Thank you Roger for a most informative history lesson. I truly believe that by learning about history, it will help us all to understand the great mirgrations that were happening even before different peoples came into the USA. I know that the DNA project that is going on is trying to undertake this great task by getting people to donate their DNA plus 4 generations. I myself have always wondererd about where certain groups of peoples came from and why. Thanks again, Gale Sanders ----Original Message Follows---- From: "Roger A Lucheta" <rlucheta@jacads.com> Reply-To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SC] Re: "Hugenots of the South" Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:00:47 -1000 Gale: Hugenouts were French Calvinists, who arose shortly after the Reformation in Geneva. If you're Protestant, you believe that the French king persecuted them terribly - to include the St. Bartholemews Day Massacre - ultimately leading to an exodus of many of them from France. (If you're Catholic - which I am - you're supposed to believe that they were antisocial troublemakers who brought their troubles on themselves). As a group, they were a very industrious group. One of the venues of their exile was South Carolina (another was Germany, where their descendents became some of the leading industrial, commercial, and even military families - Krupps, etc. - on a more somber note, Hermann Goering was of Hugenot extraction.) After the French Revolution, when freedom of religion was established, Hugenouts came out of hiding in France and became a small, but very successful, group in French commerce. The influence of the South Carolina Hugenouts is best shown in the fact that the original constitution of South Carolina was written by the French philosopher Montaisque, whose thinking also guided the writers of the U.S. Constitution. Much of Mantaisque's constitution survives to this day in the South Carolina Constitution. Most Hugenout congregations ultimately joined up with the Presbyterians, who (at least historically) are also Calvinistic. There are, at most, only two Hugenout congregations in the US - one in New York and one in Charleston - and the New York one is more of a historical society than an active, witnessing congregation. For more interesting Hugenout stuff, you might look up - in French history - Henry of Navarre and the period of Cardinal Richelieu. Roger Lucheta My bod' may be on Johnston Island, but my heart's in Pickens County. ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== [SCRoots-Lite] http://www.egroups.com/group/SCRoots-Lite/ SUBSCRIBE: SCRoots-Lite-subscribe@egroups.com ============================== Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate your heritage! http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

Oh about history; don't feel bad; how I hated it in school, including college and the humiliation; it was all about memorizing dates and retaining what you read; left me out and yet I wanted to know history and family geneology long before the 1st grade and that was many moons ago. I can't do chronological order and this computer of my younger son's and the Internet has helped me tremendously; I can remember things I never thought I could. Isn't there a website www.Americanhistory.com ????? Can watch Public Television and can learn more about history and remember it in an hour more than I think I learned for 3 yrs. in school. Can't afford cable and not going to pay for that mess for a few good channels. Same was true for math; but I could paint, whoopee; you know how people regard Fine Arts majors! frances ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gale Sanders" <lgalesanders@hotmail.com> To: <SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 21, 2001 14:53 PM Subject: Re: [SC] Re: "Hugenots of the South" > Thank you Roger for a most informative history lesson. I truly believe that > by learning about history, it will help us all to understand the great > mirgrations that were happening even before different peoples came into the > USA. > > I know that the DNA project that is going on is trying to undertake this > great task by getting people to donate their DNA plus 4 generations. I > myself have always wondererd about where certain groups of peoples came from > and why. > > Thanks again, > Gale Sanders > > > ----Original Message Follows---- > From: "Roger A Lucheta" <rlucheta@jacads.com> > Reply-To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SC] Re: "Hugenots of the South" > Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2001 09:00:47 -1000 > > Gale: > > Hugenouts were French Calvinists, who arose shortly after the Reformation > in Geneva. If you're Protestant, you believe that the French king > persecuted them terribly - to include the St. Bartholemews Day Massacre - > ultimately leading to an exodus of many of them from France. (If you're > Catholic - which I am - you're supposed to believe that they were > antisocial troublemakers who brought their troubles on themselves). As a > group, they were a very industrious group. One of the venues of their > exile was South Carolina (another was Germany, where their descendents > became some of the leading industrial, commercial, and even military > families - Krupps, etc. - on a more somber note, Hermann Goering was of > Hugenot extraction.) After the French Revolution, when freedom of religion > was established, Hugenouts came out of hiding in France and became a small, > but very successful, group in French commerce. > > The influence of the South Carolina Hugenouts is best shown in the fact > that the original constitution of South Carolina was written by the French > philosopher Montaisque, whose thinking also guided the writers of the U.S. > Constitution. Much of Mantaisque's constitution survives to this day in > the South Carolina Constitution. > > Most Hugenout congregations ultimately joined up with the Presbyterians, > who (at least historically) are also Calvinistic. There are, at most, only > two Hugenout congregations in the US - one in New York and one in > Charleston - and the New York one is more of a historical society than an > active, witnessing congregation. > > For more interesting Hugenout stuff, you might look up - in French history > - Henry of Navarre and the period of Cardinal Richelieu. > > Roger Lucheta > My bod' may be on Johnston Island, but my heart's in Pickens County. > > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > [SCRoots-Lite] http://www.egroups.com/group/SCRoots-Lite/ > SUBSCRIBE: SCRoots-Lite-subscribe@egroups.com > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog > > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > SCRoots Query Board > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/SCROOTS > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > >