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Cool thread!
I have such a cool family history:
My dad's side involves a ton of long established families, namely the Talbotts who helped in establishing the colony of Maryland, and the Talbott family is the family of Bob Dole's mom, making us 4 th cousins, somewhere therabouts. His dad's side of the family came from the Yenters of Germany who settled somewhere in Pennsylvania. They were German Jews, though my other German ancestors were devout Catholics (the Mechlers). He also had ancestors come here from Switzerland, Wales, and Scotland.
On my mom's side, they've been here for so long it's ridiculous, but they are primarily Cherokee, Dutch, Irish, and English. The most recent emigration on her side of the family came in the 1820s from Ireland. Her English and Dutch folks have been here much longer than that.
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