General Chit-Chat Thread - No Spoilers

[Chris]

Code worked tho

 

[Gentleman Jake]

it's crazy how little records they kept back in the day, my Uncle by marriage was a black man who was born in Florida but back then they didn't keep records of black babies so he had no idea his birthday or if he was himself or his twin brother that died young...he just went by the name he liked better

 

[Chris]

Yeah tracking back due to slavery is basically impossible sadly

 

[Chris]

I can trace all the way back to England before it started getting fuzzy but by then my free trial was running out and it's too expensive

 

[Gentleman Jake]

yeah he was def in his 80s when he died and that was like over a decade or so ago

 

[Chris]

I went back to about the 1400s tho on my furthest branch

 

[Gentleman Jake]

that's pretty awesome

 

[Chris]

Absolutely nothing interesting to report tho lol other than coming to America early which was a big move I guess

 

[Gentleman Jake]

also a crazy coincidence that no one knew the first two ancestors to come to America were two brother Jacob and Daniel Hovey, my full name is Jacob Daniel Hovey

 

[Chris]

From what I can tell they mostly just did it bc they didn't have opportunities for shit where they were and thought it'd be better

 

[Chris]

Seems the opportunities weren't so they went to Texas and then they finally got a little better until the 1900s

 

[Gentleman Jake]

and all these year later their lineage is a moderator on a message board that talks about wrestling

 

[Gentleman Jake]

it's crazy to think of the hardships our ancestors went through to get here

 

[Gentleman Jake]

since we aren't that old of a country

 

[Gentleman Jake]

but old enough where it was motorless boats across the ocean