Julia Thompson wrote:
>
>> For example, how close I am to you? I imagine we might have
>> a common ancestral by 1600 or so.
>
> Most of my ancestors at that point were in the British
> Isles. to the best of my knowledge. A few were in France.
>
And those are the best candidates: France once invaded
Maranhão, who was where the family of my monther's
father come from [they were the local nobility]. OTOH,
we might have some ancestor among the jews that came
with the Dutch invasion of Pernambuco, and were latter
exiled to New York when Portugal took it back.
> If you go to http://www.rootsweb.com and do a search
>
The last time I got interested in genealogies, I was
horrified at how much mercenary it had become in the
Internet. It seems that it's a big source of income
for some people.
> I'm probably related one way or another to over half
> the people who were in Virginia at the time of the
> American Revolution, including a number of
> scoundrels. :)
>
That can't be prevented, can it? Some of mine were
slave owners. AFAIK, no one was a slave trader, which
is some degrees lower in the morality scale.
Alberto Monteiro
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