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Do not underestimate the LDS church. I'll never be Mormon, but this is something they take very seriously and put a lot of resources into and I'd bet on them to be the best in the world in the field. If you are referring to me......I wasn't referring the the LDS, my apologies, I think it likely has the most extensive collection that probably works for alot of people. I use other sources is all, and they are available for research.
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No skin off my nose, just tend to want to dispel misconceptions whenever I think I encounter them.
Nothing wrong with cross referencing, though.
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America will perish while those who should be standing guard are satisfying their lusts.
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Sometimes people enter into a genealogy search for as short as 1-2 immediate generations, looking for lost family, that happened to me.
Then others try to go back 10-20 generations, interesting.
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Do not underestimate the LDS church. I'll never be Mormon, but this is something they take very seriously and put a lot of resources into and I'd bet on them to be the best in the world in the field. When you're constantly bangin your nieces, cousins, and other relatives you gotta keep track of that chit.
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I checked familysearch.org finding they had my fathers birth year wrong, age off, burial town incorrect, some siblings missing, yet parents correct ending there.
Other sites are correct going back to famous criminals and famous politicians beyond 1025.
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I've got ancestors that go back five, maybe six generations in the Kentucky county where I was born. I've got some distant relatives who have tracked it back much farther than that. But it goes in so many directions once you get back past five generations that it doesn't have much significance. There's too many lines feeding into it if you take it back to sixth great grandparents.
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I think its a good idea to pay particular attention to the female side of things lol.
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My wife passed in 1998–shortly after I did some genealogy research on her name and my own. Traced her family name back to 1610 with Champlain and my own to the Mayflower. Soon forgot about it.
During Covid I looked it up again and was absolutely astounded by all the new information that’s available.
I found out that somewhere between the whaling Captain and the whiskey trader in early Alberta there was an adoption. That adoption was probably a white kid but nothing else is known about him. So while I have the complete family tree back 12 generations to the Mayflower there is no genetic dna relation.
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I was curious myself how those records were kept and I researched BuzzH and found out his great grandfather was a toad. That should prove that evolution isn’t real… 😂😂
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Everyone claims they're related to someone on the fuggin Mayflower lmao. There are about 30M mayflower descendants. https://mymodernmet.com/descendant-ancestors-mayflower/
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Already enough religious fanatics in the family w/o having to complicate it with puritans.
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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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I don't have what it takes to dig like my wife did tracing hers and then mine. The mystery can suck you in though. She relied on LDS a lot. Immigration records are also very good once you get on the scent. The really old ones didn't always list the wives. She went to the National Archives in DC. This was 12-14 years ago so some of the old microfiche records might be digitized now. On a parallel course, genetic tracing services like 23 and Me or Ancestry.Com can link you to a whole range of people, showing the closeness of relationship, ethnicity, and geographic origin. Also, I forgot to mention church records. Many churches maintained what was like a big family bible recording births, deaths, and marriages.
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Per the relative finder site, I'm a direct descendent of 4 passengers that were on the Mayflower. 11th, 12th and 13th Great Grandfathers, and one 12th Great Grandmother. The "more options" button allows one to sort the list of "all" relatives, to just "direct" decedents.
Remember why, specifically, the Bill of Rights was written...remember its purpose. It was written to limit the power of government over the individual.
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Talking of genealogy….
The newsboys havemt posted…
Levar Burton ( actor from roots) had a white great grand pappy…
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Talking of genealogy….
The newsboys havemt posted…
Levar Burton ( actor from roots) had a white great grand pappy… I seen that😂
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Talking of genealogy….
The newsboys havemt posted…
Levar Burton ( actor from roots) had a white great grand pappy… I seen that😂 Dave Chappelle should do a skit of that… 😂😂😂😂
Dave
�The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.� Lou Holtz
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Talking of genealogy….
The newsboys havemt posted…
Levar Burton ( actor from roots) had a white great grand pappy… I seen that😂 Dave Chappelle should do a skit of that… 😂😂😂😂 The white, black pixie!!!
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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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I think its a good idea to pay particular attention to the female side of things lol. If you claim to be Jewish the genes prove on the female side. Yup. everybody's got relatives--- amazing!!!
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My wife passed in 1998–shortly after I did some genealogy research on her name and my own. Traced her family name back to 1610 with Champlain and my own to the Mayflower. Soon forgot about it.
During Covid I looked it up again and was absolutely astounded by all the new information that’s available.
I found out that somewhere between the whaling Captain and the whiskey trader in early Alberta there was an adoption. That adoption was probably a white kid but nothing else is known about him. So while I have the complete family tree back 12 generations to the Mayflower there is no genetic dna relation. Adoptions were common, native kid to white family, white kid to native families, alot of that happened. I have a signed contract between my 5th gen grandfather and the Northwest company, it says to go to Lk Superior, Nipigon and beyond.....1793.........he was around 16yrs, unlikely he ever saw his parents again as he spent the rest of his life in the Athabaska region of Alberta.
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I have friends that spent much time on the LDS site. They compared it to known well documented family info.
They said that the LDS info was incorrect on much of what they had. It was based on what people had submitted not actinal records.
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