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Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:00 pm to biglego
There was some work done back in the 1990's by one of my cousins...we thought my maternal grandmother's side was pure French, come to find out her father's family was pretty much straight Spanish...from all over Spain: Galicia, Canary Islands, Baleric Islands, and a few other places...
The most interesting connection I have is that my great-great-great grandmother's brother was "Pepe" Llull (sometimes spelled Liulla) who fought duels under the oaks at City Park...the joke about him was that he owned a cemetery because he killed so many people in duels that he need a place to bury them (from what I can tell, it was the cemetery across from Commander's Palace)
The most interesting connection I have is that my great-great-great grandmother's brother was "Pepe" Llull (sometimes spelled Liulla) who fought duels under the oaks at City Park...the joke about him was that he owned a cemetery because he killed so many people in duels that he need a place to bury them (from what I can tell, it was the cemetery across from Commander's Palace)
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:05 pm to Halftrack
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I started with Adam and Eve and am working my way forward.
Well Genesis lays everything out for you to one of Noah's sons
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:31 pm to BamaChemE
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Well Genesis lays everything out for you to one of Noah's sons
Shem - Asia
Ham - Africa
Japheth - Europe
I'm betting on Japheth for myself.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:31 pm to BamaChemE
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Everyone who ever does a family tree will claim a royal or someone famous.
I don't know. The only interesting thing that ever came of mine was the guy I linked in my earlier post, and he wasn't really anything more than an extremely minor pirate/mercenary in the middle ages.
My wife's aunt did one. They got back to the 1500s in England. One of the last names that popped up was Winchester. So of course she claims it is the Winchester of gun game. Just because.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:32 pm to High C
Who did Japheth repopulate with? I don't recall. Must've been a sister.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:34 pm to ctiger69
Mine was easy:
France
Acadie Nova Scotia
St Martinville
Filling in all the names was the hard part.
France
Acadie Nova Scotia
St Martinville
Filling in all the names was the hard part.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:36 pm to biglego
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7 And Noah and his sons and his wife and his sons’ wives entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:7
Married pre-flood apparently.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:37 pm to High C
Well that's a relief
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:37 pm to PJinAtl
quote:That's all it does (not to minimize it). But it matches against other DNA that is in their database. I would imagine they've expanded their database by acquisitions of other services or public offices or whatever.
The really cool thing is how it matches you to other Ancestry members who share your genetic markers and the probability of them being related and to what degree
Posted on 1/19/16 at 2:57 pm to BamaChemE
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BamaChemE
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I don't know. The only interesting thing that ever came of mine was the guy I linked in my earlier post, and he wasn't really anything more than an extremely minor pirate/mercenary in the middle ages.
"condottiere" - there is a great little card game named Condottiere in which you seek to unify command of the Italian peninsula. You should check it out.
Posted on 1/19/16 at 3:08 pm to BamaChemE
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Well Genesis lays everything out for you to one of Noah's sons
It does.
But I can't get too far with it because it gets weird with incest.
This post was edited on 1/19/16 at 3:09 pm
Posted on 1/27/16 at 1:42 pm to NewIberiaHaircut
Friend did the DNA thing, he's like 70% Italian he found out. It's like 99 bucks to do it, might be fun to do.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:16 pm to John88
I've traced mine back to the 1500s and all I can tell is that as we moved further and further West we got poorer and I assume less intelligent.
Seriously though don't copy and paste from other trees. Use as a guide to look at other resources
My family was from Bordeaux region and kicked out then Hispanola and slavery revolt kicked out then nola, South Carolina and Louisiana again.
Seriously though don't copy and paste from other trees. Use as a guide to look at other resources
My family was from Bordeaux region and kicked out then Hispanola and slavery revolt kicked out then nola, South Carolina and Louisiana again.
This post was edited on 1/27/16 at 2:20 pm
Posted on 1/27/16 at 2:20 pm to Halftrack
quote:Mathematically, your chances of success are essentially zero even if perfect records exist. Assuming that every generation is 17 years, and Adam and Eve lived 5,000 years ago, there have been 294 generations. If half of those generations had only one offspring and all the rest only two, then your chances of success would be 1 in 2^147. The actual chances would be significantly worse since many generation would have more than two offspring to choose from.
I started with Adam and Eve and am working my way forward.
Posted on 1/27/16 at 3:07 pm to ctiger69
I haven't used Ancestry.com. My aunt put together a book that traced my father's side of the family back to the founder of the Rugby Colony, which started in 1822.
I had another branch of his side of the family that went back to the Revolutionary War...they actually changed the spelling of our last name because revolutionary army documents spelled the name wrong...and it was easier just to change how you spelled the name. Apparently, even in colonial America there was too much red tape.
I had another branch of his side of the family that went back to the Revolutionary War...they actually changed the spelling of our last name because revolutionary army documents spelled the name wrong...and it was easier just to change how you spelled the name. Apparently, even in colonial America there was too much red tape.
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