Charles Brown
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Rosser Barkely wrote:
On a less serious note, and in response to Charles Brown and some others, I suppose we could have an "oppressed peoples contest" on this list, in which everybody recites their descent from some group or other that has suffered from oppression or discrimination or slaughter or whatever. I'll start by noting that I have gypsy ancestry, wow, hot stuff! Furthermore, just to complicate things and to add an element of mystery, :-), I note that although my last name (Rosser) is of Welsh origin, there are many people in the US bearing that last name whose paternal ancestral line derives either from Africans or from Jews. I won't say which one mine derives from other than to note that the majority of may ancestry does not derive from that particular source anyway. Hah! Yes, all this is pretty complicated. Barkley Rosser
-- Rosser Jr, John Barkley rosserjb at jmu.edu