Geneology and tracking your roots.

[fleetwood1976]

I have a distant cousin that is on a mission to trace her geneology and it is kind of rubbing off on me. I have been getting the scoop from grandma on our side and she had this pic. the littlist guy on the fence is my great grandfather and the guy with the hat my great great and the dude with the watch chain my great great great. this pic was taken in 1893 in front of the house my dads nephew lives in now. we found a platbook document from 1810 with my oldest traceable ancestor that we believe was the first to settle in indiana with 60 acres west of plainville that was then called stumptown. that was 6 years before Indiana was a state. The area of our family farm had a school with our family name and the levee is named after my great great grandfather. It's kind of cool to know that for the last 200 years your family has been in the same place. my grandmas house's living room is actually a log cabin and the rest of the house was built around it later on.

[joncutt87]

Very cool, my aunt has our family traced back very far. At least as far back as Huncote, England hense Honeycutt

[raven818]

Great photo. My wife is from Jeffersonville. Good luck with your search. My sister and I tried to do the same. Not enough information. I guess that's our fault.

[time2shoot]

I say go for it.
It is alot of fun, my wife has my side going back to the 1600 hundreds. you will find all kinds of cool stuff.
Like i found out my 8th cousin was Wld Bill Hickok. and i have a great great great grandfather who was named. ready for this. Nimrod
so ya go for it, it's a hoot.

[Plinked]

Cool family photo and history.
I have mine going back to 1591
My Great Great Great Great Great Great grandfather emigrated from Germany to Maine in 1754, my father was the first generation born outside of that State

[fleetwood1976]

we have records to when we settled Indiana and suposedly immigrated from wales (england). I would like to trace back to the old country. I think it is cool that we were here as early as 1810. Thats forts and Indian days. my cousin that lives in that house has a civil war springfield musket thats been handed down. Makes you wonder if one of my ancestors was in the civil war. It is just cool to deer hunt on that property and know that people in that picture took game and fished in the same river as I do and farmed the same ground etc.

[carver]

Bryant probably started out as O'Bryan, then got changed here in America. Scotch Irish decendents here. I'm not sure how far back the family has been traced. We had it worked out to Irland, and Scotland, but then discovered that some information we had received from the Mormons was falty, so we've had to start over. Coach Bear Bryant, from, Fordyce Arkansas is one of my kin folk. Fleetwood, I know how you feel about that old gun. My Great, Great Grandfather did serve in the Confederate Army. There is still a picture of him in uniform over the mantle at the old home place in Ringgold, LA. Dad once owned his musket, and saber, along with some other stuff, but it was all lost in a break in 30 years ago. Good luck, and good hunting to all of you looking into your past!

[Diamondback]

Your cousin is in for one of the most rewarding and frustrating times of her life. It took me five years of searching to find the necessary information to prove that I was part Cherokee. I have spent over fifteen years off and on doint the research. In the process I learned that I had an ancestor on the Mayflower. I had an ancestor who crossed the Delaware river with General George Washington. General J.E.B. of Confederat Cavalry fame was a relative.
My ancestry as I have found is Irish, Scot, English, French, Prussian, Huron, Wyandott and Cherokee. I am 100% Native American and proud of it. What a wonderous voyage you are embarking upon. It is almost as addictive as guns and shooting.

[cycloneman]

I did a trace on some rather interesting fellows and here is what i found.

[geds]

And I thought Jefferson was smart enough and evolved enough to spell his own name!

[geds]

Have fun with ancestry research - I am enjoying piddling with mine. Like others have said, you'll discover some interesting things - and some you might rather not have found out about!

[hogger129]

All I know is that part of my family came here from Palermo, Sicily in the 1920's, other part of my family came here from Greece.

Grandpa on Sicilian side was in the Navy in WWII and Korea. Grandpa on Greek side operated a liquor store and worked at a bank.

[Bobitis]

Some on my Moms side have done some research, and as far back as I've been made aware of, I'm related to William Dawes.

Dad?

He was from Texas.

[Gabob]

I live on land that has been in the family since 1832. One of my ancestors was a Capt in militia fighting the RedSticks and was wounded at the Battle of Itchawaynochawy Creek in present day Terrell County Ga. A good way to trace lineage is www.ancestry.com They give hints that will help you find people in your family

[marlin795]

My great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great grandfather was william Bradford who came across on the mayflower. My great,great,great,great,grandfather was James Monroe patriot,and eventual president of the united states. I trace my roots back to the beginning of our country. I'm a very proud American and will die for her and to protect the citizens of this great nation.

[jack404]

my family i can trace to the founding of this nation Australia, and got some local blood in there along the way ,

we're a mix of the marines the sailors the convicts and natives ..

its a interesting thing going back and finding out what be what

[Plinked]

Originally Posted by marlin795

My great,great,great,great,great,great,great,great grandfather was william Bradford who came across on the mayflower. My great,great,great,great,grandfather was James Monroe patriot,and eventual president of the united states. I trace my roots back to the beginning of our country. I'm a very proud American and will die for her and to protect the citizens of this great nation.

My Great Grandmother's ( Mabel Whitney ) roots go all the way back the Bradford also.

[gad1111]

My great grand parents were born in Germany and Hungary and came to the US in the late 1800s and early 1900s,records before that get real spotty most were destroyed in the wars.

Greg

[The Duke]

Sometimes it is truly amazing what you find when you start digging...The computer age has made research easy for anyone..

Had a uncle who was in the horse cavalry before and during WWI and another who was an unsucessful train robber...Two fought in WWII...One a B25 pilot the other an AAC flight mechanic who was in same squadron with Richard Bong...top P-38 Ace of WWII...My late ex father in law was in New Guinea with Coastal Artillery where he got two bronze stars for 'returning' Jap handgrenades that were thrown into his pit..

A great, great, great uncle (born in Kerney, Mo. in 1844) who fought in WBTS, was good friends of Frank and Jessie James...He died at 105 or 6 when I was only about 4 or 5...He moved to North LA shortly after the WBTS, prob to avoid being hung by the yankees.....Here he was a moonshiner, rancher and elected to the local school board. Some of the old timers around here remembered him as 'a little man who rode a big bay horse...Had a quart of moonshine in one saddle bag and a pistol in the other and was real quick to use either one!!

An aunt who was Sheriff Pat Garrets neice...

Lost both my GGGGrandfathers in the WBTS...One at Gettysburg with the Jeff Davis Guards...21st Mississippi Infantry, I think...The other with 5th Alabama Infantry at Chancellorsville..

[Clipper]

It's great fun to shake the family tree! I discovered that my great grandfather (paternal)
was born in 1804. Had he lived until my father was born, he would have been over 100 years old. My great grandmother was his third wife, child birth took too many young mothers. She had lost her intended in the War of Northern Agression.
The remarkable thing is in three generations we span over 200 years!

[jjmitchell60]

Have or tree traced back a long way. One branch links us directly to Robert the Bruce, king of Scotland! Was always told we came to the new country in early 1700s due to 2 brothers stealing a horse. One was hung for it and before the other one could be he fled to the colonies along with his wife, grown son, and daughter in law. Found out that was actually TRUE however his wife died on board the ship just of the coaast off what is present day New Jersey! I have found military members in every war from F&I to current (my son is serving now with next posting either Quatar or Afganistan) and a nephew in Afganistan due to come home in May. I have pension papers on Great-Great grand father from Civil War, have the purpul heart and bronze star awarded to my great uncle post humously from Korea as well as the write up from the US Army as to how he died and what he did to earn them. Even haave the records of some family members serving time for "bootlegging" during prohibition. Like many have said, funny what falls from the branches of ones family tree!!

[Vladimir]

The easiest traceable lineage that I am aware of goes back to Mary Todd, wife of Abe Lincoln and Noah Webster, both on my dad's side. Curiously enough my MOM's parents happen to own Noah Webster's china, those jerks. I think it can also go back to James Madison.

On my mom's side no idea. They have it traced really well and its all the boring regular stuff.

The heritage I have the most interest in is the Russian side because it is a dead-end (in that someone did not sit down and organize a nice history of it), and that is my only deceased grandparent (so no one is GOING to sit down and write it all up). That being said I believe it is a true dead end. We do not even know what my grandpa's Russian name was.

[Shooter45]

My ancesstor landed in Phillidelphia in 1733 on a ship called the Elizabeth with a Dutch skipper named Edward Hill. The boat departed from Germany but after a few years I finally found he came to Germany from Angus, Scotland. I also found out I'm a decendent of a Templar Knight.

So, Lancaster Co, Pa, to , to Hell's HollerSevierville, Tn
, and Spivey Spring,Ga to where we are now. Lots of interesting things happened along the way.

[Silver72]

In the last 35 years I've traveled thousand of miles chasing family surname history....Kentucky, Tennessee, and several trips to the Latter Day Saints facilities in Salt Lake. I can only go back to my 4th great Grand father b. 1756. I know who his father must have been, but I can't find a paper trail to prove it. I gotta have proof. To many Courthouses, Churches and the such were destroyed in the wars. I got all of the last wills and testaments for each grand father and found their graves. I have his Rev. War record. It's been some exciting years and we met a lot of great people. Now I've submitted my DNA to more than one genealogy research facility. The search goes on trying to jump the ocean.

[jjmitchell60]

Silver72, what part of KY and how long ago were myou here searching. KY has come a LONG way in the past 10 years with genology records. Several of our 120 counties had records that were the best in teh nation. The state consolidated all these records to their new Genology Section in the State Archives which is open to the public for research. I am fortunate, I have used ancestory.com along with what I can find on my own and have all mine done with documented sources. Once you get across the big pond, you will find it a lot easier being everyone belonged to a church and every church kept excellent records there. Many of my Scotish records came from church documentation. IF in my area of kY I can probably help yopu find some missing links from KY if you have any or point you to where to look.