Everything they find out about you is returned using FedEx.

 

Thanks for sharing to all of you and Lawnboy for starting this thread. I joined Ancestry a year ago and was successful in getting easily back to about 1850 but then it becomes murky. After reading this I am going to rejoin Ancestry and do the DNA

I found out by research, then DNA that on both my paternal & maternal side my people were in America before the American Revolution. Therefore, I could actually join that "hoity toity" group Daughters of the American Revolution. I could surely find someone who fought in Delaware or Virginia. I find it fun to find a record about vocation or migration of my kin. Sometimes a story. I marvel at the rolling stones that shared my sense of adventure. Either that or they were all running from the bill collector.

Am I the only one who doesn't care about their ancestry? I totally understand the desire to know about it. I'm certain I'm in the overwhelming minority. Don't get me wrong, I dig reading your stories. Just not interested in my own. Can't really explain it.

 

Clothes for Christmas as a kid?

I have not done DNA, but have found some interesting things through Ancestry and Genealogy

 

The furthest I have traced back was my paternal grandmother to London to 1054. Surname changes throughout, with some I had no idea I was related to those surnames.

 

The most interesting was my paternal grandfather. His great great grandfather, my great great great grandfather,(I think could be one more great) was one of the 30 men surrendered by Daniel Boone to the Shawnee at the Blue Licks on the Licking River in Kentucky in 1778. He lived with the Shawnee until 1799 when he either left or was released. It is not known whether he married or just melded into the tribe. He must have been useful in some way because he was not sold into slavery nor killed. It's possible he married and had children, but no evidence of that. He did marry after leaving Chillicothe and settled in Bourbon County, Kentucky and was the last surviving member of the 30 and died in 1844 in his late 80's. He gave the only interview to John Filson for his biography of Daniel Boone about the incident 3 months before his death. Filson travelled to see him in Bourbon County. That is all I know. He did have a son which is my great great grandfather who fought for the Confederate States and died in 1863 at Point Lookout Prison Camp of the Union forces in St Mary County Maryland probably of some disease. His son, my great grandfather moved to Hawesville in Hancock County and most of that part of my family lives in Hancock or Ohio County in Kentucky. A few started to Columbia, SC. My father was the only one to leave and work at the Ford Assembly Plant on Fern Valley in Louisville beyond the South Carolinians.

 

My maternal grandfather could be traced to Rhode Island in 1770's and had no luck at all with my maternal grandmother.

 

When I shared the stuff I find with family it is pretty cool.

 

I may do the DNA.

 

I was very fortunate to remember time spent with one great grandfather and two great grandmothers. I remember all three well. I wish I would have asked them about family but I was between 5-12 when they died and I wasn't interested at those ages.

I suppose this may throw this thread into the Controversial Issues forum, but I've always been told the reason why Mormons historically are such experts at genealogy was to make sure members or potential members of their church had no African heritage in their bloodlines. This apparently was relaxed in the 1960s with the changes in our country with regard to Civil Rights.

I suppose this may throw this thread into the Controversial Issues forum, but I've always been told the reason why Mormons historically are such experts at genealogy was to make sure members or potential members of their church had no African heritage in their bloodlines. This apparently was relaxed in the 1960s with the changes in our country with regard to Civil Rights.

 

I had been told the same thing. It would appear that likely to be some truth to that:

 

Black people in Mormon doctrine - Wikipedia

My parents surprised me with an Ancestry DNA test kit for Christmas. I just mailed it at the end of last week, and they're apparently on an 8-week minimum lead time right now on getting them turned around. Looking forward to seeing what they have to say.

 

70% Western European (With most of the genetic implications pointing to NW Germany)

15% Scandinavian

10% Great Britain

5% Ireland

They revised mine the other day. Mine is:

 

36% Ireland

21% Europe West

16% Scandinavia

15% Great Britain

1% Italy/Greece

Less than 1% European Jewish (low confidence)

 

I know for a fact based on my mother's extensive tracing that I have heavy heritage in Ireland and Scotland.

I like the new "genetic communities" feature.

I suppose this may throw this thread into the Controversial Issues forum, but I've always been told the reason why Mormons historically are such experts at genealogy was to make sure members or potential members of their church had no African heritage in their bloodlines. This apparently was relaxed in the 1960s with the changes in our country with regard to Civil Rights.

 

Was talking about this with a coworker recently. You can go online for free and research quite a bit of one's lineage through a Mormon website.

Edited September 9, 20197 yr by bugatti

I am very interested in this topic and have done some research. I am more interested right now in the more recent history of my father's surname line. It appears I have many members of that side of my family who live or lived in the Paducah area. If there are any members who live in McCracken County, please Private Message me if you can help locate some of my family. Thanks.

I signed up for a free trial and I may be hooked. :lol2:

I signed up for a free trial and I may be hooked. :lol2:

 

My son and I over the course of a few nights tracked my wife's family back to the dark ages to around 900 AD. It can get addictive quickly...good luck.

My son and I over the course of a few nights tracked my wife's family back to the dark ages to around 900 AD. It can get addictive quickly...good luck.

 

I got back to the late 1800's pretty easily on my Mom's side. She's big into genealogy, we'll probably play with it some more.

I got back to the late 1800's pretty easily on my Mom's side. She's big into genealogy, we'll probably play with it some more.

 

There is another free site, name slips my mind right now, that we used to verify info. If the green leaves didn't give clear next step we'd compare the info to the other site. If they agreed we'd accept it and move on.