Love your tag line! Mine would read something like that maybe descendant of 2, maybe 3, Prisoners at Preston Scotland transported to Virginia 1715 descendant of Welsh puddlers (1) and blacksmiths (2) and fiddlers and musicians (all of the preceding) Mayflower descendant Descendant of Irish famine immigrants. Just call me UK American <G> It isn't a melting pot, no matter how many times they say it, it is a stew <G> well cooked with none of the veggies mush. Eliz On Thu, Jun 16, 2011 at 1:33 PM, Christopher Wright <chrisw@skypoint.com> wrote: > > On Jun 16, 2011, at 2:00 AM, glamorgan-request@rootsweb.com wrote: >> Suppose I will have some comfort being told I'm human. At least I hope >> so.... > >> You do understand that the DNA haplotyping is going to eliminate >> English, Welsh, Cornish, Cumbric, Irish, Scots and leave us with >> "Briton", and "some Germanic invader" -- mostly r1b's, and the rest >> mainly I (as in eye.) >> >> And, about time, too, I'd say. > > If 300 years of intermarriage, immigration and infatuation with > someone who 'isn't one of us,' hasn't done it here in the states. I > don't think it's going to happen. Before it does, St. Patrick's Day, > Cinco de Mayo, Monty Python  and the statue of 'Herman the German' in > New Ulm will need to be eliminated, too. And that's just here in lily- > white Minnesota. Everyone needs to feel a little special and a little > distinct at least once a year. > > Christopher Wright > Son of a Virginia planter's grandson and a welsh coal miner's > granddaughter from Pennsylvania despite some looks-askance that he'd > even consider marrying a yankee. ('Yankee' meaning 'damnable yankee > despoiler of the sacred soil of the Confederacy' not 'yankee can't > spell 'labour,' nor 'colour' properly.') > > > > -- > > To send to the list send to glamorgan@rootsweb.com > GLAMORGAN Family History Mailing List archives etc. are at > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/intl/WLS/GLAMORGAN.html > - > A large amount of information, and a wide variety of useful links, may be found at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/wal/GLA/ > > - > The South/West Wales Lookup Exchange and Gareth's Help Pages > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~walesle/wal/AW.html and > http://home.clara.net/tirbach/hicks.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GLAMORGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >