Nut Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 I have had a passing interest in my ancestry. I started a little on it a few years ago and gave up quickly. Well one of my sons had a essay to write about this subject and I did the best I could. So I started to do some more online research and discovered that some other distant kin had been doing some to a great extent. It has been intersting to tag along on some of them and then with the census of certain years available and other links I have been doing some findings of my own to fill in a couple of blanks. I would post of some of the discoveries but I am not able to certify that my lines are 100% correct. (Stuff like Daniel Boone is possibly a great-great........uncle of mine and also that I have links to royal blood and kin that came over on Mayflower.egads that is something would be awesome if correct) Has anybody done any research work in your family? Any tips to give? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LifeNRA Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Re: Genealogy My mother was doing that with her sister, then they found stuff they didnt want to know! LMBO!!!!!!!!! Like un-married uncles and cousins! But they hit a wall and still cant find anyway around it! Me, my dead relitives cant help me anyways! I make my own history!!! LOL!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Re: Genealogy Absolutely. I am blessed to have some amazing historians on both sides of my family. In high school I had a geneolgy report in Sociology class and I interviewed my great-grandmother and grandmother on my mom's side and my aunt and grandmother on my dad's side and I was able to trace both sides back some 10 generations (all the way back to Ireland, Scotland, Germany as well as the Cherokee blood in my vains). I ended up with enough information to almost write a novel. The teacher was rather impressed because she gave us a minmum length for the report, but no maximum. After I trimmed some of the fat, I turned in a 51 page report, a very detailed family tree, copies of nearly 100 old photos spanning 6 generations and many old family heirlooms. She was so impressed that to this day she still uses it as an example of the project (and I was in that class 13 years ago). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OJR Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Re: Genealogy I have done some and have gotten it back to the 1700's in what is now Sweden. All my grandparents came from Sweden, but a lot of the records are lost. Too much burning by the Vikings!!!! LOL!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Griz Posted December 12, 2004 Report Share Posted December 12, 2004 Re: Genealogy Yeah my wife is into doing genealogy... She's been doing this stuff for years now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
archerjg Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Re: Genealogy We have a cousin who is researching our history on my Dad's side and my Mom's side is being researched by another relative. Archerjg Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Re: Genealogy My brother was contacted by a distant relative that was doing the work to get the facts on our side of the family. She had been working on it for several years and gave my brother a copy of what she had found to that point. Her records had traced our ancestors back to 1574 in Switzerland. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
popgun Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Re: Genealogy "The kind of ancestors we have is not as important as the kind of descendants our ancestors have." (Phyllis A. Wallace) .....popgun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DSGB Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Re: Genealogy A relative of my father's did that about 10 years ago. He found the same as you, that someone else had done a lot of it already. All the people he got a response from and gave him information were sent a copy of the book. It's pretty interesting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HuntingInMaine Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Re: Genealogy [ QUOTE ] My mother was doing that with her sister, then they found stuff they didnt want to know [/ QUOTE ] LOL Sounds like my family! We found out that a very distant grandfather was responsible for starting the Protestant religion when they broke away from the Catholic church, but this same man lived with a woman for about 10 years before they actually married. And then we discovered that my great grandfather was a full fledged, sheet wearing, KKK member . Not what I wanted to find, but I guess we all have our skeletons. Thankfully the generations have gotten a lot more accepting since then!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clayman Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Re: Genealogy [ QUOTE ] My grandma has been doing some of that stuff, she found out that we are kin to .....thomas jefferson??? Josh [/ QUOTE ] If so...welcome to the Jefferson "club". My dad's mother was a Jefferson. Her Grandfather was a Thomas Jefferson. In doing the geneology, we're in a parrallel line to the President. He's an uncle to my line. The president's grandparents are my g-g-g-g-g (give or take a great) grandparents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest MarylandQDMA Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Re: Genealogy my uncle has done a lot of research on my family (dads side). he has found alot. I'm not sure how far back though. my uncle's wife's cousen did research on his moms family, only to be thretened by the Irsh mofia! they told him to stop or they would see to it that he would be pushing up dasies! as far as I knkow he did stop, at last I know he is still alive! Frank Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted December 13, 2004 Report Share Posted December 13, 2004 Re: Genealogy Have some pretty good information on my my father side and have a pretty accurate family tree. My great grandfather and family came to the United States from Belgium in the late 1800's, think it was 1878 without looking. The were very prominent in the mining industry in the eastern part of this country. Furthest back on that side that I have been able to find goes back to 1820 to a belgian who would have been my great great great grandfather. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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