Both sides of my family have been in the states before they were states. circa 1650s. We really don't have much of an idea except for educated guesses of where our family came from. We have one last name in the family that we believe has been changed from a German last name, but we really don't know. Most of my family started in the north and migrated south early on. My dad's family is from western NC and eastern TN while mom's family is from SC. I am sure the spelling and even the pronunciation of our names has changed since the 1600s.
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