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re: Any of y'all into ancestry?
Posted on 6/25/21 at 1:12 pm to GreenRockTiger
Posted on 6/25/21 at 1:12 pm to GreenRockTiger
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like you would even get a chance to find out
Your desperation is palpable.
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Posted on 6/25/21 at 1:15 pm to X123F45
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Your desperation is palpable.
Delusional much?
Posted on 6/25/21 at 1:26 pm to O P Walker
My wife and I did it to find our heritage, but we didn’t subscribe to go deeper. I know one of my ancestors diddled around, because I’m 2% black.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 2:47 pm to Basura Blanco
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Same here. The entire Fort Toulouse history is really interesting. In fact, the first Fontenot, Guillory, and LeFleur to come to America arrived directly from France at Mobile around 1720 as part of a militia to establish Fort Toulouse just north of present day Montgomery.
I got fontenot and brignac blood from Ft. Toulouse.
Brignac Family History Website This website has some info on Ft. Toulouse and gives the names of some of the founding members of the fort.
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Mathieu "Jolly" Brignac, Louis"Debonair" Fonteneau, Pierre "Richelieu" Fourre, St. Simeon "St. Peter" Brignac, Simeon"Carefree" Dousset, Joseph "Hurricane" Cevraise, Antoine "From Dauphine" Bonin. (From the Review of the Garrison, Jan. 1, 1756).
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:14 pm to O P Walker
I’m distantly related to Sam Houston, through his mother’s line. She was a Paxton from Virginia.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:51 pm to O P Walker
I have so many TX & GA cotton farmers in my family tree, I will be writing reparation checks for the next 350 years.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 3:51 pm to Basura Blanco
I have old mobile too.
DeLisle
Vincent dit Chenet
and a few others
DeLisle
Vincent dit Chenet
and a few others
Posted on 6/25/21 at 4:02 pm to O P Walker
I've done research off and on for 20+ years. 95% of the things you do find are just a name/date, maybe occupation. Good interesting stuff, but not necessarily noteworthy. Ultimately, you answer one question "where did he come from" and get two more questions, "Now where did they come from". It is a never ending puzzle.
But that 5% have some fascinating stories. I have found great history, scandal, war stories, gruesome deaths, cowboys, indians, Patriots, tories, rich, poor, kings, beggars.
All this has given me perspective on both the past and the present.
But that 5% have some fascinating stories. I have found great history, scandal, war stories, gruesome deaths, cowboys, indians, Patriots, tories, rich, poor, kings, beggars.
All this has given me perspective on both the past and the present.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 4:14 pm to O P Walker
Ive done a lot of research. I am a direct descendant of a confederate soldier. I even found his grave. There is a guy in another state that did a huge amount of research about my sir name and traced my family all the way back to Fecamp France. My sir name is one of the first names shown to have settled in Louisiana too which is pretty cool.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 4:36 pm to O P Walker
I paid the subscription for a few months so I could research, after hitting dead ends I ended up canceling.
The coolest thing I found was validation of a family story. I actually am a decedent of Lighthorse Harry Lee, revolutionary war general. Which makes me some sort of distant cousin of Robert E Lee.
And that line goes back to 1620's Virginia and a place called Leesburg where there were so many "Leigh"'s right off the boat from England that they just named the town after them. I couldn't get any further back in England.
I didn't do the dna thing but both my parents did. It's all nordic ... Ireland Scotland England but my father's had a sliver of some obscure ancient Jewish population from Eastern Europe said to be one of the original 12 tribes of israel. That must be why he became an accountant.
The coolest thing I found was validation of a family story. I actually am a decedent of Lighthorse Harry Lee, revolutionary war general. Which makes me some sort of distant cousin of Robert E Lee.
And that line goes back to 1620's Virginia and a place called Leesburg where there were so many "Leigh"'s right off the boat from England that they just named the town after them. I couldn't get any further back in England.
I didn't do the dna thing but both my parents did. It's all nordic ... Ireland Scotland England but my father's had a sliver of some obscure ancient Jewish population from Eastern Europe said to be one of the original 12 tribes of israel. That must be why he became an accountant.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 4:57 pm to chryso
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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?
I have dual citizenship because I was born in Canada to American parents. I carry passports for both countries and always travel with both. I would say it isn't worth the trouble because every time I travel internationally I get singled out for extra security screening. I'm never allowed to check in online, I always have to go to the counter. Was paged over the PA in Iceland to report to security. Got questions, luggage search and a bomb swipe that time. Ever since I got my Canadian passport, travel has been a hassle.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 5:28 pm to O P Walker
In the 1600s my 8x great grandfather, Pieter Wyckoff, from Holland built what is still today the oldest house in New York City which is now a museum in Brooklyn called the Wyckoff House LINK
This post was edited on 6/25/21 at 5:29 pm
Posted on 6/25/21 at 6:20 pm to Emteein
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I got Fontenot and Brignac blood from Ft. Toulouse.
I do as well. And being in Alabama those soon to be coonasses "did as in Rome" as 3 Brignac siblings of Simon Jacques intermarried with 3 Fontenot siblings of Colin. I am a direct descendent (9 generations) of Simon Jacques. Pretty cool that he was a lieutenant to Bienville in 1720.
So I got that goin for me.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 8:12 pm to Auburn80
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I know one of my ancestors diddled around, because I’m 2% black.
How did you figure this out on Ancestry? Did you send your DNA in?
Posted on 6/25/21 at 8:14 pm to Basura Blanco
You and I are related
Posted on 6/25/21 at 8:17 pm to O P Walker
My grandpa is. Always talks about our family’s proud heritage and history. Turns out we came from a bunch of poor Scottish farmers who settled in bum frick Georgia. I really don’t care but hey I am 16th cousins with the queen of England. You all are too I’d bet.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 8:20 pm to O P Walker
I did the ancestry.com thing a few years back. I got English, French, Swedish, South Italian and north African in me.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 11:09 pm to O P Walker
My mom traced ours back to 400AD. Not too hard to do if you have any royal lines at all.
Posted on 6/25/21 at 11:10 pm to jcaz
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I am 16th cousins with the queen of England. You all are too I’d bet.
Nope
Posted on 6/25/21 at 11:27 pm to theantiquetiger
I wanna see a commercial where their forefathers were the town drunks, beat their wives, and was just a complete POS
Checking in - i went on Ancestry and found my great grandfather’s info. Apparently he was involved in controversy for being a high-ranking official at a northern university and trying to keep black people from trying out for the Olympics. Also found his divorce documents where his wife accused him of beating her and he said it was justified for calling him a mean name. She had to produce witnesses to say she only called him that because he spoke harshly to her first. I lost my enthusiasm for genealogy after that lol.
Checking in - i went on Ancestry and found my great grandfather’s info. Apparently he was involved in controversy for being a high-ranking official at a northern university and trying to keep black people from trying out for the Olympics. Also found his divorce documents where his wife accused him of beating her and he said it was justified for calling him a mean name. She had to produce witnesses to say she only called him that because he spoke harshly to her first. I lost my enthusiasm for genealogy after that lol.
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