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The question "Are We French?" can have many
answers. It really depends on what period in our family history that the question is
answered.
If the Caisses really originate from the Alsace-Lorraine area , as research indicates, we
are officially French. In |
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1648 the Treaty of Westphalia (Munster) ceeded the
territory to France. Seveux, the town of origin for our ancestor, Francois Caisse
dit LeDragon is located in that region. But, we could also be German because since
Charlemagne's rule (9th century) to the 14th century, this |
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same territory had changed allegiance several times.
Or Scandanavian, when even earlier a majority of the Suebi tribes roamed across
France in migrating (406 to 409 A.D.) from Germania to Galicia(Spain), where they
established their kingdom.
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