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

--- "fournet.arnaud" <fournet.arnaud@...>
wrote:

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Rick McCallister" <gabaroo6958@...>
> To: <cybalist@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Monday, May 19, 2008 9:10 AM
> Subject: Re: [tied] 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.
> >
> ===========
>
> This still does not address the main issue of
> understanding
> why they moved :
> - were they forced out ?
> or
> - did they chose to go to the new Promised Land ?
>
> Ancestry.com looks like a highly biased site,
>
> Arnaud
>
> ==========

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.