Ancestry

[Lorilei]

Have any of you ever traced yours? I signed up for a free trial, and I'm finding it both fascinating and frustrating. I don't know a lot of birth/death dates or maiden names, which makes it hard. But I also found a census entry from 1930 where they listed my grandmother as "Billie" instead of "Bette Lee", which tickles me for some reason. And I had no idea she was born in FL. I wonder where.

 

[starrheat]

Have any of you ever traced yours? I signed up for a free trial, and I'm finding it both fascinating and frustrating. I don't know a lot of birth/death dates or maiden names, which makes it hard. But I also found a census entry from 1930 where they listed my grandmother as "Billie" instead of "Bette Lee", which tickles me for some reason. And I had no idea she was born in FL. I wonder where.

I have done a lot of genealogical research on my family. In fact, I have found distant cousins I never knew and we help each other out. It is a lot of fun and exciting...especially when you find pictures of your ancestors. Good luck and have fun!

 

[Lorilei]

I have done a lot of genealogical research on my family. In fact, I have found distant cousins I never knew and we help each other out. It is a lot of fun and exciting...especially when you find pictures of your ancestors. Good luck and have fun!

Thanks! It is fun so far.

 

[lovetoread]

My dad's family did it and had a book made of it.

I have no idea where the book went, it was not in his house when he passed. But somewhere out there are books with me and the kids in it, but its a pic I would have never let anyone see.

 

[warrior queen]

My Omi spent a lot of time putting our family tree together before she passed away.
It has been an adventure, and a little sad, reading about some of the people I have in my past. Some famous, some infamous, most tragic.

 

[DesEsseintes]

It's not so much fun when one is a fifteenth Duke. One's ancestry tends to be less hidden and more emblazoned around one. Even at the damned breakfast table I am faced with Michel, the 9th Duke, and his absurd moustaches.

Oh, to be able to trace a simple Irish scullerymaid somewhere on the escutcheon. I suspect there were many such, in truth, but they do not seem to have found their way into any of the official family histories.

 

[Lorilei]

My dad's family did it and had a book made of it.

I have no idea where the book went, it was not in his house when he passed. But somewhere out there are books with me and the kids in it, but its a pic I would have never let anyone see.

Awww. That's too bad.

Which reminds me, there's a "History of **** County" book out there somewhere and I know my family and I are in it, because I saw it about 25 or 30 years ago. I need to see if I can find a copy.

 

[Ishmael]

Yup, my father's family traces back to colonial Virginia circa 1640. My mothers ancestry dead ends in Canada circa the early 1880's. I know that they came to Canada from Wales, I just haven't bothered digging into the UK records yet.

Ishmael

 

[Aquagal]

Relatives have done extensive searches on both sides of my family back to the early 1800's. They're so interesting to read, and the odd ways people died. I've found a coat of arms and one town in Spain that my last name is traced back to. Also an über great grandmother that was married to a famous American frontiersman. I've been to cemeteries in Europe with names in hand, visiting a few random grave sites.

 

[Lorilei]

I hope I'm able to trace far enough in the past to make it really interesting.

 

[marshalt]

My ancestors were Vikings.

 

[Lorilei]

My ancestors were Vikings.

For real? That's pretty cool.

 

[thør]

My ancestors were Vikings.

Fierce Vikings? Where from? Minneapolis?

 

[Aquagal]

I also have a historical book from triple G grandma that married the Wild West frontiersman with pages and pages of all these begats. Births, deaths, etc.

 

[cleaver]

my ancestors owned slaves.

is there a jar someplace to put coins into?

 

[CandiCame]

I have like, a government tracking thing on my mom's side but it only goes back 4 generations. Everything before that was purposefully destroyed for kind of a lot of people by these weird "Americanization" camps. On my dad's side I haven't really looked but I think HE has, so the information is there if I ever gave a shit to look. I'm just assuming that I'm not descended from anybody who is worth anything, so I never really cared.

 

[Lorilei]

I also have a historical book from triple G grandma that married the Wild West frontiersman with pages and pages of all these begats. Births, deaths, etc.

Wow! Lucky.

my ancestors owned slaves.

is there a jar someplace to put coins into?

Yeah, it's over there on my nightstand.

 

[cleaver]

Yeah, it's over there on my nightstand.

b rit thr

 

[Mr Noone]

My ex-wife's family has a geneology published in 1913 that runs some 800 pages. The "supplement" from 1913-2000 is about the same size. They trace their ancestors in America to 1633—13 years after Plymouth Rock. They go back in Norfolk, England, to 1500. One ancestor (though not direct, as he had no children) signed the Declaration of Independence.

My family goes back in the US to 1958.

 

[Lorilei]

My ex-wife's family has a geneology published in 1913 that runs some 800 pages. The "supplement" from 1913-2000 is about the same size. They trace their ancestors in America to 1633—13 years after Plymouth Rock. They go back in Norfolk, England, to 1500. One ancestor (though not direct, as he had no children) signed the Declaration of Independence.

My family goes back in the US to 1958.

Whoa. That's a lot of information.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Ancestry is fun.

I found a census record for a great-great-aunt who died in the early 1880s in Riker's Island, NY.

I was amazed that we'd had someone who'd died in Riker's Island prison, but then found out that Riker's Island wasn't a prison until the 1930s....it was a tuberculosis sanitarium before that.

 

[Mr Noone]

Whoa. That's a lot of information.

It's interesting they way it's recorded. The first name in the book is number 1. He had three kids: 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. The kids of 1.1 are 1.1.1, 1.1.2, etc. My kids' numbers are very long (like 15 generations since 1500).

 

[Lorilei]

It's interesting they way it's recorded. The first name in the book is number 1. He had three kids: 1.1, 1.2 and 1.3. The kids of 1.1 are 1.1.1, 1.1.2, etc. My kids numbers are very long (like 15 generations since 1500).

Wow! Someone in her family was serious about genealogy.

 

[Mr Noone]

Wow! Someone in her family was serious about genealogy.

There were some very wealthy people in the past. Like owned railroads, have towns named after them, etc., mostly in the 19th century. That's what the wealthy do. Very little trickled down to the present.

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

I traced my family tree starting 20 years ago. Starting with almost no information and no photos it now spans 2500 years, and I have 100s of photos and piles of documents. My first American immigrant was Sir William Alexander, Lord Sterling, Viscount of Canada. Jesus of Nazareth is a cousin. Mark Twain is a cousin. We came to the USA in 1607 at Jamestown. My last immigrant ancestor came to New York about 1845 from Ireland. Sixty of my ancestors fought in the Revolution.

I'm tracing my wife's tree. Her mother got as far as all their immigrant ancestors but they were late coming here. Almost all were coal miners from Wales.


My 4th great grandfather Robert Grant MD of St.Simons Island GA portrait in the National Portrait Gallery Washington DC

Next my 4th great grandmother Sarah Jane Powell-Chaires of Tallahassee

3rd Adam Clarke Johnson MD 2nd great grandfather