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From: "Myra Vanderpool Gormley" <>
Subject: Re: [Black-Dutch-America] What do you think? abt posting surnames
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2005 11:00:19 -0800
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I don't know how other researchers feel about this, but posting surnames
without any specific dates or localities is not helpful IMHO.

I'm sure many of us have commons surnames and even unusual surnames don't
mean anything without knowing the time frame and or locality where one has
trace the family too.

There is a lot of speculation about certain names being one ethnic group or
not -- and that is malarkey.

In my research of many years I've found that the term "Black Dutch" is an
American one, and is quite common in the Carolinas and Tennessee from where
it spread westward. Its origins are probably Germanic and may have been a
reference to the language (dialect) spoken rather than the color of our
ancestors; skin, hair and eyes. Later groups (especially on the Internet)
have latched onto this term and assigned various ethnicity to it with little
or no basis in fact other than "granny told me."

I think it would be more helpful to identify the ancestor you have found or
suspect to be the one of Black Dutch roots and provide her/his name and when
and where she lived, etc.

Myra





>I have many surnames. Do you want a list of 'all' of them or just the one's
>I
> have had to concentrate on?
> And just so everyone knows, I still am not clear on what Black Dutch means
> or
> why or 'how' it is used...
> Lauren Rowe Syracuse NY Onondaga county
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [mailto:]
> Sent: Sunday, January 16, 2005 11:54p Re: What do you think??
> Hello everyone,
> Do you all think we could post our family surnames?
> Mine are:
> McLaughlin
> Adams
> Lewis
> Louderback
>
>
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