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To: Lane3 who wrote (164054)	4/19/2006 2:35:01 PM
From: John Carragher	Respond to of 793896

they talk funny in boston.. i never understand what ted and john are saying.

To: Lane3 who wrote (164054)	4/26/2006 7:37:34 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793896

Hi, I know I'm responding to a week old post but on the subject of people moving around in past centuries, I believe they did a lot more than we realize. I read this book (Europeans on the Move 1500-1800) about a decade ago and was surprised at the level of movement within Europe in the old days. amazon.com Among things I recall, tens of thousands of Scots immigrated to Poland where they became merchants; lots of Dutch farmers to England. Very large numbers of Germans immigrated to Russia. The number of Europeans who immigrated to the West Indies was pretty large in the 1600's - higher than immigration to north America. Large numbers of people have been immigrating to Holland from Germany, France, England and elsewhere for centuries. Holland was a magnet for immigration from other European countries for a long time. It was a significant colonial power starting in the 1500's and shipped out a lot of people too to its colonies. Lots of people from Holland moved out to places like the east Indies, west Africa, the Caribbean, India - the few thousand Dutch who immigrated to New Amsterdam - now NY - was a drop in the bucket. There must have been a horrific level of death due to disease among European immigrants to the tropics though, which is why the European descended population there isn't very large. Or perhaps the population of many tropical areas is more mixed than we know. Doing some genealogical research a few years back on the internet, I was able to track one line of my ancestry several generations back past the move to America. During the three previous generations, members of that family lived in Hesse, the Rhineland, and Basel Switz, - just a little example showing that people did move around more than we realize.