Though not all of them are Amish...
Some of the "Dutchie" names are very common throughout the region. "Katy Miller" is the regional equivalent of "John Smith" in frequency. My family is actually the oddball. Well. The eccentrics.
So was there an Amish patriarch in your past? Or is it a German Swiss ancestor you credit with your unique position in your local phone book?
It does give me pause when I see marriage announcements in the newspaper that read "Eby-Eby", "King-King", "Stoltzfus-Stoltzfus", etc. But I also remember telling my second grade teacher that I was going to marry Michael so I wouldn't have to change my last name. (We are related in the sense that, several centuries ago, we had a common ancestor in Ireland.) Michael, of course, was mortified. But it was the beginning of a long, amused relationship between his parents and mine that lasted a long time. He and his children came to my dad's wake, which I thought was sweet.
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- FASCINATING genetic research- how many crossed the land bridge
- 200? That's less than the number of Noldor crossing the Helcaraxe.....
- If the gene pool of the founding generation is of high quality, population size isn't a major factor.
- As usual, the resident neo-nazi only has bullshit to offer (n/t)
- Spoken like a true UT Volunteer....
- Loss of genetic diversity is a huge disadvantage.
- If the Amish had a website, I'd send you there as an object lesson in the "benefits" of inbreeding.