Re: CHAT: geographical nomenclature [was Re: Language of Tetril]

>From: Tony Hogard <james.hogard@...>
>Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 14:51:41 -0600
>
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>All of my French, English, Irish, Scots, and Spanish ancestors that I
>know
>about were in the Americas before 1850 (and the Cherokee side of the
>family for considerably longer).  Those peoples don't figure into my
>cultural identity:  I'm a Texan, an American, and a Southerner.  When
>asked for ancestry or "race", I'm most likely to decline to answer.
>
>-Tone
My family is from England, Ireland Scotland and, it now seems, the
Netherlands.  The most recent immigrant in my family came from England to
Galveston, Texas in 1865, but even she was born to an American father and a
British mother in England so she was only half an imigrant.  Several
branches of my family are American in Colonial times, and others may be.  I
just haven't been able to trace some of the branches beyond the 1840's.
Census records get reeeeeally messy in 1840.

Adam

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