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7 posted on 09/29/2013 11:13:23 AM PDT by Dallas59 (Obama: The first "White Black" President.)
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You would think it would show some Scandinavian descent in Washington.


11 posted on 09/29/2013 11:20:09 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (If global warming exists I hope it is strong enough to reverse the Big Government snowball)
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To: Dallas59

My ancestors were Irish,German,Italian and English.We had a bit of a mixed up U.N. thing going on here.


24 posted on 09/29/2013 11:32:25 AM PDT by puppypusher (The World is going to the dogs.)
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DANG! ALL THOSE PUERTO RICANS IN PR!


31 posted on 09/29/2013 11:38:51 AM PDT by martin_fierro (< |:)~)
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To: Dallas59

According to that map we should all be speaking german ?

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


41 posted on 09/29/2013 11:54:49 AM PDT by Squantos ( Be polite, be professional, but have a plan to kill everyone you meet ...)
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To: Dallas59
The map of "largest ancestry" doesn't mean that group is a majority in that county. Christian Co., KY, for example, has "African American" but it is not majority black--Bush won 2-1 there in 2004 and McCain beat Obama 3-2 in 2008.

When you get back to the early 1800s or earlier it gets harder and harder to trace all of your lines because of incomplete records (except perhaps in New England), so many people may not know for sure how many of their colonial or Early Republican ancestors were English, Scottish, "Scots-Irish," Catholic Irish, Welsh, German, or Huguenot--a lot of the French and German names were anglicized out of recognition. A Scottish-sounding surname may be a clue but perhaps only the direct male line was Scottish and the rest was English or something else.

When I saw the heading I thought the thread would be about the ancestry of the counties as political units--that is fairly simple to figure out from the information in The Genealogical Helper about parent counties, but probably easier to find nowadays with Wikipedia. Not that anyone cares about that information unless you need to find out where some information would be located.

99 posted on 09/29/2013 1:25:57 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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