Who are you related to?

Oh loves, you sure are giving this genealogy a serious effort. Sounds pretty exciting. In my case, I think I need to hike off to China to retrace my family lines. I have so many relatives spread all over Asia and US. It will be very difficult for me to do so. Just think about how much I need to spend. :)

That is a great story about your great great grandfather and aunt. I love geneology, and always have. I love finding out little "ghosts in the closet", so to speak. Every family has some. I started doing geneological research on my family when I was about ten years old, way before computers, lol. The most famous person I have on my side of the family is a famous German writer by the name of Wilhem Hauff. He wrote mainly childrens stories, and has been said to rival Hans Christian Andersen in his tales. His most famous work however was a love story. He was born in 1802 and was a great great great uncle of mine. Being a writer myself, I have always treasured that knowledge. My husbands family is far more interesting. He is a direct decendent of several famous people that settled the west. The first was Brigham Young. A little know fact about Young is that when he became fanatical about starting his own church and the Mormon religion, the Young family disowned him. The other famed person in my hubby's heritage is Belle Starr...the rowdy cowgirl of the old west. The legends that surround her fame are all true. She was an amazing woman. Great topic. Thanks for letting me share.

oh... how i wish i know.. but i really dont.. my family is complicated im a pilipina, from Philippines.. but my mom's dad is a Portuguese and he doesn't have legitimacy then so my mothers mom married another guy.. my dad came from chinese ancestry but later a filipino.. now i really cant trace since its messy and a very complicated line.. because of burnt documents of the world war two. but i know its so simple and easy to you since if you love and is very dedicated to your work, you'll never feel a single tiredness of boredom of your work, since its from heart and its what you really are.. keep up... that one in a million talent.. thats a unique person in you in you.. take care^_^

I am interested in geneaology too. I just don't know the right way to go about it. Can you give us some pointers on how to get started. Someone in my family has already traced us back to when we came to America from Germany in the 1800s but that is as far as they have gone. If you would be interested in finding out more for me I would really appreciate it. Let me know! Thanks for the interesting discussion!

My auntie is the big geneaology person in our family. She has done so much work! I have to say it is very interesting to dig deeper, you find out so much about the people you came from. That is an incredible story about your ancestors. I find that very intriguing! I myself am related to the Younger brothers on my fathers side. It does make sense that there were outlaws in our family genes. LOL, in the past, some of our relatives weren't the most savory characters! Also, it is said that we are related to Richard Petty the race car driver. Very distant relatives. My aunt proved all of this, by chasing the paper trail and hours upon hours of research. I too find this very interesting and that is an excellent idea for family gifts! It is very personal and shows that you put alot of work into it. It is so hard to find something like that today in this commercialized holiday market!

iii!!! I feel special. I have one ancestor who was some kind of indian princess or something, but hse fell in love with someone of the untouchable caste and ran away with him. or so my grandmother swears is true. And then, on my father's side of the family, i'm descended from a christian SAINT!!! pretty special huh? I've never actualypaid it mcuh attention, but im pretty sure her name was mary mckillop or someting similar. any christians know that one? she, like, did a lot of work being chhristian and helping people and stuff in historical australia.

that's pretty interesting, but is that expensive to investigate?

I have to admit, I am addict to this myself. I have found out some interesting things about my family also, but then I am stuck on one family member where I haven't been able to prove of disprove who his father is. I have my suspisions but haven't found documents to back it up as of yet. His name is Reason (may have been spelled at times Rezin) Foreman he was born abt 1820 in Harrison County, Ohio. I believe William Foreman Jr. Son of Cpt. William Foreman Sr. was his father but can't prove it as of today. I need to get over to Harrison County to explore the historial library there. There are a tragic story about Cpt William Foreman Sr. that I was able to find of the internet. On my grandmother's side I was able to trace her family back to 810. To A Hurcules Lord of Turnon(?sp don't have the spelling in front of me). Which is really cool. his sons and his sons sons were Knights in France. They came to America in 1642. In 1820 my gr gr gr grandpa Samuel Douglas Clevenger was the third person to buy land from the government in Muncie, Delaware County, Indiana. He built a cabin here that was donated in 1931 to a local park and it is still there today. I love looking up my family history. It is fun and addicting. I have found long lost relatives. I was able to go to a reunion where everyone there was decented from Reason. Nobody has been able to get past him. It was cool to meet people you have never met, that is here in this country, because you share the same family history. Back On my grandmother side I found that Samuel has over 2,000 living decendants living still in this area. When I went to the library to look up information on my family tree. The lady that works at the library knew excatly where to look. Because she had already did the research , it was her gr gr gr grandpa also. There was a man at the microfilm booth, that interrupted us to tell us he too was researching his gr gr grandpa Samuel Douglas Clevenger. I better stop I am skipping around. But I am also writing a book on my family history, though I am still in the research faze of it. I want to make it an electronic form on disk but then have a few published to donate to the historical library here in Indiana and in Utah.

I know exactly what you mean i love doing this and have also researched many a family tree. As a historian, i think family history gives us a great insight in to the social history of a given time blessed be

Making a book of your family's genealogy is a noble thing to do for the sake of your relatives. That will be a great idea indeed. All you to do now is to make more research and make your works worthy to read on. Good luck to you and your goal.

According to an uncle, Daniel Boone is in the family line somehow. He has tried to follow the line but said there are problems tracing it for sure. He said it has been a family story but no one has ever been able to prove it. We know that an ancestor came over from England, but there is a gap with some missing information.

Another genealogy addict, yea! I started doing genealogy research on my family about seven years ago and how exciting it's been. My dad's side was hard to do but a friend of mine that I met through the internet happened to be researching the same family name and she helped me out a lot. My mom's side was easier because they had so many documented records and I found out that on that side of the family I'm related to King Edward I of England and also King Phillipe of France (I can't remember which King Phillipe off hand). But some of the most intriguing finds that I had was of an ancestor who came to the U.S. colonies with an English expedition in the 1600's. He was quite an interesting and trouble-making character and I traced his family route to Maryland where a lot of my mom's family is from. The book you're writing sounds like a wonderful idea and it will certainly be a priceless gift. To me, knowing who we are and where we came from is so important and gives us a great sense of family and connection.

I started to do mine but it is so complicated. My Mother was from Australia. She was adopted by her real father. So it was a scandal type of thing. Her Mother was from Scotland, I cant remember how I found that out. My Fathers family started out in Ireland and came here during the potato fantom. Thats not the right thing but Im having major brain fart. My Sister and I are the end of the line since my Mom and Dad only had the two of us. Its such a mess. My husbands family was much easier to research. They are from the South and kept all sorts of informtion in family bibles. The movie Cold Mountain is supposed to be based on my husbands relative. I wish I had more time to dedicate to it. I can tell you have a real passion for it. I wish now I had asked my parents more questions when they were alive.

I started doing Genealogy research when I was 14. For the last four years I've been at it hot and heavy and have traced my family back very very far through European records since I have a number of royal lines that consist of very good recordkeeping. My aunt traced our family back and I also did it independently from her and came up with the same results. From three different research incidents, we have found that we are direct Descendants of King Charlemagne. As far as other branches of my family, my paternal grandmother's Cherokee ancestry leads back to Opechenachua, the brother of Powhatan (Uncle of Pocahontas). I'm still doing a lot of work on the maternal side of my family. I found immigration records showing my mother's maternal grandfather's family migrated from Scotland in the 1700's.

I have a cousin who has done a lot of research on our family. We know alot of our history on my moms side of the family. I am a Miami Indian, one of my grandfathers was Chief Little Turtle, of the Miami Indians. I live in Ohio, there is alot of my history right here where I live. My ancesters were in some of the battles in this area. The Battle of Fallen Timbers, also they fought Mad Anthony Wayne. There is a Fort close by, Fort Miegs, also I live close to Fort Miami. My ancesters were mostly based in Indiana, our tribe has our reservation land. Some of the Miami's were pushed across the country to Oklahoma. They walked and the path they took is called "Trail of Tears". Its too bad better records weren't kept way back then.

really? this is really cool! i wonder how can you start things over the internet? i wish i will be able to find our about my family too.

I have a cousin in Scotland who was also very passionate about our family tree she even went to Australia to meet with our family from our paternal grandmother side (our fathers were brothers) they all seemed very affluent and nice people. No black sheep there. However I learned on my mother's side we had a relative who was hung for sheep stealing. His name was "James" no-one was ever named James after that... but we did have French royalty. One of Mary Queen of Scots' ladies-in-waiting, whom she brought back to Scotland with her, was a distant relative.

On my mother's side I'm decended from Penelope Van Princess/Stout. That means I'm a distant cousin to the writer Rex Stout. If you want to read a very short history of this amazing lady pick up Rex Stout's autobiography. She was also one of the ladies featured in a book called "Four Women in Dangerous Times." From my father's side I go back to the Mayflower, my cousin has researched this info. I do know the family name goes back to a man that came with William Penn. On the other hand, 5 or 6 of my great grandparents were imigrants. One from Germany, one from Ireland, 2 from England & I'm not sure about the others. I still have cousins in Ireland I've discovered when my uncle found Dailey kin.

I love family tree research too, it's fascinating. I am related to a lot of hardworking farmers and vineyard owners. I'm distantly related to Swede Holbrook (basketball player), as he is my uncle's father (my uncle is mom's half-brother) but nobody else famous that I have found yet. My husband is related to Neapoleon's general Nicolas Soult which I think is darn cool. I can't wait to do more! Too bad I have to learn French and German to go back much further on either side.

wow sounds cool! i wish i can also do that and have a patience like yours too!