Harvest festivals are universal (at least in ag cultures), but I have to say that calling someone Italian because they can trace an ancestor back to the Roman invasion is a unique approach to ethnography.
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sometimes conclusions need more than a leap.
Unum saltum et siffletum et unum bumbulum!
I will not provide a link because discovery is its own delight, but thank you for that reference and I encourage everyone to go ahead and search that phrase.
On traditional foods at this time of year... you might throw a few baking potatoes into the ashes of a bonfire. Here in the North we have soul cakes and parkin.
i’ve hears some people in the UK say that their family can traced to the Roman invasion so I count them as Italian.
There's family trees that go via Priam of Troy back to Adam and Eve but they ain't no Trojans. The best you can usually manage is getting back to some Norman robber barons and there's a few ways to get back to some of the later Anglo-Saxon kings but you need to tag on to a well-researched noble family. Getting back to Rome... Not with paperwork.
My Y DNA is found in its highest concentration in northern Italy but that's because it's Gaulish and my male line presumably arrived in the British Isles ahead of the Romans but quite what the timeline is remains unclear while DNA testing for non-medical purposes in a lot of western continental Europe is not allowed.