Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/10/25
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Sure, parts of today's Germany were part of the Roman empire--that is why there are vineyards in the Mosel valley today, and you can see the ruins in cities like Trier or Koblenz. I was always taught that the northern border of the Roman empire roughly corresponds to today's E40 motorway which connects the Belgian coast via Brussels with Cologne and points further east. I suspect that your ancestors in Braunschweig with Latin names are a result of later historical developments. Anyway, as someone else pointed out, the development of English was more influenced by the Norman invasion in 1066 than by the Roman conquest 1000 years earlier. Nathan Will wrote: > None of this discussion is making sense to me. As I recall, > the Romans occupied the right bank of the Rhine. Plus, when > I got into genealogical research in Braunschweig, I find > that many of my ancestors were baptized with Latin names. > (by the way, Braunschweirg is in northern Germany - in the > area where low German was the language). There was also the > Napoleonic intervention. > > I guess the determination is if your counting system is > based upon 20 or 10. :) > > Regards, Bill Larsen > > > - -- Nathan Wajsman Herrliberg (ZH), Switzerland e-mail: wajsman@webshuttle.ch mobile: +41 78 732 1430 Photo-A-Week: http://www.wajsman.com/indexpaw2002.htm General photo site: http://www.wajsman.com/index.htm - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html