...Is both strange and enlightening...LL got me interested in my family history with his stories. What I discovered along the trail is if you follow a paper trail it only takes you so far. DNA unlocks a lot of mysteries and at the same time reveals many more. It wasn’t a surprise when I found my way back to Africa and the Sudan, and it was even less of a surprise that Shäffer from the Germanic language translated roughly to Steward, or more correctly Shepherd. We were in the U.S. before the country of Germany existed, and that was a surprise, since our early written records in the U.S.were in German. During WWII they still sent all of us to the Pacific theater. The maternal Robinson side was interesting coming from an Anglo-Norman descent and spreading to Ireland, Scotland and Wales in early times. The surname is found in many medieval manuscripts. Son of Robin seems a little less adventurous. Most of my paternal line were sailors, which may explain my love of the oceans. Maternal line were farmers...or farmhands, depending on the timeframe.
Flint from the Domesday Book of 1086, shows “Flint", from Suffolk, however, the more modern surname "Flint" can be a location in origin, deriving from the town of Flint in Clwyd, Wales, which gave its name to the old county of "Flints". The stuff you pick up by asking questions of the internet is amazing.
"We don't have any law here. Just a graveyard." LL from TREASURE MOUNTAIN