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Originally Posted by Renatus
Yep I'm well aware of those bits of Spain's history, the Spanish bagpipes, and how blue blood involves how the upper class was identified by the blue blood veins visible in the skin differentiating them from the darker skinned moors. Heh I've always been rather fond of history really.
My own ancestry actually traces to Spain back through Colombia, though they didn't mix with the natives. It was from Colombia that eventually my grandparents left and moved here to the United States. From what little I've heard my ancestors came from the Atlantic side of Spain aka the north east. However the source of where in Spain my ancestors are from isn't really that reliable, I've been trying to find out who in my family might know more.
The problem is the family member who was really doing the research into our Genealogy was my grandfather, and back when I was 11(before I became really interested in the family history) he suffered a severe head trauma, which while he did survive, it rendered almost all knowledge inaccessible. It was a shame really, he was a very smart man, able to speak many different languages fluently (I think it was 11 languages). It was only last year that a second head trauma finally ended his life, this trauma caused by him falling while attempting to help out with heavy yard work, which he did as a result of the first trauma severely reducing his IQ.
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I think you'll find many interesting paths of investigation (and probably answers to some questions about tastes and feelings) taking a look over Galician culture. Aside that, Galicia is a very beautiful land, plenty of history.