From: Rick McCallister
Message: 58622
Date: 2008-05-18
>My Swiss ancestors were from Solothurn, near Bern but
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Sunday, May 18, 2008 11:35 PM
> Subject: Re: [tied] Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all
> those other
> anti-linguists
>
>
> >
> > --- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
> > wrote:
> >
> > . . .
> >>
> >> I have never heard about that,
> >> and it clearly conflicts with the wikipedia
> article.
> >> About Alsace and Huguenot
> >> in both French and English.
> >> None mentions any Huguenot in Alsace,
> >> and the article about Alsace actually mentions
> >> Anabaptists fleeing from
> >> Swiss into Alsace !!
> >>
> >> I definitely do not buy your story.
> >>
> >> Arnaud
> >> ==========
> > The part about the Anabaptist is true --my
> ancestors
> > named Zirkle, Keller, Bosshart, etc. fled
> Switzerland
> > to Alsace but had to leave Alsace when Louis XIV
> > arrived c. 1700. Do some research
> >
> ============
>
> Wikipedia states the influx of Anabaptists lasted
> until 1711
> and that the French control was complete in 1679
>
> Something does not fit in your story
> France already was administering this area
> when people took refuge there.
>
>
> Between 1671-1711 Anabaptist refugees came from
> Switzerland, notably from
> Bern. Strasbourg became a main center of the early
> Anabaptist movement.
> France consolidated its hold with the 1679 Treaties
> of Nijmegen which
> brought the towns under her control.
>
> Arnaud
>
> =======