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Post by Natalie on Mar 20, 2018 20:39:54 GMT -6
Anyone enjoy genealogy? I've found some really interesting stories. The internet makes it so easy to find information, too. Some of it true and some of it not so true. I found one family that had four brothers head west for the California Gold Rush. Recently I found that I have a branch of Mennonite families on my mom's father's side. I also have some Irish Catholics on my mom's mother's side. They worked in the mills in Massachusetts, but one son (my great, great grandfather) became a baseball player and then a bar tender. So far, I have found relatives from France, Germany, England, and Ireland.
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Genealogy
Mar 20, 2018 21:24:43 GMT -6
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Post by sawdy on Mar 20, 2018 21:24:43 GMT -6
My favorite Genealogy saying is "I've traced my ancestry back to Noah.". When they look at you incredulously you then let them know that you've. "actually traced it further.... All the way to Adam and Eve."
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Post by sawdy on Mar 20, 2018 21:34:23 GMT -6
I have never done much with Genealogy. My Maternal Grandparents came from Germany and my Paternal Grandma was the only one born here. Her family and my Grandpas family came from the Ukraine. My husband father traced their surname genealogy back to the earlier 1800s but the records cant be traced further due to a church burning down with the records. So as far as we know, he is the last biological male of his last name. Funnily enough, his last name is a fairly common Irish one. So people thankfully don't ask "if we are related to so and so".
I am looking forward to heaven and getting to meet great Christians that I never met, like my Oma's father. He died when she was 9 in Germany. He played in the church band. What a band that would have been! My Oma showed me a picture. There was at least 20 people with instruments. At my church, we have at most, three to four instruments.
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Post by Natalie on Mar 21, 2018 7:23:15 GMT -6
How neat! We don't have many instruments either, but we are a small church also.
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Post by venge on May 8, 2018 5:49:00 GMT -6
Anyone enjoy genealogy? I've found some really interesting stories. The internet makes it so easy to find information, too. Some of it true and some of it not so true. I found one family that had four brothers head west for the California Gold Rush. Recently I found that I have a branch of Mennonite families on my mom's father's side. I also have some Irish Catholics on my mom's mother's side. They worked in the mills in Massachusetts, but one son (my great, great grandfather) became a baseball player and then a bar tender. So far, I have found relatives from France, Germany, England, and Ireland. I do ancestry. I have found out my wife’s dad is not her biological father. He doesn’t know, as he thinks he is! I have traced my fathers, mothers, father side to a royal line allowing me to go to Iceland. Now, some of their records, I don’t know how accurate they are BUT if true, I can go back past Antiochus Epiphanes, the little horn, and we are very closely related lol. Scary! Been doing it for 5-6 years or more. +10k people in my tree
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Post by barb84 on May 8, 2018 9:14:38 GMT -6
One of my great-aunts researched her family tree and found out that Charles Carrollton, the first signer of the Declaration of Independence, was a relative.
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Post by rt on May 11, 2018 22:27:06 GMT -6
I have dabbled in genealogy. My Father's family was from Germany and it is said that we are descended from royalty, and that our ancestors had a castle in Germany that was destroyed in WW2. I have records on his mother's side that go back to the early 1500's. I find it all very fascinating and would like to learn more when I have time and find the motivation.
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Post by bernie on Jul 11, 2018 11:57:10 GMT -6
I did a DNA test through Ancestry dot com and it appears that my paternal grandfather may have been someone else. I haven't done much else to find out more because of the cost, and I find it difficult to do online. If you don't like surprises beware, it wasn't a big shock for me as my grandfather died when my dad was a child, but it's something that can lead to a shocking find.
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Post by barb84 on Jul 11, 2018 15:45:54 GMT -6
My maternal grandmother always joked that our ancestors didn't come over on the Mayflower, they had their own boat.
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