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
WAKE UP....MOST PEOPLE CAME HERE AFTER THE CIVIL WAR ENDED AND DIDN'T INTERMARRY FOR GENERATIONS, FOR DIFFERENT REASONS; USUALLY RELIGIOUS ONES!
My family has had one member who was the "family historian" and I was trained, from early childhood, to be the next one. A few decades ago, many of my older maternal cousins ( second, third, and farther off ) got together and updated the family tree, so unlike YOU, I have been heavily involved in this topic for almost my entire life.
You are thoroughly ignoring FACTS, because they don't fit your rather peculiar agenda.
Tell me, please, how it is that you, though ignorant of/ignoring hard. cold facts, can keep on repeating the same old tired, inaccurate, patently FALSE statements.
Since NOBODY in Hungary, especially NOT my family, ever owned a black slave, nor married anyone with ANY ties to any American, from Virginia or some other place ( prior to coming here ) and then it took several generations for someone to marry someone without any Hungarian heritage, how am I supposedly have a connection to a Tidewater, Virginia slave holder? You don't even know me, my family, its history, yet you have the temerity to make such egregious statements!
Neither do you know my friends, whose backgrounds and family history you also know nothing at all about!
Your banal statements completely ignore the differences between certain ethic and religious groups.
You've always been a pompous, arrogant, benighted poster and it looks as though you've gotten much worse!
In the early decades after the American Revolution, as English-speaking settlers began to settle in southern Ontario, including some from the US, there was still slavery in Ontario. On a visit to Canada about 20 years ago I picked up a pamphlet about the topic which said there were cases of Canadian slaves escaping to freedom in the US (since slavery had been banned in the Northwest Territory).