Posted on 05/08/2013 8:45:08 PM PDT by chessplayer
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Unless you're a Native American, you came from someplace else. Share your family's story: http://at.wh.gov/kQgOt #ImmigrationNation
Libs say even if we are born here, we are immigrants and we are not Native-Americans.
“White African-American boy not ‘black’ enough for award”
“The Omaha suspension of a white high-school student originally from South Africa is sending shock waves across America as debate rages over who can claim rights to the term “African-American.”
http://www.wnd.com/2004/01/22929/
Richards was BORN in Africa, but libs said he could not claim to be African-American because of his skin color. (i thought the entire human race originated in Africa) Most blacks in this country today were NOT born in Africa, but they can claim to be African-American. Go figure.
Louis DuBois ??? Some of those New Platz Huguenots arrived there on the Gilded Beaver..(Dutch name)right up the Hudson River..
The mother of my Huguenot Mabille/Mabee who came here was a DuBois ..possibly sister, aunt, cousin of the father of Louis...
Flanders...in Belgium now ...Walloons ??? I have De Forests from Cambreis/Avesnes...Jesse De Forest
Thats my Dad’s side..
Mom’s were Presbyterians from County Down in Ireland, and from Ayrshire, Scotland, and Anglicans from Staffordshire...mostly coal miners
also Guery/Geary from Shropshire which could have been originally Guerri/Guerry a Huguenot name...
I agree that American Indians are indigenous although their ancestors came from somewhere else. The question is how long does one’s ancestors have to be here to be considered indigenous? It’s just that the assertion that only they (those alive now) are native is irksome. As for Native Americans, all of us who were born here are native Amerians, or none of us are.
Your family sounds a bit like mine. As I mentioned, my 5th great-grandfather is listed in the DAR Patriot Index. A son, who served under him in the Duchess Co. (NY) Militia, left the U.S. after the Revolutionary War, and moved to Canada. His father wrote him out of the Will. He eventually married the daughter of a Loyalist who had also moved to Canada, although I don't know if her family moved there before or after the war. Thus, my mother was born in Canada. My father was born in Holland, and came to this country in 1912 with his parents and brothers. For years I assumed I was a first generation American, but with my mother's ancestors having settled in NY from England originally, then moving to Canada, I don't know if the first-generation term fits. I was born in Rochester, NY.
I had another Loyalist family...grandsons and great grandchildren of Huguenots..
3 brothers and their wives and children left New Rochelle, NY in 1773 and moved to the Susquehanna River Valley in Pennsylvania...Wyoming County, PA..Mehoopany and Tunktankuk
The Revolution started and their houses were burnt and their farms confiscated...
The men and their teenage sons fought in Butlers Rangers for the British side and the women and children fled to Canada...
Back in New Rochelle their cousins were Patriots...
After the war one of the cousins joined the 3 brothers in Canada...
He hid the fact he was not a Loyalist LOL...
His name was changed a bit when he got married etc..
Hes listed in the DAR lists..
Through him I can join Loyalists and Patriots..
I have one hold out family who might have been Patriots..
My 3rd great grandmother was a Holden born in Vermont in 1815 according to her 1888 Gowanda, NY death certificate..
There are at least 20 Holdens from Vermont listed as Patriots...
Plus several from New Hampshire and MASS
any of them could have been her father or more likely grandfather...
Unfortunately the census for 1820 and 1830 just listed so and so Holden, 1 wife 6 children and no other details...
Other than her family, for her husbands father and grandparents and great grandparents I have certificates for FIVE Loyalists
:)
“Perhaps this is why the Liberals who work for the Associated Press refuse to use the correct term “illegal immigrant”.”
Oddly, I agree with the A.P. on this one — they should not use the term “illegal immigrant.”
The correct term is “illegal alien.”
Does anyone else remember the advertisements that ran every Dec/Jan reminding aliens to register at the nearest post office? Why are they gone?
I arrived in 1971
They used to send the document to me to my address
I had to take it to the PO and confirm that my address was correct...
If we moved during the year we had to register our new address...
Thus if we didnt we were in trouble because the letter would come back not delivered...
it was a way to keep tabs on the immigrants and it worked...
But when and why they quit doing that I dont know...
They also use to know if visitor visa holders left the country by the 30th day but they dont bother now...
(I think the visa was for 30 days)
Now they use the excuse they need to know whos in the country to pass their damnable AMNESTY Bill...
I will add that when people ask what country are you from Iwill say Texas since my ancestors were living there when it was a country.
I had my kids dress up in Western gear for multi-cultural day at their school.
We live in California now, and I get on eople’s nerves when I do such things.
There is Choctaw Indian in me also. Someone married an Indian girl.
Fathers side has been here since 1771.
The only way we "white" folk are allowed to show our "pride in our heritage" is if we aren't from a European country in THIS, oops, the last century and even then, it's racist to many!
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