Re: What this list is - on "insularity"

Hello Leslie,

I enjoyed your observation. As to my own "insularity".

100% American. Guilty and "condemned" (in some jaundiced eyes.)

Having said this - my origins: 3/5 of my ancestry is mainly
English-colonial American, arriving 1608-1650. Also colonially-American
are lines of Dutch, Walloon, French, Norwegian (1624-1660), and German
(1718, 1737). 2/5 of my ancestry is "recently arrived" - i.e., Irish,
1830-1855; Scottish, 1845; and (my maternal grandmother) in 1906 from
England.

Proportionally:

44% English
25 % Scottish
13% Welsh
13% Irish
4 % German
1% Dutch (with traces of French, Walloon, Norwegian)
[perhaps] .055% Cherokee Indian

Talking of "gateways". I for one certainly appreciate the attention
these receive. Some of my own 1th century "ancient gateways" to America
include:

Elizabeth (Alsop) (Baldwin) Fowler, CT
William Asfordby, NY
Thomas Brassey, PA
Obadiah Bruen, CT
Jane (Deighton) (Lugg) Negus, MA
Alice (Freeman) (Thompson) Park, CT
Edmund Kempe, VA
Roger Mallory, VA
John Umfreville, CT
John West, VA
John Winslow, MA

John Brandon...

Can all of these really be true? I remember you claiming Maria Johanna
Somerset, as well, and implying you had a line from George Percy of VA
...

When one examines the genealogical "big picture", it is impossible to
be truly "insular". One of the beautiful by-products of genealogy!

Tony

Anthony Hoskins
History, Genealogy and Archives Librarian
History and Genealogy Library
Sonoma County Library
3rd and E Streets
Santa Rosa, California 95404

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