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Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?

Re: Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?

I had been told forever that my family are "Germans from Russia" and that my grandfather told us that we were "Hamburgers, not Frankfurters."

Well, this downtime has allowed me to trace my ancestors to current Moldova/Ukraine and then previously to Baden-Würrtemberg in southwest Germany (a much better place to be from than Hamburg.)

Also, Henry Kissinger was born in the city I currently live in and even has a plaque in the pedestrian area as a famous "Fürther."
 
Re: Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?

I talked to my brother. On our side of things, I learned I'm the only trans person in the family, but I have a cousin who is a lesbian. I need to talk to my aunt and uncle on my Mom's side of the family to see what I'm missing.
 
Re: Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?

I've been busy trying to expand my family tree via Ancestry.com and have gathered a lot more information of late.

-I've found one relative as far back as 1530 - an 11th great-grandfather on my father's side from Switzerland
-The majority of my lineage is German and Norwegian
-The other 50% is a mixture of relatives from England, Switzerland, Poland, Sweden, Denmark and Russia
-I have a relative last named McCartney who was born in Liverpool and died there in 1846. I couldn't confirm any additional links to Liverpool (my tie in is a daughter emigrated to PA) and obviously there's sliver of a chance but hey a guy can dream.
-The coolest link I could find is that of a 5th great-grandfather born in Germany in 1727. He came to the U.S. on the ship "Brothers" in 1751. He served in the French and Indian War, and later was a commander in George Washington's "Corps of Rangers" Expert Pennsylvania Riflemen! There's quite a bit of information on some of his battles. Awesome.
 
Re: Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?

Way cool.

I have been corresponding with my cousin in Sweden. Found out a bunch of relatives came over here before and during the time GGF came. Found his Swedish record of leaving Sweden and managed to find him in the unindexed passenger list arriving in NY because I found the ship in the right time frame Yay me! I also found someone that fits his stats who gave their body to science in Chicago- which doesn't match family stories but would explain why I have a deed to a plot in Oakdale FLA and they have no record of who is in that plot

ALso found out that one of my Great Aunts had a hubby that went out to California and appears to have married a second time without being unmarried from her. Obit lists a different wife and he is listed in the census living with the odd wife the same time that my GA was listed out here. Yikes! Of course I foolishly asked my father (89 yo) if he knew anything when his wife was on the line. She hates the idea of doing a tree and always disparages that I do it. It is stupid. So of course he said he didn't know anything and was very offputting. :(
 
Re: Geneology Thread: Where did we come from?

I have to do something called a genogram for school; mapping out my family and the tension and terror in the family. I can also use code to say which relationships have been cut off, which ones are good, and which ones are under duress.

But I will admit this: if the people I am related to died off tomorrow, my response would be "pity. Let's get some brunch."
 
Gahhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!! Not sure if anyone will see this after the downgrade but I need help!

I am trying to request someone take a pic from a cemetery in DeLand FLA. I have a deed with plot number etc from 1914. I got an acct for Find a Grave, I sign in and I cannot find how to request someone look for this plot for me. I have googled, gone to FAQ, tried the double screen thing so that I can follow the directions and had mr les look to see if maybe I was missing something. Has anyone ever used this feature and can lead me to the right link to request? I am sooooooooooooooooooo AGRAVATED. Been at this for a half an hour without success. It keeps bringing me back to the search page.
 
NatGeo is killing public access to their DNA info for clients on 30 June.

The Genographic Project was launched in 2005 as a research project in collaboration with scientists and universities around the world with a goal of revealing patterns of human migration. Since then, nearly one million people have participated in The Genographic Project through National Geographic’s “Geno” DNA Ancestry kits.

We are writing to let Genographic Project registrants know that, after fifteen years of research, the public participation phase of this research project will end on June 30, 2020. After that time, National Geographic’s Geno website will be discontinued and “Geno” DNA Ancestry Kit results will no longer be available on the website or otherwise.

We highly recommend that you log in to the Genographic Project website prior to June 30, 2020, and download a printable version of your results through the Print Your Results link available on your individual results homepage
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As i mentioned on the Rep Retirement thread a while ago, because of Covid 19, I could not go to NYC over the weekend for what was the 100th anniversary of my mother's birth. My brother did go with his children and grandchildren, and a niece took pictures of my parents' stones and those for my mother's parents which I have uploaded to Find a Grave.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312674/eric-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312694/lore-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...a-gunzenhauser
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...r-gunzenhauser

BTW, I will be buried in the same cemetery. Check the Dead Thread. :-D
 
Ralph Baer said:
As i mentioned on the Rep Retirement thread a while ago, because of Covid 19, I could not go to NYC over the weekend for what was the 100th anniversary of my mother's birth. My brother did go with his children and grandchildren, and a niece took pictures of my parents' stones and those for my mother's parents which I have uploaded to Find a Grave.

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312674/eric-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/77312694/lore-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...a-gunzenhauser
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...r-gunzenhauser

BTW, I will be buried in the same cemetery. Check the Dead Thread. :-D
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Only if you don't post good morning in the middle of the night. Is there significance to the stones on the grave. I know Scots leave stones on cairns. Is this the same thing?

A wonderful person saw my request on Find a Grave went to the cemetery in FLA that my GGF is buried in and took pictures of the plot for me. There are some nice people in the world. https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...arles-anderson
 
leswp1 said:
Is there significance to the stones on the grave. I know Scots leave stones on cairns.
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We're too cheap to buy flowers?

It's an old custom. I suspect that if you google it, a lot of different answers will come up. IIRC, it is an eastern European Jewish custom also.

A distant relative took pictures of my father's parents' stones because the names sounded familiar.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...29/julius-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...30/liesel-baer

That means I have only one other ancestor buried in the US, my father's mother's mother, whose grave needs to be photographed. My other seven great-grandparents are buried in Germany. I don't think that any have been uploaded to Find a Grave although some are in cemetery documentation. E.g. http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi...idat?id=mmd-99 with the picture on the bottom.
 
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Ralph Baer said:
We're too cheap to buy flowers?

It's an old custom. I suspect that if you google it, a lot of different answers will come up. IIRC, it is an eastern European Jewish custom also.

A distant relative took pictures of my father's parents' stones because the names sounded familiar.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...29/julius-baer
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/...30/liesel-baer

That means I have only one other ancestor buried in the US, my father's mother's mother, whose grave needs to be photographed. My other seven great-grandparents are buried in Germany. I don't think that any have been uploaded to Find a Grave although some are in cemetery documentation. E.g. http://www.steinheim-institut.de/cgi...idat?id=mmd-99 with the picture on the bottom.
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That is a cool inscription.
 
ancestry.com has now posted a lot of the Probate court books for Scotland. You can scroll thru the books to find multiple people instead of looking each one individually. Great fun. Now to have time to do this. .....
 
Kepler said:
You WASPs are lucky. Oily Bohunks have only the 1887 Frýdek-Místek Police Blotter.
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Hmm. Yes and no. The basic rule was oldest male child was named after the Paternal grandfather. If there were 5 male siblings who married within a 10 yr period and all produced a male child in the same general vicinity-John Doe. Further they frequently married women with names that were recorded in different ways- Janet, Jenny, Jean, Jessie all for the same woman. It gets complicated. Add that many of them travelled no more than 10 miles and usually stayed working on the same set of farms and UGH! Gordian knot.
 
I found out yesterday that my mother had a short-lived first cousin whom I previously did not know about. I suspect that my mother did not know about her either. This cousin lived less than four months, both born and dying while my mother was one year old. She was the only child of a brother of my grandfather, and thus there was no other person who was likely to have mentioned her. Interestingly, this cousin was almost certainly named for the same person for whom my mother was named.
 
leswp1 said:
Hmm. Yes and no. The basic rule was oldest male child was named after the Paternal grandfather. If there were 5 male siblings who married within a 10 yr period and all produced a male child in the same general vicinity-John Doe. Further they frequently married women with names that were recorded in different ways- Janet, Jenny, Jean, Jessie all for the same woman. It gets complicated. Add that many of them travelled no more than 10 miles and usually stayed working on the same set of farms and UGH! Gordian knot.
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We have the same problem with 5 names interchangeably for the same person. It's also not unusual for my Popovich ancestors (meaning "son of a priest"! The apple doesn't fall far from the tree!) to have 6 children named Josef. As Josefs die in infancy they just keep trying! Not to mention that Popovich is also rendered as Popović, Popovitsa, Popov, or Popovitch, and not just with regional or generational variation but for the same person depending upon whether records were in the local church baptismal record (Slovak), the town property registry (Hungarian), or the county tax assessor (German).

Slavs get no respect. Hence the name.
 
Yikes!

mr les is French Canadien. They named all the med Joseph and the women Mary. DIfferent middle names. They also named the men Maria. Thankfully I am not the one who was researching that
 
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