Have you researched your family history?

**Jakke PNG** · 10-29-2004, 06:59 AM

I don't know who my dad is nor have I had any intrest to find out.
My great grandmom was danish.

That's all I know. lol

**polish_aristocrat** · 10-29-2004, 07:01 AM

**Phoenix** · 10-29-2004, 07:05 AM

i find this stuff fascinating.

im still trying to decipher the bottom writing

but i think the top says "not for himself"

**Basic_man** · 10-29-2004, 07:05 AM

Hot !

**Azure Sales** · 10-29-2004, 07:07 AM

I did 1/2 of mine a few years ago - Apache and Welsh...

Funny when I lived in Australia - I found lots of people with my last name vs. in the US where there are very few....... gaurds or prisoners?

**StuartD** · 10-29-2004, 07:08 AM

I have 2 BIG binders full... about 800 pages in each of my family tree.

Oh, and that's just from my mother's side....

**Phoenix** · 10-29-2004, 07:11 AM

Originally posted by MaskedMan
I have 2 BIG binders full... about 800 pages in each of my family tree.

Oh, and that's just from my mother's side....

yeah this is on my mothers side

im in the same boat as teengodfather on the father side

**Jman** · 10-29-2004, 07:15 AM

My grandfathers brother had a professional reaserche done for the family.

Turns out the Preist that condem Joan of Arc to burn is an ancester of mine.

Cauchon de Lauverdiere was is name and our family name is Laverdiere.

Burn baby Burn

**Jamdin** · 10-29-2004, 07:17 AM

Dinsmore (and its various spellings) is a sept of Clan Murray. Our crest is:

**Mutt** · 10-29-2004, 07:19 AM

yes i have done research into my roots - all losers, except for my father, other than him nobody distinguished themselves with any achievements.

**AnalProbe** · 10-29-2004, 07:21 AM

I paid $500 for the complete ordner and crest.

Great investment !

**Dagwolf** · 10-29-2004, 07:26 AM

Originally posted by AnalProbe
I paid $500 for the complete ordner and crest.

Great investment !

Cute...

I come from a long line of military men, but my first ancestor in the U.S. was apparently deported (exiled) from England for stealing a goose...

**Jeff aka NIGHTfall** · 10-29-2004, 07:27 AM

i just found out my grandfather died in the holocaust

he fell from the guardwatch tower and broke his neck

**Phoenix** · 10-29-2004, 07:33 AM

haha funny stuff guys.

im finding out that we were indeed on the field with people like william wallace..robert the bruce..etc

we are mentioned in the poems and songs of the time. and had lands given to us for service etc.

cool shit

**Rochard** · 10-29-2004, 08:04 AM

My father died when I was nine months old, and I was never close to my father's side of the family. I was always told that I was Polish, but this is from my mother's side.

Last summer my grandmother died, and being as I was the very last one to hold the family name (Buss) I made the trip out to where I grew up and spent some time with my father's side of the family. I met the family historian and discovered, much to my surprise, that I am also Irish.

I thought that was pretty cool.

**jayeff** · 10-29-2004, 08:34 AM

My father traced our family back to the Norman conquest. In the early days my ancestors were rent collectors for the equivalent of the lord of the manor, the first being Roger of Poitou. Poitou's father led the right wing of the Norman army at the Battle of Hastings. Although otherwise undistinguished, that activity apparently made us reasonably prosperous and we occupied Trawden Hall in the north of England for over 500 years.

No special claim to fame, although the first ever Methodist meeting and the first ever Quaker assembly were both held in our home.

Oh and we have a coat of arms: three holly leaves on a shield under a red cross, the latter indicating participation in the Crusades. It seems likely however that we "borrowed" this design from a similarly named Scottish family and may not have been entitled to use it

**Bigfella** · 10-29-2004, 08:35 AM

yea.. went back to great, great grand parents.. then it is kind ov all a blurr

**Gunni** · 10-29-2004, 08:40 AM

Yeah, I can trace my family tree on both sides from around the year 1100.
Am realated to Leifur Eirikson, the first european to put foot on America, and some other Vikings that are mentioned in the Icelandic sagas

... then some french fisherman bastard came along and I am one of 7 people in iceland that are not blond and blue eyed

**AlienQ - BANNED FOR LIFE** · 10-29-2004, 08:42 AM

I am the oldest in one and the youngest in the other.

Have you researched your family history?

Have you researched your family history?

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