"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.

Thanks for the warning! I shall certainly exude a low profile.

> 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.

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