From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58668
Date: 2008-05-19
>The issue wasn't French vs. German at the time I'm
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
>
> > They seemed to have been forced out --that was the
> way
> > things worked. In any case, they were refugees and
> > there were supposedly tens of thousands of them.
> > Everyone I've spoke to who is of Alsatian ancestry
> has
> > told me the same stories --that their ancestors
> left
> > there because it was always changing hands and
> > religion.
> > My Irish Dolan ancestors were forced out for being
> > Catholics -actually shipped to America in chains
> after
> > the Siege of Limerick, so it worked both ways.
> >
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>
> This is what the Herder's Lexikon says :
> this was printed in 1904 when Alsace
> was under German Rule :
>
> "Die Bevölkerung wurde durch eine gute Verwaltung
> (D'Angervilliers 1716-24)
> versöhnt, bewahrte aber Deutschen Character und
> einen starken
> Particularismus."
> The population was reconciled thru a good
> administration (D'Angervilliers
> 1716-24), kept its German character and a strong
> idiosyncrasy.
>
> I don't see any reason why the Germans in 1904
> should have been complacent
> with France's rule over Alsace.
> The Article about Alsace does not mention any
> wrong-doing by the French in
> this area !!
> I suppose that they would have been the happiest to
> spew some bad words,
> if that were possible.
>
> I still don't buy a word you say.
> I think this is not real family souvenirs,
> this is more the standard anti-French propaganda
> that your ancestors have learned after 300 years
> of life within English-speaking people.
>
> Arnaud
>
> ===============