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To: EternalVigilance
HORSEFEATHERS !

Are you claiming that Hasidic Jews ( most of whom came here from Russia and Poland) have married someone who has a Tidewater Virginia ancestor?

How about those whose ancestors came from Japan or China ?

I've already told you that absolutely NOBODY in my extended family has married anyone with any connection with someone who can trace their lineage to someone who owned a slave, let alone to someone with any connection to an early settler in Virginia and the same id true of most of my friends, past or present!

47 posted on 04/17/2015 6:06:54 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: nopardons

Quite a few American families, like mine, have lines that have been here for fourteen generations. Most living Americans will find some lines that go back at least ten or twelve generations.

For fourteen generations, that is more than 16,000 different family lines.

For twelve generations, that is more than 4000 family lines.

For ten generations, that is more than 1000 family lines.

Rare is the American family tree that doesn’t have at least some connection to Virginia, which for generations was by far the most populous North American English colony. And virtually all Virginia families had at least some connection to slaveholding.

And while it is often forgotten today, slavery was practiced in the North for hundreds of years as well. It wasn’t as common, but it was there.

Thinking as you do, I seriously doubt you’ve pored over wills and such for more than a thousand family lines.


How Many Ancestors Do You Have?

http://familyforest.com/resources/51/ancestors-at-a-glance


56 posted on 04/17/2015 6:28:58 PM PDT by EternalVigilance ("Rebellion to tyrants is obedience to God." -- Benjamin Franklin)
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