Gordon Schooley:  

nesota, Iowa. My father ran away from his Iowa home at age 12 and rode a bike to California. He married my Mother from Salt Lake City after World War II. He was a master mechanic and taught me how to fix cars. He worked on all the large vehicles in Europe during the war and then served in Chile teaching their army how to shoot large cannon. My mother was born and raised in Salt Lake City. She moved to Los Angeles at the age of 16 with her 18 year old sister. She worked in the Long Beach ship yard during WWII. I still have her security badge. My Mother's ancestry is from Friesland or Northern part of Holland near the North Sea at the German boarder. My Grandparents (Hulshoff) on my mothers side came to Salt Lake City in 1899 via a ship from Rotterdam to Boston. They were both disowned by their Lutheran families when they were baptized into the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormon Church). My great grandparents were dairy farmers on land that had been in the family for hundreds of years. Most of the other ancestors also lived in Friesland as many did not move far from their birthplace. The Schooley's (Scholey as it was spelled until 1672 in North America) can be tracked back to about 1100 in Aughton North of Yorkshire as they were listed in the church in Aughton. Their parent-ancestors came to England following the Viking invasion in 1066. I have 42% Britain DNA. There were written stories of Scholeys repairing wagons and wagon wheels It is interesting that my father was a master mechanic. "Cycles" of life. Prior to settling in Norway (I still have 6% Norwegian DNA markers). Ancestry prior to that lived in Turkey. They traveled from Turkey/Asia Minor through the Caucus mountains North of the Republic of Georgia and eventually to the area now known as Norway. It was fortunate to find one ancestral line of Turkish royalty (they kept records) that migrated North. Unlikely to find dates (200 BCE to 1000 is a reasonable range) or confirmatory documentation. I worked with the Ministry of Health in the Republic of Georgia twice for several weeks. I was taken on a very long rough ride to a path on which many people (most NOT white skinned at that time) traveled Northward through the Caucuses. Visiting Turkey multiple times, especially Cappadocia, was revealing with large underground Christian cities for protection against Roman soldiers trying to exterminate them. Motivation to move North is understandable there and many other locations.