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CBHagman
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Fri Apr-06-07 02:33 PM Original message |
Ancestor ethnicity roll call! Check in, everybody. |
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ayeshahaqqiqa
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Sat Apr-07-07 08:02 PM Response to Original message |
1. Some very easy, some hard |
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CBHagman
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Sat Apr-07-07 10:34 PM Response to Reply #1 |
2. Oy, orphans. |
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ayeshahaqqiqa
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Sun Apr-08-07 02:25 PM Response to Reply #2 |
3. "Black Dutch" |
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IA_Seth
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Mon Apr-09-07 10:41 AM Response to Reply #3 |
5. Ok, now really check Illinois.. |
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Cybergata
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Fri Jun-01-07 02:27 PM Response to Reply #3 |
28. Trouble finding our Native American Ancestors |
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yellerpup
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Thu Aug-16-07 09:58 PM Response to Reply #3 |
62. One of my great grandmothers claimed to be Black Dutch |
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eowyn_of_rohan
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Fri Oct-05-07 11:46 AM Response to Reply #3 |
66. "Black Dutch" has been used very loosely! |
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sybylla
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Mon Oct-08-07 10:33 AM Response to Reply #66 |
67. My family called them Black Germans or Black Swiss |
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kestrel91316
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Thu Feb-07-08 07:01 PM Response to Reply #67 |
78. OOOHHHH, this reminds me of something. In going through some very old |
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kestrel91316
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Thu Feb-07-08 06:57 PM Response to Reply #66 |
77. Sounds like what I know of as "black Irish". As opposed to the Irish who |
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ayeshahaqqiqa
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Thu Apr-16-09 07:40 AM Response to Reply #66 |
99. Just found out through DNA testing |
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IA_Seth
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Mon Apr-09-07 10:38 AM Response to Reply #1 |
4. Arkansas |
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ayeshahaqqiqa
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Mon Apr-09-07 12:23 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. I know EXACTLY where the Cherokee were in S. IL |
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IA_Seth
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Mon Apr-09-07 12:34 PM Response to Reply #6 |
7. I've never been there myself... |
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fudge stripe cookays
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Mon Apr-09-07 10:45 PM Response to Original message |
8. Pennsylvania Dutch. |
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IA_Seth
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Tue Apr-10-07 01:24 PM Response to Reply #8 |
9. Pennsylvania Dutch... |
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fudge stripe cookays
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Tue Apr-10-07 06:12 PM Response to Reply #9 |
10. Unfortunately, no. :( |
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momophile
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Fri Jun-15-07 01:27 PM Response to Reply #8 |
30. really Ohio Germans? |
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fudge stripe cookays
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Mon Jul-02-07 03:55 PM Response to Reply #30 |
32. I think it was just a common name for the group. |
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madinmaryland
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Tue Oct-07-08 03:04 PM Response to Reply #32 |
84. That's interesting. I'm PA Dutch also. We came through Philadelphia |
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dropkickpa
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Sat Apr-21-07 11:04 AM Response to Original message |
11. Got a couple roadblocks |
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k8conant
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Mon Apr-30-07 09:48 PM Response to Original message |
12. Dead end on gggrandfather Peter Sommers = |
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CBHagman
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Fri May-04-07 11:23 AM Response to Reply #12 |
13. Any luck with local genealogical societies? |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Sun May-20-07 12:07 PM Response to Reply #12 |
18. I think Somers is also an English name. They weren't tartars for spelling in |
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Thirtieschild
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Fri May-04-07 12:30 PM Response to Original message |
14. A mix |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Sun May-13-07 03:54 PM Response to Original message |
15. My mother went into a second-hand bookshop in a part of England, |
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fudge stripe cookays
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Mon May-14-07 07:37 PM Response to Reply #15 |
16. Very cool! |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Sun May-20-07 12:05 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. Wow. Great to have such a nice a photo of her, and an interview, too, FSC! |
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kestrel91316
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Thu Feb-07-08 07:04 PM Response to Reply #16 |
79. Wow, that's close enough you could ALMOST call her up and say hi!! |
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NOLALady
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Sun May-20-07 03:38 PM Response to Reply #15 |
20. Devon |
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iverglas
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Sun May-20-07 04:15 PM Response to Reply #20 |
21. Devon is a tough place for records |
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iverglas
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Sun May-20-07 03:29 PM Response to Original message |
19. English, English, English, English! |
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NOLALady
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Sun May-20-07 04:16 PM Response to Reply #19 |
22. Canadian Research |
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iverglas
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Sun May-20-07 04:58 PM Response to Reply #22 |
24. eek |
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sybylla
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Fri May-25-07 06:53 PM Response to Reply #22 |
26. I'm very familiar with the French-Canadian records |
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CBHagman
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Sun May-20-07 07:55 PM Response to Reply #19 |
25. The more resources, the better! |
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CBHagman
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Thu Jul-12-07 11:04 PM Response to Reply #19 |
53. Which Census years are you searching? |
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iverglas
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Sat Jul-14-07 08:31 PM Response to Reply #53 |
56. grrrrr |
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NOLALady
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Sun May-20-07 04:35 PM Response to Original message |
23. Brick Walls R Us |
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fudge stripe cookays
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Mon Jul-02-07 04:03 PM Response to Reply #23 |
33. Could your Datcherut be... |
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NOLALady
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Tue Jul-24-07 07:44 PM Response to Reply #33 |
59. Are your D'Atcherouxs connected to your Gravelines? |
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sybylla
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Fri May-25-07 10:22 PM Response to Original message |
27. My biggest problem area was formerly East Prussia |
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Cybergata
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Fri Jun-01-07 03:26 PM Response to Original message |
29. Fairly recent German Immigrants |
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jwirr
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Wed Jul-11-07 11:20 PM Response to Reply #29 |
50. On the Reiter have you tried spelling it Rueter or Reuter? Both can |
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kestrel91316
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Tue Jun-19-07 04:28 PM Response to Original message |
31. 99.9% very boring WASP. A tiny bit of Swiss Anabaptist, Scandinavian, |
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Mon Jul-02-07 04:06 PM Response to Reply #31 |
34. Muy bueno! |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Wed Jul-04-07 05:59 PM Response to Reply #34 |
36. It probably was. He came up with some tremendous insights. |
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Cybergata
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Tue Jul-03-07 02:34 PM Response to Reply #31 |
35. My Wasp ancestors are hardly boring. |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Wed Jul-04-07 06:03 PM Response to Reply #35 |
37. He might have been descended from a very interesting medieval |
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Cybergata
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Thu Jul-05-07 12:55 AM Response to Reply #37 |
38. Not if you spend . . . |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Thu Jul-05-07 06:32 AM Response to Reply #38 |
39. No, I meant even going back to to the 16 and 1700s. |
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Cybergata
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Thu Jul-05-07 01:54 PM Response to Reply #39 |
40. One of the things that I found very helpful was . . . |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Thu Jul-05-07 04:47 PM Response to Reply #40 |
41. But do you get my point? Each couple will have their respective trees |
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Cybergata
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Thu Jul-05-07 05:29 PM Response to Reply #41 |
42. Of course I get your point! |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Thu Jul-05-07 06:04 PM Response to Reply #42 |
43. Yes, if you're a natrural enthusiast as we both appear to be, genealogy |
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jwirr
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Wed Jul-11-07 11:31 PM Response to Reply #41 |
51. The McBrides are linked to my Blacketter family. |
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OnionPatch
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Mon May-04-09 10:15 AM Response to Reply #51 |
101. LOTS of McBrides in my tree. Two different lines. |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Fri Jul-06-07 03:37 PM Response to Original message |
44. Another facet peculiar to the personal genealogies of Americans is that they seem |
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Cybergata
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Sat Jul-07-07 02:16 PM Response to Reply #44 |
45. I just noticed you were from Edinburgh! |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Sat Jul-07-07 06:08 PM Response to Reply #45 |
46. My mother is from Pembrokeshire in South Wales and my father, whom she divorced |
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Cybergata
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Sun Jul-08-07 04:02 PM Response to Reply #46 |
47. Have you had trouble tracing . . . |
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Joe Chi Minh
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Sun Jul-08-07 05:01 PM Response to Reply #47 |
48. My paternal grand-father was apparently a sergeant-major in the British |
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Cybergata
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Wed Jul-11-07 10:46 PM Response to Reply #48 |
49. Avoiding Recessive Genes |
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Zookeeper
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Thu Jul-12-07 02:19 PM Response to Reply #49 |
52. Recessive genes? |
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Cybergata
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Fri Jul-13-07 04:05 PM Response to Reply #52 |
54. Royal Imbredding |
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iverglas
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Sat Jul-14-07 08:50 PM Response to Reply #54 |
57. I'll never love blue eyes again |
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Cybergata
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Sat Jul-14-07 10:55 PM Response to Reply #57 |
58. I have to come clean! |
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kestrel91316
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Thu Feb-07-08 07:08 PM Response to Reply #49 |
80. This is why I am sort of glad my sister married "out". |
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Daphne08
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Sat Jul-14-07 02:04 PM Response to Original message |
55. I'm Irish, Native American, German and English. |
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vanboggie
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Fri Aug-03-07 10:59 PM Response to Original message |
60. Mutt |
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CBHagman
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Sat Aug-04-07 09:03 AM Response to Reply #60 |
61. Welcome aboard. |
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iverglas
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Fri Aug-17-07 08:55 AM Response to Reply #61 |
63. here ya go |
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Critters2
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Thu Sep-27-07 01:15 AM Response to Original message |
64. Scots, Scots-Irish, just plain Irish, and German mostly |
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Cybergata
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Sat Sep-29-07 04:10 PM Response to Reply #64 |
65. I always thought my grandfather was Scot-Irish . . . |
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Drunken Irishman
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Wed Jan-02-08 10:42 PM Response to Reply #65 |
69. That's funny, my great, great grandmother was a Blair and her family was from Ireland. |
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Cybergata
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Fri Jan-04-08 01:44 PM Response to Reply #69 |
70. Well, My grandfather's earliest . . . |
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Drunken Irishman
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Wed Jan-02-08 10:34 PM Response to Original message |
68. Irish, some Russian, Danish and English. |
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Thirtieschild
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Sun Jan-27-08 12:09 PM Response to Original message |
71. Deepest holes, deadest dead ends, most impenetrable brick walls |
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Cybergata
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Mon Jan-28-08 12:06 AM Response to Reply #71 |
73. Hello Fellow New Mexican |
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Thirtieschild
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Mon Jan-28-08 11:37 AM Response to Reply #73 |
74. And hello to you |
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Cybergata
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Mon Jan-28-08 10:37 PM Response to Reply #74 |
75. We are lucky to have a great Genealogy Library here in ABQ |
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Bitwit1234
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Sun Jan-27-08 10:11 PM Response to Original message |
72. I have posted mine before but now I might have a shot at our surname |
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kestrel91316
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Thu Feb-07-08 06:54 PM Response to Original message |
76. Virtually everybody on both sides came from England/Ireland/Scotland. |
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pkdu
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Fri Jun-05-09 05:02 PM Response to Reply #76 |
103. Scottish and Irish n/t |
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Mon Sep-01-08 07:41 AM Response to Original message |
81. Hi everyone. I'm a Murrican Mutt |
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CBHagman
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Mon Sep-01-08 08:40 AM Response to Reply #81 |
82. That leaves me speechless! |
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RedLetterRev
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Mon Sep-01-08 11:00 AM Response to Reply #82 |
83. Thanks for the welcome! |
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BluRay01
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Sun Jan-04-09 01:40 PM Response to Original message |
85. New to this board and to genealogy research... |
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OnionPatch
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Mon Jan-05-09 11:39 PM Response to Reply #85 |
86. I'm also new to this group. |
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BluRay01
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Thu Jan-08-09 11:26 PM Response to Reply #86 |
89. I spent far too much time on this over the holidays... |
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CBHagman
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Tue Jan-06-09 09:42 AM Response to Reply #85 |
87. What sort of records/resources are you using? |
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BluRay01
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Thu Jan-08-09 11:14 PM Response to Reply #87 |
88. So far, I've just been searching online... |
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CBHagman
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Fri Jan-09-09 03:40 PM Response to Reply #88 |
90. Verify, verify, verify. |
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donco6
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Sun Feb-01-09 12:54 PM Response to Original message |
91. Volga Deutsch. Father's side |
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dalaigh lllama
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Mon Feb-16-09 02:37 PM Response to Original message |
92. Hi all! Heinz 57 ethnicity here |
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Dem2theMax
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Mon Feb-16-09 06:30 PM Response to Reply #92 |
93. That is SO not funny. The name I'm stuck on? Heinze! |
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Mon Feb-16-09 07:54 PM Response to Reply #93 |
94. Oh, I'm sorry for you. |
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Dem2theMax
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Mon Feb-16-09 11:48 PM Response to Reply #94 |
95. Augustus, and his dear wife, Mary Ellen (Chambers) Heinze, are the bane of my existence. |
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Tue Feb-17-09 11:52 AM Response to Reply #95 |
96. Name spellings are special back then |
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Dem2theMax
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Tue Feb-17-09 04:15 PM Response to Reply #96 |
97. "Name spellings are special back then." Weren't they? LOL. |
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Tue Feb-17-09 05:30 PM Response to Reply #97 |
98. I wouldn't call them naming rules so much as tendencies |
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OnionPatch
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Mon May-04-09 10:12 AM Response to Original message |
100. Scots-Irish, English, German and a little French Huguenot.. |
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pipi_k
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Sun May-24-09 12:12 PM Response to Original message |
102. Mostly French Canadian with a dab of Micmac |
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carpetbagger
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Wed Jul-08-09 07:03 PM Response to Original message |
104. Scot, German, Swede, French, Danish, and some unknown |
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sybylla
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Fri Jul-10-09 09:39 AM Response to Reply #104 |
105. I've got a New York Dutch immigrant problem as well. |
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carpetbagger
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Fri Jul-10-09 10:59 PM Response to Reply #105 |
106. About New York 1800s records |
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CBHagman
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Sat Jul-11-09 06:16 PM Response to Reply #106 |
107. More New York stuff. |
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Fri Mar-05-10 04:29 AM Response to Original message |
108. Chiricahua Apache (Bedonkohe clan) from my mother's and Yaqui from my father's side. |
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Wed Mar-10-10 04:39 PM Response to Original message |
109. English, Scottish on my dad's side |
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Sat Jul-03-10 10:43 AM Response to Original message |
110. African American and Cherokee |
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lazarus
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Tue Jul-06-10 10:57 AM Response to Original message |
111. very British |
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Spider Jerusalem
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Mon Jul-19-10 08:54 PM Response to Original message |
112. Mostly British Isles. |
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Mr. McD
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Thu Jul-29-10 11:16 AM Response to Original message |
113. Mostly British and German |
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Fri Feb-04-11 10:13 PM Response to Original message |
114. French Waldensians, English loyalists mostly |
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Sat Feb-05-11 03:09 AM Response to Original message |
115. Before 1800 - English, Irish, lots of German Palatines |
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Sat Mar-12-11 01:27 PM Response to Original message |
116. Heinz 57, as my grandfather would say. |
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Fri Mar-25-11 06:38 PM Response to Original message |
117. Half Polish, quarter German, quarter OMG. |
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CBHagman
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Sat Mar-26-11 08:56 PM Response to Reply #117 |
118. I've never met anyone from the OMG line. |
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Fri Aug-05-11 05:18 PM Response to Original message |
119. Denmark, Germany |
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