re: Any of y'all into ancestry?

My cousin was. She traced my grandmothets side back to England. My grandfather was Irish, and they didn't keep records so the line stopped in North Carolina.

OP should go back and edit this post and change the question to "any of y'all into sex?" after this post is full, but leave the responses given for the original question.

Some of the responses on here would entertain my inner 12 year old self.

The Mormons have a great ancestry site that’s free. www.family search.org

recently started digging into my family history. father's side is baptist, slim pickings with information. My mother's side is catholic, and there are church records aplenty. I have been able to trace back to france to the late 1500s, found more italians then I knew I had, and surprisingly found a german bloodline. Most surprising about the french side is that I always thought that my mom's family came directly from france to the louisiana, however a large group was born in Acadia and in Quebec, when the british forced them out they didn't come with the cajuns to south louisiana, they went back to france for a few generations then came to louisiana. Also, learned on the italian line they owned a cafe in the french quarter between bourbon and royal street on Orleans, thought that was kind of cool. Lastly that I'm descendant of Vincent Scivicque, the town of Port Vincent's namesake. And I was really disappointed to find out ancestors born in present day Alabama, though at the time Fort Toulouse was part of Louisiana territory.


When I get more time, I'm going to try to find more info. did all this without joining ancestry.com or any other similar website. I have used a rough family tree that a cousin had put together many years ago and have googled the rest. its fun, but frustrating at times. wasted several hours following a bloodline, then realized the years were all wrong and it took me to a different part of france. Back in the day people were not very clever with names. So many marie's, marie louise's, and other variations, in one generation alone of 13 kids there were 5 variations of mary/marie and so so many Jean's or Jean baptiste's

I have done a little research. On my maternal grandparent's side I have 2 multi great-grandfathers that were officers under Galvez in the Revolutionary War and both fought in the Battle of BR.

And on my paternal side, I am descended from the founder of Labadieville, French pioneer and resident, Jean Louis L'Abadie.

Our last name got fricked up when my great grandfather hit the island from Germany. No clue what our original last name was. All known records stop with him. Sucks

My ex wife traced her stuff all the way back to the revolution and then to Northern Italy before that.

I did a little checking out of my ancestry and it appears that I might be eligible for dual citizenship. Has anyone applied for dual citizenship and is it worth the trouble?

One of my ancestors on my mom’s side was a founding member of the Quakers. He sailed from England and settled on land owned by William Penn in present day Pennsylvania. Richard Nixon was also descended from him thus making us distant relatives.

Yea my aunt on my dads side is big into it. She has our entire family mapped out from when my great X6 or 7 grandfather came over from Belfast in 1764 on a ship called the dunluce. He landed in South Carolina and fought against the British during the revolution (even have records of his service and post war pay) then moved down to Macon MS and my family stayed there until the 1950’s when my grandfather moved the family to Gulfport.

She even has pictures of my great x3 grandfathers in confederate uniform during the civil war. My direct ancestors fought in a Mississippi infantry division, Louisiana infantry, and one was in a Mississippi cavalry division. All of them I think fought mostly in the south in battle of atlanta and shiloh. I’m sure they could have been at Vicksburg as well but so incredible to see actual pictures of my ancestors as young men going off to fight in a war. All of them survived the war

For all we know about my dads side my moms side is a mystery. My grandparents on that side were both orphans in New York City during the 1930’s. Grandmother was a first generation Irish American but don’t know really anything past her.

My dad and cousin have documented it pretty extensively. I know the first of my peoples came from County Derry Ireland to Philly in the early 1760’s and can also trace lineage to Tecumseh. I believe I could be Native American based on Liz Warren standards.