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Offline Scott_Howard

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #25 on: April 03, 2016, 03:36:43 PM »
Quote from: IndiCon15 on March 27, 2016, 08:31:55 PM
Im considering the DNA thing.  Were you guys satisfied with the results, as in, seems legit? 

My mom's side is solid Swedish settling in upstate New York mid 1800's on my grandfather's side, with a mix on English and "swarthy" Hungarian settling in Pennsylvania on my grandmother's side.  Catholic and Christian.  My dad is first generation Jewish American with his dad from Galicia/ Austrian-Hungarian pushed out of Eastern Europe late 1800's, settled in New York city and, his mom was Russian Jewish, also settling in New York late 1800's.  Interesting mix.
I was except that it said I'm 60% Western European. I don't know what to make of that.
Quote from: SighLass on March 27, 2016, 01:11:21 PM
I am sorta the same mind (IJDC), the old saying that you are just 2-3 generations from being forgotten I think is fairly accurate and that is ok. This is Easter, most of us probable have a good idea who does the remembering worth remembering.

Family tree wise, not too far past the late 1850s on last name, Mid 1700s on mom's side. Wrote down on some papers placed in a family picture chest. Couple of pictures of some great ever-so-great grandparents on the hall wall (The Cherokee Indian lady was not much to look at and her husband was a small framed fellow).
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #26 on: April 03, 2016, 04:05:12 PM »
Quote from: dutch508 on March 29, 2016, 10:34:42 AM
1635 Londonderry Ireland. "Hawthorn", Scots Presbyterians who emigrated from home in about 1605. Emigrated to the states about 1768.

Funny that you should mention Londonderry Ireland.  I had never heard of it until about a week ago but I saw a pair of neckties on ebay that appealed to me:


I thought they had a sort of a regal look but before buying them I wanted to make sure they weren't the insignia for some military unit or something that might put me in hot water if I was caught wearing them by the wrong person.  So I googled Vita Veritas Victoria and found out that it is the Londonderry crest. 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derry

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #27 on: April 03, 2016, 04:26:09 PM »
Quote from: tanstaafl on March 27, 2016, 08:34:29 AM
Dutch,  noted your heinz 57 muttness in percentages.

Proud to say that I am of 100% Northern German heritage. And the family tree roots back to the early 1700. Beyond that it becomes hard due to the lack of surnames in the German principalities and the wiping of the slate, per se, by the 8th Air Force in WWII in some towns coupled with the lack of male survivors of the war.

That's where mine disappears on the maternal side where Grandma was mostly German emigrating around the turn of the century.  Paternal (emigrated around the same time) is Swedish/Polish and I know the Polish records were destroyed.  Dad has a picture of an ancestral log cabin somewhere in Sweden, deep in the woods, that was my Grandma's purported birthplace.  That's it.

I couldn't really care less.  American Mutt and f***ing proud of it.

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Quote from: SighLass on March 27, 2016, 01:11:21 PM

I am sorta the same mind (IJDC), the old saying that you are just 2-3 generations from being forgotten I think is fairly accurate and that is ok.

Agreed and I don't care, either.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #28 on: April 03, 2016, 05:33:41 PM »
From what I've read about these DNA services, you can get as much useful information, at a cheaper price, from a psychic or an astrologer.

They sound like the 21st century equivalent to those coat-of-arms scams.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #29 on: April 03, 2016, 06:46:26 PM »
Quote from: BattleHymn on March 27, 2016, 12:17:25 PM
A swell time to recycle this one:



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Liberal thinking is a two-legged stool and magical thinking is one of the legs, the other is a combination of self-loating and misanthropy.  To understand it, you would have to be able to sit on that stool while juggling two elephants, an anvil and a fragmentation grenade, sans pin.

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #30 on: April 03, 2016, 06:52:11 PM »
Quote from: Mugsaway on March 27, 2016, 12:58:14 PM
Growing up, I was always told we were German. I even wore Lederhosen and danced in a German dance group. When I started using Ancestry.com, I got my blood tested and discovered that I wasn't German at all, but rather mostly Irish. Now I'm happy in my kilt...

Personally, I have never known any one that did that kind of stuff. 

"Mom, we're German, so will you grab some lederhosen at Wal Mart?"

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I hate that commercial....   ::)   
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #31 on: April 03, 2016, 06:53:52 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on April 03, 2016, 05:33:41 PM
They sound like the 21st century equivalent to those coat-of-arms scams.

Oh, God.... I remember those.  At least once a week, in the junk mail, for quite a while.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #32 on: April 03, 2016, 07:49:38 PM »
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They sound like the 21st century equivalent to those coat-of-arms scams.

Quote from: 98ZJUSMC

Oh, God.... I remember those.  At least once a week, in the junk mail, for quite a while.

Hey!  Ixnay on the "amscay"!

I have sold 35 copies of this coat of arms on DU alone!

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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #33 on: April 03, 2016, 08:08:49 PM »


     Lurking DUmmies, if you are experiencing difficulty tracing your family roots, I suspect you are using www.ancestry.com.

     That's close, but it's one vowel off. You should try www.incestry.com.



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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #34 on: April 03, 2016, 08:51:36 PM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on April 03, 2016, 08:08:49 PM

     Lurking DUmmies, if you are experiencing difficulty tracing your family roots, I suspect you are using www.ancestry.com.

     That's close, but it's one vowel off. You should try www.incestry.com.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #35 on: April 04, 2016, 06:10:34 AM »
What Skul said! And being "raght" is over-rated.
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Re: How far back has your family tree been traced?
« Reply #36 on: April 04, 2016, 07:35:02 AM »
Quote from: BannedFromDU on April 03, 2016, 08:08:49 PM

     Lurking DUmmies, if you are experiencing difficulty tracing your family roots, I suspect you are using www.ancestry.com.

     That's close, but it's one vowel off. You should try www.incestry.com.

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