Info like names and dates or info like "surprise you have some slave DNA" or "surprise you might get Parkinson's" ??
I've done a lot of research on ancestry dot com, easy to use but not exactly cheap.
I absolutely believe I probably have some slave DNA, lol....mainly names & dates....
I know my maternal grandfather's family, all the way back to Jamestown. My mom's mom's family, not so much. My dad's family, extremely little.
Ladies and gentlemen, I suck at this stuff. Does anyone have a particularly favored site or way to find info on family in the past?
View attachment 91749 The good news is there is always some extremely distant relative who took an interest in their (your) family lineage and if you can find their research, you will benefit from their work.
My family has been in NC and SC for ten generations so I stumbled into some of this over the years.
A retired cousin researched my mom's side of the family...
That piece of paper is 5-6' wide
That whole piece of paper is on my maternal side, lol.is the glock 43 on your maternal side?
I think they are ancestry.comSounds crazy but check with the Mormons. They've been putting together an extremely large database.
My wife, daughter and myself have all done the ancestry DNA tests and it pretty much confirmed "most" of what we knew, I'm 47% Irish and the rest is western euro, my entire bloodline is from pretty much one corner of Europe.
I have gotten more family history blanks filled in over the past year than the past 50 years of our family doing a family tree, I am speaking with 1st (most of whom I've already known) through 5th cousins via ancestry and its actually pretty damn cool, I still have family in Ireland, England, Scotland and pretty much every Western Euro country and its kinda cool actually, at first I thought these people would be wanting to come visit us here, but instead the vast majority of them have pretty much said "Come here and you've got a place to stay and a free tour guide", we are seriously thinking about visiting some of these places to see where our roots came from.
EDIT: If I have time this weekend I'll try to put up some screen grabs of my ancestry information and how its setup, I was not thrilled about sending in my DNA at first but the amount of information you get is well worth it imo, besides most of us have willingly "put" our DNA in places all over the country or world LOL, spitting in a tube and mailing it off isnt a big deal to me because if someone really wants your DNA to have it processed, I assure you its VERY easy for someone to do it without your consent so meh.
It's okay. Jesus lineage was recorded back 42 generations on Joseph's side, but Joseph wasn't his biological father.I was adopted so I may sue this thread.
I was adopted too, but found out who my birth parents were, and have had a lot of success finding out other stuff on ancestry.com about who they came from and where, mostly on bio-mom's side so far. I do want to do the DNA thing eventually.I was adopted so I may sue this thread.
My dad's side goes back to the late 16th century in the Black Forest region of Germany, with a snort of Irish from my paternal grandmother. Mother's side is allegedly Swedish, but that witch would lie when the truth would do her more good, so who knows?
I'm torn on the DNA testing. DoD's already got mine on file, but I'm not sure about 'ownership' & privacy issues.
genealogy.com a few years ago. Did the free 2 week thing. traced family back to 1562 England. Confirmed a lot of it with long living relatives at a fam reunion a few years ago.
I was adopted too, but found out who my birth parents were, and have had a lot of success finding out other stuff on ancestry.com about who they came from and where, mostly on bio-mom's side so far. I do want to do the DNA thing eventually.
I was adopted so I may sue this thread.