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Has anyone found a "Famous" ancestor??? One that you are really sure about...
Teddy Roosevelt and FDR. Plus I had a distant cousin that taught Milton Hershey how to make chocolates. Hershey was his apprentice. Too bad my ancestor hadn't had the sense to do more with it.
It depends upon how you define famous. US Senator, Oklahoma legislator, NY Legislator, Judges and the first man to printt a newspaper in the newly Opened Cherokee Land Run. He was also also a well respected Arborist around the world and wrote a book or two on it. and a US President. .
Maybe, but what about the RW and CW soldiers, or the first settlers to the New World? During the RW, the Tory Pine Tree Robbers tried to hang my ancestral aunt with bedcord from her bed. That was cheeky.
Do you realize the number of wars in Europe the ancestors endured before their descendants removed to the New World - or the religous wars that premanently divided country, or even the vast control the HRE held on Europe? It's fascinating.
If it wasn't for genealogy I would never had the reason to learn. That the earliest ships with settlers came to the colonies in 1625 isn't enough information. Why did hey leave? One thing leads to another and before you know it there is a story waiting to be told about the ancestor. .
We need to keep telling About This Forum why we want a Genealogy Forum.
Meanwhile, a great place for anyone just curious or anyone serious about genealogy is the free Mormon website. It has the world's largest databases of genealogical information. All you need do to start is type in a name:
I've tried FamilySearch.org many times and got no results. I find it hard to believe they have the largest database - maybe the largest FREE database but I've gotten dozens of results on ancestry.com and nothing on FamilySearch.org
Please remember the Gedcoms and lists at Ancestry/rootsweb are not primoary sources. Neither are books unless it is a family bible. Census takers and transcribers didn't always get it right either.
As for *hits* on a name, you can get a lot of hits if the name is spellled incorrectly. Try to spell it right in the search engine and there are no hits. It is only as good as the person who enters the information.
The days when real family searchers (with years of experience and a file full of primary records) )wre on the web sharing what they knew in an effort to help those of us who did not are gone.
They've been replaced by people whose only goal is to have the greatest number of names in a file. These authors do not know how they are related to every person in their database and they want you to tell them about your family.
I have a small 12 genenation file. I know who and how and I have the sources.
Maybe, but what about the RW and CW soldiers, or the first settlers to the New World? During the RW, the Tory Pine Tree Robbers tried to hang my ancestral aunt with bedcord from her bed. That was cheeky.
Do you realize the number of wars in Europe the ancestors endured before their descendants removed to the New World - or the religous wars that premanently divided country, or even the vast control the HRE held on Europe? It's fascinating.
If it wasn't for genealogy I would never had the reason to learn. That the earliest ships with settlers came to the colonies in 1625 isn't enough information. Why did hey leave? One thing leads to another and before you know it there is a story waiting to be told about the ancestor. .
We need to keep telling About This Forum why we want a Genealogy Forum.
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My first interest is European History.. so yes, I do know about many of those wars... The Hundred Year War.. The Thirty Years War, The Seven Year War and on and on...and that is what led to America...The most interesting thing about Genealogy is finding out about our ancestors who lived and died throughout that history... It is what makes us what we are today !!
I have one ancestor who died in the battle of Flodden Fiels in 1530... Battle of Flodden Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
My first interest is European History.. so yes, I do know about many of those wars... The Hundred Year War.. The Thirty Years War, The Seven Year War and on and on...and that is what led to America...The most interesting thing about Genealogy is finding out about our ancestors who lived and died throughout that history... It is what makes us what we are today !!
I have one ancestor who died in the battle of Flodden Fiels in 1530... Battle of Flodden Field - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
I posed a question on the social group about my grandmother coming here from England and you said she may not have left from England because of the cost of trip...were there any ports that were frequented by thrifty passengers??
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