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Post by garyfruland on Nov 16, 2019 18:24:45 GMT -5
Hello, I am a new member as of today. I live in the United States close to Chicago in a little farm town called Newark, Illinois which is named after the Newark in England. It's kind of strange that we would be named after Newark on Trent, England since the majority of our citizens are Norwegian including myself and our school sports teams are called the Newark Vikings for the grade school and the Newark Norsemen for the high school. In fact today our Newark (Lady) Norsemen won the state championship in volleyball! I thought that I was mostly Norwegian but with an extensive FTDNA test called the BigY700 test it showed that I am 27% Norwegian and 23% English and it seems that most of that English is Cornish! I just spent a month in the U.K. from August into September of this year and hiked in Scotland, canoed from Wales to England and hiked and camped in Cornwall. I camped in Paul at the Mousehole Campground and even attended Church in Paul. The people were wonderful to me and made me feel at home. It appears that my heritage was in England before Norway. My family sailed to the U.S.A. on a sloop in 1837 from Bergen. They left their homes in Samnanger, Norway. I have been wondering if my family at one time were miners in Cornwall and moved to Norway to mine there since all of my matches (6) on FTDNA left England and moved to mining areas of Norway and Australia. I am trying to locate some records that would show that but all I know is that my family here in the United States are all Farmers. Best Wishes to All, Gary Fruland, Newark, Illinois, U.S.A.
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Post by zibetha on Nov 21, 2019 3:38:41 GMT -5
Greetings and welcome, Gary, as we all explore our Cornish origins. I, too, am from the Midwest of the USA. Unwilling to out myself as a Minnesota Vikings fan as I am from Packer territory. Some loyalties never die. My family came to the US with mining experience and built a life and new heritage in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Zib
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Post by ettason on Nov 21, 2019 14:02:38 GMT -5
Interesting little newbie club we have here. I too only just arrived... and the Cornish branch of my family tree settled in the US first in Wisconsin (Hazel Green) and then in the Keweenaw (Central Mine), before they eventually wised up and moved to Florida.
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Post by ettason on Nov 22, 2019 9:11:36 GMT -5
Ah. Just realized that I mistook zibetha for a fellow new member. Sorry about that, zibetha!
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Post by garyfruland on Nov 22, 2019 15:00:19 GMT -5
Thank you Zibetha and Ettason, I am glad that I joined this site and I get to hear of others with similar heritage interests. It's neat that we're all in the midwest now about to encounter another midwest winter but that's where my Norwegian heritage comes into play since I love cross country skiing and snowshoeing. I was in the U.S. Marine Corps stationed in Iwakuni, Japan during the VietNam War and was an air traffic controller there. My best friend at that base in Japan was from Gynn, Michigan. I have always wanted to go visit him up there since he raves about his upper peninsula of Michigan.
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Post by tom2020 on Apr 24, 2020 13:44:39 GMT -5
Hello
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Post by cornwall on Feb 17, 2023 2:19:04 GMT -5
Hi All
I have just run into this board. I have been administrator of the various Cornwall DNA projects at FTDNA for fifteen years now.
JF
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Post by zibetha on Feb 17, 2023 3:27:01 GMT -5
HI, JF, Welcome to the board. We work the paper trail hard here and welcome your contributions on that and the DNA side You have inherited some of us from Spike's mention of the Cornwall Project. Zib
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Post by Cornish Terrier on Feb 17, 2023 4:43:42 GMT -5
Welcome to Penwith Genealogy JF - we also know each other from the FTDNA Cornwall Project but I don't think we've been in touch since before the 2019/20 fire season and then Covid.
Will try and catch up again soon.
CT
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Post by spikeharwood on Feb 17, 2023 15:41:02 GMT -5
Hi All I have just run into this board. JF Better late than never Welcome J!
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