Thanksgiving: Overcoming Socialism

kneb wrote: It's a wonderful thing to learn about your heritage. I applaud you.

I have also researched my ancestry on ancestry.com and it has allowed me to follow my lineage to the 1600s but no further. It is interesting to learn their names and see documents with their names.

Maybe we should start a genealogy section on here to share tips on researching ancestries? Maybe someone on here is related to someone on the Mayflower.

Actually, Dr. Samuel Fuller, a Mayflower Pilgrim, is an ancestor of mine.

pchistory wrote:

kneb wrote: It's a wonderful thing to learn about your heritage. I applaud you.

I have also researched my ancestry on ancestry.com and it has allowed me to follow my lineage to the 1600s but no further. It is interesting to learn their names and see documents with their names.

Maybe we should start a genealogy section on here to share tips on researching ancestries? Maybe someone on here is related to someone on the Mayflower.

Actually, Dr. Samuel Fuller, a Mayflower Pilgrim, is an ancestor of mine.

Very interesting. I would like to find our more of my relatives. I have some traced back to the 1600's in Scotland and some in Norway. How did you find that out? And is ancestory.com worth signing up for?

my 2 cents - ancestry can be of some help and they do have a free period if i remember correctly. but more of it requires good old fashion hunting through microfilm at family history centers. i work with another person who can't travel who does the sit work and then i travel down to the closest family history center and read through a lot of microfilm, making copies etc.

first thing i would do though before even hunting in ancestry is look at their free site to see if anyone has already done your lines for you. every once in awhile you can hit a motherlode of info. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

to find my native american ancestry i had to go to the federal center where they have microfilm. lucked out because my tribe is a more famous one but others have had good success. they also have the census records on microfilm but i do like ancestry better as they sort through a lot of stuff. also like ancestry's military records - worth checking. i didn't know i had so much family, names like baca, garcia, etc. who fought in the american revolution, civil war, etc. knocked me over when i found them and could confirm that they were my relatives.

I used rootsweb but I really like the way ancestry.com has those little leaves that pop up with additional possible connections and information. What I did was spend a couple months on the free part and got most of my family tree that way. Then I paid for one month and got to download photos and documents from ancestors I had already found.

The Mormon database is also good, even if you are not a Mormon. Anyone can use it.

Thanks guys, I may check them out when I get time.

I've actually found three lines of my family that trace back to England in the 1440's...And one line that traces back to the Netherlands & Germany in the 1480's... Fun stuff! And quite a few of the folks in the mid- and late-1800's and later, I found downloadable photo-copies of the pages from the handwritten census-records. Ancestry.com isn't exactly cheap, but I've sure found a lot of information...

Scruffy wrote: Ah, but here is the real story....

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weeki ... .html?_r=1

Happy Thanksgiving, Viking.

I just love TeaBagger revisionist-history... I could sit and read it for....minutes... rofllol