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.
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Smith admitted in his own writings to being a rather randy fellow, shall we say, in his years soldiering around Europe, before he went to Jamestown.
The first record I’m aware of in Jamestown of Pocahontas is her coming into the fort with a pack of other girls buck naked, dancing wildly.
Smith spent a couple of years out in the wild interacting with her and her tribe. The entire Atlantic Ocean between him and the Crown, and him and a single English woman.
It strains credulity to think that they weren’t intimate, in my opinion.
Add to that the fact that Powhatan treated him like a son in law, and that there were reports of at least one child escaping when she was kidnapped by the English, not long before she converted and married Rolfe.
Anyhow, like I said, I can’t prove it officially, but there is a ring of truth to the whole story, to me.
And the story has come down to us through our Hiatt line. There are even a couple of examples of the middle name Powhatan being used by family members down through the years.
The genealogical consensus is that the descendants of Pocahontas are through her granddaughter Jane Rolfe who married Robert Bolling. From this union, one son was born, John. After Jane Rolfe died, Robert Bolling married Anne Stith.
That and they left the NY area in 1833 and went West a lot of information lost.
On this map, does German equate to Swedish and/or Scandinavian and/or Slavic?
My father grew up in Alabama and while I know very little about those before him, it was sort of a “family known” that our surname was truncated from a more complicated Slavic version.
And yet as I trace my family tree, I find Peregrine Smith, born in VA in 1612, died in England, according our family records. The LDS records say the same thing.
John Smith spent his teen years in the Bertie household in England. His contemporary in that family was a boy named Perigrine Bertie. They were like brothers. So it’s not a stretch at all to think that John Smith would name a son after his friend.
Perigrine Smith ended up marrying a Mary Bertie in England. They had a son named William, who late in life emigrated to the colonies. His daughter Mary Lois Smith married John Hiett, producing our Hiatt family line.
And by the way, that 1612 date, I know, is problematic, since Smith returned to England in 1609. But who knows. Dates are not that reliable that far back. :-)
Whoops. #166 was meant for you as well.
Have a great night.
Great story!
My family has some infamous characters in the not so distant past, (native American) and we don’t even have the great food!
William Byrd reports an Indian mother hinting that she would have let her daughter sleep with him if she had been a year older. The Indians of that region apparently saw nothing wrong with premarital sex, but evidently had strong views on when a person was too young, and Pocahontas may have fallen into that category during the time that Capt. John Smith was in Virginia.
Thanks goodness, no connection.
we had our great great grandfathers Bible and it had his history written on 2 sheets of blue paper and then sewn into it..
We learnt that Guy Stephen Secord was born in Upper West Canada (Ontario) in 1833 and his mother was born in the United States (Vermont) His father was born in Upper West Canada and was the descendant of “French settlers”
Those french Settlers were Huguenots. Ambroise Sicard fled from La Rochelle in france to Kondon and came to New York City with 5 children in 1680. He helped found New Rochelle.
By the 3rd generation the Sicard had become at least 8 different veriations...ours was Secord down to my great grandmother who died 3 years before I was born..so we pronounced it like record instead of seecord
My other Huguenot families and others in New York state during the 1600s were Woertman, Mabie/Mabille, Badeau, Peek, De Forest, Du Trieux, Schuerman, Snyder, Van Woert, Van Antwerpen, Kipp, Peek, Jandron/Gendron, Parcot, Van Westerhaut, DeNyse, Lubberts, Scheerburch, Groot
Some of them moved on to Albany later..
Some things we’ll just never know for sure. Not on this mortal coil anyhow.
Do you know what town they lived near?
In the area of what is now Lynchburg, I think. Some later ended up in Halifax.
I claim American because... my ancestors have BEEN HERE for 373 years!!!
Good Grief! How long to you have to LIVE somewhere to be FROM there?
Along the way, we've blended a little of just about every group into the fold. Originally, English...but, we've added a LOT of Spanish, American Indian, German, Scottish, Italian.....
I am... an AMERICAN MUTT!
I found this interesting, you may too.
Something You Didn't Know About Cajuns (Ilenos, Canary Islands)
I checked my DNA and here are the results:
* yDNA (Male) = R1b - Norwegian by way of Ireland. (Maybe a Viking?)
* mtDNA (Female) = 'V' - Skolt Sami from Finland.
We've always considered ourselves Irish.
Just one - the WRONG ONE!
People of mixed ethnic background, predominantly Northwestern European but who only identify with America - hence AMERICAN! We should all feel that way.
The map's based on people's self-definition, so the Scots-Irish are probably divided between those who consider themselves "American," "English," "Irish," "Scots-Irish" and "Scottish," while the German-Americans just say "German."
Because Germany is in the middle of Europe and had shifting boundaries, many Germans had (and have) Danish, Polish, Czech, Slovenian, Italian or French last names (and vice versa).
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