Ancestry??

[Columbia Craw]

Have any of you traced your ancestry by DNA and or other means?  My daughter and I made it a hobby.  Our investigation has lead to far more than I could have imagined.

[MN Fisher]

26 minutes ago, Columbia Craw said:

Have any of you traced your ancestry by other means?

My sister has been doing this - considering she works the research desk at Hennepin County Library's main downtown location, she's got access to hoards of records.

 

One example of what she found - my great-grandparents on my mother's side...their travel from 'the old country' to the US.

[A-Jay]

A-Jay

[TnRiver46]

I’ve told my story a few times on here, my aunt did all the legwork. Pretty interesting! She gives presentations on how to track down all this stuff, military records, pensions, family bibles, etc. A lot of good info burns up in fires over time so it gets tricky 
 

She’s in the DAR and we are considered a “first family” of TN (which only means we lived here before it was a state). 

 

We came in violation of the proclamation of 1763, Woopsie 

 

 

this is my great great (lots of greats?) grandfather, she tracked down his widow’s pension 

from there we floated down the Holston river a bit to three springs, TN which is now on Cherokee lake . There is a Cobb island named after I would assume Pharaoh Cobb, it was called Cobb landing before they flooded the lake

 

 

there were even some fishermen 

 

had people fight both sides of the civil war. One of my cousins has dual membership is the sons of the union and sons of the confederacy. They weren’t kidding when they said brother vs brother in history class 

 

 

Here’s the family tree, I’m sure I’ve messed up some details. Raymond Cecil woods was my grandad 

 

[GReb]

Surname traces back to northern Switzerland.  The other lines trace back to UK

[TnRiver46]

2 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

My sister has been doing this - considering she works the research desk at Hennepin County Library's main downtown location, she's got access to hoards of records.

 

One example of what she found - my great-grandparents on my mother's side...their travel from 'the old country' to the US.

Well that’s pretty cool, 1893 wasn’t that long ago! There may even be photos 

9 minutes ago, GReb said:

Surname traces back to northern Switzerland.  The other lines trace back to UK

My moms side of the family came from Switzerland, they were Ruffner’s

[Columbia Craw]

My grandfather, who I never knew. He lived the first 17 years of his life in orphanages, Poor Law boys schools and  Work Houses in Hackney Union, Middlesex England.  He was sent to Canada in 1893 and was indentured until he was 19 years old.  My Dad never spoke of him.

[Scott F]

My oldest sister did all the research on our family. On my mother’s side, both of her parents were born in Ireland. On my father’s side, his father’s family were also from the UK. His mother’s family has a long history here in the states. Her ancestors came over on the Mayflower. One of them died on the ship while in Plymouth Harbor. We are distantly related to president John Quincy and Samual Adams. We had relatives who fought in the revolutionary war. 
My sister spent a lot of time doing the research, traveling to Ireland to look up records and visiting cemeteries and to New England towns to look for information. 

[TnRiver46]

49 minutes ago, Scott F said:

My oldest sister did all the research on our family. On my mother’s side, both of her parents were born in Ireland. On my father’s side, his father’s family were also from the UK. His mother’s family has a long history here in the states. Her ancestors came over on the Mayflower. One of them died on the ship while in Plymouth Harbor. We are distantly related to president John Quincy and Samual Adams. We had relatives who fought in the revolutionary war. 
My sister spent a lot of time doing the research, traveling to Ireland to look up records and visiting cemeteries and to New England towns to look for information. 

That’s awesome, your sister sounds like my aunt

 

my brother in law went deep into the ancestry rabbit hole , his dad said “son, sometimes you just gotta know when to quit” haha. He was obsessed there for a while 

[Bankbeater]

My mom did a lot of research a few years before she passed.  Her family came from Germany to Southern Illinois.  A distant cousin has done a lot more research on my dad's side.  His family came from England and landed in Maryland in the late 1600s.  The descendants moved to North Carolina, then Virginia, and eventually ended up in NE Arkansas.

[LonnieP]

Yes I’ve done the Ancestry DNA thing a few years back. Ending up doing a lot of research and was able to trace some parts of my family to 1500s Scotland and England. 

[Deleted account]

My great, great, great..... grand father was Adam, and my great, great, great..... grand mom was Eve....

 

[Kirtley Howe]

5 hours ago, Scott F said:

My oldest sister did all the research on our family. On my mother’s side, both of her parents were born in Ireland. On my father’s side, his father’s family were also from the UK. His mother’s family has a long history here in the states. Her ancestors came over on the Mayflower. One of them died on the ship while in Plymouth Harbor. We are distantly related to president John Quincy and Samual Adams. We had relatives who fought in the revolutionary war. 
My sister spent a lot of time doing the research, traveling to Ireland to look up records and visiting cemeteries and to New England towns to look for information. 

Some of my ancestors came over on the Mayflower....and some of my ancestors were here to greet them when they landed.

[roadwarrior]

1 hour ago, Deleted account said:

My great, great, great..... grand father was Adam, and my great, great, great..... grand mom was Eve....

 

Adam & Eve Smith...

We're brothers from different mothers!

[slonezp]

Mom and dad screwed and I was born.

[TnRiver46]

28 minutes ago, slonezp said:

Mom and dad screwed and I was born.

You sure? We thought you wuz hatched 

[813basstard]

Pops told me a couple of Coors Lights and a Friday night…

[slonezp]

15 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

You sure? We thought you wuz hatched 

Maybe. Dad always said my sister was found under a rock.

[TnRiver46]

30 minutes ago, 813basstard said:

Pops told me a couple of Coors Lights and a Friday night…

Couple coors light? You mean a half gallon of tap water ? 

[Glenn]

My great-grandparents traveled on a ship from Sweden to Ellis Island.  My grandfather was the personal hunting guide for Calvin Coolidge.  I have his binoculars in the original leather carrying case, and his spurs.

[ATA]

To be honest I have the kit and I paid for service, But I am hesitant to go with it.  But I think I will do it soon so I'll reply here the result, I know some of history of my parents already about few generation but not like ancestry style

[Jar11591]

I’ve wanted to do this for a while. I know only a little of my ancestry from what I’ve been told by my parents. My maternal grandparents are first generation American-born. Grandfathers parents came here from Hungary, and my grandmothers parents came here from Germany, sometime around the turn of the 20th century. On my dads side I know a lot less, only that my father is nearly full blooded French Canadian. 
 

 

[TnRiver46]

7 hours ago, Glenn said:

My great-grandparents traveled on a ship from Sweden to Ellis Island.  My grandfather was the personal hunting guide for Calvin Coolidge.  I have his binoculars in the original leather carrying case, and his spurs.

That’s cool! So instead of having to look it all up and track down documents,  they might have just told you about it over dinner! Haha

[cheezyridr]

my little sister is family historian.   john mcallister schofield was a descendant  of my father.

 

my oldest brother looks alot like him.  his brother in "invented" the schofield revolver you see in so many westerns. 

 

we also had a relative who was stationed at the alamo, but killed himself due to a terminal illness.  he wasn't there for all the famous stuff. more recently, there are a couple famous musicians from my mother's side,  her side also owned a carriage company that made them for dignitaries and heads of state.  one of those is in a museum not far from here.  the same folks were very active with the city gov't here, donating land, creating parks, building churches, etc.

 

[Deleted account]

1 hour ago, cheezyridr said:

john mcallister schofield was a descendant  of my father.

 

 

 

And invented the time machine?...