ya,Ihave some stories from my great x 3 grandma,that I used to take groceries to,on my bicycle,but not tonight.
Rant. I do not appreciate it when peeps on ancestry dot com attach incorrect information to their trees. Yes, it's a pain in the rear to fact check, but unless you have proof, DO NOT ATTACH. Go ahead and attach anything you want but please do not mislead others to come in the future looking for their ancestors that my family heritage (especially the Coloradoans) is part of yours in whatever part of the world you are placing my grandfather etc in. Found a pic of my great grandfathers headstone today, wrong family, and similar on the other side of my paternal ancestry, birth and death dates do not match, states do not match, ummmm how hard is that to figure out?. Rant over. LOL I just typed a freudian slip, accidentally typed thief instead of their
It makes me wonder if they are just not paying attention. Ancestry does make a lot of suggestions about family that aren't remotely connected in either relationship or name. I have been caught a couple of times and it took a lot of deleting and juggling to get back to the real info. I think too that people work off of other trees without checking to see if facts are facts. Your rant I can well identify with.
Generations? I am 5th generation since mid 1700's but I see farms handed down like 10+ generations over a smaller span of time? Proginator from Germany ~1750? Son 0) Henry 1784 Berks PA Son 1) William 1834, Berks PA Son 2) Robert 1878 Colorado Son 3) Willard 1905 Colorado Son 4) My Dad 1942 Colorado Daughter 5) Me, almost 30 years later Colorado Daughter 6) Cutie 40 years later Colorado Yes the dates are proven. Whats up with this Family Line?
LOL,not gonna think about it,right now.too tired.Can verify male relative came here,served in civil war.Moms dad was straight from Germany,right before ww2.We did genetic testing,I have a 1.5 thick of papers about it,never read them.My sisters and i found out,my middle sister has a different dad.Dad refuses to talk about it,mom,in a nursing home,claims it is a lie.Whatever,it was the 1960's.Perhaps I will read all of it,this summer.Also remember,depending on the wealth of your ancestors,life expectancy might have only been 40 years,or less.Anyway,have a good night.
When I moved onto my farm, there were decades of “stuff,” junk and trash left behind in the barn. One of the pretty cool “stuffs” I found was an old, hand-painted sign that said “Willow Spring Farm, Poland-China Hogs.” I brushed off a LOT of dust, and hung the sign up in a better spot.
I've found some very interesting things via Ancestry . com's website. 1) My material grandfather was not my grandfather (DNA test discovery) so the entire Italian branch of my tree was removed and replaced with Norwegians. 2) More than half of my ancestors have been here since the 1700s and the rest by the early 1900s. 3) A ggggggg-grandfather (Joseph Fish) crossed the Delaware River with George Washington and his father (Lieutenant John Fish) was almost killed during the Sugarloaf Massacre in 1780. 4) There were a lot of war vets from the founding of the country until present day that I was not aware of. This is the Last Will and Testament of my 7th Great-Grandfather who died in 1792 in Berks Co, Pa. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/62962786
Very interesting will. Did his wife marry again and forfeit everything? The son, Henry must have had his own place at the time of the will being drawn up.
Ran across this, has to be a language barrier? Referencing the alphabet to spell last name correctly or something? Right? Idk, I guess he could have 11 brothers and sisters named abc, def, xyz Woodwidow , have you been on lately? I suspended my account for a year or two, WOW so many new databases added! Might take a peek if you haven't. All those years I spent scouring obscure forums to gleam some info, then paying people via craigslist per page to go look up and copy records in Pennsylvania, and many of them are on Ancestry now at the click of a finger. Oh well, it was thrilling at the time building one tidbit into a life story.
wildwest Mom and I share access to Ancestry.ca and have done for many years. I just came across a real find for campinspecter's family. Through Ancestry I gained access to two different family websites that trace his family on his mother's side back to 1654 in England. These two families I have been researching for the last 20 years. My grandchildren's father's line I have been able to trace through Quaker records through Ancestry. Because of the interest in the early settlers of the Quaker communities, there is a lot on Ancestry and links to books that have been re-published from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Pennsylvania is a real gold mine of information on Quaker communities. I am sure you will have great success in your research.
Oh,heard on radio,while gallivanting around our great country,seems one of the ancestry/geneologly sites had a lot of mistakes,and have corrected them, mostly mistakes related to DNA,not direct ancestors. Gonna call my sister and inform her,as she does this stuff for me.(She is so nice)
Really?!? Like they are telling people that one sibling has a different father mistake? And what place? I would really like to do one of those, but I cannot see myself getting through filling a tube with spit
Um, no, it was only about DNA, way back, where they reported some people may have had ancestors from a distant country.Not really a big thing, but people that might have been told they had genes from, perhaps "Sweden" might not be true.
Does anyone know Italian or Spanish and take a look at a document for translation? Only a few paragraphs. I have not made progress on my lineage, though Ancestry has added additional supporting proofs. I feel silly, I went to far lengths to find many of the same documents and now they are online (shrug shoulders). I was given a dna ancestry test as a gift, but I cannot bring myself to fill the test tube
Just spitballin', never used it. Hope it works, although I've heard some translations are.......lost in translation.
