ancestry

[Deleted User 89]

anybody looked into theirs, or have family members who have?

my pops has been working in ours, and has turned up some fascinating stuff, through Ancestry.com, family records, and public library research

civil war (both sides), revolutionary war, slaves owners...just a boat-load of fascinating stuff. so far he’s gone back 6 generations or so, to the 1600s fur some lineages

[jhawks99]

My dad did years ago. Wasn't able to find much.

My daughter did the 23 and me or whatever that is and it came back and said we're Northern European mutts.

[pdub]

"civil war (both sides)"

Don't tell illy.

[ousdahl]

I’m curious to do this too.

My maternal great grandparents came from Italy thru Ellis Island around the turn of the century.

We asked my paternal great grandpa in the how long our fam lived here, and he said as far back as he can recall his great grandpa lived here too, so my dad thinks his side was among the first English colonists to arrive in Merica

[Deleted User 89]

i’ve apparently got an ancestor that was awarded 400 acres in “Indiana territory” for his service at the battle of Tippecanoe during the American-Indian War

[Deleted User 89]

and for 99:

(from my pops) ... According to ancestry.com, ________ emigrated from Ireland and was a Private in Virginia Regiment during the Revolutionary War. He then migrated with his family and slaves to Kentucky after the war. Moses was designated a pioneer of Kentucky and was the first Sweeney in Lincoln County.

i’m eating this shit up...more so than i thought i would

[shindig]

My Dad did it several years ago and mapped out his family side, but it only went back to the 1880's or so. Not a whole lot I didn't already know. My great, great grandpa and grandma immigrated from a small town in Germany (can't remember the name), to SE Kansas so he could mine coal. I believe it's more difficult to find records pre-immigrating to America, so who knows what they did back in Germany.

[pdub]

and for 99:

(from my pops) ... According to ancestry.com, ________ emigrated from Ireland and was a Private in Virginia Regiment during the Revolutionary War. He then migrated with his family and slaves to Kentucky after the war. Moses was designated a pioneer of Kentucky and was the first Sweeney in Lincoln County.

i’m eating this shit up...more so than i thought i would

Probably involved in some Native American skirmishes as well in the 1790's then if out there in Kentucky.

[jhawks99]

I'm pretty curious about where I came from but haven't really pursued it.
I found out pretty late in life (45 or so) that I'm adopted. Everything was handled through the Catholic church and they don't disclose nuttin. I'm hesitant to ask my Mom about it, mostly because she never mentioned the fact and I'm afraid making inquiries would upset her.

[Deleted User 89]

and for 99:

(from my pops) ... According to ancestry.com, ________ emigrated from Ireland and was a Private in Virginia Regiment during the Revolutionary War. He then migrated with his family and slaves to Kentucky after the war. Moses was designated a pioneer of Kentucky and was the first Sweeney in Lincoln County.

i’m eating this shit up...more so than i thought i would

Probably involved in some Native American skirmishes as well in the 1790's then if out there in Kentucky.

yup, unfortunately

[Deleted User 89]

apparently, this dude is in my line as well

https://www.dailypress.com/news/dp-xpm- ... story.html

[shindig]

Genetics are fascinating. My mom has a picture of herself when she was 10 and at the same age, I looked just like her, it's weird. You put the pictures side by side and it's hard to tell the difference...lol. She had short hair, which I did too. My older brother looks more like my dad and my younger brother is a mesh of the two. My brother's used to give me a lot of shit about looking like a girl...lol. Oh well, that's just how things happen.

[twocoach]

anybody looked into theirs, or have family members who have?

my pops has been working in ours, and has turned up some fascinating stuff, through Ancestry.com, family records, and public library research

civil war (both sides), revolutionary war, slaves owners...just a boat-load of fascinating stuff. so far he’s gone back 6 generations or so, to the 1600s fur some lineages

My Mom and I do extensive genealogy and have found all 32 of my GGG-grandparents and a huge number of lines stretching a long ways back beyond that. We tracked my paternal family line back to the early 1600s and discovered that an ancestor of my father's fought in the same small Revolutionary War battle as an ancestor of my mother's and have a lot of different ancestors who fought in the Revolutionary War.

We have done a ton of genealogy research for other people if you ever want some help or have questions.

[twocoach]

My Dad did it several years ago and mapped out his family side, but it only went back to the 1880's or so. Not a whole lot I didn't already know. My great, great grandpa and grandma immigrated from a small town in Germany (can't remember the name), to SE Kansas so he could mine coal. I believe it's more difficult to find records pre-immigrating to America, so who knows what they did back in Germany.

They have some decent German records on Ancestry.com if you have a name to start with. My father in law emigrated from Germany in the 50s with his parents. We were able to find two more generations back through Ancestry.

[twocoach]

and for 99:

(from my pops) ... According to ancestry.com, ________ emigrated from Ireland and was a Private in Virginia Regiment during the Revolutionary War. He then migrated with his family and slaves to Kentucky after the war. Moses was designated a pioneer of Kentucky and was the first Sweeney in Lincoln County.

i’m eating this shit up...more so than i thought i would

Early Kentucky has a fascinating history. I had several family members go there through the Carolinas to claim land when it was still a territory. The Morgan, Bryan, Orton and Boone families that settled out there have fascinating origins. Our Bryan ancestor ties us all the way back to the House of Platagenet line of Kings of England. Once you tie back into those types of people, records go WAY back.

[jhawks99]

Ft Boonsboro is fairly close to here. I need to get out there and check it out.
I work with a Bryan, wonder if there's a connection.

[twocoach]

Ft Boonsboro is fairly close to here. I need to get out there and check it out.
I work with a Bryan, wonder if there's a connection.

Ask him if he can trace his Bryan last name back to a Sir Francis Bryan, whose grandson Sir William Smith Bryan tried unsuccessfully to take the throne of Ireland, resulting in the whole family getting deported to Virginia in 1650 by Oliver Cromwell.

An interesting article on Sir Francis Bryan: https://tudortimes.co.uk/people/sir-francis-bryan-1

[defixione]

I traced mine back to my 2nd cousin. He was Paul (Revere) Dick of Paul Revere and the Raiders. I'm gonna stop right there.

[Overlander]

Direct descendant of John Adams here

[Deleted User 887]

You're all my cousins. What more do I need to know?