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THE GREENWOOD FAMILY OF WISCONSIN is a confluent family with many streams of convergent generations and genetics from many different sources and nations, selecting the best and culling the worst, to become the family it is today. From France to Ireland, to Canada, to Belgium, to Germany - from politician to farmer to hunter to engineer - from illiterate to skilled to intellectual - from crude to ... More

THE GREENWOOD FAMILY OF WISCONSIN is a confluent family with many streams of convergent generations and genetics from many different sources and nations, selecting the best and culling the worst, to become the family it is today. From France to Ireland, to Canada, to Belgium, to Germany - from politician to farmer to hunter to engineer - from illiterate to skilled to intellectual - from crude to unsophisticated to sophisticated - The Greenwood Family is nothing if not confluent. However the history of The Greenwood Family may be painted in the broad brush strokes of national and local jurisdictions of political settlement and development, the reality is that the real history of the family is writ in the minute letters of individual histories and accomplishments found in the details of the broad historical context of their times. The ancestral trail includes an American Indian tribal chief, a French-Canadian Creole fur trapper, an Irish immigrant fleeing starvation, and a Belgian day laborer with a rich church heritage. Along the way, it also included a military leader, a civil war soldier, cannibalism, heroism, statesmanship, exploration of the northwest, political intrigue, religious dedication, farmers, saloon-hotel keeper, stone quarrymen, merchants, landowners, trappers, rich men, poor men, Indian wives, French wives, marriages, non-marriages, inter-marriages of family cousins, children of multiple wives, and many hundreds of collateral families which had a direct or oblique relationship with the core Greenwood Family - and much more!

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