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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Bev aka thelmasstuff, post: 40822, member: 23&quot;]And it wouldn&#039;t be unusual to see a mixture of English and German.&nbsp; In the early 1700s, the French Huguenots were pillaging and burning German villages in the Palatine region.&nbsp; Nearly 100,000 Palatine Germans fled to England because the two countries were ruled by related monarchs.&nbsp; They were living in tents outside of London.&nbsp; Queen Ann decided to use them to colonize America and &quot;gave&quot; them land along the Mohawk Valley in upstate NY.&nbsp; Many people don&#039;t realize that the Pennsylvania Dutch are German, from Deutsch.&nbsp; Anyway, the actual Dutch from New Amsterdam (NYC) moved upstate as well and there are still many people descended from both ethnic groups.&nbsp; You could try Dutch as well as German.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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