I, too, disagree with identifying myself and my family by the region of the country our ancestors settled. First of all, the more I get into genealogy the more diverse I find our family backgrounds are. Secondly, while my birth family culture is southern on my mother's side, my dad's side is all from New York & Canada. In fact, those Dutch settlers got to this continent a few generations before the ancestors of my Blount Co. people saw the shores of Pennsylvania and Virginia. And anyway, I prefer to identify myself as an American. I've been to Europe and, though my ancestors came from there, I find I have more in common with Americans of any region or ethnic group than with the people of the "old country". And I'm proud to be a citizen of this great country, and proud of the way we have managed to blend and change and make uniquely ours the cultures from which our ancestors came. Kym Maltman Collar