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genealogy

[ayebydan]

Sooo who has traced their family tree?

How did you do it?

How far did you get?

Any surprises?

I am using ancestry.co.uk to map it and a zillion other small Scottish records that are all in tiny cursive and make me want to scream. Turns out that my step dad's gran may have had a kid with her sisters's husband so that is kind of...WELL. No wonder she moved halfway across the country with said kid out of nowhere huh?

And basically I'm Irish. I thought I was Scottish but....it is all potato famine feeling Irish folks for me. Ngl, I hoped for more scandal.

Re: genealogy

[philstar22]

I haven't, but my mother's mother did. The one notable thing I know is that one of our ancestors came over on the Mayflower.

Re: genealogy

[ayebydan]

Oooh that is a pretty notable thing. Seems you were made of hardy stuff. That or sheer dumb luck as it were. Not that my ancestors could do much about the South of England but sorry you guys were forced out either way XD

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

Same.

Also, my great great great great great grandfather ran for vice president once. But he lost.

Re: genealogy

[ayebydan]

That is so cool!

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

I don’t get the hype of geneaology kits. I’m not white.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

I thought the same thing, also not white.

On the other hand I can see why people who grow up as just "white," especially "white American," are interested in exactly what particular kind of white they are. Most but not all POC and immigrants know where they came from and what their ancestral home countries are and can point to a place (a notable exception being black Americans descended from slaves), but many "white Americans" with no recent immigrants in their family tree don't have or know that for sure. I've seen lots of African-Americans with slave ancestry also very interested in knowing exactly where their ancestors came from.

I'd probably be curious too, if I didn't already know.

Same anon

[(Anonymous)]

Not to imply that ayebydan is American, btw. I just comment on it because I've seen the genealogy thing gaining popularity here in the US.

Re: genealogy

[ayebydan]

It is curious to me that you all asume I am white American.

I am white Scottish and mostly we wish to seek out whether we are traditional Scots speakers ie from the lowlands or gaelic speakers from the more northern regions. Many Scots are decended from Irish families who fled the famine ( I know I am on my bio sides) but then where the rest of our family fled and if we have cousins is cool to know.

We found once removed cousins in New York in our last drive at it. We get on great now.

Trust me, I am with you on the white Americans coming here and going 'I am Scottish cause in 16XY My X did Z' and I am like uhhuh. But it is my great grandparents that are Irish so that is a strong connection for me.

I don't want to trace my dna because I think that is unreliable crap tbh

Re: genealogy

[ayebydan]

I didn't use a kit. I traced documents. Census notes and Chruch records, which are a bitch to read from 1840s Scotland lemme tell you.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

I’m not white either, but I kinda get the hype ‘cause, while I know where my family’s from, I’d like to know if my ancestors from way back came from either Spain or France or somewhere else entirely.

Re: genealogy

[morieris]

Same, I can probably guess my ancestry and save 200$.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

Me neither, but I still think it'd be interesting. I can't be 100% certain my ancestry is one ethnicity and I think it's likely to be a mix.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

Can you (non-snarkily) explain the connection between genealogy kits and being white? I don't know much about them except that one of my white friends got herself tested with one, but the ads for them don't just feature white people?

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

Those things have very little to do with actually tracing a family line.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

Have you ever watched Finding Your Roots?

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

I got enough information from research other people did to get the broad strokes (paternal grandparents came from Irish dirt farmers, maternal grandparents came from upper class New York / New Jersey) and I don't really feel the detail to go into that much more detail.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

I haven't, but my brother has. My entire life I've been told we're almost entirely German...turns out we're predominantly English/Welsh/Irish/Scottish with a little bit of French and a little bit of Swedish and zero German.

Re: genealogy

[ayebydan]

That is....very different. Were the family shocked or just rolling with it?

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

One of my two remaining blood relatives—my mom’s surviving brother—is really into it, to the point where he’s tracing my dad’s family tree and keeps sending me things to give to my other blood relative/uncle—my dad’s younger brother—that contradict most of what my dad’s brother and I had heard about his parents’/my grandparents’ ancestry/when they first came to the US/etc. His latest tidbit is that my paternal grandfather’s paternal grandfather was born in Berlin in 1847 and his family moved to the US in 1850, and he ran away to join the Union army twice during the Civil War—the first time, he was 14.

I’d always heard that my grandpa’s parents were 100% Latvian and they came to the US in the early 1900s—he was born in 1915.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

My grandmother did a lot of genealogy research back in the day, before ancestry.com was a thing. I should find out which aunt has that stuff and see if I can get copies. Anyway, apooarently there's a murderer back in the family tree somewhere.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

I've considered putting myself on the database that can link you to relatives because I know that I probably have half siblings or might get linked to my bio father (donor). I don't know much about it though.

Has anyone else done that?

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

We've just done that, because we do wonder about half-siblings. Haven't got the results back, they're expected for early May, but I am interested to see what turns up.

Re: genealogy

[greghousesgf]

my grandmother did it all the way back to the late middle ages. I have a copy of it somewhere. nothing very unusual or exciting though, no pirates or princesses or people who helped slaves escape or anything.

Re: genealogy

[(Anonymous)]

My mother's side of the family did and they got as far as a Huguenots fleeing from France in the 17th century. Before that got a bit tricky without traveling to France to actually look through old church records but the Huguenot background is fairly common in my country.