Ancestry.com

[off2bed]

Seems I'm the 60th grandson of King Dagobert I of the Franks.

Who the hell are you?

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

Yeah, the ancestry trail seems to stop at tears...

 

[Liar]

My family tree is full of commies, adulterers and preachers. And a bona fide spy.

 

[busybody..]

Seems I'm the 60th grandson of King Dagobert I of the Franks.

Who the hell are you?

Hot Diggety Dog

 

[RobDownSouth]

I traced AJ's (Native American birthname: "Dances With Falsehoods") ancestry back as far as a bordello outside of Fort Carson, Colorado. His Great-great-great-Gransquaw "Grunts Too Much" was quite a character.

 

[Liar]

And my great grandfather was put in prison for insulting the King. Yes, you could end up in the slammer for that in the 1940's.

 

[4est_4est_Gump]

I traced mine all the way to יהןה.

 

[off2bed]

Yeah, the ancestry trail seems to stop at tears...

One thing that's being driven home in my research is that America (among other countries) kept offering free land to people if they'd emigrate. England offered free Irish land to Huguenots if they'd emigrate and help repress the Irish Catholics. Just like today, the government cannot give you anything for free that it doesn't first take away from someone else.

 

[Bidin~Time]

I'm the result of not knowing how to tell time.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

Seems I'm the 60th grandson of King Dagobert I of the Franks.

Who the hell are you?

Hello cousin.

I did my genealogy before 1995 and the days of Ancestry.Com

My parents died young, I never met 3 of my grandparents, and knew nuthin about my ancestry. My mother believed she was illegitimate and had no idea who her dad was (her parents were married but separated soon after the wedding); she always used her stepfathers name. I questioned my grandmother, who refused to discuss the subject. But I located the marriage record, divorce record, and found one of the bridesmaids who told me AGNES AND ARTHUR JUST DIDNT GET ALONG.

I traced all of my lines back to the immigrants. Most arrived in the early 1600s.

 

[off2bed]

Hello cousin.

I did my genealogy before 1995 and the days of Ancestry.Com

My parents died young, I never met 3 of my grandparents, and knew nuthin about my ancestry. My mother believed she was illegitimate and had no idea who her dad was (her parents were married but separated soon after the wedding); she always used her stepfathers name. I questioned my grandmother, who refused to discuss the subject. But I located the marriage record, divorce record, and found one of the bridesmaids who told me AGNES AND ARTHUR JUST DIDNT GET ALONG.

I traced all of my lines back to the immigrants. Most arrived in the early 1600s.

The same blood line arrived from England in the early 1600s, and I need to research to see if it was on the Mayflower or just some wretched scum kicked out of England for bad debts.

Wikipedia says Dagobert I was a loonie who married his aunt.

 

[lovetoread]

The peeps on my fathers side actually paid for our lineage to be printed into a book that they shared with the living siblings.

I don't know what happened to my dads copy after he died.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

The same blood line arrived from England in the early 1600s, and I need to research to see if it was on the Mayflower or just some wretched scum kicked out of England for bad debts.

Wikipedia says Dagobert I was a loonie who married his aunt.

There were plenty of colonists before the Mayflower, especially in Virginia. I think the Dutch were in New York before the Mayflower, too.

 

[off2bed]

There were plenty of colonists before the Mayflower, especially in Virginia. I think the Dutch were in New York before the Mayflower, too.

These were in Massachusetts for sure.

 

[_Milky_Whites_]

I come from a whole lot of Irish blood and one little Cherokee lady that I know of. No royal blood or outstanding citizens that I know of in this gene pool.

 

[unregistered]

 

[_Milky_Whites_]

There are Indian women everywhere on this board.


Like a smogasborg.

I'm thinking it was filtered right outta me. Hence, the red hair and pale skin.

 

[Image]

We used Ancestry.com to search back when doing my husband's tree. I'm adopted and know nothing so this stuff absolutely fascinates me...

 

[RjThoughts]

I traced AJ's (Native American birthname: "Dances With Falsehoods") ancestry back as far as a bordello outside of Fort Carson, Colorado. His Great-great-great-Gransquaw "Grunts Too Much" was quite a character.

Do you know what squaw really means? It's NOT woman!!

 

[RjThoughts]

There are Indian women everywhere on this board.


Like a smogasborg.

I could deny my Mohawk heritage, but if I did I'd lose out on some casino profits

 

[trysail]

There were plenty of colonists before the Mayflower, especially in Virginia. I think the Dutch were in New York before the Mayflower, too.

According to Nathaniel Philbrick ( in his delightful book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War ), as of 2009 there are thirty-seven million ( 37,000,000 ) living descendants of Mayflower immigrants.


Being a Mayflower descendant is no big deal.

 

[RjThoughts]

According to Nathaniel Philbrick ( in his delightful book Mayflower: A Story of Courage, Community and War ), as of 2009 there are thirty-seven million ( 37,000,000 ) living descendants of Mayflower immigrants.


Being a Mayflower descendant is no big deal.

Especially to those of us whose ancestors were in America saying, "There goes the neighborhood."

 

[slave_]

My mother did research on our family to prove certain people in our family and also found out other interesting things along the way. She did this back in the 70s.

 

[off2bed]

doing my husband's tree...

*snicker*

 

[osprey44]

...as of 2009 there are thirty-seven million ( 37,000,000 ) living descendants of Mayflower immigrants.

Being a Mayflower descendant is no big deal.

True, if you do the math, most of us are just 11 or 12 generations removed from the colonialist who settled here in the 1600's.

Of course there are those few who's roots could compare to being "shit by a crow and hatched by the sun." Hmmmm... I can probably guess some right here on lit who might fit right into THAT category...