had the genes or transmitted the genes to withstand so much that killed off most people. We find someone who had many children who lived to also spawn. For instance, among the Mayflower descendents, one particular passenger has the very most.

But I want to see the charts, the straight connections, because if we include cousins and other relations, probably every one of us is "related" to someone famous or who succeeded well in life, or someone infamous who failed.

The mysteries of DNA are being revealed bit by bit, but since we know that we are a combination of genes transmitted from both sides of our family, that each generation is a different combination of genes, that genes mutate, a genetic heritage that is documented back 700+ years or so may well have little to nothing to do with us.

Not responsible for what our ancestors did or did not do, so we can't take credit, but we can come to understand them and their lives and their times better, and reflect on how that has influenced us.  What choices did they have?  What choices do we have?

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IN EUROPE THEY WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO LEFT FOR AMERICAN LONG AGO

Well, this probably isn't exclusive to European's who came to America, it's probably true all around the world that there are those who wonder what ever happened to their ancestors or related family who left their home countries. 

But I will admit to you that when I read about this on a Polish genealogy chat, I realized I HAD NOT THOUGHT ABOUT THAT.  I suppose it's because American finding their roots in other countries have that mind set, a roots mindset.

I read so much about the goodbye rituals that took place in various cultures.

Irish villagers all seeing a person off, who once out of sight, they turned their backs on, knowing they would probably never see that person again...

Women who would take a ball of yarn and give one end to the person on land, board the ship, hold it as it unraveled - the yarn then left to blow in the wind.

40% of all Americans who have an ancestor who came through Ellis Island have an ancestor who probably could never afford to go back to the country of their birth, or historical circumstances made it dangerous or impossible.

As I do my personal research, I realize that I am DNA related to people with dozens of surnames, quite possibly the whole town over hundreds of years.  Yet, because a few generations have gone by, it just never occurred to me that someone from that town might want to use genealogy to connect with me...

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