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Moving to Japan to avoid draft?

The article suggests, using the weasel word “allegedly” that Seagal moved to Japan to marry and thereby avoid the draft. But his wife is quoted as saying she met Seagal in 1974 in California. 1974 is one year after the end of the draft. So the claim that the marriage was connected with an attempt to avoid the draft is utter nonsense. 2.96.167.44 (talk) 12:17, 7 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Exactly. Seagal turned 22 in 1974. Last US troops left Vietnam in early 1973. May still have been a draft but no chance of being sent to Vietnam. 2601:644:500:C900:25EB:5588:E363:EB71 (talk) 05:37, 8 May 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Mother’s heritage

The article says she is Irish decent but he has also said she is Mohawk, Italian, and French. Also his grandmother was possibly pure Mohawk. So should be expanded to add these allegations. 73.134.56.192 (talk) 14:03, 19 July 2024 (UTC)[reply]

A genealogy website has traced his mother's family history back pretty far. All of it that can be traced back prior to the United States is from England (mostly Norfolk and Suffolk counties), not Ireland. That's approximately half the ancestry. The other half hits dead ends, but all the dead ends have very English sounding names mostly from New York, Massachusetts, and Vermont with one relative for whom we hit a dead end in Michigan where he was born. Here's the source:

https://www.geni.com/people/Patricia-Seagal/6000000023165120920

It's entirely possible he also has Irish roots as well, but most of the dead ends are from before the famine (during colonial times) when most Irish Americans first arrived in the US, so I find it unlikely. Could be that his one dead end in Michigan, which isn't too many generations back, was Irish, but we don't have any evidence for that. I don't believe he is part Mohawk either, but those claims are more credible because at least there was a sizeable Mohawk population in the geographic area where most of the dead ends in his family tree are at the time they were there. Given that the claim his mother is Irish comes from an interview with Seagal, same as all the other blatantly untrue claims about his ancestry, this should probably be changed in the article. Interviews with Seagal are not a good source for his actual background. Sfieldman (talk) 16:32, 9 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]