[Jewbacca]

Mom, Dad, Levi, Abrham, Noah, Adam.

people in between.

[Andyman]

I’m VERY into genealogy. My wife’s family goes back to Quebec in the 1600’s and about 100 years back in France from there. I’m English/Scottish/Irish/German.

She’s lucky, Catholic records and she can read and write French. Lousy Irish records and old German script make things a lot tougher for me. Together, we have some 2,500 in our tree, mostly mine because she does not want to “collect” ancestors unless they are in her direct line.

[oh8eleven]

Ancestry.Com is worth ten times what they charge for an annual subscription (~ $165). My family history stopped with my grandfather (who died in Brooklyn, 1965) and no one ever talked about our family history. Big secret.
I retired two years ago, got researching in Ancestry full time and I discovered my past - all the way back to my gg-grandfather who I now know came here from Ireland in 1851 and ended up living in the lower east side of NYC.
Even better, I discovered one of his sons (my great grandfather) had a brother who also had descendants which meant I might have "missing cousins" still alive. Long story short - I did and although it took me a year to find the first one, I now have over 100 new relatives in my family tree.

[AFreeBird]

Oh, so you’re a Froggy are ya? ;)

Yea, that’s a good site. Great place to get started.

My family dates back to the 17th century in this country. England before that, and possibly Germany before that.

And yea, some froggy got into the mix too, only after they had moved here though.

[Let's Roll]

CK your FReepmail

[RnMomof7]

My sister in law found out we are kin to Honey Fitz.. (the Kennedy’s ) actually we would have rather not known that ...

[PanzerKardinal]

My family has lived in the same village at least since 1641.

The family farm was bought in 1724.

The main house, which my cousins now live in, was built in 1908.

[DJ MacWoW]

I started doing this in the early 80’s the hard way. I sent for death certs and land records etc. Ancestry is good but not the only source. I’m not a fan of their “One World Tree” either. Love the census records though.

[oh8eleven]

I watched this season's TV show, "Who Do You Think You Are?"
More Hollywood BS. Most of the people featured on this show are actors and very well off - i.e. millionaires.
If they really gave a damn about anything other than themselves, like their family history, why haven't any of them hired genealogists to do the research years ago?
Phonies.

[oh8eleven]

Outstanding free resource for NYC ancestors info. No, it isn't limited to Italians, they're just the sponsor.

[sauropod]

Be careful of what’s on Ancestry.com.

There’s lots of unsubstantiated stuff on there.

[EggsAckley]

My family tree has been traced back to 1700 when a gggg+++grandfather came here from England. His name was Joshua Fry. He was a well respected cartographer in Virginia and was also the General in the French-Indian wars. One of his men was a young George Washington. When Joshua died from a horsing accident in 1750, Washington took over his command.

Joshua can be found on the net, with the story of his time here.

Also, another ggggrandfather was named George Miller, and he was the second bishop named by Joseph Smith with the Mormons. After Smith's murder, George did not follow Brigham Young to Utah, choosing instead to head down to Texas with a splinter group of Mormons. By then he had four wives. He can also be found on google.

[grumpa]

My Lutheran pastor friend said he traced his ancestors back to a Pope in the 12th century.

[jrcats]

I loved all the shows & yes I have belonged to Ancestry.com for quite a few years. Since I had 2 roadblocks one on my fathers side & one on my husband’s side I had my brother (father had died in 81) & my husband both do paternal dna tests & found that the surnames were different. Now I’m on a quest to find the common ancestors on both these lines.

[Grunthor]

“and the Seattle area (including the Olympic peninsula)”

My family is here on the Olympic Penninsula and has been for more than hundred years AFAICT. My Great -Grandmother/mom’s side belonged to the family that founded a rural town named Porter that still exists. A couple generations before her the family name was “Twidwell” and they helped found the small rural community of Brooklyn, Wa and basically were the (vigilante) law enforcement back in the late 1800’s and early 1900’s. Not much is known about my mother’s fathers’ side past his mom who was an alcoholic and gave him up for adoption around the age of 12. She did however name him after one of my favorite authers; Robert Lewis Stevenson. He was a logger and family farmer in Aberdeen, Washington for many decades when he retired and moved himself and Grandma out to the Eastern part of the county.

I have been told that the family came from Europe in the mid 1800’s and were (again moms’ side) Swedish Jews.

My mom stays in contact with one of her uncles in California, apparantly there are still many “Twidwells” there and in Kansas that we are related to.

[CodeToad]

We can trace to past 1500 on one side and 1620 on the other.

[Thumper1960]

My family goes back to Africa and the Rift Valley................................

I think. :-)

[JimRed]

I’ve probably got a horse thief from Kildare from the 19th century and a bit of Viking invader from a thousand or so years back. Mrs. JimRed is the great grandchild of survivors of the great famine in Ireland, and her cousin is related by marriage to a former governor of New Jersey.

Beyond the last couple of generations, I don’t think I want to know too much detail about about my roots.

[MrsEmmaPeel]

I'm a member of the DAC (Daughters of American Colonists). Our ancestors were on the Mayflower.

I'm also a member of the DAR (Daughters of American Revolution), as one of my ancestors served in that war. (He was shot in the leg while delivering dispatches to General Washington.)

[philled]

I’ve been very curious about Ancestry.com and thought I might join. My maternal history is traceable back to the late 17th century in England/America. However, my paternal history seems to start with my grandparents who just kind of showed up around 1900...