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Sep. 14th, 2007
One of the hazards of operating on remarkably little sleep (which happens when one's Blackberry goes "OH HAI UR SURVUR CLOZIT, IT ARE TOO HOT" at 2:30-3:15 AM) is that it makes your brain fire off a couple of neurons that normally couldn't be bothered to interface.
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drharper, possibly mephron? I was reminded, as I was pawing through ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
fanficrants and marysues, that about a year and a half ago at both dear_multiverse and milliways_bar I established Ray as being of 3/4 Russian ancestry- his father's family, and his mother's maternal lineage. His grandfather Max was a youngish teenager when he managed to get the flock out of Poland during the Second World War, before the Germans and/or the Russians could completely nail down his part of the country- some people simply are not cut out to be partisans, you know? And it seemed a shame, given that my own ancestry is rife with ethnic conflicts that seem to indicate I should be punching myself in the face constantly, not to stick something like that in Ray's family tree as well.
Anyway, it occurred to me today to go digging through a list of Polish surnames just to see what I could find. And sure enough, there it was.
There's a snickering little part of my brain that says Grandpa Max's surname could've been anything at all, but Grandpa Max's own mother originally hailed from a village currently called Vytvytsa that's located in the part of Poland that was absorbed by the Ukraine- and that *her* surname reflected that fact.
st00pid crossover bunny that won't even tell me what the hell I'm supposed to do with it.
drharper, possibly mephron? I was reminded, as I was pawing through fanficrants and marysues, that about a year and a half ago at both dear_multiverse and milliways_bar I established Ray as being of 3/4 Russian ancestry- his father's family, and his mother's maternal lineage. His grandfather Max was a youngish teenager when he managed to get the flock out of Poland during the Second World War, before the Germans and/or the Russians could completely nail down his part of the country- some people simply are not cut out to be partisans, you know? And it seemed a shame, given that my own ancestry is rife with ethnic conflicts that seem to indicate I should be punching myself in the face constantly, not to stick something like that in Ray's family tree as well. Anyway, it occurred to me today to go digging through a list of Polish surnames just to see what I could find. And sure enough, there it was.
There's a snickering little part of my brain that says Grandpa Max's surname could've been anything at all, but Grandpa Max's own mother originally hailed from a village currently called Vytvytsa that's located in the part of Poland that was absorbed by the Ukraine- and that *her* surname reflected that fact.
st00pid crossover bunny that won't even tell me what the hell I'm supposed to do with it.