[AuH2ORepublican]

"Tancredo, is that a Portuguese name ?"

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I assume it's Italian, a variation of Tancredi. Here's what a site devoted to Italian surnames (http://www.italyworldclub.com/genealogy/surnames/t.htm) has listed:

"TANCREDI, TANGREDI

From the first name Tancredo of German origin, consisting of "thanka" = thinking and "rhada" = advise"

I checked the Ellis Island website (http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/), and a total of 8 Tancredos came in through Ellis Island between 1899 and 1920 (http://www.ellisislandrecords.org/search/matchMore.asp?LNM=TANCREDO&PLNM=TANCREDO&kind=exact&offset=0&dwpdone=1)---all from Italy. (In addition, 374 Tancredis came in through Ellis Island, and I believe all of them came from Italy as well.)

I wonder how Tom Tancredo's great-grandparents were allowed into the country. Why, they probably didn't even speak English! I guess Congressmen from Colorado had better things to do back then than to attack legal immigrants.

[fieldmarshaldj]

I thought it might have been Italian, but I saw the name Tancredo as a Portuguese one (a Brazilian airport, actually). He is kinda swarthy-looking, so I would presume Southern European ancestry. These "people" were considered the "Mexicans" of their day at the last turn of the century. I wonder what his immigrant ancestors might think about him...