On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:31:15 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 9/12/18 11:09 AM, Wayne.B wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 11:02:00 -0400, Keyser Soze
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On 9/12/18 9:30 AM, True North wrote:
On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 08:32:43 UTC-3, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/12/18 1:28 AM, Bill wrote:
wrote:
On Tue, 11 Sep 2018 20:02:20 -0400, Keyser Soze
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Nearly a dozen of my high school buddies live in the DC area.

DC is one of those places where most of the people living there came
from somewhere else. My father was from "dust bowl" Oklahoma but my
mother's side was all from somewhere in Maryland, going back to
colonial times.
My grandfather's people go back to the Hessians from Baltimore and
Anne Arundle and my grandmother's people all came from St Mary's or
Calvert county somewhere, up to ~250 years back.

I just dug up a bunch of stuff for my niece down at the marina in
Ridge.


My mom’s people were in New Haven in the 1650’s.


Virtually all of my immigrant ancestors arrived in this country from
Europe between 1890 and 1920. At least one of my wife's ancestors
arrived here from England in the early 1600s to explore North America.
I'm not much into "ancestry," as it were, but my wife is

Oldest son sent me the Ancestry DNA kit for Father's Day.
Got the results back in July. No big surprises but some small ones.
Results
55 percent Great Britain
18 " Ireland/Scotland/Wales
9 " Iberian Peninsula
Low confidence regions...
4 percent Europe East
4 " Europe West
1 " Asia South

It shows migration patterns for the colonial time period with one side of my mother's family making a wrong turn left to America but they corrected that after the ungrateful rabble bit King George's hand that had fed and protected them. ;-)


My wife got one of those kits...and it showed a very high percentage of
Great Britain and Ireland, a very small percentage of German, a tiny
percentage of Native American (Cherokee) and a few others. No surprise
there. I'm sure if I sent it a kit for analysis, it would come back
"100% mutt."

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More likely, incurable lefty.


My mother was a Republican, though she left the party during the Reagan
Administration. I did volunteer work for a GOP congressman in the 1960
campaign, making phone calls and driving voters to the polls. I came of
age politically in 1968 when I decided the Dems were much more to my
liking than the Repubs, though I did admire Nixon's intelligence and
Ford's decency.

That was when the war molded most youngsters view of the parties. They
tended to lean democrat, in spite of the fact that it was the
democrats who prosecuted the war, LBJ being the most responsible for
the disaster.