This turned from mere curiosity to a full on adventure. While visiting the Polynesian Culture Center in Hawaii, I began feeling curious about my own culture because I simply did not know much of anything about my Ancestry, so I Googled a few things.

This adventure all started with a coincidence from curiousity. I started by just researching my name. St. Remy came up first. My birthday (October 1st) falls on the same day Catholic Feast Day of October 1st (which belongs to St. Remy). Most online articles were about this person; so this coincidence wasn't hard to find, but it worked. It drew me in at the time. The name and birthday coincidences caught my eye and I got even more curious, because I always heard that my DNA was from Europe. St. Remy was in Rheims (Rheims happens to be another name for Remy). I continued to do even more research. This was now genuinely fun and wanted to learn more.

I called my Uncle Ray in Ohio and he put me in touch with a Mary Singler; who had done prior in depth research within my family back in 2004. Mary deserves 100% credit for her work as its helped me to this day. As it turns out, my Ancestors were large into the incredibly private esoteric ancient family trade craft of glass making. (Discovery of this information accelerated my research to now focus from Ohio to Belgium). Several photographs are attached of my Ancestors which were almost all glass makers, with some having membership within Masons and Woodworking Men of America and also having historic horticulture abilities worth noting in local newspapers. The Masons also were big in Belgium, which was another coincidence that caught my eye and added more flavor to the line I was researching. On 4/26/18, I spoke to Robert Remy Sr and he mentioned how his father Ramond Remy was a Mason and he regularly attended Lodge meetings in Sandusky Ohio (more below about Freemasonry in Sandusky, Ohio). The glass making / Souffleur trade was originally considered an "Ancient Technology" back in Rome, 1AD. It was also a highly coveted/secretive esoteric art that required confinement in Egypt right before the trade arrived in Belgium. In fact, escape from confinement often meant execution during that time period. This trade was considered the highest of class and those who practiced this craft were protected by the government as if they were nuclear scientists. Hebrew history claims that glass making originated from Ancient Sumeria in Egypt before the Jews started glass making themselves. To me this was wild information to discover.

Understanding this trade then realizing how ancient and secretive suggests to me that my family must've also played a role in passing the trade on; because this trade was almost always passed down from father to son due to the exclusivity of the craft. Furthermore, this trade happened to be in the same geographical region/country that my Ancestors hail from; with history originating from Egypt itself before Belgium. My Ancestry DNA results were absolutely breakthrough as they helped me map out some of my lower percentage rating in areas that glass makers would've loved to make glass in; such as, Caucasus Mountains, Greece/Italy, Pyrenees Mountains, France / Belgium.

My ancestry just so happens to end cold with a "Robert Remi" in my 6th generation. Remi is another way of spelling Remy. I dug more into my name in Belgium and came across some older maps listing the Remi name on actual Belgium maps and several other parallels to draw on much more curiosity and room for new research subjects and about the Remi Tribe in Belgium.

Ancestry DNA test results are below. The lower percentage ranges for the yellow arrows represent the Y-DNA migration route from Egypt. A Y-DNA test through National Geographic Genome 2.0 is next to dig into the actual DNA strand to determine where my Y-DNA markers actually plot to on the world map. This type of ancestry is not important due to the people named. The importance of my Y-DNA results can provide strategic historical insight on the civilizations of the world as glass makers, since they were highly valued and often written into Nobility and hosted by Aristocrat families for centuries. Plus, they seemed to lead the way on civilization building.

St. Remy Coincidence: Am I related? Maybe... As of now, no known genealogy connection to St. Remy, although, we seem to share a seemingly similar, very specific and quite rare Remy origin ancestry from Africa. The name/birthday coincidence is just that. A true coincidence that ended up compelling me to find out all this new authentic information which has opened up the door for much more that continues to blow my mind.

Anyhow, wild and crazy stuff going on with us as usual and I thought this piece of history was definitely worth sharing to the world.

Enjoy!