ShannonCT
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From Steve Olson's Mapping Human History:
Geneology?
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Exactly like me, if you substitute "Protestants" for "Jews" and "Britain" for "Eastern Europe."
My ancestors, as nearly as I can tell, are nothing special.
I used to be a member of the Society of Genealogists and I've traced my family tree on my father and my mothers side back to the late 1500s - with a possible link back to about 1100.
A couple of my ancestors were excommunicated in the 1700s for fornication.
A couple of my ancestors were excommunicated in the 1700s for fornication.
Ditto.
I have a reliable family tree going back six generations. Nothing too interesting there.
My uncle has researched all of this stuff pretty thoroughly, even going so far as to write a book about our family history. Mind you, he only printed enough for the extended family... I mean, who else would give a hoot!Oh, now these are fun!
@VRWC, did he maybe disown them because, as Cherokees, they probably had sided w/ the Confederacy?
Anyhoo, it's clear from letters and whatnot that the split occured because my great-great-grandfather couldn't abide the French blood being tainted. Me, personally, I'm tempted to disown the lot of them for fighting for the Union! 
NO idea how good they are, but a quick Yahoo! search...
http://genealogy.about.com/od/free_software/Free_Genealogy_Software_Utilities.htm
On my mother's side we have a large number of miners, as well as a vague connection to Richard Trevithick.
On my dad's side there's nothing of interest (some very vague links to piracy, but thats it).
On my dad's side there's nothing of interest (some very vague links to piracy, but thats it).
Godwynn
March to the Sea
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Are any of you into geneology?
I'm not that much, but I would, at a minimum, like to just keep the barebone facts somewhere. Does anyone have any websites or software they recommend? Freeware is best, but I realize that in a niche industry there might not be any good freeware.
Anyone have any interesting finds from doing this type of research? And please, avoid the stuff about "I'm descended from nobility!" I mean, any of you find relations that were killers? Diplomats? Any interesting occupations?
That kind of stuff.
I don't know if this is too late or not, but my cousin has been working on my father's side of the family tree, and I have been doing my mother's side from ancestry.com. For some strange reason I was allowed to do everything a registered member could do for a good half a year, and it stopped today. I cannot complain too much, and I gathered a load of information from it.
In order of majority:
German
English
Swiss
French
Scottish
Welsh
Some famous relatives:
Isaac Newton
Doc Holliday
Alexandre Dumas
Alfred Tennyson
Helen Keller
John Glenn
Agatha Christie
Robert Louis Stevenson
Audrey Hepburn
George Orwell
Alfred the Great (Possibly, unsure for now).
Most of my relatives are outlaws, authors, or inventors.
It's neat stuff!
West 36
Can count up to 4
I'm in some way related to Nathaniel Hawthorne, but IDK anything else. What do you guys use? Geneology.com wants my $- screw that.
Japanrocks12
tired of being a man
I have a court painter of the bengali rajah/or whatever was ruling in that region in my lineage.
EDIT: court poet or physician, my mistake
EDIT: court poet or physician, my mistake
Irish Caesar
Yellow Jacket
Godwynn
March to the Sea
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I can tell you exactly what he is:
Relationship: 5th Cousin 5 times removed
I am also related to John Wesley Hardin, who killed a man for snoring once. Short tempers run in my family.
Sofista
Deity
The family tradition was that we originally came to my native village to build the castle.
And I thought it was bull, because the parish registers only showed my family being here from circa 1730. But this summer I found proof us here from at least since 1190, so maybe there's some truth to that.
And I thought it was bull, because the parish registers only showed my family being here from circa 1730. But this summer I found proof us here from at least since 1190, so maybe there's some truth to that.
Mirc
Not mIRC!!!
Doesn't have anything for Romania... And AFAIK absolutely all my ancestors were born here, as far as I could ever look.
I wouldn't even know where to begin. I only really know the extent of my mother's family to her parents. My grandfather was in the Polish cavalry at the dawn of World War II, then went in the underground until, in 1941, one of the people he was trying to help escape tipped off the Nazis, who sent him to a slave labor camp for three years.
My grandmother, I believe, lived near Bialystok by the time the Nazis came rolling in around 1941. Her home was destroyed, she was wounded, and was taken to a slave labor camp for three years.
See where I'm going with this? Oddly enough, that's how they met. My grandmother's sister was taken to Siberia and died there, I believe.
Well, they married after Americans liberated the camp and were in one of those relocation towns that I don't think even exists anymore, perhaps in the British sector and my mother was born there.
It may sound corny, but I do think that family in Poland do have a few relics from the time the family was a part of the nobility, though that could mean anything, really.
As far as my father's side, some Jewish, some Russian, and a lot of Texan with a story that I'm related to William Travis of the Alamo (at least it'd explain some of the last name's history).
But since things like an Iron Curtain and just plain lousy people have made me cut off from the family, it's hard to get concrete data.
My grandmother, I believe, lived near Bialystok by the time the Nazis came rolling in around 1941. Her home was destroyed, she was wounded, and was taken to a slave labor camp for three years.
See where I'm going with this? Oddly enough, that's how they met. My grandmother's sister was taken to Siberia and died there, I believe.
Well, they married after Americans liberated the camp and were in one of those relocation towns that I don't think even exists anymore, perhaps in the British sector and my mother was born there.
It may sound corny, but I do think that family in Poland do have a few relics from the time the family was a part of the nobility, though that could mean anything, really.
As far as my father's side, some Jewish, some Russian, and a lot of Texan with a story that I'm related to William Travis of the Alamo (at least it'd explain some of the last name's history).
But since things like an Iron Curtain and just plain lousy people have made me cut off from the family, it's hard to get concrete data.
vbraun
Raytracing
I share a last name with a Ukrainian Soccer Player of about the same age, who's apparently famous enough to warrant a wikipedia page.
Ansar
Détente avec l'été
Garcia is way too common to know who's in my family and who just has the same last name as me.
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