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Any of y'all into ancestry?

Posted on 6/25/21 at 2:51 am
Posted by O P Walker
Birmingham
Member since Oct 2018
488 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 2:51 am
Have done extensive research on my family. My ancestors were employed by the Allen bros as a survey crew to stake the lines to a city that would be named after Sam Houston. I wear an Astros hat for this reason. Could care less for the team
This post was edited on 6/25/21 at 2:53 am
Posted by fr33manator
Baton Rouge
Member since Oct 2010
133821 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 2:54 am to
In Alabama it’s called incestry
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
161246 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:04 am to
Yeah but tired of paying for it when it really just gave me "suggestions"
Posted by HoboDickCheese
The overpass
Member since Sep 2020
13775 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:12 am to
No but my Grandmother is crazy into genealogy, she’s also a serious member of the UDC. According to her I’m related to William Wallace and Richard the Lionheart. We also had a family member who fought for both sides in the Civil War, he apparently started for the south then got captured and fought for the north and then got captured by the south. It’s a running joke in my family that he was one of the first American spy’s
Posted by theantiquetiger
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Member since Feb 2005
20058 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:27 am to
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Could care less for the team


How much more could you care less?

I laugh at the ancestry commercials. Everyone has a famous relative that did something great.
I wanna see a commercial where their forefathers were the town drunks, beat their wives, and was just a complete POS.
Posted by pioneerbasketball
Team Bunchie
Member since Oct 2005
139098 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:29 am to
take down the statues
Posted by Hangit
The Green Swamp
Member since Aug 2014
45708 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:34 am to
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take down the statues


My GG grandfather has a statue that would be considered objectionable by today's standards. The statue is pretty far off the beaten path and has yet to draw any attention.
Posted by macjonesgoat
Member since Feb 2021
898 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:49 am to
The first time I heard this joke I fell off my wolly mammoth I was laughing so hard. Original and clever bawwwww.
This post was edited on 6/25/21 at 3:50 am
Posted by LSUcajun77
New Orleans
Member since Nov 2008
24155 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:57 am to
It wasn’t a joke. And don’t call your sister a wooly mammoth.
Posted by lsuguy84
Madisonville
Member since Feb 2009
26618 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 4:14 am to
I’ve seen Ancestry.com before. Could’ve been me
Posted by tduecen
Member since Nov 2006
161246 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 4:20 am to
Once I put everyone I knew into the data base I started getting "suggested" family members but some could not be confirmed.

Posted by NC_Tigah
Make Orwell Fiction Again
Member since Sep 2003
136075 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 4:25 am to
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Any of y'all into ancestry?
Yes. One of the most interesting things is the perspective it sets. Both successes and failures, and how much our ancestors had to overcome to climb to a place which we often now take for granted.
Posted by RollTide1987
Augusta, GA
Member since Nov 2009
70205 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 4:55 am to
My family's patriarch arrived in North America in late-October 1737 via Philadelphia. I drove to NYC last weekend and when we crossed over the Delaware, I couldn't help thinking that the original RollTide1987 sailed up that river all those years ago. We settled in northern Virginia before slowly spreading out across the country.
Posted by Lugnut
Wesson
Member since Nov 2016
1509 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 7:27 am to
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I wanna see a commercial where their forefathers were the town drunks, beat their wives, and was just a complete POS.


It’s funny you say that, I traced mine back to a man who the Indians called “Ol Fork Tongue Watts” who was a “Trader” and took many Indian wives! Haha. From what I have been told if you even mention his name to the Cherokee nation, they will run you out!!
This post was edited on 6/25/21 at 7:30 am
Posted by Slippy
Across the rivah
Member since Aug 2005
7510 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 7:33 am to
I used to be into it pretty hard, until I hit roadblocks and quit.

Most interesting thing I learned: My gr-gr-grandfather was captured by Union forces at High Bridge, Va., three days before the Appomattox surrender. He was being held as a POW right outside the town where Lee and Grant sat down and signed the papers.
Posted by LSU Coyote
Member since Sep 2007
56296 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 7:35 am to
Yes, we have a copy of the manifest of the ship my Paternal side were on and what plot of land they claimed in 1782 during the Spanish land claim along bayou LaFourche.
This post was edited on 6/25/21 at 7:36 am
Posted by Areddishfish
The Wild West
Member since Oct 2015
6465 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 7:36 am to
I don't want my serial killer relatives to be caught so no.
Posted by biglego
San Francisco
Member since Nov 2007
83380 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 7:37 am to
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According to her I’m related to William Wallace and Richard the Lionheart.


Richard died childless 900 years ago. If you’re related to Richard then you’re related to other Plantagenets.

Basically everyone who does a family tree magically gets linked to a famous person or royal. Just like everyone in south Mississippi is related to Brett Favre.
Posted by whodatdude
Member since Feb 2011
1479 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 7:47 am to
I’m interested in it, but not enough to spend much time looking into it. My mom did a bunch of research in the late 90s and traced her family’s lineage back to the early 1600s in Ireland.
Posted by Bestbank Tiger
Premium Member
Member since Jan 2005
79643 posts
Posted on 6/25/21 at 7:50 am to
A little. Not enough to pay for it.

Once I get outside the United States I can't find anything anyway.
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