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re: Ancestral geneology of SEC people
Posted on 7/25/14 at 2:17 pm to TRUERockyTop
Posted on 7/25/14 at 2:17 pm to TRUERockyTop
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East TN is very Scotch-Irish for the most part.
Decent amount of Germans behind that
Scots and Irish plus Scots-Irish (picky but there's a difference). We also had a lot of French very early on. German influence is more westward but still prominent in the East. Tons of Native American heritage - black heritage (though not nearly as large as in the deep south). And even some forgotten groups - Jews from around the globe, believe it or not people from India (very early on) and several others that have been here from the start.
Most of our groups got absorbed into the large Scots-Irish banner via marriage. We were rural and had no time for worrying over where our mates were from or the grudges and social restrictions other places had.
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Posted on 7/26/14 at 1:17 am to Prof
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German influence is more westward but still prominent in the East.
Large German migration into ETenn post revolutionary war. Most move down when TN was still part of NC through the Shenandoah Valley into the counties that now border NC. They were still speaking German well into the later 1800's. The German communities supported the State of Franklin and supported becoming their own state in support of the Union since they did not support slavery. Same for the others in the areas and why most units in ETN fighting during Civil War fought for the North.
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