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Old 12-27-2014, 09:31 PM
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Default Where in the world did your ancestors come from?
Mom's family is entirely Irish. They came in through Canada and settled in Caledonia NY around the turn of the 20th Century. Dad's family came over with the wave of Amish and Mennonite farmers offered refuge by William Penn in the late 1600s and early 1700s. They settled in what became Pennsylvania Dutch Country. They are mostly Swiss and German with a good smattering of Scandinavians. Lots of Masons in Dad's family.