C1500
You're the ketchup to my mustard.
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I have in the past...thankfully my grandmothers on both sides of the family had done a lot of the legwork so I had fairly complete family trees for both my mom's and dad's sides of the family to start. From there, I spent a little time on Ancestry filling in the info further back in time. It was pretty interesting, no doubt!
During a visit to Salt Lake City a few years ago, we got started on "Family Search" at the Mormon visitor center. Fascinating & very helpful! Now I've gone deeper in to my family history than ever before. Also use Find a Grave.com for obituaries, etc. Both are free.I’ve got the Family Tree app. It’s free.
That's kinda why I want to do it I have so much info to start with but my father and most of his direct line are long gone. Mom's side is easy to trace since my mamaw's brother has a book listing stuff all the way down to some jobs people had. I'm not sure why, but I just really want to know stuff about some of my family. I have always been huge into history and have a love for our country so I like to see where my family served in the military.
Mormons are very big into ancestry. They’ve been providing this service for a very long time. Before the internet my grandmother used to write them letters and they’d reply with the information they had.During a visit to Salt Lake City a few years ago, we got started on "Family Search" at the Mormon visitor center. Fascinating & very helpful! Now I've gone deeper in to my family history than ever before. Also use Find a Grave.com for obituaries, etc. Both are free.
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During a visit to Salt Lake City a few years ago, we got started on "Family Search" at the Mormon visitor center. Fascinating & very helpful! Now I've gone deeper in to my family history than ever before. Also use Find a Grave.com for obituaries, etc. Both are free.
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Wow. Just messing around over lunch, I found I am a descendant of King Edward III
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My dad, age 66, had no idea who his birth father was until 2 years ago. His birth mom was trash and would never help him find his father. He learned that his father died 3 years after his birth in a stock car race in Nashville. His mom split him and his sister up when he was 4 or 5 and he finally found her using it as well. Hadn't seen her in almost 60 years. I got to meet her and her entire family. We have not reached out to his birth fathers family because we're not sure how they would take it but they are now somewhere in Oklahoma I believe.Has anyone looked into their family history, or have any interest in it? I have been playing around with websites and getting some info just for fun.
Now that calls for a cigar!Wow. Just messing around over lunch, I found I am a descendant of King Edward III
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I have used a little of each website to get info. I have used ancestry to keep a record of everything and Find a grave for getting the dates. My wife has got me tracing hers while I am looking up my stuff too. She is wanting us to get the DNA kits, but I am still not real sure about getting that.
Has anyone looked into their family history, or have any interest in it? I have been playing around with websites and getting some info just for fun.
Do you have no concerns about sharing your DNA with folks on the internet? While unlikely, it’s entirely possible for you to be linked / or set up for a crimenot quite the same but my mother did the ancestory dna test some years back. Very interesting to say the least. I found out that I was 51% western European but was surprised to see 28% irish. I had no idea I had irish blood. I would highly recommend doing this