Branching Out: Roots by the Numbers

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If you’ve got German ancestors, you’ve got company. According to the US Census Bureau’s Ancestry: 2000 report <www.census.gov/population/www/cen2000/briefs.html>, about 43 million (one in six) US residents identified their roots as German — making it the United States’ most commonly reported ancestry for the third time. (See the October 2004 Family Tree Magazine for help tracing View Website VIP Subscription

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