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I know almost nothing about my mom's side of the family other than they were largely Scottish, some Irish and probably a bit English. Not sure how long mom's side has been in the U.S.

Dad's side has only been here since his grandpa came here from England via Canada shortly after the Civil War.

My mother did ours. Her side, she went all the way back to England. My father, who came from Italy, she found all the records were lost in a flood in northern Italy. My sister got curious and had DNA test run. My father ancestors probably came from Austria or Switzerland.

The Mormon church has the biggest registry of genealogy in the country

Sis is a member of quite a few organizations including ancestry. She is registered to do research but rarely does anyone but our family.

Take those blood test with a big grain of salt. Blood DOES NOT correlate to location and DONOT make your genepool public

There is a lot more of that than people think...

Mines is pretty interesting.

I DGAS, but cousin Dorothy did some of this, going back several generations, even visiting distant relatives back in Germany. Relatives fought on both sides in both WWI and II. One of my grandfather's cousins never came back from the Eastern Front - just disappeared without trace.

Well, I learned that we are direct descendants of WV royalty.

Trace back to Morgan Morgan. My cousin tells me my grandma and aunts used to attend the Morgan reunion yearly.

Had no clue.

My Grandmother was way into this. She left bound copies, most of which were 4-5” thick with family group sheets. I kinda got into it about 8 years ago but haven’t done much with it in the last 5 years. In it were some notes, written in German about various family members. One read “killed by the maid” next to the mother’s name. Grandma was part French and that line ties into Royalty. Turns out I’m a direct descendant of Charlemagne - but so is half of Europe. It’s interesting to learn about your forebearers. Another is an ancestor who fell overboard from the Mayflower. Most, sadly, are just names and dates.

Enjoy, it’s a good hobby and you can collaborate with lots of peeps on your family line. Had some friends, a married couple, who started getting into this and found out they were 3rd cousins 😃.

Another interesting discovery was one of the female progenitors. She had a cabin and small farmstead out in the woods during the Indian Wars. Never married, but had a passel of kids. On at least one occasion when the Indian raiding parties came though, she ran the kids off into the surrounding woods to fend for themselves, and then crawled into a hollow log with her favorite dog until the danger passed. Ya gotta love teaching kids responsibility at a young age...

I never wanted to find out if my grandmomma was a hoe. Just kidding don't think they were but just because names are on paper it doesn't mean a thing about who babies belong to. 100 years ago families took in babies that a daughter or cousin had or a neighbor lady that died had.

Yep. Maternal grandparents had 9 kids of their own. Raised 9 more that got dropped off or taken in. Grandfather was a coal miner. Managed to stay employed through out the Depression. Between the coal mine, a garden, and what the older boys shot, trapped, or pulled out of the river, all of the kids survived into adulthood.

My mother always commented that she never knew how poor they were growing up because everyone else around them was in the same situation.

My Grandfather died when my father was 5 years old in depression era Southeastern Missouri. Consequently, I'm first generation out of the cotton fields. Dad went from the cotton fields to the CCC to the Army to the war in the Pacific.

He lived the first half of America's 20th century up close and personal. Weren't much white privilege associated with his upbringing.

On the other side I'm descended from the Clark's,...who looked around the country quite a bit and the Hill family of Virginia. Quite a few Virginia Hill's made a name for themselves in the Confederacy. The Hill bunch married into some "Johnny come lately's" from Cornwall who meandered across the ocean in the middle 1800s and set up in the Jackson Purchase region of Western Kentucky. They bought a piece of land that had been given to that Clark feller. It's interesting how the Clarks, the Hills, and the Trewollas all came together down there.

Quite a few of the old ones are buried here. I think I will be too,..if my wife will have my carcass hauled back down there.

https://www.findagrave.com/cemetery/1610954/bald-knob-cemetery

Bald Knob Kelley Cemetery was est. 1858 by Harriet Trewolla Owen Enders Harrison, upon the death of her 1st husband James L Owen. James and Harriet purchased 2631 acres of land which was originally part of a land grant the Governor of VA gave to George Rogers Clark for his services for surveying. This large track was known as The Bald Knob Tract, therefore Harriet felt that was an appropriate name for the graveyard.

My maternal grandfather died at age 86 in 1994, his obit states that his grandchildren and greatgrandchildren numbered over 100.

My grandmother in Bristol VA was related to Danish royalty.
The last time I saw her, 1956, she was wearing army boots, going into her barn to handmilk her 7 cows.
She told me the big red cow demands to be milked first.

Scotch Irish on my dad’s side and we go all the way back to Scotland. Big ol book.

Mom’s side goes back even further. From England. I’m sure you could tell from my previous posts that you’re talking with royalty can’t you? Direct descendant of King Richard. GGG (G?) grandfather was George Washington’s best bud. Pall bearer at his funeral and later buried right beside him.

Looking down my nose at all of you……😜

It is interesting to trace. I have some ancestors that served in the Revolutionary War. The earliest European came to Jamestown in 1623. He married an Indian girl in 1628. That does make sense as I read that in 1650 there were 50 Englishman for every Englishwoman in Virginia.

One thing a lot of people do is they automatically assume that the husband was the father. I don't want to paint my ancestors or anyone else in bad light but going back to people that we don't know, there might have been some messing around that we don't know about.

Mom would tell of her grandmother going out to milk and saying to Mom's brother, Bill, "Villie, you know that rote kuh? Thas issa sonuvuhbitch!".

Paternal side from Sicily with input from Albania in the 1500's or so. At least that's the story from the relatives that have done some research. Also English by way of my grandma who's family was in Nova Scotia.

Maternal side Irish, and Alsatian according to mom.

Some interesting history about the Albanians in Southern Italy and Sicily. Anyone interested look up the Arbereshe.

Kohlrabies have value ??

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