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To: Tennessee Nana

Roger that. Mine go back to the mid 1600’s in the Hudson Valley area of New York and most of the folks there were of Dutch origin. Lot’s of Van Xxxx’s and other Dutch sounding names for sure. Looking at the roster of the New York militia from the revolution from that area, I didn’t see many Italian looking names. I think the map is a load.


44 posted on 09/29/2013 11:56:00 AM PDT by rktman (Inergalactic background checks? King hussein you're first up.)
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To: rktman

My Palatine Germans had a trading post in what is now Herkimer County New York

and I had other ancestors in Albany and Schenectady

One early family was on the Neuiw Nederlandt in 1623..Phillip Du Trieux and Susannah Du Chesne..

and I have Groot, De Forest, Van Antwerpen, Van Woert in that area..


72 posted on 09/29/2013 12:36:25 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: rktman

That article says the largest population of “Germans” is in Maricopa County where I live. I swear I don’t see a lot of “Germans” around here, although in WWII, Papago Park was the site of the largest breakout of German-WWII prisoners. They saw “Salt River” on the map and thought it was free flowing to the Gila-Colorado and on to the Gulf of California. lol Some even settled here after the war.


73 posted on 09/29/2013 12:37:15 PM PDT by machogirl (First they came for my tagline)
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To: rktman

My Dutch ancestors came over in the 1620s, helped found Brooklyn and lived there until the early 20th c. But my American Indian ggg’s family was here long before.


74 posted on 09/29/2013 12:37:55 PM PDT by Albion Wilde ("Remember... the first revolutionary was Satan."--Russian Orthodox Archpriest Dmitry Smirnov)
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