Country of origin is Wales.\nNot sure which US port first family members landed.\nNot Catholic--no church records\nFamily name Williams--very common name in Wales.
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go to http://www.bkwin.net/ for brother's keeper and download it (or whatever it is that you have to do) and it really works\nmy grandfather had it and we found out that I am the direct disendent of Miles Standish! you should check it out!
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O.K. first hand experience here, Chris and i set sail in three ships, after being on the big water for about 2 months, the ships started breaking up and Chris said "Look, that's American wood" i said "Chris the ships are breaking up on us." About that time the guy in the crows nest said "LAND" We got real close to the shore and could see the native Americans celebrating "Not have been discovered yet day", with beer and pizza, then this fine looking little indian girl came running out to the water's edge and said "What are ya'll doing coming around here in those ships", Chris said "We come to discover ya'll, America" she said "y'all need to discover your butt away from here" But, we went ashore and smoked the peace pipe (good stuff), eat pizza and drank some beer with the native Americans, I tried to tell the chief, "Hey when thay start talking about reservations, they ain't talking about no motel man.", but he act like he didn't hear me. That's the way it was back in 1492, just a few short years ago.***
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How about trying to do a search in family trees, or just try typing the name in quotes in a search like "nevins" or "Norma nevins" is any one has done a family tree with that name you will find it.
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I have never understood how athletes change citizenship to compete for another country. I think they just have to train here for a year and obtain duel citizenship and they can compete. I would think that posed an ethical issue. I heard last night someone’s father was American so he was competing here. Don't know about grandparents however.
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I don't like the whole PC nomenclature because it's all based on physical characteristics anyway. Someone else mentioned white South Africans and alluded to the fact that they aren't truly African. Is that just because whites immigrated there from Europe or are descendants of those Europeans who claimed the land as their own? Well then, if those old "land bridge" theories are correct, then instead of referring to anyone as "Native Americans," we need to understand that technically, they are probably "Asian-Americans." Just how far back in one's ancestry do we need to go? And why isn't "European-American" as widely accepted and used as the other "(continent)-American" forms? And if I become a citizen of Berlin, will I be a "North American-German" or just "American-German"? "American-European"? And why aren't Middle Eastern natives referred to as "Asian-Americans"? Why are they often called "Muslims" and "Hindus" instead? Why aren't the rest of us referred to by our religious affiliations (if applicable)?\n\nThere are no perfect "labels" we can use - not everyone will be satisfied. What we need to remember is that the *intent* of someone's writing/speech is the important thing. Some black comedians have ridiculed the whole "African-American" terminology since it didn't magically make everything better. Furthermore, if someone says something such as, "That's just typical African-American behavior," is that person suddenly "sensitive" for using the proper PC term? How about "Hey, you know how those Asian-Americans are"?\n\nJust my two cents - we need to try to respect each other and accept our differences before we can really become color-blind.\n\n(EDIT: Hey gogo, does that mean Margaret Thatcher is "African-American"? What about Vladimir Putin? Osama bin Laden? Saddam Hussein? Ichiro Suzuki? We're *all* "African-American"?)\n\n(EDIT 2: My point is that we shouldn't be "concerned" *only* with the "hyphenated American" labels - that's a rather nationalistic viewpoint, don't you think? If we *in the United States* are *all* "African-Americans," then those in other countries are thus "African-[insert country.....or continent.....or something]." I wanted to extend this beyond our borders since not all of the world's 6.5 billion people ["humanity"] are living within the United States and/or the rest of the American continents.)
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Between 10 & 15 generations on my moms side and 4 on my fathers.\n\nOn my moms side we have been traced back to England and coming over during the first settlement here in America.  We have recoreds prior to that in England and Germany.  My father side we can trace back to my great grandmother who was a slave in Kingston, Jamacia.  She was freed in the 1920's and came to America where my grandfather was born.
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I'll try to keep it short.\nJesus was born in Bethlehem.  Joseph and Mary went to register their names under the order of the Romans, as it was predicted in the Bible that Jesus will be born in Bethlehem.  Shortly after his birth, they had to run to Egypt to protect Jesus's life, for it was ordered that every first born boy to be killed, that included Jesus.  A few years later, they went back, and they lived in the city Nazareth, hence the name Jesus of Nazareth. \nNo contradictions.  They moved to Egypt not to Nazareth to protect his life.  If they didn't do that, you and I would have had nothing to be chatting about, at least in the religion section.  Think about it.  \n\nDon't worry about it, our religion stood the worst.  Christians were feed to the lions for believing in Christ,  at a certain time it was forbidden to be even a Christian, and now, many wants to show the lies that is supposedly in the Bible.  Go ahead, do your best, or your worse!  maybe we both can end up learning from each others.  You don't have to be a Christian, and I don't have to stop being one, but we at the very least at will end up respecting each others.\n\nMap 37. Towns and Territories of the Palestine Area in the Time of Jesus \nhttp://www.ccel.org/bible/phillips/CN092MAPS2.htm\n\nI hope that helped.  Peace to you and ALL
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There were not last names then.  Christ is a title, but people then were identified by where they were from thus- Jesus of Nazareth
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Bcoz the poor pple from USA has a country without a correct name.\non the contrary think about this............United States of America.. \nThat means all the STATES (countries) in all AMERICA. It is a name that at least another 2 countries in AMERICA have.\n1.. United States of Brazil...and are in AMERICA\n2..United States of Mexico...and they are in AMERICA also.\nSo, we can make a concourse, a competition between all the people from the 3 AMERICAS (North, Central, and South) to try to find a more original name to USA.....
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My birth mother found me, but it took years.  She knew only my Adopted last name and the religion of my parents.  she researched painstakingly through computer phone books.  Since then(98) I have helped others.  No money required.  Contact me, and give me what info you do have.  I can help.
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This is one of those holidays that seems to tear my families (my fathers side and my mothers side) apart.  My father is Cherokee and my mother is *mostly* Welsh.  Many of the Christians in her family talk about how wonderful the 1st Thanksgiving was, while my fathers family talk about the murder that happened.\n\nPearly Gator, please read up.  Or watch the History Channel.  The truth is out on this one... be thankful, for whatever it is you think you should be thankful for... but at least be honest about it.
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I would suggest you go to a site called Ancestry.com and search there. I haven't been there in a long time but I know they have lots of information. You will probably have to sign up to search. Good Luck....Patty
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To be quite frank, I have no clue about half of the things. But let me contribute my tad bit of knowlage.\n\nMy family orginally came from New Orleans, but that was about 15 years ago. But nonetheless, we still have distant family members down there. When Katrina hit, some of them went up north to live with us (temporaroly). Every now and then we would get a call from some kind of insureance, and you wouldn't be on the phone with them for longer then 10 minuts. \nThey left to go back home (...January?), and I've only heard from then once, whitch was to tell us they arrived saftly. So I guess that means, everything is going fine.
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do your own homework.\nalso... you might get docked for not calling them native americans.
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go to family history.com
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Virginia Dare\n\nVirginia Dare was the first English child born in America. Her parents were Ananias Dare and Eleanor White, two members of a band of 117 colonists who settled on Roanoke Island in 1587. She was born on August 18 and named Virginia in what may have been the first English christening ceremony in America.
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As a member of his immediate family, you are entitled to his complete service record. You can get this through the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. I have linked their web site below. As for a list of all the names aboard a specific ship - unless you can find a veterans organization involving that ship (many many ships have these types of organizations for shipmates to stay in contact after their service) - you may be out of luck finding it. I wish you the best - Good Luck.