Putting my ancestry into temporal perspective.

[PsiStar]

I could not get my daughters interested in the DAR.

Both sides of my family have been traced back to 1790 ... the 1st US census. Father's side was at the confluence of the Ohio & Monongahela Rivers which was a common gathering area to get ready to float down the Ohio to go west. There is speculation that my father's side came over as indentured servants. My mother's side had a name change in Kentucky in the early 1800s ... something about a shot gun wedding and a shootin'!

 

[bononos]

We can trace our family back to a drunk who died from being kicked by a mule. His wife remarried and changed her kids last names. Before that it gets a bit sketchy.

lol

Is it right to root up some hint of a royal lineage in our ancestries and point to that person as an important progenitor? I would think that the disreputable bastards in the family tree probably figure more prominently when it comes to actual genetic contribution. Even Britain's royal family is littered with commoners - from what I read.

 

[dennilfloss]

With regard to coming to North America, my family immigrated to New France and arrived in Québec City on June 18th, 1665 and we're still there. That ancestor only survived 4 years on the new continent but that was long enough to have a child who lived to the ripe old age of 63 and from which we all come.

http://www.laferriere.us/Hold/HusbandAntoine Filion 1636.htm

 

[sixone]

With regard to coming to North America, my family immigrated to New France and arrived in Québec City on June 18th, 1665 and we're still there. That ancestor only survived 4 years on the new continent but that was long enough to have a child who lived to the ripe old age of 63 and from which we all come.

http://www.laferriere.us/Hold/HusbandAntoine Filion 1636.htm

Are you related to Nathan Fillion, of Firefly fame?

 

[FallenHero]

My ancestors helped destroy the Roman empire! Go go German barbarian horde!

 

[dennilfloss]

Just found out I'm related (meaning I share a common ancestor -Toussaint LeBoulanger- in this case, not directly descending from) on my mom side to the general who ordered the first cannon shots of the American Civil War during the siege of Fort Sumter.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/P._G._T._Beauregard

It is a small world.

 

[SphinxnihpS]

My family has records going back to St. Thomas Aquinas and further on my Mother's side.

 

[Childs]

I'm related to Conneor MacLeod of the clan MacLeod from the shores of Loch Shiel

Immortals can't have children, so I doubt this claim. Now if you said you were Connor, well, I can buy that.