Learning what I have, I'm reminded of my mother's family. They were French. They settled what they called Acadia...now Nova Scotia...and reclaimed the land from the salt marshes. In 1755, the English decided they wanted it. They rounded up the Acadians and shipped them to wherever...separating children from parents, etc. I'm also a quarter English but lately I've taken great comfort in the fact that my English ancestors left England for the States to get away from the sort of men who felt no guilt in taking what they wanted no matter the cost...to the Acadians or the Irish. I also take great comfort in the fact that, in the end, the English failed. The Acadians and the Irish dug into their new lives and they survived. Mary Wilkinson <delamary@rogers.com> wrote: They never talked about it, out of shame and because it hurt too much. I think their story needs to be told, so that is what I am beginning to do. I know my English ancestors being ordinary folk did not make the governmental policies of that terrible time, but it has soured me to that part of my heritage!