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- Massachusetts
- EvanJamesLee
Learning about history in general is always interesting (for me at least) but learning the history of what led to my self exceeds anything else.
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Family History
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- 7,703
- Indy
- xXKingJoshXx
A few years ago a family member of mine did some family history stuff and it was pretty interesting. The most famous person I'm related to is Samuel Johnson. He wrote the first English dictionary and done some other things. He was evidently pretty famous in the day. There was another person (I can't remember a date or name) who, I believe in the 1600s, was one of the main people to help write/translate King James (I think) Bible. The ancestry thing went back to the year 1000, and it was a guy who married a girl that was born in 1005. Pretty interesting stuff. 👍
- 17,136
- United Kingdom
Family history is often interesting, even if it's not that interesting.
What I find more interesting though, is the ideas of what our/your great great grandchildren will think of us, when they learn what we spent our lives doing.
What I find more interesting though, is the ideas of what our/your great great grandchildren will think of us, when they learn what we spent our lives doing.
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- Indian Falls, NY
- slashfan7964
Dads side was straight off the boat from Sicily about 4 generations or so ago. Its a very Italian-ish side of the family. I'm actualy named after my dads grandfather who he was very close to.
Moms side is from down south, straight up and up north. Half polish and Indian.
I am directly related to General/President Ulysses Grant. I forget exactly how but I was told once or twice before. I have a real battle lead Confederate flag in my garage handed down from Grant through the family. He must have taken it from a battle or something. I don't really know much else, however. My great uncles look very similar to Grant himself.
My family is weird. Both grandparents on either side have split multiple times and remarried so I have a gigantic family. I don't even know half of them.
Moms side is from down south, straight up and up north. Half polish and Indian.
I am directly related to General/President Ulysses Grant. I forget exactly how but I was told once or twice before. I have a real battle lead Confederate flag in my garage handed down from Grant through the family. He must have taken it from a battle or something. I don't really know much else, however. My great uncles look very similar to Grant himself.
My family is weird. Both grandparents on either side have split multiple times and remarried so I have a gigantic family. I don't even know half of them.
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- Carthage, TN
- race_emhard
I had found that my family's history on both sides in America start before the Industrial Revolution. And strangely, both have strong German connections. I actually have found that there are living relatives in Germany.
I had also found that I am a distant relative of Masten Gregory, it started with his brother. We even share the same last name.
I had also found that I am a distant relative of Masten Gregory, it started with his brother. We even share the same last name.
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- United Kingdom
- haitch40
- Xbox?
On my mums side my family has a long history in southern England.
As for my dads side I have no idea. He was adopted and I don't know who my true grandparents are and I don't believe I can legally go looking until he dies. I have a feeling he may be from South America based purely on his skin colour.
As for my dads side I have no idea. He was adopted and I don't know who my true grandparents are and I don't believe I can legally go looking until he dies. I have a feeling he may be from South America based purely on his skin colour.
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- 7,849
- Horbury, West Yorkshire
- GTP_Sprite
My mums family were quite we'll know and we can trace them back to Vikings and then down through Scottish lines. My dad's family are a mystery.
There is a book charting my mums family...
That has the whole history going back. To be honest the only family member who has the name Heaton now is my mums Aunt as she never married.
There is a book charting my mums family...
That has the whole history going back. To be honest the only family member who has the name Heaton now is my mums Aunt as she never married.
- 9,262
- Corsham
- lipming
Don't know much about my Dad's side but my Mum's side comes from Birmingham both maternally and paternally. There was someone who was a Station Master in Birmingham about 200 years ago and someone who drowned in a moat in the 17th century.
- 12,122
- Liverpool
- CARBOYXJR
Mine's a funny one. Born in Liverpool, father was from Salford, everything from then on is Irish.
My mother is similar, go back a generation or two and everything's Irish.
Apparently, going back a bit, i'm of a Swedish descent on my Father's side.
In terms of important things, not much. I vaguely remember something about a great, great, great grandfather being World Bare Knuckle Boxing champion. Grandfather was in the Somme. Dat's 'bout it.
My mother is similar, go back a generation or two and everything's Irish.
Apparently, going back a bit, i'm of a Swedish descent on my Father's side.
In terms of important things, not much. I vaguely remember something about a great, great, great grandfather being World Bare Knuckle Boxing champion. Grandfather was in the Somme. Dat's 'bout it.
- 29,950
- Thailand
Father's side - pretty impressive. He's been able to trace back all the way through male lineage up until my great grandfather (my dad was born to a female of the family destroying the lineage).
That's a large part Scottish, though less interesting are my mothers grandparents, all from Ireland, and my dad's dad, also a Paddy, who was the light weight boxing champion of Ireland in his day and of who I am 100% a clone in appearance (which I find scary since he died in '69).
Castles, war, bizarre left handedness which all my siblings share, a Tartan and some other stuff.
That's a large part Scottish, though less interesting are my mothers grandparents, all from Ireland, and my dad's dad, also a Paddy, who was the light weight boxing champion of Ireland in his day and of who I am 100% a clone in appearance (which I find scary since he died in '69).
Castles, war, bizarre left handedness which all my siblings share, a Tartan and some other stuff.
- 29,950
- Thailand
There are plenty of sites online where you can enter your details and trace your history. Sometimes it helps if somebody (a parent or grandparent) has done some research before. Many sites have original records if you know where your ancestry is from but often it costs a small amount to access.
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- Tijuana, B.C.
- MRT_Cinnamon
From my father's side, I only know that my great grandfather fought in the 1910 revolution the late 1920's Cristero War, The first one as a revolutionary soldier on the Government side.
And that's it
And that's it
