I found a better article on Wikipedia talking about the Appalachian migration and it actually went back father than I expected. People from Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, Tennessee, and the Carolinas all started migrating to Ohio, Detroit, and Indianapolis after WWI but the big migration happened after WWII and the depression as the auto industry (Detroit) and steel & construction industry (here in Ohio) got big. It's the reason my maternal grandparents moved here. It's also how "hillbilly" became a slang term because they moved to these areas and brought their families, keeping the accents and culture from "the hills". Royal Oak seems to have been a suburb for the auto workers like Glenn's dad so Glenn would've grew up around that culture no matter if his parents were a part of it or not. Glenn's accent sounds like my family members and how most of us in Ohio, Detroit, and Indiana talk.
As for Glenn's background I know I've read on here he was part Irish, Scottish, and French-Canadian, and the first two are a huge part of the Appalachian ancestry too. It's why my Mom always jokes that music and singing runs in our family because of the Celtic ancestry and being from "the hills".
~*Amanda*~
"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key."
Thanks for the background info, buffy. I don't ever reading that Glenn was part French-Canadian, but my memory seems to be failing me quite a bit lately.
"People don't run out of dreams: People just run out of time ..."
Glenn Frey 11/06/1948 - 01/18/2016
You're welcome Dreamer. I think I read it here but I know I saw it somewhere as I noticed the ancestry almost matched mine (I'm also part Italian).
~*Amanda*~
"So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains and we never even know we have the key."
Im from Jersey and find it rediculous that most of you dont say "DAWG" like we do and instead you guys say "DAHG" same for CAWFEE....Not CAHFEE!
What the hell is a Dahg!! Its Dawg!
Is this where you saw it, bf145? http://ethnicelebs.com/glenn-frey
SPOILER ALERT - the article mentions Glenn's birth name although I don't know the reliability of this site.
Last edited by GlennLover; 03-01-2016 at 07:12 AM.
The genealogy looks plausible - I assume it's quite straightforward for someone who knows their way round public records to research Glenn's family tree given the amount of information available. One of the sources cited was https://www.eaglesonlinecentral.com/...ead.php?t=4239
(which is probably where this discussion belongs).