Charles Gifford wrote:
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> "Arri London" > wrote in message
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> > That wouldn't necessarily be a good idea (the instruction I mean); this
> > is a heavily-armed state and a lot of people seem to have very short
> > fuses.
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> Thanks for the warning! I shall certainly exude a low profile.

I do the same. While I resent the loss of freedom that moving here has
meant, the chile is very good

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> > But unless you can trace your family tree very accurately all the way
> > back, you may have Angle and Saxon in there. The Normans didn't waste a
> > lot of time before taking 'local' spouses and statistically there aren't
> > a whole lot of 'pure' Irish in Ireland.
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> Both sides of my family have been researched in amazing detail back to 1069
> on one side and a little earlier (I don't remember exactly; somewhere around
> the 1040's on the other. This was done by long lines of female ancestors,
> with nothing better to do with their time I suppose. There is one Scot, one
> German, one Sioux. You are right though - there almost certainly was an
> Anglo or Saxon somewhere - probably via that Scot. Personally, I have dual
> Irish and U.S. citizenship. I identify as either Irish or Californian. ;-)
>
> Charlie

And the German as well. Then of course the Scot could have Norse
ancestry in there too, as could most of the Irish side.