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The map that shows where America came from: ...the ancestry of EVERY county in the US
Daily Mail ^ | 09/01/2013 | Jessica Jerreat

Posted on 09/29/2013 10:57:42 AM PDT by Rusty0604

Census data shows heritage of 317 million modern Americans Clusters show where immigrants from different nations chose to settle Largest ancestry grouping in the nation are of German descent with almost 50 million people

African American or Black is the second largest grouping with just over 40 million people Almost 20 million people claim to have 'American' ancestry for political reasons and because they are unsure of their family's genealogy

49,206,934 Germans

By far the largest ancestral group, stretching from coast to coast across 21st century America is German, with 49,206,934 people. The peak immigration for Germans was in the mid-19th century as thousands were driven from their homes by unemployment and unrest.

41,284,752 Black or African Americans The census map also identifies, Black or African-American as a term for citizens of the United States who have ancestry in Sub-Saharan Africa.The majority of African Americans are descended from slaves

35,523,082 Irish Another group who joined the great story of the United States were the Irish and the great famine of the 1840s sparked mass migration from Ireland.

31,789,483 Mexican And from 1990 to 2000, the number of people who claimed Mexican ancestry almost doubled in size to 31,789,483 people.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: ancestry; countymap; ethnicgroups; ethnicitymap; godsgravesglyphs; helixmakemineadouble; map; statemap
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To: Conservative4Ever

I agree. “American” is nonsensical since American Indian is a separate category.


141 posted on 09/29/2013 5:03:08 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: Lurking Libertarian

Those are scotch/irish and german areas....the southern highlander and his homeland.


142 posted on 09/29/2013 5:06:02 PM PDT by xzins ( Retired Army Chaplain and Proud of It! Those who truly support our troops pray for victory!)
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To: SunkenCiv

Hiya cuz;^)


143 posted on 09/29/2013 5:07:58 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: Conservative4Ever
Almost 20 million people claim to have 'American' ancestry for political reasons and because they are unsure of their family's genealogy.
144 posted on 09/29/2013 5:08:35 PM PDT by Excellence (All your database are belong to us.)
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To: nanetteclaret

I don’t think so......


145 posted on 09/29/2013 5:09:10 PM PDT by basil (2ASisters.org)
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To: nanetteclaret

I have quite a number of lines that came from along the James River. As soon as my wife can find my password that will get me to the family tree, I’ll share some names here. :-)


146 posted on 09/29/2013 5:09:20 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (We the People sent you to DEFUND it, not defend or delay it!)
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To: bored of education

For all us Scot Irish or Irish Scots I recommend “Monarch of the Glen” on Netflix.


147 posted on 09/29/2013 5:11:37 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: machogirl

Yikes!


148 posted on 09/29/2013 5:12:13 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: flaglady47

The genes got to me, had to give up the drink;^)


149 posted on 09/29/2013 5:15:02 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: EternalVigilance
You probably have a very fair complexion, lots of freckles, and burn horribly

Add the reddish hair color and blue eyes and I'm there;^)

150 posted on 09/29/2013 5:18:25 PM PDT by seeker41 (take your country back by whatever means necessary)
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To: seeker41

Me too!

Although, the red has now faded to gray...

:-)


151 posted on 09/29/2013 5:21:29 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (We the People sent you to DEFUND it, not defend or delay it!)
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To: SunkenCiv

“I highly recommend genealogy as a hobby, and when it all shakes out, my guess is, about 20 percent of you are my cousins. :’)”

I agree with you, and I believe that if you don’t know where you came from you don’t know where to go.

My mother, whose dad was mostly Hebrew, told me to not tell anyone that I was a Jew (I’m just a part Hebrew) I have a star of David necklace that I’ve had forever. Many years ago she told me not to wear that because I shouldn’t let people know. Many in her family changed their religion to 7th Day Adventists which I learned that it let them keep the Sabbath. My sister and I wonder what happened? Many of her cousins admitted their ethnicity and she even did to her friends.

I have not found out the answer.


152 posted on 09/29/2013 5:22:54 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Rusty0604

Hey, to all of my Italian cugini, I did everything I could (5 children)with the tools that were available.. However, not even a dot to show for my efforts in Houston.. If I had it all to do over again I would have worked even harder.. :)


153 posted on 09/29/2013 5:25:42 PM PDT by carlo3b (Speechless in Sugar Land)
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To: carlo3b

Five children is good. My mom had a friend that was 1st generation from Italy and she taught me how to cook. Nothing better!


154 posted on 09/29/2013 5:38:20 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: SunkenCiv
Regardless, I resemble that remark -- some of my German ancestors arrived in the second half of the 19th century, the rest have been here over 300 years. I highly recommend genealogy as a hobby, and when it all shakes out, my guess is, about 20 percent of you are my cousins. :')

Hi, Cuz!

1600's Virginia: British; and French Huguenot. Some NY Dutch mixed in there, too, somehow.

The Johnny-come-lately side was ca 1870/1880 Bavarian G_Grandfather coal miner (run away stone mason apprentice), who came to Pennsylvania. Even back then he knew enough to get out: 1885, Grandfather was born in What Cheer, Iowa. When Iowa coal started to play out, it was on to the California coal mines on Mount Diablo; then the company moved him & the entire town to Black Diamond, WA.

Before that move, GF, also a coal miner, had married the granddaughter of an Army brat, who had been born at the Benecia Arsenal a couple years prior to California statehood.

When G-GF was killed in a mine explosion that narrowly missed also killing GF, he took his family, including my mother, back to the Bay Area, and went to work for Standard Oil, and taught shipyard employees how to use a newfangled (S.O. acetylene) cutting torch capable of cutting through the armor belts of scrapped battleships. An explosion in the shop area while he was in the company shower room put him though a wall & out of work.

His next, and last, employment was during WWII at U.S. Steel in Pittsburgh, Ca, formerly the shipping point of the Mount Diablo coal his father had mined.

155 posted on 09/29/2013 5:38:30 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Love me, love my guns!©)
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To: Squantos
According to that map we should all be speaking german ?

Lots of baby blue from the legend for german ancestry on the map.

I knew little English when I started grade school, as did most in my class. Lucky for us, our teachers forced us to learn English. I grew up in one of the baby blue counties in central Texas. Lee county was mostly German speaking farmers with some Wendish scattered in amongst the population.

156 posted on 09/29/2013 5:59:04 PM PDT by Arrowhead1952 (The Second Amendment is NOT about the right to hunt. It IS a right to shoot tyrants.)
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To: EternalVigilance
That's news to me--John Smith left not too long after, when Pocahontas was still pretty young.

Would the Crown have cared about illicit unions with native damsels? William Byrd of Westover (1674-1744) in his account of how they surveyed the boundary between Virginia and North Carolina makes it clear that there were some "illicit unions" taking place between the surveyors and the unmarried Indian girls they encountered, and he could have suppressed that entirely if it would have caused someone to be executed.

157 posted on 09/29/2013 5:59:30 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Rusty0604

Other than being great cooks, many of us could sing.. However, I have been reminded that the Latin Lover monicker may be a bit overrated, we do produce beautiful kids..

Not to be outdone on the thread, I have several famous opera impresarios and more than a few artists as forebears.. But the most infamous member of my ancestry is an Italian officer that was unceremoniously beheaded for an improper relationship with a Countess, on her Roman balcony, in the 1600’s..

I’ve tried to live up to my heritage, but alas, not even close.. :)


158 posted on 09/29/2013 6:07:07 PM PDT by carlo3b (Speechless in Sugar Land)
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To: Verginius Rufus

The British Crown considered Powhatan to be a foreign king. Fooling around with his daughter was a matter of state.

Rolfe later had to get permission to marry her.

When she went to England, just before her death, she was treated like royalty.

While there, she encountered John Smith, whom she had been told had died in the powder explosion that sent him home, and she acted and spoke very much like an abandoned wife or lover. There’s a pretty clear record of that historic encounter.


159 posted on 09/29/2013 6:08:38 PM PDT by EternalVigilance (We the People sent you to DEFUND it, not defend or delay it!)
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To: justa-hairyape

Benjamin Franklin actually published a German language newspaper in Philadelphia long before the Revolution.

The aptly named Germantown area of Philadelphia dates to before 1700.


160 posted on 09/29/2013 6:10:57 PM PDT by hlmencken3 (Originalist on the the 'general welfare' clause? No? NOT an originalist!)
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