-> On 03 Dec 06  16:31:06, Nancy Backus got back to Danny Ceppa 
-> Re: obvious was: relation

 NB>> Isles group, plus French, Dutch, German, Swiss, possibly Polish, and a
 NB>> trace from all sorts of European due to the intermarriages of royalty
 NB>> way back.  A couple of my grandmother's early settler lines were only
 NB>> a few generations removed from English nobility (younger sons, etc),
 NB>> which takes one back into English royalty eventually...
 
 DC> The Polish part is your saving grace.  

 NB> Why am I not surprised you'd say that...?  :)   I wouldn't mind

I dunno... :)  

 NB> finding out that it was there for real... My great-great-grands were
 NB> German, but lived right on the border with Poland, so that's why I make
 NB> my surmise.  But I know nothing further back than them, on that line. 
 NB> Their son, along with most of his sisters w/their husbands, came to
 NB> America just before or about 1900.  He was a cabinetmaker.

My grandfather was a shoemaker.  


The borders in europe have been quite fluid for many centuries.  It 
provides the source of many a war.  :(  

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