Thanks, John. I always assumed they were hiding him because he was Jewish, and that may
still be as all references to him are obliterated. However I recently heard that his
family disowned him for marrying outside his faith. I guess we will never know the whole
story.
I have been thinking about the Carpenter book, and how to approach it. I could just
rewrite the 1912 book with current research and citations but keeping the same numbering,
or I could start from scratch.
I had a question on the Samuel line I am preparing in accordance with the sample you sent
me. How is that numbered? I.e. where do the sketches about the children come in and how
are they numbered? I didn't figure that out in my brief perusal of the document after
you sent it to me. No time to look since then. Work is far too hectic; I don't even
have time for Christmas.
Barbara
Barbara L. de Mare, Esq.
Historian, genealogist and attorney
155 Polifly Road
Hackensack, New Jersey 07601
(201) 567-9440 office
BarbaradeMare(a)yahoo.com (home)
http://historygenealogyesq.blogspot.com/
----- Original Message ----
From: John R. Carpenter <jrcrin001(a)cox.net>
To: carpenter(a)rootsweb.com
Sent: Tuesday, December 18, 2007 2:19:50 AM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Zimmerman to Carpenter in America
Barbara,
Not only is it not far fetched but perfectly reasonable with a good economic
reason. If one speaks proper French and has a French name, then one is
French. If one speaks French but has a German name then distrust is proper.
If one speaks French, and is born is France, but does not look French, one
must be a foreigner until one looks French. If one does not speak proper
French, then one is a foreigner. Foreigners are also to be distrusted. They
may be German spies or after the mid 1950s, uncouth Americans. Just ask
(figuatively) Mata Hari who spoke French but pretended to be a foreigner and
"hung" around with some alleged German spies during WWI.
Never forget the animosity that persisted between France and Germany from
about 1878 to about the mid 1950s. Why not 1945? The French occupied a
small part of Germany for over ten years after WWII. It was only then when
the French decided that the Germans were defeated enough that they felt safe
with the British occupying the North of Germany and the Americans in the
South. Shortly after they pulled out of NATO ... but that is another story!
John R. Carpenter
La Mesa, CA
----- Original Message -----
From: "Barbara de Mare" <barbarademare(a)yahoo.com>
To: <carpenter(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, December 17, 2007 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: [CARPENTER] Zimmerman to Carpenter in America
So its not far-fetched that my husband's grandmother after her German
husband died in the flu epidemics would have changed her name back to her
maiden French name (de Mare) to teach French in the schools?
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