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Mum went to a family reunion thing a couple of weeks ago and she brought back a family history that one of the relatives did. I just finished going through it and it’s like 100 pages and my cousin (Grandpas brothers grandkid) has managed to trace that branch of my family back to 1580 in Norway!!
My family were farmers and even today most of the family are still farmers and ranchers.
Just something kinda neat 😉
That is pretty cool. My family on my mother’s side came from a section of Germany that is now claimed by Poland. Nobody, I think, has a made a real extensive search for bloodlines, though.
Wow! It’s amazing that your family knows enough about their ancestors to be able to track down all of them! I am kina like Ski-I never knew my biological father or where he came from (but I know he is part Cherokee indian), and my grandma doesn’t know anything about her ancestry because her mother never wanted to talk about it.
My biological dad’s last name is Paine, and with the way it is spelled, I am secretly hoping that Thomas Paine is an ancestor of mine, but from what I heard about my “dad” he doesn’t sound like he would descend from someone as great as a founding father!
Hey! do you have anyone in your family tree who was widely known for something? That would be awesome if that was the case!
Some years ago an uncle of mine did the same thing and found out my mother’s side came from Ireland before that everybody thought they came from Scotland.
eaglefeather831 wrote:Wow! It’s amazing that your family knows enough about their ancestors to be able to track down all of them! I am kina like Ski-I never knew my biological father or where he came from (but I know he is part Cherokee indian), and my grandma doesn’t know anything about her ancestry because her mother never wanted to talk about it.
My biological dad’s last name is Paine, and with the way it is spelled, I am secretly hoping that Thomas Paine is an ancestor of mine, but from what I heard about my “dad” he doesn’t sound like he would descend from someone as great as a founding father!
Hey! do you have anyone in your family tree who was widely known for something? That would be awesome if that was the case!
Not as far as we know. It looks like they’ve always been Simple, down to earth farmers 😀 Though with this info, we could probablly go and hunt even further back, depending on the State of records in Norway.
My Great Aunt on my Dad’s side had done a bunch of family history reasearch (British) but she passed away a few years ago and I don’t know what happened to it all. I do remember that on my Dad’s side twins seem to happen every 3rd generation, and I had a Great Grandfather who had a pet fox that used to go every where with him.
That’s kewl! I know my aunt has traced my father’s side of the family back to a town in Bavaria, not far from Munich. I think she had it back to the 1500 – 1600s. Hoping to confirm some more at some point (since I think I’m the only one who knows any German… just need to brush up on it again first :wink:).
I managed to find a picture of my family’s crest as well (since the current spelling is missing a letter – there was a Hatfield/McCoy type of dispute some generations ago, and part of the family dropped a letter to disassociate themselves from the other… I’m in that line). With talking to my German professor about the crest, it would seem that they were possibly toll keepers of a body of water. I haven’t confirmed it, but would make sense from the crest. I need to research it a little more to figure out a few other things in the crest as well. Pretty much anyone with my last name (normal or current spelling) that I have run into are somehow related or probably distantly related.
My mom’s side is very mixed, with Polish, German, English, Dutch and a trace of one or two other things.
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