Edit: apologies! The song that they submitted in 2023 was called Firefly. This seems to be a longer campaign than I thought. Not sure what their 2025/2026 song was if they did try this year...
You can listen to their 2023 attempt for the 2024 ESC here: FLEISCH – Firefly | YouTube
Everyone say THANK YOU VALENTYN!
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And by a Moldovan animator! Cristina Nedelcev ✨️
Get well soon Sam!!
For context, I am half Polish and half Italian. Both sides are Catholic. My Polish side of my family are from Southeastern Poland as well as what is now Western Ukraine. This is just for my own curiosity, not to claim heritage
I did my Ancestry test to assist with geneology and received 3% Ashkenazi maternally, which made me curious about there being a potential ancestor who converted. I do have "Feldman" as an ancestrial name in the early 1800s in my grandfather's line, although I can only find a birth record for the Feldman who married someone with a Polish last name, and this has no record of conversion. This has been one of my biggest brick walls over the last year.
Ancestry seems to have assigned Ashkenazi on my mother's test to the parent who has a Ukranian connection, who is my grandmother. Unfortunately, I do not have enough close matches to actually work out which parent is which. I have not found anything yet to suggest there was a conversion in this line, but have only been able to go back to the early 1800s. This could be a misread on Ancestry, as it seems poor at dividing up SE Polish and W Ukranians (I scored 14% Western Ukrainian whereas my mother scored 2% lol).
I had quite a lot of 100% Ashkenazi matches at around 20-30cm or less, so I felt like signs were pointing to a conversion at some point. I asked my mother if I could upload her test on FTDNA, and now I'm even more confused...she scored 0% across the board. But again - a lot of 100% matches? Including a 100% match with a 38cm segment, which would be a 2nd-4th cousin.
So I am left wondering if I am chasing a false lead. Unfortunately my gparents are very old (and in Poland) so testing them isn't really on the table. Would appreciate any input - thank you!
Edit cm for %