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From: "Kevin Sholder" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Proper Terminology
Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2005 22:50:04 -0400
In-Reply-To: <200509010324.j813Omaj003131@ms-smtp-04.tampabay.rr.com>


-----Original Message-----
From: Fred Rump [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2005 11:25 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Proper Terminology

>
> I'm curious as to how other people handle the fact that in the US
> census records (1850, 1860, 1870) so often it shows the country or
> birth as Germany. When in fact this is incorrect.

What makes you say this is incorrect. Where the folks lying back then?
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RESPONSE - Nope they were not lying, just uninformed, at least in the
historical sense.



> Obviously to record the census
> information accurately, this is used.

That's right. They were trying to be accurate.

> But for the actual birth place, if
> you don't actually know, I would rather not use "Germany."

You would be denying the majority of European-Americans their heritage. Why
would you want to do that?
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RESPONSE - That is not at all what I'm trying to do, as my ancestry is 85%
(or more) Germanic, from the Duchy (or Kingdom) of Württemberg (depending on
when they were born of course). I think Darrell said it best that this was
a "culture," not a place, which is what I would like to better describe in
my birth tags, but the source will ALWAYS show what the source says.


> What do you do
> in this case to indicate that they came from somewhere in a German
> speaking part of Europe?

You try to find out what that place was called back then and record it as
such. Obviously if they came from Switzerland, Austria, Lichtenstein or
Bohemia you would say so too so why deny the country of your ancestors birth
if it was Germany?
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RESPONSE - I'm not, as I know where they came from, what town and in a
(very) few cases the exact house...

Fred






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