And also came from many places, so they weren’t just Angles or Saxons. And their identity is a complicated one, and subject to a lot of debate. This is something I have studied on great detail.
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Replying to @MinoWarrior @rmkarras
No, English or variants on that were much more common even among “Saxons”. If you are interested I recommend reading up on the issue from
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I understand, thank you for sharing and also your interest in the subject. It is definitely easier to research white ancestors. I have mine traced back too, pretty far. But I have an ancestor, James Due, who was as far as I know, was a free Black man from New Hampshire.
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But I have no birth record, I know very little about him past census records. My white family has loads of info. Problem is that researching this stuff is hard because it can be expensive, with contradictory info everywhere.
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But I think writing stuff down, what you hear from your parents/grandparents/uncles/aunts is a good start if you can.
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Wow, thank you for sharing that with me. I don’t have words to accurately convey my feelings on reading that without sounding trite.
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What the fuck. God I’m sorry.
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