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Buckeye Maniac

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So my brother got my parents a membership to ancestry.com for Christmas and we've all been working on filling in our lineage. We've found that we're all American, with lots of ancestors coming over in the late 1600's and early 1700's, where we had thought no one came over before the 1850's or so.

I'm also pretty sure 90% of Shelby County is related to me.

Anyone else into genealogy? Any good stories?
 
I'm interested in it as well...may I ask how much a subscription is to that?

I know my family is related to the General McClellan from the Civil War and was the Democratic Nomination to face Lincoln in the 1864 election. Which Lincoln won by a rather large landslide (212-21 in electoral votes) :lol:
 
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I have a pretty good family tree my father did before he passed that goes back to the individual who came over on his side. Not so much on my mothers side.

We know the lineage on my wife's side for both parents starting with both immigrants. We looked on the Ellis Island site and may have found one of the original immigrants. The records are kind of messy because many names are incorrect. We also learned that a lot of folks came in at other less celebrated ports, which makes it more difficult.

I haven't joined anything like ancestry.com, but it is fun and interesting to learn about your ancestors and pass it along.
 
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Mac;2283114; said:
I'm interested in it as well...may I ask how much a subscription is to that?

I know my family is related to the General McClellan from the Civil War and was the Democratic Nomination to face Lincoln in the 1864 election. Which Lincoln won by a rather large landslide (212-21 in electoral votes) :lol:
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The subscription is $77 for 6 months, which is what my brother bought. That only grants access to U.S. records, though. You can update to international records for some additional amount, but I'm unsure off the top of my head what that rate is.

We've discovered a Taylor line in my family, so I'm hoping that leads to either Zachary Taylor or Fred Taylor lol.

Also, unfortunately, I found a Bieber back a couple hundred years. :(
 
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Pretty much a black belt in genealogy

Key lesson learned... before you spend a lot of time researching your family tree.. spend a lot of time researching the history of the area you came from.. it will dramatically affect your endeavor.. could save you immense time chasing things that could turn out totally irrelevant to your tree...

Find out what the locals called the area (even a couple hundred years before initial emigration)... has the area or towns changed names when different governments/armies came into play.. any significant environmental incidents? earthquakes? floods? research the topography... will dramatically impact your quest... could the folks move around? rivers? mountain ranges? was there widespread use of a language or was it dialects?

Any governmental mandated census? how were they conducted? when were they conducted?

Any invading forces? what were their views on education? did they see them as threats to being overthrown? when did the plaque affect your area?

I spent decades chasing my last name and the general area we came from... basically I wasted the vast majority of research.. because in my area in southern Italy, it was very very rare for anyone to interact or marry outside of the distance they could see from the top of the mountains... the topography of the area is so intense, folks could not travel... a catastrophic earthquake wiped out the area in 1632 and every historical document was lost... but I got it all.. back to 1632.. after visiting the old country
 
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The great thing about ancestry.com is that you can link up with others who have filled in parts of the tree. I have a second cousin who has done a very good job up to a point, so we followed her tree for a while. Then we linked onto other people's trees, and today found out that I'm related to Jefferson Davis. MY 8th Great grandfather was his grandfather, but that common ancestor had two wives and my family follows one wife, while his follows the other.

According to the site, he's my 2nd cousin 7 times removed.

And on a slight tangent, what the hell is the distinction between say 2 times removed and 2nd cousin?
 
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Buckeye Maniac;2283401; said:
And on a slight tangent, what the hell is the distinction between say 2 times removed and 2nd cousin?
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2nd cousin puts you on the same level. Removed is steps up and down on the tree.

Example:

Your father has a brother, and both have kids. The kids (including you) are first cousins. The kids' kids are second cousins, but these second cousins are also your first cousins once removed.
 
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Pretty sure I'm related to John Holmes or Long Dong Silver. Haven't done any research, but when I get out of the shower and look in the mirror, there is certainly a resemblance...










*the vodka and beers are starting to do their jobs. Hi everybody.
 
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muffler dragon;2283398; said:
Additionally, since the families settled in WV, the lines do get a wee-bit crossed at times.
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See? Stereotypes don't lie! :wink: :p

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Side note here...

When my uncle passed suddenly, my father asked everyone to bring all their old family photos to the funeral, labeled if possible. He then spent the next few months scanning them and tracking down names for people he didn't know. Everyone then got their pics back, plus a copy of the DVD with everyone's photos on it.

This has turned out to be a really amazing resource, especially when people finds pictures of their parents or grandparents that they've never seen before. Not everyone has my dad's patience with this kind of thing, but it makes for a great project even on a smaller scale.
 
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Pretty big into genealogy. Took some work done by a distant cousin and expanded on it with Family Tree Maker. Have enough in FTM done to print out a 400-page book covering over 100 families in Fairfield Co.

Can trace our immigrant ancestor (my great^6 grandfather) back to Baden, Germany in the early 1800s, but we hit a dead end there. Just know his mother's first name and that his father most likely died in the walk to/from Russia in 1812 as a conscript in Napoleon's army.
 
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Pretty sure I just figured out my dad's biological parents, after about 6 years of working on it!

I had a good lead on his biological father pretty early on, and really I figured a young unmarried mother from the 40's would be lost to the sands of time, so I was just trying to get absolute confirmation of the dad who would have more of a paper trail, but then we did Ancestry DNA and found a set of matches in common with a particular family from the right area, and just now got back the mom's story, which ties back to the suspected dad and yes, includes a baby put up for adoption. So that was cool.

Funny thing, though: not everybody wants to keep talking about their family history after you suggest their parent or grandparent was an adulterer. Even when you have EVIDENTS!!
 
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