-> 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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