Thank you, Dolly.
Genealogy is one of my loves. I haven’t spent much time doing research lately but doing this thread helped to get me excited again.
our ancestry is from Czechoslovakia & they came here about the time of the Titanic. Some of our family has done some research in Europe in the communities as well as on line. We dont have any famous (well at least to English speaking) people as far as I can tell. Some aristocracy but mostly common types..
My parents did alot of research on my father’s family and made trips to Scotland and Ireland as well as here in the states. My Dad wrote a little book on one part of the family. Pretty neat stuff, I’ll post some pics tonight if I have time. Personally I find it fascinating.
I think this is one of the best presents I have ever given. She is going absolutely crazy with it. She already had a pretty decent family tree laid out from some research that her aunt had done 30-40 years ago, so this gave her a solid foundation to start. She now cranks out about 15-20 E-mails a day to distant relatives, both here in the US and in Europe, asking for information on our ancestors.
So far, she has discovered fairly close ties to Henry Clay, Daniel Boone, and Andrew Jackson here in the US and a large amount of royalty in Europe, ranging from Robert the Bruce to Henry VI of France.
My dad's side of the family is harder to trace, primarily since most of the records stayed in Germany after they immigrated and the towns were subsequently destroyed during WW2 (one during fighting with the US Army and the other was burned to the ground by the Soviets), but we have managed to piece together some details over the years.