Genealogy (the study of one's ancestry) has been an interest since 1984. Once knowing very little past my grandparents' generation, I now have a wealth of information, tracing some lines back to the 1500s (mostly on my maternal grandmother's line, thus the number of surnames listed below for that line).

Ancestral Origins and Primary Surnames

Paternal Grandfather: Irish (Dee, Foley, Kirby), Scottish (Adam, Dingwell, Elder, Gammie, Hood, Mackintosh, Redford), Swiss (Hilchey)

Paternal Grandmother: Jewish [from Austria and Galicia (now Poland)] (Gruber, Schreiber)

Maternal Grandfather: Irish (Hayes), Ulster Scots (Caldwell, Crawford), Scottish (Cummings, Lyon, Mealman), Welsh (Vaughn), English (Mynatt, West, Woodruff), German (Crantzdorf/Grindstaff, Holstine)