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Hi, I'm Derek Klena and I play Dimitri in Anastasia the Musical
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This is your ethnicity estimate. All right. European Jewish, 52%. Europe East, 13%
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Italy, Greece, 7%. I didn't know that one. You didn't know that one? No
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Christy's going to be excited to know that I'm a little Greek and Italian. There you go
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Europe West, 7%. And so the majority of what you have is 52% Jewish and 13% Europe East, which both includes Russia
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So let's take a look at your family tree. You had given us the name of your great-grandfather, Robert Klenna
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This is a New York passenger list for Robert Klenna. Matthias Klenna and Robert Klenna
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And this is in 1905. Wow. So just south of here going down to the end of Manhattan they went through Ellis Island They would have seen the Statue of Liberty coming in Oh yeah All experience This says race or people
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Slovak, so that is Slovakian. Uh-huh. And this talks about how much money they have in their pockets
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$32. Came over $32 to their name. They did. That's cool. $32 to America
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That is so cool. Yeah, this has been fascinating to hear that I may have a little Russian in me
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which is cool because my character in the show, you know, he is such a sense of home
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And to get to delve into my history a little bit and learn more about my father's side
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and the Klenna name is just fascinating, a lot of which I didn't know
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To actually see the document of when my grandfather and my great-grandfather came over from Slovakia
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and came through New York on the way to Chicago, I mean, that's just, like, mind-blowing
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to actually see it on a piece of paper and to see that they had $20 to their name
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I would have never found that information so it's really really cool
