It's Pizza Day and Family Tree Day!!!
By Hate2Iron
@Hate2Iron (15730)
Canada
February 14, 2019 11:50am CST
Never heard of such a day lol... it might be simply because I made it up. ;) We have left-over pizza from last night and I am cataloguing ever grandparent I own... I just found one that is my 11th great grandfather. I think that is as far back as I have managed to get so I thought that it was time to start sorting. I want to fill in some of the holes before I go any farther!!
So here's your question... how many grandparents have you found so far and what's for lunch?
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@just4him (306239)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
15 Feb 19
I haven't done anything with my family tree, but another member of the family has. I think I can now go three generations back on my father's side, and I only know the last names for my mother's where I can go one generation beyond my grandparents.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
That's pretty good. There are some lines that pretty much fell into my lap and others that won't for the life of them give me any help!!
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@just4him (306239)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
16 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron I'm sorry you're not getting any help from some of them.
@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
Kind of takes all of the fun out of it lol... but I can understand why it is so expensive. I have no idea how many hours I have spent on it, but it's hours and hours and hours... and nothing. It all depends on the person you are researching. Some lines are incredibly easy while others, you hope you never meet when you get to heaven lol!!
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
14 Feb 19
I have found many many grandparents, on my French side I can go the farthest back in one case to the 1300s. But on the Irish it is 1830s on one line and 1790s on another. English side some in the 1600s some late 1700s.
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@BelleStarr (61047)
• United States
19 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron I have quite a few of the filles du roi, we all do and your right it is exciting. I have the book with the little histories of all the girls but it is at home. There are two volumns and then one book of the filles a marier, the ones who came even before les filles du roi. What is the name of yours?
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
19 Feb 19
@BelleStarr How fascinating to have all of that history at your fingertips!! Antoinette Grenier is the young woman on my tree!!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
I have a ton of French Canadian grandparents that I'm trying to sort through. I have found a Filles du Roi... I was hoping, and then found one!! Talk about a street urchin becoming famous lol! I think that she was the one that got me soooo excited about stories!!
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@sallypup (57887)
• Centralia, Washington
14 Feb 19
Yesterday we brought home a pizza for today's lunch or supper so go us! A relative of mine is doing research on my Mom's family so I know quite a bit about her. My Dad's grandma left us handwritten pages on that part of the family- a treasure for sure.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
Oh that is a treasure. My granddad wrote us letters, but I lost them all in a fire!! He was quite the character... I think I mentioned earlier about him falling out of a tree and breaking his neck... only to recover as if nothing had happened!! That was my Granddad for you lol!!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
17 Feb 19
@sallypup Yeah... I would love to have them to look over whenever I wanted!!
@sallypup (57887)
• Centralia, Washington
16 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron That's sad that you lost those letters from your Granddad.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
You are going to have the time of your life!!
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@noni1959 (9886)
• United States
16 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron I love learning about the past with my family. Tonight I think I'll start the maternal side and make notes to plug in.
@FayeHazel (40248)
• United States
15 Feb 19
Wow 11 greats! Awesome!
I think it totally works as a day!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
It took me a while, but I still have 2 lines that I can't get beyond the third generation. I have a grandmother who liked to change her name every couple of years. There are times when I could strangle the woman lol! The other line... I just thought of something that I haven't tried... fingers crossed!!
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
Not a big sea food fan, but everyone else in the family is!! As for your family tree... I'm still waiting to see if I have any Italian blood... Took the DNA test and nothing so far. But where there is smoke... there is fire. ;) Same goes for Japanese blood!!!
@Marilynda1225 (79731)
• United States
14 Feb 19
For lunch I had soup and an English muffin
As for grandparents only my grandmother on my mother's side and grandmother and grandfather on my dad's
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
We just bought some English Muffins today. Hate when we run out!! Your tree is waiting for you to fill in some stories lol. My grandmother on my mom's side... loved the Charleston!! Would have loved to have seen her dance... My grandmother on dad's side I only got to know when we moved closer. She loved Strawberry Shortcake...and passed that down to me lol. That is now my birthday cake each year!! My Grandfather on dad's side passed on his sweet tooth to me. Whenever he came to visit he would bring a suitcase full of candy nestled among his clothes! He once fell out of a tree and broke his neck... but he recovered nicely. There was no holding him down. Can you tell why I love adding stories to my tree lol... they all have a story to share!!
@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
My kids aren't the least bit interested... sometimes I am a bit too much lol!!
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@acelawrites (19273)
• Philippines
14 Feb 19
That's nice, tracing your family tree. I haven't allotted time doing it, but my relatives had made one and it is fun seeing who the grandparents are.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
My mom was the one who got me started... I think that she was as fascinated as I am lol... Just wish my dad's side was!!
@hillhjill (23664)
• United States
14 Feb 19
I have done some research on family but not much, and I don't eat lunch so I'm not having anything.
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@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
I don't think that I could go that long without eating!!! Have something... even if it's small!
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@hillhjill (23664)
• United States
15 Feb 19
@Hate2Iron sometimes I do, but I guess my body is just use to eating once a day.
@Hate2Iron (15730)
• Canada
15 Feb 19
I made up special days for the kids all the time... So far today I haven't even opened the tree!! That's unheard of. I never know what I'm going to find out next!
