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10th great-grandfather immigrated to America in 1634.......... I still wear the name Maynard......

21st great grandfather - Edward I Plantagenet.............. they didn't leave us any money though!!!

Dr Edward Maynard - a cousin..... developer and patent holder of the Maynard Carbine 50cal - my avatar is his picture.

His son, George Willoughby Maynard, cousin, painted mural panels in the Library of Congress and the murals at Flagler College, Daytona Beach, FL

Unfortunately so is Obama....... through the white side!!!

antelope sniper, I guess we are cousins. My brother did the work. He even got an ancestor on the Mayflower.

the seach function on here is worthless even the google campfire seach engine is chit.

little piece can't find the thread.

My last name. German. We have a family book tracing back to 1760's.
When I got my copy, I read every page. Fascinating stories.

My other grand parents?
Mom's Dads folk. Sweeden and England, off the boat.
The rest, not much is known.
One is German, the other(Martin) tracks to the Roman Empire.
So my guess is British of some flavor, who knows.

A smattering of,
Irish and Swiss also.

One night my Daughter ask "We know Dads family came from
Germany, where is yours from Mom".

I immediately said "Poland, every one of them"!
My wife took that well. I'm alive, she has a sense of humor.

Later, she found out there is a Polish Jew in her background.


Oh, schitz. I shouldn't have revealed that.
Now I will be Suspected.

It is a wonder the Mayflower could float, she must have beeover loaded. I remember well me an' kaywoody being a welcome party.

Safariman used to claim he was a "direct descendant of William the Conqueror."

Then he'd follow up with a speech about how proud he was of his daughter for chasing the coal sausage.

LOL

Afraid, hell embrace it.

If you can read, write, and speak intelligently, you will never want for a job.

Watched a co-workers kids get out of college with fluff degrees and absolutely
soar in big business. They almost couldn't get settled until they were promoted.

A cousin wanted to join the Sons of the American Revolution, he
searched his dads family long and hard. Came up short.
Someone gave him a copy of our book (his grandma).
That got him in like Flynn.

Not worth the gamble.

I'd lose all respect for my wife.

Two of my Great grandparents were orphans,one of my Grandma's parents. So her line has been a lot of dead ends. Both of my Grandfathers have them traced all the way back to Norway and Sweden. My other Grandmother we have most of it traced back to Europe. The first one came over in 1623. His wife was already here. I read one time that is 1650 Virginia had 50 Englishmen for every Englishwoman. So I am not surprised he married an Indian girl in 1628. Have relatives that fought in the American Revolution.

Believe there was a rope dangling from a sturdy limb.....


There's one or two folks on each side of my family that are into this stuff. My mother's family showed up in PA about 1743, one branch of my father's somewhat earlier in VA and later GA.

There are three members of my mother's family on one of the regimental plaques on the Pennsylvania Monument at Gettysburg. Pretty sure my father's kin, if any, would be on one on the other side of Confederate Avenue.

lmao

English, Norwegian, small amount Italian, one percent Chinese. Traced the actual family back to great great grandparents

Most of my great-great grandparents were born in Germany or Denmark (12 out of 16) and didn't come to the USA until after the 1870s. One of my great grandmothers from the German side, was the first of her family born in the USA, she died in 1987 at 106 years old. She was about 4'-10", was always called "Little Gramma", and spoke with a heavy German accent up until her death. My mother's father's side of the family came mostly from Ireland or England as early as 1703 or thereabouts.

On my father's side we can go back to King Richard.
Here in America I am 13th generation born on American soil.
Cities named after us and a signer of the Declaration of Independence.
On mother's side grandfather & grandmother came independently from Sweden just before World War 1

Nope. Given my parents are first generation Americans via their Ellis Island parents arriving from northern Italy I am pretty confident that I am of 100% Italian descent. Just looking at our noses would suggest the same....

We are fortunate to have good records back to the 1500's and very clear records from when the family came to Virginia in the early 1700's. We were Italians that were in England for a few generations before coming here. A large part of our records came from research done in the 1950's and 60's by a family member that traveled from one court house to the next gathering records and contacting living relatives/cousins for their records. He and his wife did this in their retirement years. He was a former editor and researcher before retirement and made this into a full genealogy book.
Many of the family branches can be easily followed by records of births, deaths, marriages, buying/selling land, litigation, adoptions etc...Lots of war records. One of the oldest entries was a letter to the Church of England griping about the preacher basically among other things. Signed by all the parishioners (men only) and several of them had to make their mark (X)
on the document. Interesting stuff...

The genealogy guru from my father's side claims to have traced all the way back to Alfred The Great, but considering human nature, I consider anything like that pretty suspect without DNA.

Even if two freight trains collided and great great grandpa fell out of a hobo's azz, it really has nothing to do with who WE are.