A question for our American friends...

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Re: A question for our American friends...

Postby H » Wed Jan 21, 2009 11:26 am

Although my surname is usually considered English, the family immigrated from the Isle of Mann. My direct German ancestry was through someone named Schwarz -- I'm assuming mainly his hair was black -- and a great-grandmother was a Havener (Dutch). I note that the Wikipedia map colors NH as Irish green; we have as much French names around since the job-seeking migration from Quebec early in the last century.

"Genetic scientists estimated that over 15 million other Americans may be one quarter or less of American Indian descent. Once thought to face extinction in race or culture, there has been a remarkable revival of Native American identity and tribal sovereignty in the 20th century."[color=#003300]...because, in earlier eras, it was safer to pretend you weren't. Even in the previous century it was reported that bands of Sasquatch were
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