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Burkenpas Family History & Genealogy
We are, all of us, the children of immigrants, even the American Indian who arrived in this country much earlier than we did. What we as humans are, and what we become, is in part due to our heritage. The men and women who came to America did not emerge suddenly. Before them were ancestors, families and former lives. Each American pioneer had ancestral characteristics of a distinctive type, physically and mentally. Our ancestors, the pioneers of America, needed a change and that began in the old countries with the decision to migrate. In most cases these decisions were personal, ordered by no one. Even when immigration was ordered or even forced in some cases, the people who survived were characteristically of physical strength and with the capacity to endure pain and suffering and were commonly of a rebellious nature. History is not made by Kings and Parliaments, Presidents, wars, or even by Generals, it is the story of the people, of their love, their honor, their hope and their suffering. It is the story of birth, of death, of hunger, thirst and cold, of loneliness and of sorrow, it is our history, our heritage. Richard Wesley Burkenpas
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