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Post by Dizzy on Feb 23, 2021 1:05:59 GMT
I Was Just Wondering if Anybody on Here Is Interested in There Family History Like I am? Do You Know Where Country you Ancestors are From? If You Want to Say an Talk about It ain Here I Would Gladly Like to Hear. This Kinda Stuff Fascinates Me.
As For Me You Might already Know I am From Jamaica but Way Back before My Family was Brought there We Were from Africa an More Specifically Nigeria Over There. I Know this Because My Dad Told Me an His Parents Told Him an So on  AiAkOrkWFthFsVgFMISE
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Post by drawntokatet on Feb 23, 2021 21:35:42 GMT
I regularly search my family history on Ancestry.com. There is always something new to learn and a new person to get to know. I have also done the DNA test, and before you jump all over me- it has been a good experience not a bad experience.
Occasionally a person will contact me via Ancestry to discuss family. On my father's side I had 14 aunts and uncles. A woman named Sue contacted me because we had a high percentage of matching DNA, but she didn't know why we related. She was adopted in 1964 and didn't know her birth parents. I did some digging and found a common cousin. Then she petitioned the city of Boston for her Birth Certificate. It showed her mother's name but not the father. I have tracked her father to be one of three of my cousins. I never knew them, they moved to California years ago. None of them claimed her as his child. But I did have a photo from the 1970's that shows all my father's siblings. One of them, my aunt Hazel is Sue's grandmother. I got Sue's address and sent her a copy of the photo. Since then, she has found that she has a sister also named Sue and 3 brothers- well half sister and brothers, but still! She is thrilled and I am happy to be a part of her story.
I found out that I am a Mayflower descendent. My 10 GGF was Peregrine White and he was born on the Mayflower in 1620 in the harbor shortly after the Pilgrims arrived. I have other ancestors from Scotland, Ireland, Denmark and England and well as French Canadians.
It is fascinating to learn the history. It is even better to help someone else with their history.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2021 0:57:02 GMT
My mother comes from. Ireland. My dad paid group of Irish monks who specialized in ancestry to do research on her. One of my ancestors was the last evil and terrible tyrant to rule Ireland before the British conquered it. Another ancestor came to America, became a prospector, gambler, leader of a vicious gang in NYC, became heavyweight champion of the world, had 'Bill The Butcher' Poole killed. (no it wasn't Leonardo DiCaprio that did it, LOL), and after being acquitted for murder went on to become a US Congressman. Apparently I come from a long line of SOB's. 🙄😅
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Post by drawntokatet on Feb 24, 2021 17:32:16 GMT
I find it very interesting to see a copy of a Draft card that shows the height, weight, hair color and eye color of an ancestor. I come from a long line of short people.
One of my great grandmothers was French Canadian. I've seen her name in newspapers during the time of Prohibition as being arrested for being drunk and giving a false name "Lizzie Smith". Her son, my grandfather died at 39 from cirrhosis of the liver. He worked on the railroad. He had a hand deformity and was not allowed to serve in WWI. And yet, the VFW places a flag on his grave every November to commemorate his service... that's just wrong. But his Obituary in the Newspaper listed him as a veteran.
There are so many stories and I keep finding more information. I have researched my husband's family back to Sicily and my brother in law's family back to Scotland.
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Post by drawntokatet on Feb 24, 2021 17:35:30 GMT
My mother comes from. Ireland. My dad paid group of Irish monks who specialized in ancestry to do research on her. One of my ancestors was the last evil and terrible tyrant to rule Ireland before the British conquered it. Another ancestor came to America, became a prospector, gambler, leader of a vicious gang in NYC, became heavyweight champion of the world, had 'Bill The Butcher' Poole killed. (no it wasn't Leonardo DiCaprio that did it, LOL), and after being acquitted for murder went on to become a US Congressman. Apparently I come from a long line of SOB's. 🙄😅
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Post by Deleted on Feb 24, 2021 18:34:59 GMT
My mother comes from. Ireland. My dad paid group of Irish monks who specialized in ancestry to do research on her. One of my ancestors was the last evil and terrible tyrant to rule Ireland before the British conquered it. Another ancestor came to America, became a prospector, gambler, leader of a vicious gang in NYC, became heavyweight champion of the world, had 'Bill The Butcher' Poole killed. (no it wasn't Leonardo DiCaprio that did it, LOL), and after being acquitted for murder went on to become a US Congressman. Apparently I come from a long line of SOB's. 🙄😅
Do you think the Irish monks did a good job? 
This is that ancestor I spoke about. From the drawings I’ve seen of him he’s the spitting image of my brother. A short segment from a documentary The History Channel did on Blood Feuds in America.
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Post by drawntokatet on Feb 24, 2021 21:34:41 GMT
Fascinating!
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Post by Dizzy on Feb 25, 2021 20:22:16 GMT
Thank You for The Replies drawntokatet diobolic it Means alot! Very Interesting Posts from You both! AiAkOrkWFthFsVgFMISE c029
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Post by wireman on Feb 26, 2021 23:17:15 GMT
My dad has done quite a bit of research and more than half of my ancestors are from the UK and there's some German in there too. What's kind of weird is that there is one line on my dad's side that was in America in the early 1700s and that's as far as he could go back with them. He has no idea where they came from before the got to America. You don't usually get back that far with America only and not have another country connection.
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Post by annamarie on Feb 28, 2021 0:46:30 GMT
Love this thread. 😁 Dizzy I did not know you were from Jamaica. drawntokatet so glad you were able to help someone. I’ve had some friends that were adopted that had no interest in finding their “before” family. But a few really felt they needed to know something about them. @dio’Bolic I am now officially scared of you. 😳 wireman when I first researched I found an ancestor that just suddenly appeared in Canada in the late 1600’s. I think he was maybe early teens. Some years after I found that info, a priest who must be a distant relative of mine actually went to France to search for more info. From there he was able to find the young boy’s father on a few boats coming to Canada, and on one trip he had a young boy (son) with him. I will come back later with a bit of what I found. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 28, 2021 1:11:40 GMT
Love this thread. 😁 Dizzy I did not know you were from Jamaica. drawntokatet so glad you were able to help someone. I’ve had some friends that were adopted that had no interest in finding their “before” family. But a few really felt they needed to know something about them. @dio’Bolic I am now officially scared of you. 😳 wireman when I first researched I found an ancestor that just suddenly appeared in Canada in the late 1600’s. I think he was maybe early teens. Some years after I found that info, a priest who must be a distant relative of mine actually went to France to search for more info. From there he was able to find the young boy’s father on a few boats coming to Canada, and on one trip he had a young boy (son) with him. I will come back later with a bit of what I found. |
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Post by Dizzy on Feb 28, 2021 2:40:53 GMT
Oh Yes I'm from Jamaica Sis! annamarie I was Born in Kingston an My Family Lived there until I was 17...then Well because when I was 16 I was Attacked an Almost Died so When I Finally Recovered We Came to America. It's Much Better Here an because I Met My Husband Here.
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Post by annamarie on Mar 1, 2021 3:35:56 GMT
So sorry to hear you were attacked Dizzy . Glad you are in a safer and happier place. 🙂 |
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Post by Dizzy on Mar 1, 2021 15:59:34 GMT
Thank You for the Kind Words On me annamarie I Really Appreciate it. 
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Post by annamarie on Mar 2, 2021 18:18:28 GMT
Many years ago I decided to research my ancestry. I very quickly traced back to about 1680. It was so fast I thought I must have made errors, so I tried again, a different path. Three times. All fast, and all went to the same person. At that time, nobody could trace further, though now, a bit more is available.
Things I discovered...
Michel changed his last name a few times. Or, maybe it was changed for him.
either his wife or his mother was listed as an Eskimo. I assumed that was just the English referring to all Indigenous people as Eskimo. Where he lived, she would be MikMaw. My daughter-in-law, who is Indigenous was able to trace a bit further in that line, and she and my son went for their honeymoon where the tribe still lives. 🙂
Michel worked as a gendarm. He once arrested a farmer for putting curses on another farmer’s cattle.
There is a museum where his first homestead on PEI was. He was one of the first settlers on the island. He went there to get away from the British....and then the British went and stole his land from him.
My family records have been burned twice. The first time it was done intentionally to protect people from the Great Deportation. The second time was an accidental fire.
I have a bit of information about the museum if anyone is interested.
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Post by wireman on Mar 2, 2021 18:25:24 GMT
Many years ago I decided to research my ancestry. I very quickly traced back to about 1680. It was so fast I thought I must have made errors, so I tried again, a different path. Three times. All fast, and all went to the same person. At that time, nobody could trace further, though now, a bit more is available.
Things I discovered...
Michel changed his last name a few times. Or, maybe it was changed for him.
either his wife or his mother was listed as an Eskimo. I assumed that was just the English referring to all Indigenous people as Eskimo. Where he lived, she would be MikMaw. My daughter-in-law, who is Indigenous was able to trace a bit further in that line, and she and my son went for their honeymoon where the tribe still lives. 🙂
Michel worked as a gendarm. He once arrested a farmer for putting curses on another farmer’s cattle.
There is a museum where his first homestead on PEI was. He was one of the first settlers on the island. He went there to get away from the British....and then the British went and stole his land from him.
My family records have been burned twice. The first time it was done intentionally to protect people from the Great Deportation. The second time was an accidental fire.
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Post by annamarie on Mar 3, 2021 0:45:31 GMT
I never heard of witchcraft charges in Canada before. I knew it happened in the USA and Britain. And both those countries the penalty was death. (At which point they discovered you were not a witch.) But I’m not sure about here.
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