On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 20:04:38 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote:

John H. wrote:
On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 14:49:07 -0400, wrote:

On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 16:43:38 -0000 (UTC), Bill
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On Wed, 12 Sep 2018 06:30:12 -0700 (PDT), True North
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On Wednesday, 12 September 2018 08:32:43 UTC-3, Keyser Soze wrote:
On 9/12/18 1:28 AM, Bill wrote:
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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. ;-)

I have been curious what mine would say but my guess is England
Ireland Germany and a trace of American Indian. The real wild cards
are on my father's side of the family because there are so many holes
in the records. The people west of the Mississippi in the mid to late
19th century were not big on paperwork.


Wondered about your family this morning. A Mrs. Fretwell of Danville, Ca
was in the Obituary this morning. 88 years.
https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/na...?pid=190192266


People with my name used to call me a lot when the ancestry.com thing
was getting started and we compared notes. Nobody has my Great Great
Grandfather in their list. I really think there was something
nefarious going on, probably referring to the Civil War or something
else around that time. That seems to be a guy who landed in Missouri
from a space ship.

That's interesting. I can trace my father's side, Herring, back to my great-grandfather. My
grandfather was born in 1865, three miles west of Marshall, Saline
County, Missouri, to a John and
Lucy Allen Herring (great-grandparents).

And that's it. None of the ancestry folks have been able to find out any more about them.

Might be that damn space ship after all.


My dad’s grandfather came from Antrim, Ireland about 1860. They were
Scot/Irish. Which makes tracing them back into Scotland near impossible.
The English shipped the trouble makers to Ireland and destroyed the records
in Scotland.

On my mother's side, Catholics from Holland, I can trace back to the 1200's.