family history

[Deerhunter21]

So i was wondering if any of you guys do family history. I find its fun to connect with my ancestors. This quarantine might be the best time to try and find out who your ancestors are! I found out im mostly German and English.

[ksnow]

We've got ours back to 1634 here in North America and 1 generation further in England. Lots of history there.

[Pat B]

I'm 2nd generation Irish(57%{Sligo})on my Father's side. His Dad came from England in the late 1800 to NYC then Savannah, GA, Dad was born in 1900. On my Mom's side it's mostly English with a touch of Cajun. The Henderson's(Mom's) go back to the early 1700 in NC but went to Arkansas, Louisiana(Cajun, great granny), Mississippi, Florida and finally Georgia. My Mom's Dad was in the paper and timber industry.

[DC]

My sister is a devout genealogist. She's got the Case side back to about the American Revolution when we appeared in Ontario, Canada. She's stuck there but she thinks we were United Empire Loyalists. All other branches pretty much go to the British Isles. My paternal Grandmother was Texan, although her father was from the Ilse of Man.

[Deerhunter21]

well actually here's a picture of it. i guess its not germany but everywhere around germany lol

[PaulN/KS]

I'm First Generation  here on my Father's side. Not much to look up and I only been here 65+ years so not far to look back ... 

[Strichev]

According to old church books my ancestors have been living in the same valley (an area of some 50 square miles) since 1490's on my father's side and maybe a few decades less on my mother's side. They most likely originally came from what is today Serbia and relocated to today's Slovenia due to the Ottomans and stayed in the same area for the next 500 years or so. In fact both family names can be traced to their respecitve villages as far back as 1600's. My father's surname is mentioned in relation to "attempting to incite a peasant's revolt". The guy got punished with 30 strikes using a "light stick", tried to incite another revolt a few years later and got sentenced to 30 heavy stripes using a "heavy stick". No mention of defying authorities for the next 370 years after that. On my mother's side the surname is mentioned across several generations as clergymen or their brothers. More recently, one of my great great grandfathers came from Italy some time before 1900.

[PEARL DRUMS]

I love my direct family's history. I've "studied" my dads side extensively. Im the 5th generation off the boat from Germany. My family earned its way over here by twisting up rope in exchange for rides on ships. It took them a few years and several stops. But they made it and here we all were and are. They had intended on settling in another German Catholic community about 15 miles farther away. But, the carts were falling apart, the weather was miserable and the ox were whooped. So they stopped in Fowler, Michigan. Needless to say I belong to one of those super enormous midwest German Catholic families where every family had 6-10 kids each back in "the day".

[BowEd]

100% Dutch as far as I know.Pretty much all farmers.My sister did a heritage history of us long ago talking to very old local relatives of us tracing us clear back to the Netherlands.I have long shirt tail relatives there.

[osage outlaw]

My wife got me one of those DNA history kits.  The results didn't line up with what we've been told on my Dad's side.   The small percentage of African was a surprise.

[mullet]

My Mother's side is Portuguese/ German. Rutherfords for the German side and Josephs on the Portuguese. Dad's side is Irish, Leatham for that side. 5th generation Floridian.

[Hawkdancer]

Haven't done a DNA thing yet, but my grandfather on my mother's side traces back to Flanders and Zeeland into the mid 1500s, her mother claimed she was English, but her maiden name was Craig, which could be Scottish or Irish, maybe northern England. Her father or grandfather came through Canada.  Pretty sure my grandmother on my dad's side was Irish(McCoy), and his dad was German, but Dad changed his name to McConnell when he was 16.  I'll likely do a DNA swab the next time they have a sale and maybe find out more.
Hawkdancer

[Deerhunter21]

Haven't done a DNA thing yet, but my grandfather on my mother's side traces back to Flanders and Zeeland into the mid 1500s, her mother claimed she was English, but her maiden name was Craig, which could be Scottish or Irish, maybe northern England. Her father or grandfather came through Canada.  Pretty sure my grandmother on my dad's side was Irish(McCoy), and his dad was German, but Dad changed his name to McConnell when he was 16.  I'll likely do a DNA swab the next time they have a sale and maybe find out more.
Hawkdancer

I dont think i would ever want to do a dna test if theres a needle involved. if theres not maybe ill try it someday. all of the percentages are just names tracked back to the 1700. i just hook my name up to my parents and then their parents and their parents. the troublesome part is when you get to a point where the oldest one in the family doesnt know his great great grandparents. then the digging begins. but the fun part is, is that you got the whole family, and i mean whole family people in the family on the site and soon you got a huuuuuggggeee tree. sometimes you find connections to people you dont know.

[Mesophilic]

Some od my family did the DNA tests and it pretty much reaffirmed what we knew already, that we're from England.

I have several relatives that have done alot of family history work but I'm personally not all that interested in my pre-American ancestors for whatever reason.  I guess I just don't connect.

One of my aunts uncovered a letter on an ancestor.  He was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and was captured by the British.  The captives were tied to a log and a British commander went down the line asking for names.  He spared my ancestor and one other gentleman because they had good last names, then split the heads of the other prisoners with his saber.

[Parnell]

Found out I'm about 1% from Ghana/Code d'Ivoire according to the genetic test.  Plenty of Neanderthal thrown in there, too.

Diversity is one of my strengths, ya know...