Bill: I find your emails of great interest.  When I read them I feel like I in school.  Love it. Ann   -----Original Message----- From: jetski <jetski@grics.net> To: prussia-roots@rootsweb.com Sent: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 10:44 am Subject: Re: [PRUSSIA-ROOTS] Slavic DNA Your problem is not as unique as you might think especially when people have ad to come to grips with being slavic or not. In many circles throughout he world, being slavic equates to being a second class person, which of ourse is wrong. This idea is offensive to all Polish people and to ussians and to those who are part of eastern Europe. Germans had a real problems with Slavic people, as did the Prussians, they oo being Germanic, heneforth your relatives claimed Prussian or German to ive them a higher standing in the world. This issue is something akin to hite verses black. ithuania people are for the most part slavic as well, and they also have a arge Jewish contingent. The Three Stooges were Lituania Jews. Charles Bronson was Slavic. Thrown n the mix of all this are the gypies. Ule Brenner was gypy or as their ace is properly known as ROM. When people migrated they saw a chance to change their lives for what they elt would be for the betterment of themselves and their offspring. This is nother reason why so many of (the old ones) remained silent. They chose to emain silent to change the past. s for those German speaking people, I am not sure, other than the Tutonic nights brought Christianity to the Germanic tribes and the Tutonic Knights ere Germans who worked for the Catholic Church. I hope I haven't run on to the point of boring anyone, but I have always ound this subject of great interest, especially since my people come from hat area. It becomes very personal. Bill Hoeft ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.