01-17-2021, 01:33 PM
(01-17-2021, 05:46 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(01-17-2021, 04:20 AM)Classic-Xer Wrote: I can see that you're delusional at the moment. I'll give you some time to clear your head and regain composer. I'm going to give you a chance to prove that you're not related to Adolf Hitler and any members of his tribe.
Someone is delusional.
No link to Hitler as far as I was able to tell in my genealogy time. You can look into iButler and The Butlers of Brackton and try to develop something. Abe Lincoln, John Adams and Pricilla Mullins of the Mayflower I can do, but not Hitler. I have links to Hingham MA, Canada and Norway, but not Germany.
I hope we are in a WEIRD crossover position. We seem to be in a regeneracy, with a federal administration ready to solve problems again. The crisis problems seem to be COVID, COVID’s economic fall out, systematic racism, since January 6th red violence, with an honorable mention to global warming. Trump and the Republicans managed not to solve or even try to solve any of them.
Quite a few Republicans are yelling doom and gloom at the prospect of losing power in such a horrible fashion. I for one don't see it. Trump's insurrection is based on a lie. A vaccine has been developed. The senate is in democratic hands again.
We will see what develops.
From what I understand, people known to be male-line descendants of my direct paternal line have the E35-M gene in their Y-DNA. I have yet to take the test. It is relatively rare in central Europe except among... Jews! It is associated with about 1/6 of the Sephardic and Ashkenazi Jewish populations of Europe and North Africa. It is not exclusively Jewish, as it also appears among Berbers (northern fringe of the Sahara), and the Fulani (a people of apparent Middle-Eastern origin who found themselves on the southern fringe of the Sahara). One fellow with it is Albert Einstein. It isn't definitively Jewish. Of British origin are Lyndon Johnson and the Wright Brothers. OK. Saint Augustine of Hippo (a Berber) apparently had E35-M Y-DNA.
It's not all innocuous. Moammar Qaddafi had it and so did the Antichrist of the 20th century, Adolf Hitler. (There were plenty of allegations out that Hitler was of Jewish descent, and many Germans dealt with that the worst way possible, by hating Jews. OK, I fit three Jewish stereotypes, the most obvious of which is a German-sounding surname. (Supposedly it is Dutch, but I can't be certain). Well, at least I don't get accused of being a filthy Nazi!
I expect to take one of those genetic tests one of these days, and if I do I will leave my results. The source of my E35-M gene (if that is the one that I have) might be some Jewish refugee from some persecution. Holland was a good place in which to be a Jew except between 1940 and 1945.
Who knows, though?
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.