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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: D. Long who wrote (179259)	9/11/2001 8:46:11 AM
From: H-Man	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Where is my thank you ? I am fortunate to be able to trace my family tree, with certainty in all but one of the branches of the family. The vast majority came to this country between 1890 and 1910. They took menial and low paying jobs (like any other immigrants) in the industrial areas of Pennsylvania and Ohio. Of those that were here prior to the civil war, one branch of people known at the time as Pennsylvania Dutch, aka Amish and Mennonite. These people were invited to the country by and associated with the Quakers. These people were well known for there opposition to slavery and even provided safe houses for run away slaves. Some were part of H. Tubman’s underground railroad. My Great Great grandfather was born to an 1840’s Irish immigrant family who actually served in the civil war. He was a drummer boy at age 16, attached to a Pennsylvania regiment and was at the battle at Gettysburg. Where is my thank you ? P.S. (As for the one line of the family that cannot be traced with certainty, there is some circumstantial evidence that they were Scotch-Irish settlers in the western hills of North Carolina. Trust me, these people did not own slaves. They were scrapy but dirt poor frontiersman that did not benefit in any way from slavery. These people often found themselves in conflict with the slave owners of the eastern part of the state. In any case, they moved to Pennsylvania in the early 1800’s to work on the railroads. )