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Mon Jan-28-08 10:37 AM
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Edited on Mon Jan-28-08 10:40 AM by Disorganized
Since we live in a small town in the SW corner of the state, and since my ancestry is Southern and PA Dutch, and my husband's is New England and Midwestern, I'd have to give up genealogy if it weren't for the Internet. As it is, I've pretty much come to a screeching halt for both of us. I'm fixing to up my Ancestry membership so I can look for the ancestry of our English/Jewish son-in-law. I have no idea how to research his Jewish ancestry (originally Amsterdam and Odessa, Russia). Fascinating people but I haven't a clue how to go deeper. I'm also stuck on the Sicilian ancestry of our ex-son-in-law - his Mafia ancestry is one huge question mark. For starters, we don't even know what the last name should be. His grandfather changed the name when he escaped Chicago (I'd guess he was running from the Feds) and landed in a village in Upstate New York. He was even able to avoid the census.
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| -Ancestor ethnicity roll call! Check in, everybody. |
CBHagman |
Apr-06-07 02:33 PM |
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Some very easy, some hard |
ayeshahaqqiqa |
Apr-07-07 08:02 PM |
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Oy, orphans. |
CBHagman |
Apr-07-07 10:34 PM |
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"Black Dutch" |
ayeshahaqqiqa |
Apr-08-07 02:25 PM |
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Ok, now really check Illinois.. |
IA_Seth |
Apr-09-07 10:41 AM |
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Trouble finding our Native American Ancestors |
Cybergata |
Jun-01-07 02:27 PM |
#28 |
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One of my great grandmothers claimed to be Black Dutch |
yellerpup |
Aug-16-07 09:58 PM |
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"Black Dutch" has been used very loosely! |
eowyn_of_rohan |
Oct-05-07 11:46 AM |
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My family called them Black Germans or Black Swiss |
sybylla |
Oct-08-07 10:33 AM |
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OOOHHHH, this reminds me of something. In going through some very old |
kestrel91316 |
Feb-07-08 06:01 PM |
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Sounds like what I know of as "black Irish". As opposed to the Irish who |
kestrel91316 |
Feb-07-08 05:57 PM |
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Just found out through DNA testing |
ayeshahaqqiqa |
Apr-16-09 07:40 AM |
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Arkansas |
IA_Seth |
Apr-09-07 10:38 AM |
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I know EXACTLY where the Cherokee were in S. IL |
ayeshahaqqiqa |
Apr-09-07 12:23 PM |
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I've never been there myself... |
IA_Seth |
Apr-09-07 12:34 PM |
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Pennsylvania Dutch. |
fudge stripe cookays |
Apr-09-07 10:45 PM |
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Pennsylvania Dutch... |
IA_Seth |
Apr-10-07 01:24 PM |
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Unfortunately, no. :( |
fudge stripe cookays |
Apr-10-07 06:12 PM |
#10 |
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really Ohio Germans? |
momophile |
Jun-15-07 01:27 PM |
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I think it was just a common name for the group. |
fudge stripe cookays |
Jul-02-07 03:55 PM |
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That's interesting. I'm PA Dutch also. We came through Philadelphia |
madinmaryland |
Oct-07-08 03:04 PM |
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Got a couple roadblocks |
dropkickpa |
Apr-21-07 11:04 AM |
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Dead end on gggrandfather Peter Sommers = |
k8conant |
Apr-30-07 09:48 PM |
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Any luck with local genealogical societies? |
CBHagman |
May-04-07 11:23 AM |
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I think Somers is also an English name. They weren't tartars for spelling in |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
May-20-07 12:07 PM |
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A mix |
Disorganized |
May-04-07 12:30 PM |
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My mother went into a second-hand bookshop in a part of England, |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
May-13-07 03:54 PM |
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Very cool! |
fudge stripe cookays |
May-14-07 07:37 PM |
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Wow. Great to have such a nice a photo of her, and an interview, too, FSC! |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
May-20-07 12:05 PM |
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Wow, that's close enough you could ALMOST call her up and say hi!! |
kestrel91316 |
Feb-07-08 06:04 PM |
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Devon |
NOLALady |
May-20-07 03:38 PM |
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Devon is a tough place for records |
iverglas |
May-20-07 04:15 PM |
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English, English, English, English! |
iverglas |
May-20-07 03:29 PM |
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Canadian Research |
NOLALady |
May-20-07 04:16 PM |
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eek |
iverglas |
May-20-07 04:58 PM |
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I'm very familiar with the French-Canadian records |
sybylla |
May-25-07 06:53 PM |
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The more resources, the better! |
CBHagman |
May-20-07 07:55 PM |
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Which Census years are you searching? |
CBHagman |
Jul-12-07 11:04 PM |
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grrrrr |
iverglas |
Jul-14-07 08:31 PM |
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Brick Walls R Us |
NOLALady |
May-20-07 04:35 PM |
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Could your Datcherut be... |
fudge stripe cookays |
Jul-02-07 04:03 PM |
#33 |
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Are your D'Atcherouxs connected to your Gravelines? |
NOLALady |
Jul-24-07 07:44 PM |
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My biggest problem area was formerly East Prussia |
sybylla |
May-25-07 10:22 PM |
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Fairly recent German Immigrants |
Cybergata |
Jun-01-07 03:26 PM |
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On the Reiter have you tried spelling it Rueter or Reuter? Both can |
jwirr |
Jul-11-07 11:20 PM |
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99.9% very boring WASP. A tiny bit of Swiss Anabaptist, Scandinavian, |
kestrel91316 |
Jun-19-07 04:28 PM |
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Muy bueno! |
fudge stripe cookays |
Jul-02-07 04:06 PM |
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It probably was. He came up with some tremendous insights. |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
Jul-04-07 05:59 PM |
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My Wasp ancestors are hardly boring. |
Cybergata |
Jul-03-07 02:34 PM |
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He might have been descended from a very interesting medieval |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
Jul-04-07 06:03 PM |
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Not if you spend . . . |
Cybergata |
Jul-05-07 12:55 AM |
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No, I meant even going back to to the 16 and 1700s. |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
Jul-05-07 06:32 AM |
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One of the things that I found very helpful was . . . |
Cybergata |
Jul-05-07 01:54 PM |
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But do you get my point? Each couple will have their respective trees |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
Jul-05-07 04:47 PM |
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Of course I get your point! |
Cybergata |
Jul-05-07 05:29 PM |
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Yes, if you're a natrural enthusiast as we both appear to be, genealogy |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
Jul-05-07 06:04 PM |
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The McBrides are linked to my Blacketter family. |
jwirr |
Jul-11-07 11:31 PM |
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LOTS of McBrides in my tree. Two different lines. |
OnionPatch |
May-04-09 10:15 AM |
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Another facet peculiar to the personal genealogies of Americans is that they seem |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
Jul-06-07 03:37 PM |
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I just noticed you were from Edinburgh! |
Cybergata |
Jul-07-07 02:16 PM |
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My mother is from Pembrokeshire in South Wales and my father, whom she divorced |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
Jul-07-07 06:08 PM |
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Have you had trouble tracing . . . |
Cybergata |
Jul-08-07 04:02 PM |
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My paternal grand-father was apparently a sergeant-major in the British |
KCabotDullesMarxIII |
Jul-08-07 05:01 PM |
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Avoiding Recessive Genes |
Cybergata |
Jul-11-07 10:46 PM |
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Recessive genes? |
Zookeeper |
Jul-12-07 02:19 PM |
#52 |
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Royal Imbredding |
Cybergata |
Jul-13-07 04:05 PM |
#54 |
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I'll never love blue eyes again |
iverglas |
Jul-14-07 08:50 PM |
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I have to come clean! |
Cybergata |
Jul-14-07 10:55 PM |
#58 |
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This is why I am sort of glad my sister married "out". |
kestrel91316 |
Feb-07-08 06:08 PM |
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I'm Irish, Native American, German and English. |
Daphne08 |
Jul-14-07 02:04 PM |
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Mutt |
vanboggie |
Aug-03-07 10:59 PM |
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Welcome aboard. |
CBHagman |
Aug-04-07 09:03 AM |
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here ya go |
iverglas |
Aug-17-07 08:55 AM |
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Scots, Scots-Irish, just plain Irish, and German mostly |
mycritters2 |
Sep-27-07 01:15 AM |
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I always thought my grandfather was Scot-Irish . . . |
Cybergata |
Sep-29-07 04:10 PM |
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That's funny, my great, great grandmother was a Blair and her family was from Ireland. |
Drunken Irishman |
Jan-02-08 09:42 PM |
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Well, My grandfather's earliest . . . |
Cybergata |
Jan-04-08 12:44 PM |
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Irish, some Russian, Danish and English. |
Drunken Irishman |
Jan-02-08 09:34 PM |
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Deepest holes, deadest dead ends, most impenetrable brick walls |
Disorganized |
Jan-27-08 11:09 AM |
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Hello Fellow New Mexican |
Cybergata |
Jan-27-08 11:06 PM |
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And hello to you |
Disorganized |
Jan-28-08 10:37 AM |
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We are lucky to have a great Genealogy Library here in ABQ |
Cybergata |
Jan-28-08 09:37 PM |
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I have posted mine before but now I might have a shot at our surname |
Bitwit1234 |
Jan-27-08 09:11 PM |
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Virtually everybody on both sides came from England/Ireland/Scotland. |
kestrel91316 |
Feb-07-08 05:54 PM |
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Scottish and Irish n/t |
pkdu |
Jun-05-09 05:02 PM |
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Hi everyone. I'm a Murrican Mutt |
RedLetterRev |
Sep-01-08 07:41 AM |
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That leaves me speechless! |
CBHagman |
Sep-01-08 08:40 AM |
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Thanks for the welcome! |
RedLetterRev |
Sep-01-08 11:00 AM |
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New to this board and to genealogy research... |
BluRay01 |
Jan-04-09 12:40 PM |
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I'm also new to this group. |
OnionPatch |
Jan-05-09 10:39 PM |
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I spent far too much time on this over the holidays... |
BluRay01 |
Jan-08-09 10:26 PM |
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What sort of records/resources are you using? |
CBHagman |
Jan-06-09 08:42 AM |
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So far, I've just been searching online... |
BluRay01 |
Jan-08-09 10:14 PM |
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Verify, verify, verify. |
CBHagman |
Jan-09-09 02:40 PM |
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Volga Deutsch. Father's side |
donco6 |
Feb-01-09 11:54 AM |
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Hi all! Heinz 57 ethnicity here |
dalaigh lllama |
Feb-16-09 01:37 PM |
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That is SO not funny. The name I'm stuck on? Heinze! |
Dem2theMax |
Feb-16-09 05:30 PM |
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Oh, I'm sorry for you. |
dalaigh lllama |
Feb-16-09 06:54 PM |
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Augustus, and his dear wife, Mary Ellen (Chambers) Heinze, are the bane of my existence. |
Dem2theMax |
Feb-16-09 10:48 PM |
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Name spellings are special back then |
dalaigh lllama |
Feb-17-09 10:52 AM |
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"Name spellings are special back then." Weren't they? LOL. |
Dem2theMax |
Feb-17-09 03:15 PM |
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I wouldn't call them naming rules so much as tendencies |
dalaigh lllama |
Feb-17-09 04:30 PM |
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Scots-Irish, English, German and a little French Huguenot.. |
OnionPatch |
May-04-09 10:12 AM |
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Mostly French Canadian with a dab of Micmac |
pipi_k |
May-24-09 12:12 PM |
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Scot, German, Swede, French, Danish, and some unknown |
carpetbagger |
Jul-08-09 07:03 PM |
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I've got a New York Dutch immigrant problem as well. |
sybylla |
Jul-10-09 09:39 AM |
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About New York 1800s records |
carpetbagger |
Jul-10-09 10:59 PM |
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More New York stuff. |
CBHagman |
Jul-11-09 06:16 PM |
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Chiricahua Apache (Bedonkohe clan) from my mother's and Yaqui from my father's side. |
denbot |
Mar-05-10 03:29 AM |
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English, Scottish on my dad's side |
frogmarch |
Mar-10-10 03:39 PM |
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African American and Cherokee |
goclark |
Jul-03-10 10:43 AM |
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very British |
lazarus |
Jul-06-10 10:57 AM |
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Mostly British Isles. |
Spider Jerusalem |
Jul-19-10 08:54 PM |
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Mostly British and German |
Mr. McD |
Jul-29-10 11:16 AM |
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French Waldensians, English loyalists mostly |
shanti |
Feb-04-11 09:13 PM |
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Before 1800 - English, Irish, lots of German Palatines |
csziggy |
Feb-05-11 02:09 AM |
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Heinz 57, as my grandfather would say. |
xmas74 |
Mar-12-11 12:27 PM |
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Half Polish, quarter German, quarter OMG. |
Curmudgeoness |
Mar-25-11 06:38 PM |
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I've never met anyone from the OMG line. |
CBHagman |
Mar-26-11 08:56 PM |
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Denmark, Germany |
trud |
Aug-05-11 05:18 PM |
#119 |
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