Genealogy

[D. Scarlatti]

Anybody here do their family trees?

My cousin just sent me a link to her webpage, which goes as far back as some dude born in 1750 (at least in the chain of my direct ancestors). Things get pretty hairy back a couple of generations, what with all the cousins and such. Huge family.

My cousin, who is my father's sister's daughter, has pretty much squat on my mother's side of the family, however. I think one of my other cousins on my mother's side has that stuff somewhere.

If you have done some research, how much can you do online these days? Or did you end up poring over village church marriage registries in Lithuania or whatever?

[Roland98]

I've not done it myself, but my grandma and uncle have done a lot of the family on my mom's side, and my dad's brothers have done a lot on his side. Much of it has been poring over church registries (though typically in Ohio and New England, not so much Lithuania). My grandma and uncle also made a trip one year to Salt Lake City to get as much as they could via the records there, and I think a lot of those are now online.

[LadyShea]

Mom has done it for years and has mountains of info. You can get good leads online at times, but for the actual proof, you need records, and that means sending away for wills, death certificates, baptismal records, going to graveyards etc. etc.

The Salt Lake records are again good leads, sometimes, but since the Mormon's aren't necessarily interested in accuracy as much as quantity , many of the genealogies there are wrong at some point. Mom has found at least three "wrong turns" in the LDS records.

[Dingfod]

I have a bit more than a casual interest in this sort of thing in that I like taking my mother around to old cemeteries. She has taken the family geneology on as a hobby in the last 10 years or so and has traced both sides of the family tree back to the 15th century, finding out some things we didn't know. One, there is Indian blood on both sides of my family tree, another is a direct maternal ancestor in the 18th century witnessed the will of a direct paternal ancestor and were best friends in North Carolina. Also there was one Italian in the family, on my father's side, back in the 16th century.

Right now, I'm either experiencing deja vu or I've posted this info before somewhere, maybe here.

[curses]

I love genealogy. Well, I love to read it, anyways. My mom has done it for both her family and my dad's. I wish I had more detailed info at the moment, but she traced her line back to Isle of Lewis in Scotland sometime in the early 1600s, I believe. My grandmother on dad's side is Dutch, arriving in New Amsterdam in the 1640s.

We discovered relations to Strom Thurmond (second cousin to my grandfather on dad's side) and a direct relation to General John Bell Hood, CSA.

[roastelk]

nothin glamourous goign on in my family

My dads grandmother crossed over from Russia in 1920s...an untracable family line thanks to the Soviet regime. she was from a now non existent german farming villge on the Volga river, i belive most of the poeple who stayed in that village were slaughtered.

My dads grandfather and my name sake was a sheep herder/farmer in the netherlands, who Imigrated to the US and settled in portland in 1800s and thats as far as ive got with that one.

My moms side of family I could probably trace much further than my dads side, but hanvt yet. but I do know my moms grandfather is on the bottom of the north artlantic inside the HMS Hood. and Ive got an English/Scottish mix on that side.

[pescifish]

Right now, I'm either experiencing deja vu or I've posted this info before somewhere, maybe here.You have. We've had a couple of related threads.

Here are links to my posts before. Dad's side: heavily documented. We counted 20+ qualifying ancestors for entry to DAR. Mom's side: barely know 2-3 generations. Too bad we don't have any good stories, but the known 'facts' make my mom's mom's mother probably the most fascinating of my ancestors. Well, ok, maybe not -- my Dad's dad (who died before I was born) was pretty wild on the esoteric/spiritual side, too.

Fun with Genealogy (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=319821&highlight=battle+hastings#post319821)
Your Ethnic Heritage (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/showthread.php?p=68987&highlight=battle+hastings#post68987)

I'm not sure if either of the previous threads gave any good advice on how to go about tracing genealogies, online or otherwise. I sure don't have any, sorry Scarlatti.

We did get the results from both paternal and fraternal lines from the National Geographic Genographic Project (https://www3.nationalgeographic.com/genographic/). I didn't think it would be interesting, but... ha! It was pretty cool to see how my ancient ancestors managed to get around the world to finally produce me and my siblings.