A YOUTUBE CHANNEL THAT I FOUND TO BE INTERESTING : DNA SCIENCE - LANGUAGE - CULTURE - ETHNICITY - HISTORY - ARCHEOLOGY

It's long been my policy not to embed videos from YouTube if there are commercials. I have no control of the commercials that come up and I hear that the poster doesn't either - therefore I can only offer you the links.  But what a YouTube Channel this is!  

I listened with fascination the following....

RUSYNS: Scientists Are Stunned by the Genetic Origins of the Rusyns : MYSTIC VOYAGE CHANNEL   (quick mention towards the end of Hungarians....)  CARPATHIANS

POLAND: What Polish DNA Reveals Will Rewrite European History? : MYSTIC VOYAGE CHANNEL

HITTITE: The Surprising Story Of Hittite DNA : MYSTIC VOYAGE 

ROMA GYPSIES : Why Roma Gypsies Carry DNA That Europe Tried to Erase? : MYSTIC VOYAGE

The Channel is sophisticated and reveals not just the latest understanding of DNA but also a knowledge of language, culture, history...  Archeology! I love it!

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Just a note that I had a Hungarian friend of mine listened to the Poland one (I notice that the station has yet to date to do the Hungarians) and challenged it...

LIPTO as a HUNGARIAN PLACE

This video presents postcards of Hungarian Lipto County, which is now Liptov, Slovakia, but still has a Hungarian majority. Beautiful mountains and interesting architecture!  Part of many a Hungarian-American's heritage. The poster, Sicambria, has some other videos up that are also interesting.

That said, for hundreds of years people of various ethnic backgrounds, Slovaks, Germans, and others, lived in this area, and many intermarried. Religious differences payed out too.  The Germans were mostly Catholics and many but not all were from Southern Germany. Some of the Slovaks were Greek Catholic, as were the Carpathian Rus (Also called Rusyns) and Ukrainians.

There are controversies over the nobility and who was or was not of original Hungarian ancestry or really Slovak or Czech.  

Lipto is an area where Bogamar, one of the sons of one of the original Magyar tribal chiefs, Hauk Palko, who came into Hungary, spawned. There are a number of surnames associated with nobility coming out of this area and those lineages. You can use Hungaricana databases for the Marie Theresa Urbariam and see.

Most Americans who are "2nd" or "3rd" generations since immigration here are mixed heritage.  I know someone who is 3rd generation on one side and 4th on the other who has claim to 16 different European ethnicities!  (What fun her genealogy searches could be!)

So I tend to think people are the ethnicity they feel themselves to be, that they feel they can relate to and feel comfortable with.  And of course, our surnames tell the world about one of our ethnicities and it is from our surnames that other people assume what our ethnic identity is.

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