Posted on 09/29/2013 10:57:42 AM PDT by Rusty0604
I agree. “American” is nonsensical since American Indian is a separate category.
Those are scotch/irish and german areas....the southern highlander and his homeland.
Hiya cuz;^)
I don’t think so......
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. :-)
For all us Scot Irish or Irish Scots I recommend “Monarch of the Glen” on Netflix.
Yikes!
The genes got to me, had to give up the drink;^)
Add the reddish hair color and blue eyes and I'm there;^)
Me too!
Although, the red has now faded to gray...
:-)
“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.
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.. :)
Five children is good. My mom had a friend that was 1st generation from Italy and she taught me how to cook. Nothing better!
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.
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.
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.
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.. :)
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.
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.
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