The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #31593   Message #413675
Posted By: GUEST,petr
08-Mar-01 - 09:30 PM
Thread Name: ethnic origins of Mudcatters
Subject: RE: ethnic origins of Mudcatters
100% Czech, born and lived there first 10 years of my life. My father has recently traced our patrilineal ancestry to 1565 following the family "Grunt" or homestead which oddly enough is no longer in the family but the people that live there are called by our last name, even though its not their real name. Fitting indeed because when my earliest ancestor bought the homestead around 1600 and (made his living as a publican) took on the name of the previous owners of the house. Funny tracing your ancestry back 400 years only to find out your name is not really your name. One of the family ancestors was also an executioner but we wont go there right now.