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My Mothers hobby was family history.

Have a binder about 4" thick with family group sheets in it, tracing back to Europe in the 1600's

Virgil B.

Back to about 1854 when my fathers side came over from Belgium to take advantage of agricultural opportunities in Indiana. They ended up in Ohio. Some farmed and had dairy cows and others opened a local dairy. Best I can tell they came over as a group. At that time the US was paying Belgium to promote immigration of experienced agricultural workers to the US.

Early middle ages along a few lines. Doubt the accuracy however.

Mid 1700's when three brothers were given the option by a Scottish court to either be imprisoned or go to the New World. Horse thieves...

Scot-Irish on my father's side of the tree, traced back to central Scotland in the 1400's by one of his relatives. They arrived in South Carolina in 1763, and there's a Revolutionary War officer with the family name in a cemetery there. There's a possibility some of my ancestors were at the battle of King's Mountain. They were in Tennessee by the 1820's. On my mother's side, there's some similar lineage, plus a lady who immigrated from England in the late 1800's, and also a little Cherokee. One of my cousins whose last name is Boone can trace a direct line to Daniel back through several generations.

My better half has traced her lineage to 551 BCE.

KB

Back to 1500 with one branch.

A relative made a tree that goes back to about 1100 and that is where it gets fuzzy. So it is possible I could be my own first cousin.

My people were run out of England and Ireland and were too busy trying to survive in the Southern Mountains, so the records aren't great, but I can trace back to the mid 1700s without too much trouble. Not on every branch of my family, though. There are some marriage ties to family of Daniel Boone on Dad's side.

Back to 1786. A lawyer had it done while searching for the rightful heir to a farm.

About 1860, or so.

It may be Time to Tighten Up Family Tree’s Documents and store them in your Time Capsule for who’s ever left to know their Roots ..

A Storm of Unknown Dimensions is Close at Hand

The LDS records have my direct grandfathers going back in America to Captain William Powell, Jamestown's commander, arriving in 1610, goes back further in England/Wales, but that's as far as I care about.

Mother's side goes back to the French colonists in Canada, then down to Ste. Genevieve establishing the first colony on the west side of the Mississippi, 1700s, California in the 1840s to grow wine grapes, greatgrandfather to Arizona, Hotel owner in Prescott and famous hunter.

That's just the two namesake sides from my mother and father.

Kent

Both sides of my family had Hessians fighting for the British. Both of which ended fighting for the Americans.

Nathaniel “nate” Griffin

We're cousins!! Daniel Boone (Boone family) in my family tree, too.

Family bible says one thing...Ancestry.com says another thing. Immigration documents says another thing. I don't think it's too much of a stretch to imagine a slave ship being blown off course into a Norwegian fjord. I think my grandfather's name was Kintu-Mugabe, but he took the name Olav Halverson for convenience. Personally, the more I read about this 'reparations' thing, the more I am convinced my family were albino slaves...and I got some money coming.

My mother traced lineage back to the 1500s in Germany. She traced my dads back to the 1300s in Finland. There is also Danish and Swedish in there.

1650’s when three brothers arrived from Holland.

Mom' side goes back to 1620's in Wales before they came to area now Maryland.Came to NC sometime before 1776 as house my Mom was born in was built prior to that. Dad's grandfather left Germany in 1870's by himself and came through Ellis Island sometime after that. Wife's family goes back to time of Revolution on father's side and her mothers from eh, who knows....