Re: For MKelkar, Kishore and all those other anti-linguists

Check Ancestry.com and look for families from Alsace.
Look at the records of the "German" settlers in
Ireland and those who tried to settle in England c.
1700. It's all documented but it will take you a while
to track it down.


--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
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> >> >> ==========
> >> > 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
> >>
> >> =======
> > My Swiss ancestors were from Solothurn, near Bern
> but
> > they were forced from Alsace by the French, who
> did
> > not tolerate non-Catholics. As I understand, they
> > arrived in America via the Netherlands.
> >
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> Is this the story your own family is conveying ?
> When did they move ?
> This forcing-out is not documented.
>
> Why should I not think that your ancestors freely
> moved out
> for religious reasons in order to live for real in a
> new promised land
> their reformed faith ?
>
> Arnaud
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