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Subject: [NJHUNTER] Re: NJHUNTER-D Digest V00 #248
Date: Fri, 15 Dec 00 20:05:38 -0500

This isn't exactly "on topic," but it's something that I've seen from
time to time in various group emails (most recently in this one) and I
have to admit that it is beginning to become a minor bone of contention,
at least for me.

A reference to an ancestral line in a particular e-mail group who was "on
the wrong side in the Revolutionary War" (which is usually aimed at those
who were Loyalists) connotates negatively on the family line of those
whose families upheld the legal government in place at the time that a
revolution took place within a country. I don't deny that, at least in
the case of the American Revolution, the war that eventually lead to a
democratic society in this country was beneficial to those who supported
that war, but there were an enormous number of people who supported the
crown and the government in place which were, at the time of the
conflict, the legitimate rulers of the country and they suffered
egregious losses. Many of them were forced to flee at the end of the war
or be hanged as traitors. They had to leave the land that their
ancestors had spent more than a century turning into large, fertile farms
and move to areas outside the borders of their homelant that were
uncleared, uncivilized, and frequently inhospitable to begin again from
scratch.

We must always remember that we have people who subscribe to this list
whose families eventually emigrated back into the States but still honor
the decision their ancestors made to stand against those who were seen to
be revolutionaries not unlike those of more recent revolutions (the
Communists, for example in Russia and China). Even more to the point,
however, we have people still living in the lands to which their
forebearers were exiled who write to and read from this list. They
should not have the decisions that their great-times-whatever
grandparents made called "wrong," as those decisions reflected their
conscience and loyalty and were "right" for them at that time and place.
I'm not advocating political correctness as much as I am advocating an
atmosphere of considerate, sensitive thought for the feelings and
attitudes of others.



Charline Gail KITCHEN Ahlgreen
Merritt Island, FL

If the pen is mightier than the sword, and a picture is worth a thousand
words, then how dangerous is a fax?

Learn from the mistakes of others -- you can't live long enough to make
them all yourself!

How come my family's Coat of Arms ties in the back?

Charline G. KITCHEN Ahlgreen
Merritt Island, FL 32953

AHLGREEN/AHLGREN (Norway/MA/FL)
ALM (Sweden/Norway/MA/FL)
BEEKMAN/BEECKMAN [Netherlands/NY(New Netherlands)]
BERGSTROM (Sweden)
BISHOP (England/MA Colony/NJ),
BOSCH [Netherlands/NY (New Netherlands)]
BUNN (Germany/NJ Colony)
CHAMBERS (Scotland/NJ Colony/Canada)
CULVER/COLVER/COLLVER (England/MA Colony/CT Colony/NJ/Canada)
DOTY (MA - Mayflower/NJ/Canada)
ELLIS/ELLES (England/MA)
HEATH (NJ)
HEDLUND (Sweden)
HICKS (Wales/OH)
HOWEY (NJ)
HUTCHERSON (Canada/OH)
JANS [Netherlands/NY (New Netherlands)]
KAANG (Sweden)
KARN/KERN (Germany/NJ)
KARLSEN (Norway)
KITCHEN (England/NJ/PA/Canada/PA/OH/IN/IL/Germany/FL/VA/OK)
KJONIKSEN (Norway)
KUCH (Germany/NJ)
LAMB (NJ)
LARSON (Sweden/MA/OH)
LIEVELING (Netherlands)
LONG (CT),
MARTIN (England/MA -- Mayflower)
MAYER (Germany)
MUDEL (Germany)
OSMUN (NJ/PA/Canada)
ROD (Norway)
RUNYON (England/NJ)
SCHMID (Germany)
SLACHT/SLAGHT/SLACK/SLECHT/SLEGHT [Netherlands/
NY (New Netherlands)/NJ/Canada]
SMITH (possibly Canada)
SMITH (NJ)
SUTTON (NY/NJ)
SWACKHAMMER/SWACKHAMER/SCHWECHHEIMER (Germany/NJ)
TELFOR (Scotland)
THEOBALD (Germany)
TYRELL/TYRRELL (possibly Canada)
VALL (Sweden)
VanDerHOVEN/VanderHOVEN/VanDerHAEVEN [Netherlands/NY
(New Netherlands)]
VIGORS (England/Wales)
WADDELL/WADDLE (Scotland/Canada)
WALDEN (NJ)
WHEELER (England/PA/NJ)

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