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The lives and struggles of our ancestors effect our everyday lives in who we are and in many cases why and how we live. Piece by piece others help me to gather the information that allows the insight into those lives that have gone before us. For the BACKUS/BACKHAUS family were Lutherans they came from somewhere in Pommern, Prussia @ 1890's to Akron, Ohio and by the 1930's and 1940's some had moved on to California. The RAHN and SEIDEL families came from Germany or Prussia @ 1880's to the New York/New Jersery (city)area with at least one moving on to Los Angeles @ 1900-1910. The HOSKINS, HENDERSON, ROBUCK/ROEBUCK, JENKINS, WHITE, BOREN, FRIZZELL, TANNER, FLYNN, BENTON were all anglo-saxon Protestant families most of whom came to America pre-1770 and setteled in the south. They then followed the westward migration patterns some stopping one or more generations in Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Texas and some finally moving on to California. The TAYLOR, COCHRAN, BARNES, MCNEEL were mostly Scotch-Irish who immigrated pre-1800 into the northern states. They then also followed the western migration patterns some stopping one or more generations in Ohio, Indiana, Kansas with at least one branch moving south to New Mexico before finally setteling in Southern California. I believe other branches of the family latter continued the more typical westward move into Oregon and Washington. My intention is to piece together enough information so we can get a true insight to the people behind the names and dates. Our family not only represents colonial and pre-industrial America but it also represents western migration, the "Old West", the "Deep South" both sides of the civil war and turn of the century German immigration. These are the times and the people who molded our nation and helped to make it strong, they are worth getting to know.
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