Ancestry??

[MN Fisher]

2 hours ago, cheezyridr said:

john mcallister schofield was a descendant  of my father.

I think you meant Ancestor - you're the descendant of Mr. Schofield.

[Deleted account]

Paternal great great grandfather from Chiavari Italy. 

 

 

[Randy Price]

23 hours ago, Bankbeater said:

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.

I'm from north central AR (Mtn.View) originally.  Both sides of my family came from the UK (Wales and England) in the late 1700's.  They arrives in VA and then migrated to TN and then AR.  Both sides of the family fought for the CSA.  Funny many folks from AR can trace their lineage back very far!

[cheezyridr]

58 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

 

And invented the time machine?...

 

ahh, i see now.  ? 

obviously, i have no idea how to say that the right way,  my feelin's wouldn't be hurt if you (or anyone) would  tell me how i should have said it.

[TnRiver46]

24 minutes ago, Randy Price said:

I'm from north central AR (Mtn.View) originally.  Both sides of my family came from the UK (Wales and England) in the late 1700's.  They arrives in VA and then migrated to TN and then AR.  Both sides of the family fought for the CSA.  Funny many folks from AR can trace their lineage back very far!

I bet our peoples were walking down the same trail 

[NavyToad]

Mostly German with some Irish.

I keep looking for the European-American box on my Background Check application, but I’m stuck checking the White box.

[Deleted account]

4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

I bet our peoples were walking down the same trail 

 

Yeah, Appalachian...

[TnRiver46]

15 minutes ago, Deleted account said:

 

Yeah, Appalachian...

Hahaha that one wasn’t quite there yet. Wilderness road more likely 

 

Also the Appalachian trail in TN/NC doesn’t get you across the mtns, it just rides the top of them 

[detroit1]

On 4/9/2023 at 12:26 PM, Deleted account said:

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

 

Holy crap..you are centuries old!

[Mobasser]

I was able to trace my Irish ancestry back to Ireland during the famine. My grandad grew up in an orphanage in Canada. He was sent there as a young boy. They sent lots of young Irish kids to different places, mostly orphanages, some homes. No food for them at that time.I could never learn what happened to my great grandparents. 

[N Florida Mike]

Some of my dads people came in 1620 to Jamestown VA. One Great…. Uncle there was Alexander Whitaker, that baptized pocahontas. We thought they were English and Irish. They ended up in Tazewell county Va. 
Moms family was mostly Scots- Irish. They settled in SE N. Carolina in the 1700s eventually around and east of lumberton…

My wife bought me a dna test that I took a few years ago.

Results were 66% Scottish/ Irish ( Celtic) 21 % scandinavian ( which I knew nothing about) And some southern European/ Sw Asian. Which also was unknown to us.

The weird thing is 0 % English, which I thought my dad was half of.

As for wars, can’t find anything on the revolution, but many fought for the south in the civil war.Several fought in the world wars as well.

 As popeye would say “ I yam what I yam” ?

 

 

 

 

[Columbia Craw]

On 4/9/2023 at 4:12 AM, 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. 

 

My 4th great uncle was James Harrower. He was born  in Inverness Scotland and enlisted in the King’s Royal  Highlander’s in the 42nd of Foot, also known as the Blackwatch. Sgt. Harrower was wounded in the revolutionary war during the siege of Charleston. He survived his wounds and returned to England to heal. He made a career of the Army and had a large family.  Small world.?

[flyfisher]

I did a DNA thing and since I was adopted I didn't really know anything and I honestly don't even care but I did find out I have neanderthal DNA greater than 36% of the people.  

 

[TnRiver46]

1 hour ago, N Florida Mike said:

Some of my dads people came in 1620 to Jamestown VA. One Great…. Uncle there was Alexander Whitaker, that baptized pocahontas. We thought they were English and Irish. They ended up in Tazewell county Va. 
Moms family was mostly Scots- Irish. They settled in SE N. Carolina in the 1700s eventually around and east of lumberton…

My wife bought me a dna test that I took a few years ago.

Results were 66% Scottish/ Irish ( Celtic) 21 % scandinavian ( which I knew nothing about) And some southern European/ Sw Asian. Which also was unknown to us.

The weird thing is 0 % English, which I thought my dad was half of.

As for wars, can’t find anything on the revolution, but many fought for the south in the civil war.Several fought in the world wars as well.

 As popeye would say “ I yam what I yam” ?

 

 

 

 

That’s a long ways back! Tazewell TN is close to Virginia, I’m guessing they are both near the clinch and Powell river. That’s some pristine smallmouth habitat, you can float along and catch them cast after cast 

[newriverfisherman1953]

20 hours ago, N Florida Mike said:

Some of my dads people came in 1620 to Jamestown VA. One Great…. Uncle there was Alexander Whitaker, that baptized pocahontas.

Pocahontas is my 13 Great grandmother. Ancestors include Edith Bolling Wilson, second wife of Woodrow Wilson. 

[N Florida Mike]

9 minutes ago, newriverfisherman1953 said:

Pocahontas is my 13 Great grandmother. Ancestors include Edith Bolling Wilson, second wife of Woodrow Wilson. 

That’s pretty cool. Here it is 400 years later and we have that connection!

[N Florida Mike]

Another interesting thing( to me anyway) , is that one of my first cousins on mom’s side has very similar dna to me, but took a different test. So that seems to give it more credibility for both of us…

[ATA]

I came across this shorts from my favorite comedian Bill Burr:

 

[slonezp]

On 4/12/2023 at 8:30 PM, flyfisher said:

I did a DNA thing and since I was adopted I didn't really know anything and I honestly don't even care but I did find out I have neanderthal DNA greater than 36% of the people.  

 

That explains a lot

[clayton86]

I’ve always wondered. My aunt knows the family tree a little I guess I always ask her about people when I run into some one else with same last name. Not a lot of George’s out there so when I meet some one with same last name it’s always “maybe cousins” haha. 
 

My grandma on moms side always said she was the lost princess of Russia or what ever. Anastasia or something my younger sister believed her for a bit but time frames don’t match my grandma was just crazy. 
 

I've thought about doing the DNA thing but I don’t exactly trust who ever it goes to. Kinda like the bill Burr thing. I just say I’m a mutt if subject comes up. 

[flyfisher]

47 minutes ago, slonezp said:

That explains a lot

I said the same thing when I got the results.

[slonezp]

9 minutes ago, flyfisher said:

I said the same thing when I got the results.

Great minds think alike

[J Francho]

I was adopted too, so the results surprised me a quite a bit. Was able to connect with my biological mother, a half sister, half brother, and an aunt, so that was pretty cool. 

[scaleface]

I did the DNA testing and started searching online for family history . There are two books about my family . One is a family tree that dates back to 1600 Prussia/Germany . One has stories . I found the Revolutionary war pension record of my G-grandfather x 5 .He was a minute man and served three terms about a month each time . He was one of them who crossed the Delaware  . I have lots of old pictures posted on Facebook and relatives from everywhere friending me to see the photos . Its pretty interesting . Heres one of my Great Grandfathers.

[Fallser]

My sister's done more research than I have on our ancestry.  I'm second generation American.  So we didn't get here till the early 1900's.  She's traced the Italian side(my dad) back to the mid-1800's in Italy.  The Ukrainian side has been a bit more difficult.  I was able to provide her with the names of our great-great grandparents from my great grandmother's baptism certificate.  The stumbling block is my mom's father.  As far as we know he was the only one in his family(11 or 12 kids) who immigrated to the US.  I remember him complaining to my dad about his sisters who were always asking  him to send them American dollars.  This was in the late 1950's.  Based on his surname, it's quite possible we have relatives in Canada, including a professional hockey player.  This is a picture of my grandmother's family shortly after they arrived in the US in the early 1900's.

 My grandmother is standing next to my great grandfather, who I never met.  My great grandmother died in 1958.  I also met my great uncles, Mike and Nick.  We have no idea who the girl standing in front of my great grandfather is.