#bc whatever finnish name he had. the guy doing the paperwork didn't wanna spell it and he wasn't literate.
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i love it when i find out that a french-speaking artist i'm a fan of is belgian
#my great-grandmother was belgian#it'd be a lie to say i'm in touch with that ancestry but other than irish that's really all i am#i have three irish catholic grandparents and then on my mom's side one random finnish-belgian grandmother#whose last name was english because her father just took the name of the guy in front of him at ellis island#bc whatever finnish name he had. the guy doing the paperwork didn't wanna spell it and he wasn't literate.#like most white americans i don't know my own family history very well#but i make a good irish-american stereotype bc im a redheaded lapsed catholic from a giant family based in massachusetts#can't get much more irish-american than that#tales from diana#my great-grandmother didn't even speak french tho. she was flemish#she was also illiterate and according to my mother not the brightest bulb in the lamp in the common sense department#basically everyone on both sides of my mom's family had a very rough background#is what it is
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