Re: what has happened to this newsgroup?


Dear LB
Well, you have some surprises in store when you dig a little deeper. I was
astonished to find not just English, Scottish, Welsh, Irish, French and
Norse and German, but Spanish, Portugese and therefore Arabic, Greek and
therefore Byzantian, as well as Russian, Serbian, Hungarian etc. etc. etc.
A veritable feast awaits you. So keep digging and you will find you are
descended from just about every European and North African race on earth.
As Leo van de Pas says on his Genealogics website, if we have European
descent we are everyone else's at least 30th cousin. (I'm sure he said it
more elegantly than that though).
Best wishes
Merilyn Pedrick

-------Original Message-------

From: L B Hansen
Date: 07/21/06 09:04:29
To: GEN-MEDIEVAL-L@xxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: what has happened to this newsgroup?

Peter - I can only speak for myself. Maybe I am the exception, but most of
my ancestors came to the States in the 1600's from England. I do have some
early German and Dutch ancestors. I don't research them in the medieval
period because I haven't a clue about the language or the culture. The Old
English handwriting is keeping me plenty busy - and I understand the
language. Researching my English ancestors could keep me busy for the rest
of my days. However, I would love to do some early German research if some
very knowledgable person would start a discussion. The problem is that my
research will start somewhere in the late 1600's again - it will take me a
while to get back to the medieval period with them. Linda

Peter Stewart <p_m_stewart@xxxxxxx> wrote:
If you have traced your ancestry to medieval people in the British Isles,
you have almost certainly connected to vastly more ancestors who lived
elsewhere in Europe.

My question is, WHY the virtually exclusive and unrelenting interest only in
the English ancestors in the last few centuries of the medieval era?

Peter Stewart




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