<2021-03-15T18:34:31.000Z> Rapeseedfarmer: Hello Sir,
<2021-03-15T18:39:08.000Z> Rapeseedfarmer: Thanks for introducing me to Poast. I'm one of those American Gentry you were talking about on the Third Rail. If you have any questions about what that is actually like in modern America I'd be happy to answer any questions about small town life from a fourth generation German American petty noble farm family perspective.
<2021-03-16T20:40:46.000Z> Rapeseedfarmer: I actually have to thank you again. I'm not very close with my mother so I only really considered my patrilineal ancestry but I was curious enough to reach out to my mother and she sent me documents compiled by my great aunt that traces us all the way back to a John Atkinson who settled West Virginia in 1774. Which is pretty neat since I always thought my ancestors were relatively late arrivals to America.