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Post by DebMD (banned) on Jan 30, 2011 5:37:23 GMT -5
From an island in the China Sea.
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Post by DebMD (banned) on Jan 30, 2011 6:04:59 GMT -5
I was taken to a family plot, and told of the relatives as we walked thru'. But I can't remember where it is. They came to USA for it's opportunities.
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Post by rick on Jan 30, 2011 8:19:27 GMT -5
I dont really know anything past my grand parents
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Post by Jake 48 on Jan 30, 2011 9:26:20 GMT -5
I thinks its a straight line, I'm convinced they adopted me though
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 30, 2011 10:07:59 GMT -5
My mom's side can be traced back to 13th century France. They immigrated to Canada early in Canada's history of European settlement & apparently an ancestor at that time is a part of Canadian history from that period of time.
My dad's ancestors are documented by my brother to either the 1600's or 1700's. Many European documents were lost in both WW's so research can be fairly difficult.
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Post by Jake 48 on Jan 30, 2011 10:09:19 GMT -5
Cheesy, that is really cool
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Post by ysi on Jan 30, 2011 10:24:31 GMT -5
If my ancestor was Scnickelfritz it would be alot easier, but Schultz has been somewhat difficult to research. Are you Polish if your ancestor came from the land now known as Poland long before Poland existed?
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Post by Gardening Grandma on Jan 30, 2011 10:24:56 GMT -5
I've been fascinated by family history for about ten years now. I can trace three of my ancestors who fought in the American Revolution. My great grandmother was a midwife and a "healing woman". To those of you who have living relatives, I urge you to sit down with them, and get as much information from them as you can - especially family stories. If you video tape the sessions, so much the better. We don't know how long we will have them to ask and if we wait too long, they may lose their memory.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 30, 2011 10:52:47 GMT -5
If my ancestor was Scnickelfritz it would be alot easier, but Schultz has been somewhat difficult to research. Are you Polish if your ancestor came from the land now known as Poland long before Poland existed? That is a good question. Let me ask my brother, he does specialize in Polish genealogy. ETA: ysi, my brother is not online at the moment, but I sent him an email.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 30, 2011 10:58:01 GMT -5
I've been fascinated by family history for about ten years now. I can trace three of my ancestors who fought in the American Revolution. My great grandmother was a midwife and a "healing woman". To those of you who have living relatives, I urge you to sit down with them, and get as much information from them as you can - especially family stories. If you video tape the sessions, so much the better. We don't know how long we will have them to ask and if we wait too long, they may lose their memory. We have found out that my husband's first American ancestor was a German Hessian who defected during the Revolution!
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Post by olderburgher on Jan 30, 2011 11:14:08 GMT -5
On my Mom's side of the family they can be traced back to when New York was New Amsterdam and then back to Holland. There is even some heraldic symbols or crest On my Dad's side they go to Germany and immigrated here between the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.
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Post by Sammy on Jan 30, 2011 11:23:23 GMT -5
I've been doing genealogy research for several years on our families. Today I stop and zero my research efforts into seeing if Snerdley and Deb are related.
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 30, 2011 11:26:03 GMT -5
What are you doing inside my head?? I was just thinking the exact same thing.
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Post by Sammy on Jan 30, 2011 11:34:52 GMT -5
;D I think you will find just about every poster thought the same thing. Only two will not are Deb and Snerd.
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Post by thyme4change on Jan 30, 2011 11:54:51 GMT -5
We did ancestry.com, and got my parents and my in-laws to help us fill in a bunch, and then we could find some stuff because of all the census data. All in all, I'm pretty bored with my family tree. We have found out that at various points a whole bunch of people came from Ireland and lived in the same area of Philadelphia for generations, or that a whole bunch of people came from Sweden and lived in the same area of farmland in Minnesota for generations. We did google a couple addresses and saw the row houses my great-grandparents lived in - but all in all - it just appears to be a bunch of folks working various jobs for not much money. I'm sure my great-grandchildren will find me quite boring. Heck - I can't even figure out how my life is that interesting now. I can't imagine anyone will care 100 years from now.
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Post by DebMD (banned) on Jan 30, 2011 12:00:16 GMT -5
If Snerdly/or anyone else is having fun without 'harming' in any way.
I respect them on whatever level they are at...without being disrespectful.[name calling etc.,]
When someone is treats the other disrespectfully it makes them even smaller than the one they are trying to demean.
If you can't say anything nice then....shut up. Unless this is the sort of board where that behavior is tolerated.
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Post by verrip1 on Jan 30, 2011 12:13:39 GMT -5
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Post by ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ on Jan 30, 2011 12:17:41 GMT -5
My brother did some genealogical research into our family tree through records and documents which were kept in fairly good order back to early 1800's. My maternal grandfather's side was very, very, very distantly related to the Royal Family. .
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Post by Sammy on Jan 30, 2011 12:23:36 GMT -5
thyme, it all depends on your view of the data. I think the older you get the more interested you are, in some cases. Not until I received a phone call several years ago from a total stranger who, as it turns out, is my husbands cousin. He is in possession of genealogy data from two deceased family members ....one from Ireland and the other here in America. The cousin decided to continue the research and was looking for information on my husbands branch.......... and from that conversation is the reason I became interested in genealogy.
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Post by NancysSummerSip on Jan 30, 2011 12:52:40 GMT -5
Not much past the great-grandparents. My paternal great-grandfather served as an officer in the Russian Imperial Army under Czar Nicholas II. He was seriously wounded on Bloody Sunday (Jan. 22, 1905) and he and his family escaped Russia not long after. My grandmother was born about a year after their arrival in the United States. On my mother's side, my paternal great-grandfather married twice, and had a total of 13 children. I have no idea where the progency of those children are, or even if they are still alive. The family name is very common, which makes searching difficult.
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Post by Cheesy FL-Vol on Jan 30, 2011 13:47:08 GMT -5
ysi, here is my brother's answer to your question:
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Post by Sammy on Jan 30, 2011 14:03:14 GMT -5
Cheesy, say Hi to your brother for me.
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Post by chiver78 on Jan 30, 2011 14:31:10 GMT -5
I've also got part of my family traced back to Europe, but only to the 1600s. that's my Dad's side - Pepere's ancestors started out in France, the first guy in the tree that we could find came over to maritime Canada in the late 1600s, settled and had kids, then went back to France for the end of his life. Memere's ancestors came from France to maritime Canada in the mid-1700s. we got all this info from a cousin who now works as a newspaper editor. the genealogy research was part of his senior thesis in college. he did some seriously extensive research, there is detail on siblings and other family members along the way, not just the trail that led to our family.
on mom's side, we don't have much past Nana's parents. they came in through Ellis Island, so I'm sure I could find their entry papers if I looked.
I didn't realize Poland was so gray on genealogy. I always associated heritage as ethnic backgrounds. like I would say that the Chinese families I met while working in Ireland were Irish nationals of Chinese descent. did the ethnicity of the land that is now Poland change that much over the years?
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Post by TD2K on Jan 30, 2011 14:37:47 GMT -5
One of my uncles has traced back the family tree a fair ways back but I'd have to dig out my copy to see just how far. It's an area that I'm not all that interested. What it does show to me how quickly you become just a footnote.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2011 14:45:25 GMT -5
Paternal side back to the 1600s when they left France for Canada with a land grant from the King in hand.
Maternal side, my older brother is working on it. The family surnames are very common names, and it gets a little tedious.
TGH traced his family back to the 1500s in Finland.
Ever wonder how people in the future are going to find their ancestors when there are so many who have half brothers/sisters with only one common parent? Or children born from donor sperm? Boggles the mind.
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Post by steff on Jan 30, 2011 14:52:37 GMT -5
On my mom's side of the family, we know that they settled in Texas as missionaries in the late 1780's. My great gramma was a cousin to the mother of Clyde Barrow (of Bonnie & Clyde) thru marriage. We've also found a doctor that originally settled in Georgia in the 1760's, before moving to Texas to help the other family members that were the missionaries.
On my dad's side, I know they immigrated from Ireland in the 1850's to Texas. But not much beyond that.
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Post by Apple on Jan 30, 2011 14:56:53 GMT -5
All I know is that I have an ancestor that was an English Lord, another ancestor was a treasure hunter, and that my great-gramma used to sew the "outfits" for the "ladies" of the whorehouse. Apparently she was awesome at making lace (she wasn't one of the "ladies" though, although we are all kind of curious about exactly how she met great-grampa). Her first husband went back to France and told her family she was dead so they gave him her share of the inheritance (land--the family homestead is still intact, hope to visit it on our trip in a couple years)--they told her "tough luck" when they found out she was still alive.
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Post by Mad Dawg Wiccan on Jan 30, 2011 15:03:23 GMT -5
I can trace my lineage on my father's side back to 1745, when his first ancestor arrived from Scotland. I can't trace on my mother's side past my great-grandparents, I'm not fluent enough in German to use the ancestry websites. My wife's ancestors were some of the founders of Schenectady NY on her mother's side, and she has traced back to Viking royalty on her father's side.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2011 15:40:15 GMT -5
My dad's side of the family is interesting, but my mom's side doesn't have many branches. They are all pretty much inbred.
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Post by The J on Jan 30, 2011 15:45:37 GMT -5
My dad's side of the family is interesting, but my mom's side doesn't have many branches. They are all pretty much inbred. Well that explains a few things about your mom......
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