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Are you a Latter Day Saint, or Mormon ? That is an extremely long ago date that you traced to, and if I may ask, where did you find information for that time period? How long have you been searching family history?
I have only traced my folks to the 19th century. Those born and living in the 1800's. I have run into roadblocks many times and put it all up for months at a time.
I went on Ancestry.com, where there were many families on there who had linked into the same paternal line as mine. I traced several lines on my father's side back to England (1200), Germany (1400s), Alsace, France, Denmark, Switzerland, Ireland and Scotland. I believe they have been able to use some LDS databases to establish their data.
Before that, I had been interested in my mother's side, which goes to the Caribbean, but have been thwarted when trying to go beyond my grandparents.
That's pretty impressive and unusual if you have records for it all. But don't forget if you're just finding the information on other trees or other unreliable sources, it may not be accurate.
I have traced some of my branches back to the mid to late 1600s, many to the 1700s but probably most to the early 1800s. My oldest line goes back to about 1640.
This is true, I can only hope that there is at least some accuracy there.
Before that, I had been interested in my mother's side, which goes to the Caribbean, but have been thwarted when trying to go beyond my grandparents.
Lucario ... I have a few resources (scant few) with some Caribbean records. If you'd like to DM me the names of your grandparents I can check the database and see if your family line is there. Your grandparents probably won't be - the resource basically deals with emigrants from England through the early 1700s, but there are some censuses in the 1800s.
The first African slave was kidnapped in Africa and brought to the colonies before 1600. In the 1600 Duch Farmers in New Netherlans had slaves who learned to speak the Dutch language. Editor Louis Gates edited 15=18 volumes of the history of our Black Americans from 18th centruy forward and their contributions to our coumtry. The last time I checked the complete set was about $2500.
It extremely difficult to find any information on ancestors from the British Isles prior to about 1800 - unless the family was of high birth or extermemely wealthy as a scribe had to be hired to enter an event such as baptism or marriage in church records. and to my knowlege the church was paid as a condition. Also some names like John Little were extrememely popular and it nearly impossible to tie the families from the US to Europe.
I was able to trace my family back to the Netherlands in the 1500s thru family records, church records, and court records. The biggest problem with names comes from the 17th century wnen the English tried to extinguish the Patronym. In some families it took oaver 100 years. The worse part the only thing I could find on my families was one line in one church document that noted a name change. There was no other reference.
Lucario ... I have a few resources (scant few) with some Caribbean records. If you'd like to DM me the names of your grandparents I can check the database and see if your family line is there. Your grandparents probably won't be - the resource basically deals with emigrants from England through the early 1700s, but there are some censuses in the 1800s.
Hi. That side of my family is not from the English-speaking Caribbean, so not sure if I have any connections with that area (Jamaica, etc.)
Kevxu, if you're a guy you may have some luck using y-dna to get you back further. If you're a gal and you have brothers or if your father is still alive they could take the y-dna test. Once you have your haplogroup and markers established you can then try to match up with others of the same last name who have similar dna. They may have physical records that you can then tie in with your earliest known paternal ancestor. It's worth a try.
I'm a guy so I can use my dna. I have started that route, and have found a rather remarkable number of people with very high matches...43 out of 46 markers. There is one fellow who is even closer, so we are both hopeful that we can come up with something between us. And I have found what seems to be a well managed dna-surname group in Ireland, so that is the next step.
My wife is big on geneology. She followed my dad's side back to early 1500s to the Lord Mayor of London. My mother's side, which includes Myles Standish (we have a copy of his will) we have gone back to 1507.
I am back to 1699 on my mother's side in England but only to the 1860s on my father's side.
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