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<p>[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 53504, member: 23"]They didn't want anyone to know they had a Japanese vase during the war.</p><p><br /></p><p>Some of my ancestors came from Germany to the Mohawk Valley in NY in the late 1700s. When the Revolutionary war happened, they were conscripted by the English to fight on their side. After the war, their land was confiscated and they moved to Canada. There was a German enclave outside of Quebec made up of Hessian soldiers who were forced to fight and decided not to go back to Germany. They intermarried with the French Canadians. My mother always said her grandmother was German, but she had one cousin who refused to admit it. When they came to America from Canada, they changed their name from Schmidt to Smith so no one would know. WW II was a tough time for people with Japanese or German ancestry, no matter how far back it went.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 53504, member: 23"]They didn't want anyone to know they had a Japanese vase during the war. Some of my ancestors came from Germany to the Mohawk Valley in NY in the late 1700s. When the Revolutionary war happened, they were conscripted by the English to fight on their side. After the war, their land was confiscated and they moved to Canada. There was a German enclave outside of Quebec made up of Hessian soldiers who were forced to fight and decided not to go back to Germany. They intermarried with the French Canadians. My mother always said her grandmother was German, but she had one cousin who refused to admit it. When they came to America from Canada, they changed their name from Schmidt to Smith so no one would know. WW II was a tough time for people with Japanese or German ancestry, no matter how far back it went.[/QUOTE]
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