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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Tomás Ó Cárthaigh</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com">tomasocarthaigh@yahoo.com</a></span></span><span><span></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Genealogy" 2012.07.04 (02) [EN]</span><span></span><span></span><span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p>The verion I heard was it came down to one vote that English was made the official language of America. Is that not true?<br><br><p><strong><font color="#668f5a">"a person with a good book is never alone... a writer until they've written one is never at peace"</font> </strong></p>
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From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Jonny Meibohm</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:jonny.meibohm@arcor.de">jonny.meibohm@arcor.de</a></span></span><span class="gI"><span class="go"></span></span><span><span></span></span></p>
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: </span><span class="gI"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">LL-L "Genealogy" 2012.07.04 (02) [EN]</span><br><br></span><div dir="ltr" align="left">
<span><font color="#000080" face="Courier New">Hi, Luc,</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#000080" face="Courier New">if you should happen to visit Northern Germany
you occasionally should have a look to the "Auswanderer-Museum" in
Bremerhaven, Germany. It is made pretty well, I think, and could give answers to
your question.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#000080" face="Courier New">I suppose it's momentum "en voguè" in USA to show
and prove German (why in "--", dear German born Reinhard ?)
roots; "Made in Germany" meanwhile (nearly 70 years after WW II and the
Nazis) surprisingly seems to stand for liberalism, "peace-love", clarity,
success, continuity, solidity and any vague sympathies (if you doubt,
have a look on some published international polls). No, no - not "Deutschland,
Deutschland über alles", but a wholesome view with a little feeling of (not
proud!; this would be ridiculous! Let this be done by other
nations) self-confidence.</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#000080" face="Courier New">Could all of this still be dangerous for our
common planet ;-)?</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#000080" face="Courier New">Kind regards</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#000080" face="Courier New">Jonny Meibohm</font></span></div>
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<div dir="ltr" align="left"><span><font color="#000080" face="Courier New">from Lower Saxony,
Germany</font></span></div><br><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">----------</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: R. F. Hahn <</span><a style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" rel="nofollow" target="_blank" href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1341437623_7">sassisch@yahoo.com</span></a><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">></span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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Subject: Genealogy</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Jonny,</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">When the earlier "German" immigrants arrived, there was no Germany back in Europe. Furthermore, lumped together with them where other ethnic groups (Danes, Frisians, Jews, Sorbs, Poles, Kashubs, Roma, Sinti, Slovincians, Baltic Prussians, French Huguenots), people that came from areas that later became parts of Germany. Also, Austrians tended to be lumped in with "Germans."</span><br>
<br>Confusion arises because "German" is both an ethnicity and a nationality. For instance, Sorbs have German citizenship but are not ethnic Germans.<br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
<span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Reinhard/Ron</span><br style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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