yep.i was still albatross on fusetalk ,joined on 2005,but it seems that warp feature is still available..:biggrin:
Either the database migration killed your post count or you're the greatest lurker of all time.
My mother is of Irish/Cherokee and my dad is Swiss/German so not sure what that makes me
My mother is of Irish/Cherokee and my dad is Swiss/German so not sure what that makes me
my fam has been here since the US was colonized buy the Europeans. so umm white people
Did you find that out by researching it or was it just known in the family ?
I ask because I sat down last year and did tons of research on my family and where we came from because we have an unusual last name, which really makes it easier. I used genealogy.com and rootsweb along with a lot of digging into census records. I found out our first ancestor came here in 1675 from Bern, Switzerland. The last name was mangled because it is now spelled like it sounds rather than the way it was spelled.
If you or anyone used any sites you found useful I would love to hear about them. Always looking for good genealogy sites.
Did you find that out by researching it or was it just known in the family ?
I ask because I sat down last year and did tons of research on my family and where we came from because we have an unusual last name, which really makes it easier. I used genealogy.com and rootsweb along with a lot of digging into census records. I found out our first ancestor came here in 1675 from Bern, Switzerland. The last name was mangled because it is now spelled like it sounds rather than the way it was spelled.
If you or anyone used any sites you found useful I would love to hear about them. Always looking for good genealogy sites.
we had a fam tree/genealogy thing done years ago when i was in like grade school but it was also pretty well known. We are on the Mayflower Compact
Did you find that out by researching it or was it just known in the family ?
I ask because I sat down last year and did tons of research on my family and where we came from because we have an unusual last name, which really makes it easier. I used genealogy.com and rootsweb along with a lot of digging into census records. I found out our first ancestor came here in 1675 from Bern, Switzerland. The last name was mangled because it is now spelled like it sounds rather than the way it was spelled.
If you or anyone used any sites you found useful I would love to hear about them. Always looking for good genealogy sites.
Where did they settle?
My Grandmother on my Dad's side is a DAR (Daughter of the American Revolution) and can trace her roots back to the Revolutionary War in this country. My Mom's ancestors came over from Sweden in the late 1800s.
New England, then they were among the first settlers of the state of Maine
I know it is boring to listen to people in their 70's + talk about when they were little, but sometimes there is a lot of info that only they have .
apparently my german side has two genealogists in it. they have changed our original history of being german to being swedes that moved to germany back in the 1400s or so. have a family castle and all hehe. they then came to america in the late 1600s and haave been here since. my mexican side (part spanish in there somewhere) came over the border a bit before my gramma was born. her older siblings were born in mexico, she and her younger ones were born here. they were migrant farmers that immigrated, not illegal swimmers.
i think tracing family roots is fun and cool, but not really super important in the grand scheme of things. i still consider myself to be an american overall, despite where my families came from