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Any have any success tracing your family back?
These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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I tried the Ancestory.com stuff with little luck,I got deeper by contacting the county clerk where my gramma +grampa came from.
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Yes, pretty good records on the civilized parts of the family
"For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks ... the horn of the hunter never winds at all" Robert Ruark, The Horn of the Hunter
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These premises insured by a Sheltie in Training ,--- and Cooey.o
"May the Good Lord take a likin' to you"
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I've traced a good portion of my family tree back to Europe.
A couple of branched took some interesting turns. The most notable individuals allegedly in my tree included King John 2nd, Eric the Red, and Charlemagne.
You didn't use logic or reason to get into this opinion, I cannot use logic or reason to get you out of it.
You cannot over estimate the unimportance of nearly everything. John Maxwell
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I was born in West Virginia but grew up in California since the age of eight. On moms side they came over from Germany in the 1600's and I have ancestors who fought in the Revolution and both sides of the civil war. I have a cousin who spent several years researching mom's side. The Davis's from Logan and Mingo county W VA and are somehow related to the Hatfield's. On pop's side his mother and father came over from Syria CHRISTIANS in 1896 they settled in the Ohio Valley and he went to work for the Railroad. So all my life I thought I was Syrian and German. Then my Younger Sister took a DNA test a few years back and it came back Italian which I guess makes since the Roman Empire ruled the Middle East for I don't know how many centuries, and Scandinavian which I reckon is close to German...Either that or moms was hobbling the milk man...
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Cattle rievers, pork miners, kohlrabi mongers, and religious fanatics. Two-bit redneck, cousin-marryin’ peckerwoods!
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Ancient Order of the 1895 Winchester
"Come, shall we go and kill us venison?
And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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Got some of mine traced back late middle-ages in Europe (some sort of royalty that helped select Austrian emperor if I recall correctly). Direct descendant of three people on the Mayflower on my moms' side and Pocahontas' grandfather (Powatan?) on my dads. On the other hand I have no idea who my paternal grandfather was.
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Every one good-looking and smart, so far as we have been able to trace 
"...if the gentlemen of Virginia shall send us a dozen of their sons, we would take great care in their education, instruct them in all we know, and make men of them." Canasatego 1744
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God bless Texas-----------------------
Old 300
I will remain what i am until the day I die- A HUNTER......Sitting Bull
Its not how you pick the booger..
but where you put it !!
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American......
100%
DGAF about eurotrash notions of ancestory....
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I had an aunt in Ohio (now deceased) who made tracing our family's history her life's work. And this was long before Ancestry.com or personal computers. She published the results in a notebook format, and sent copies to all family members. Even printed updates every five years, including births, deaths and marriages. It went back to a Scottish knight in the 12th century.
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.... like tears in the rain
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can’t wait for that one ‘penelope’ phouck that will blow everyone away by telling us they are related to King Arthur, George Washington, and John Jacob Jingle-Heimerschmidt.
My money is on varmint guy
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Been fooling with it for a while. Traced one side to the middle ages in western Europe. We have a little French from Louis Durant, a trapper that came down the Mississippi from Canada and married a Choctaw lady and lived in Mississippi. Both of my Grandparents on my mother's side were on the original Dawes Rolls. The best ancestry information is the "FREE" https://www.familysearch.org/en/ maintained by the Church of Latter Day Saints. Start building your tree and their software will eventually fill in and build it for you.
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Some where we have large book some relative put together. It's been a big day here. My wife may look for it, and I'll start with that.
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My mother and a number of her cousins spent 8 to 10 years researching their family back to Harmon Bach (relative of Johann) arriving in Virginia approx 1638 from Freudenberg Germany. Someone typed it all up in type set software (1980's before WYSIWYG). Another cousin with a printing business printed the two volume 1900+ page result. Long story short, if you are from Breathitt County, or Magoffin County, we're probably kin...
My father's family, on the other hand, we think they got off the boat from England in the 1830's and immigrated to "Porkopolis" (Cincinnati) because they were butchers by trade. No clue regarding point of origin in the U.K. Only that they landed on the south side of Cincinnati...
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A distant relative of mine spent quite a bit of time and effort chasing part of it down several years ago. Another relative chased down another big part of it.
It's pretty well documented.
The bunch that came here from Cornwall back in the early 1800's had some money. But it was long gone by the time my generation came along.
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According to my Mamaw, most of our folks came from over in Milam county.
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And yet it irks me the poor dappled fools,
Being native burghers of this desert city,
Should in their own confines with forked heads
Have their round haunches gored."
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