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photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - Artemisback - 05-14-2012
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Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - ketchim - 05-14-2012
I thank Allah ....Lord of All the Worlds , Master of the Universe :
Fuh dat day my ancestors Boarded dem Ships......... :tongue:
Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - villagebelle - 05-14-2012
Ketch.....I always wonder if our ancestors felt the same way once they landed on the shores of British Guiana and found out that there was no streets lined with gold
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Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - chairman - 05-14-2012
[quote author=VillageBelle link=topic=66339.msg416522#msg416522 date=1337008078]
Ketch.....I always wonder if our ancestors felt the same way once they landed on the shores of British Guiana and found out that there was no streets lined with gold
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not many went back
Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - Nargis - 05-14-2012
[quote author=VillageBelle link=topic=66339.msg416522#msg416522 date=1337008078]
Ketch.....I always wonder if our ancestors felt the same way once they landed on the shores of British Guiana and found out that there was no streets lined with gold
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to be quite honest, the cane fields of Guyana would have been a far more welcoming sight than what they left behind in India.
Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - villagebelle - 05-14-2012
[quote author=The Chairman link=topic=66339.msg416524#msg416524 date=1337008223]
not many went back
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you think it was as easy to do that as booking a flight on Air India??
many wanted to.....but few made it.
i believe that in order to do that they had to buy out their indentureship.....and none could do that for many years and by then they had started families and going back was not an option.
Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - Nargis - 05-14-2012
[quote author=VillageBelle link=topic=66339.msg416529#msg416529 date=1337008956]
you think it was as easy to do that as booking a flight on Air India??
many wanted to.....but few made it.
i believe that in order to do that they had to buy out their indentureship.....and none could do that for many years and by then they had started families and going back was not an option.
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i am they liked guyana after all of that.
Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - chairman - 05-14-2012
belle since you grew up from late 50's in gy. you probably knew many india people and they were long done with india
Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - chairman - 05-14-2012
my mother who born in 1929 said the old people dint care about going back
Re: photo of our ancestors leaving INDIA - Captain - 05-14-2012
sex in the logee