German: altes BauerngeschlechtEnglish translation: of age-old peasant stock 
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| GLOSSARY ENTRY (DERIVED FROM QUESTION BELOW) | | German term or phrase: | altes Bauerngeschlecht | | English translation: | of age-old peasant stock | | Entered by: | Kim Metzger |
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Art/Literary - Genealogy / Genealogy | | German term or phrase: altes Bauerngeschlecht | I'm looking for something more dramatic than old farming family for this family history. Any ideas?
Henggi ist ein sehr altes Bauerngeschlecht aus dem sog. Schwarzbubenland im Kanton Solothurn. |
| | | farmer stock | Explanation:
Henggi is of good old farmer stock from the so-called Schwarzbubenland (The land of the black boys) in the canton of Solothurn |
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 Mats Wiman
Sweden
| Note from asker to answererThank you all. Besides dramatic, I realized later that I also wanted something robust and venerable. Mats' term came closest to what I was looking for.
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| a farm family with deep historical roots in...
Explanation:
I would not try to translate altes Bauerngeschlecht; rather I would translate the entire sentence part in which the term occurs.
ein sehr altes Bauerngeschlecht aus ...
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| farmer stock
Explanation:
Henggi is of good old farmer stock from the so-called Schwarzbubenland (The land of the black boys) in the canton of Solothurn
| Mats Wiman
Sweden
Native speaker of:  Swedish
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| Note from asker to answerer| Thank you all. Besides dramatic, I realized later that I also wanted something robust and venerable. Mats' term came closest to what I was looking for. |
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| deeply rooted
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Note added at 2002-03-30 02:52:33 (GMT)
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farming family
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