Anyone interested in geneology?
By craftwave
@craftwave (1338)
United States
November 21, 2006 11:40am CST
Where did your ancesters come from? Where did they immigrate to? And do you know the port they came into? My relatives come from Scotland. Also my husbands. I'm researching my husbands relatives who came thru Ellis Island and settled in Clearfield PA.
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9 responses
@jjn1983 (1353)
• United States
21 Nov 06
I am very interested in that. I have no idea of how to go about doing it though. My father is from england. When i was younger he told me that our name was shortened when our relatives came over here. I have never met any of my family on my fathers side, only him and my grandma and grandpa. I think it would be something interesting to research.
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@craftwave (1338)
• United States
21 Nov 06
Do you know which port they came thru when they immigrated?Ellis Island has a free search and you can put in alternate spellings of your family name. Records stopped being kept sometime in the 1940's So if it was before this time you might find them. also Ancestry.com has a paid subscription to access their records but you can find a lot of info from that as well and it is a good place to look up census records. A lot of old Census records ask for info like where they were born and things like that. At ellis Island you can look at the real ships passenger lists and the info list for each passenger is very interesting. I'll find the sight and post it here later.
@Starlady0_1 (586)
• United States
24 Jan 07
My grandmother and mom was doing some genealogy in our family tree on my mothers side of the family. I'm not so sure all their information was accurate. I have looked into a little bit try to help them along. Now that my Grandmother has pass no one really seem to be interested much anymore.
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@craftwave (1338)
• United States
25 Jan 07
That is sad because finding your family history is interesting. It does take alot of work though. I may know a fact for certain but i still try to obtain copies of things like birth certificates, Marriage licenses and things like that to verify the facts. If I can't verify it then I put it down as unverified even though I know the facts are true. I have even taken photos of headstones.
@ElusiveButterfly (45941)
• United States
31 Dec 06
I have always been interested in my family heritage. My mother is researching it now. We have roots as Native Americans. But, you'd never know it from looking at me. I have blonde hair and blue eyes! My mother, her mother, and her mother all have identifing characteristics that make it hard to deny their heritage.
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@craftwave (1338)
• United States
3 Jan 07
It is so fun digging into your heritage. its amazing the information you come across.
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@lucy02 (5015)
• United States
11 Jan 07
Yes, I've gotten into geneaology too somewhat. I was working on
it when my mother had to have heart surgery a few months ago and I intend on picking up on it again soon. It is so interesting. My mothers relatives we were able to trace to Germany and England. Dad's went back to England on my grandfather's side. Grandma was part Indian and its hard to trace some of her relatives. My husbands family is Japanese American which is very hard to trace.
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@craftwave (1338)
• United States
11 Jan 07
I'm stuck trying to find records for my Calhoun relatives. they were from the south and what with the civil war records have gotten lost or destroyed and censuses were not taken. but i keep trying.
@villageanne (8553)
• United States
18 Jan 07
All our family is really into geneology. We have ours traced back to the 1500's. I love seeing where they all came from and where they were when they met and married. It is truly amazing..
@craftwave (1338)
• United States
19 Jan 07
Its also addicitng. :) Yes I just love digging around and finding the information.
@maferick (1583)
• Brazil
20 Jan 07
Yes,i'm very interested in geneology,i have a big mix at my family.My mom's parents comes from europe.Her father's mother(my granfather) were from Russia and his father from Poland,where he lived till 15 years and come to Brazil.Here he met my grandmother ,that was child of germans; and my father's mother was italian and my father's dad was portuguese,..as i told you,it's a big mix ,huh?
@craftwave (1338)
• United States
21 Jan 07
Hienz 57. Thats what we call it when there is such a mix of ethnic backgrounds. From what I can tell on both my husband and my side is that it is Scottish and German with a a bit of Welsh thrown in.
@craftwave (1338)
• United States
27 Dec 06
Have you been able to find out much information about your heritage? I would be interested in hearing it.
@Tanika (632)
• Australia
29 Dec 06
I have recently started to become interested in genealogy and never knew until a few months ago that alot of my relatives are also from scotland. I made a Major breakthrough when i discovered that my GGG Grandmother was Christian Watt who wrote the Christian Watt papers. It all fell into place from there as alot of her family was documented in the book and the small town she came from called fraserburgh also had very good records of the families there. I live in Perth, Australia now.
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@craftwave (1338)
• United States
29 Dec 06
I wish my search would lead me to someting like that where everything was already documented. It is addicting. Once you start the hunt you can't seem to stop. I would love to go to Scotland someday and see if I can find some of these towns or maps of the places if they no longer exist. I do know the general area where they came from. Asutralia is another place I thought would be interesting to visit.
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