verily........ Frances Wimberly wrote: > 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 > > > > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > Subscription management instructions are posted at http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/SC/misc.html > > ============================== > Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp > Search over 2500 databases with one easy query!