This is a fascinating discussion. I know in several instances in running census's on German ancestors, you find a ? in the race box. I have often found that interesting. Debbie ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 9:59 AM Subject: Re: [KYJEFFER] More List help needed - Heina Family > About the ethnic stew of Jefferson County in 1800: My great-grandmother > Joan Yager was born near Jeffersontown in Jefferson Co., KY, in 1847. Her > father was of entirely German blood and descended from the Madison and > Culpeper Co., Virginia, Second Colony Germanna families who had arrived in > Virginia in 1717. In the one photo I have of him, he was fair-skinned and > blue eyed and probably fair-haired. Her mother, however, was Harriet > Kelley, born to a family that was a mix of Scotch-Irish on the paternal > side, and Swiss/German heritage on the mother's side, the Funks and the > Brentlingers. The Funks, and Brentlingers had been in Jefferson County > since 1792 and the Kelleys since 1796. Although I have an 1813 letter which > identifies some of my Funk and Brentlinger ancestors as "Dutch," meaning > that they saw themselves as a distinct community, their children > intermarried with many of the familiar names around the Jeffersontown area > that wer enot necessarily German, and the Kelleys, who were Protestant, > married into families that were not necessarily Scotch-Irish. Kelleys > married Bairds, Millers, Fredericks, Johnsons, Seatons, Lewis', Meddis', > Shadburns, Woodsmalls. Funks married Geigers, Taylors, Martins, Hites. > Brentlingers married Wymans, Wells', Bates', Ganotes, McClures, Hokes, > Omers, Newkirks. Collateral lines married into such familiar names as > Chenowith, Seaton, Taylor, and many others from Southeast Jefferson County. > > I have tintypes of Joan Yager and her two brothers that show them all, in > their youth, as having have black hair, black eyebrows, and striking blue > eyes. One might be tempted to call them "Black Irish" when knowing about > their mother's surname (Harriet Kelley), but then one would have to wonder > about the genes of their father as well as Harriet's mother! > > All of Joan Yager's children were blond or redheaded. > > All of which goes to show that where there is an ethnic stew, there may not > be a lot of predictability about physical appearance. > > > > ==== KYJEFFER Mailing List ==== > Submit your information to the Metro Louisville-Jefferson County KY History and Genealogy project. See http://www.rootsweb.com/~kyjeffer/ for information on how to submit. > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >