My Genealogical Family Lines

British/Irish Virginian colonists

Walker, Harp/Harrup, Manning, Gilliam, Jones (two different family lines), Magee/McGee, Baldwin, Loftin, Newsom, Eldridge, Crawford, Carter, Seward, Holt, Caufield, Hansford, Spencer, Bayly, Sheppard, Layton, Cross, Holladay, Pulliam, Patterson, Weatherford, Spraggins, Lucas, Abney, Hardy, Waller, Bethea, Goodman, Murphy, MacIntosh, Childress/Childers , Gwin, Harlan, Gibson, Thigpen, Manwaring, Jeter, Prosser, Weathersbee, Stringer, Skinner, Lassiter, Eason, Lambert, Sturdivant

British/Irish Connecticut colonists

Hoyt, Weed, Reed, Brown, Ferris, Olmstead, Webb, Jagger, Cross

British/Irish Pennsylvanian colonists

Cooper, Huddleston, Wilkinson, Myers, Harlan, McClure

British/Irish Massachusetts colonists

Reynolds

British/Irish Rhode Island colonists

Reed, Samson, Layton

British/Irish North Carolina colonists

Gwin, Cross, Bethea, Goodman, Kilpatrick, Copeland, Thigpen, Manwaring

Dutch New York/New Jersey colonists

Romine/Romeyn, VanNess

Frisian New York/New Jersey colonists

Wyckoff

with the Dutch in New York/New Jersey colony

British/Irish New York colonists

Benedict

German/Swiss Pennsylvanian immigrants aka Pennsylvania Dutch

Kasinger/Kessinger, Hartle, Niswonger/Neuschwanger, Statler/Stadler, Limbaugh/Limbach, Greenawalt, Clubb, Kuerten, Hollwein, Emmert, Crader/Greter, Ritter, Moyer, Masters/Meister

German/Swiss North Carolinan immigrants

Kinsey/Kuenzli, Isler

Acadians/Cajuns

Bourgeois, Landry, LeBlanc, Brun, Bourg, Gaudet, Melanson, Teriau/Terriot, Gautrot/Gautreau, Dugas, Boudrot/Boudreau, Aucoin, Blanchard, Richard, Trahan, d'Entremont, Guilbeau, Babin, Bernard

recent Cape Verdean immigrants

Andrade, Gomes, Veiga, Pina

recent Madeiran immigrants

Pereira de Jesus

my maternal 4th Great Grandfather relocated to Madeira from the Azores

recent Puerto Rican immigrants

Ocacio/Ocasio, Afanador, Ramos, Baez, Maldonado, Mercado, Rivera, Guzman, Santiago, Diaz, de Leon, Orozco, Velez, de Martos

African Americans

Scott (originally Daggs), Gaines, Cross, Johnson (two), Riley, Horton, Lilly, Caldwell, Woods, Jackson, Turner (patrilineal Weathersbee), Smith (two)

recent Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants

Rosenthal, Hosias

Rosenthal from Romania

Hosias from Courland in the area of the Russian Empire that became Latvia

Unknown

Scalsen, Stebens, Jagger, Evans, Serbel

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