Archive through April 18, 2002
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Archive through April 18, 2002
Twiggyish | Monday, April 08, 2002 - 01:31 pm     Rissa, you sent exactly the right info on my family. Thank you!! I know that is the right path to the one person. |
Whoami | Monday, April 08, 2002 - 02:18 pm     Rissa. Whew! All those sub-links inside of the links you provided are so confusing! I'm sending you an e-mail. Obviously, this kind of research takes a very long time! Twiggy, how do you Google search a person's name? And how much info did you have to go by on your biological father? Did you find anything out? |
Twiggyish | Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:12 pm     I had the name of the town where his family has lived for many years. In Google, just put in his whole name with information you might have about him, such as a town. You can pull up information, if he is listed on a website or if he has posted anywhere. I find it's a good resource. Also, it's amazing what's out there on the net. |
Oregonfire | Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:24 pm     I'm a Daughter of the American Revolution: one of my relatives fought on the American side in the War of Independance. He died in the Battle of Haarlem. I guess I could sit around with those snooty ladies who lunch and trace their genealogy back to the Mayflower--but I'm sure I wouldn't fit in! Too subversive for that. (Guess it's in the genes) My other side is German. They started a greenhouse back in the 1880s that's still in business today. My last name in German means gardener. My grandmother's family came from Detroit, and were next door neighboors with Henry Ford. I can anticipate your next question: we're dirt poor and have no connections! Somehow the family tree has rotted a bit in the last few generations. |
Twiggyish | Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:32 pm     I could join DAR, but I am not interested in them, either. |
Twiggyish | Monday, April 08, 2002 - 05:48 pm     By the way, Rissa found a very interesting twist to my tree. Thank you!! I am now on another path. |
Kitty | Monday, April 08, 2002 - 06:04 pm     Eventually when I'm retired and have the time, I hope to research my family tree. My ancestors aren't anything special... but apparently I'm related to Arthur Conan Doyle (Sherlock Holmes)(a great uncle a couple times removed) and also Peter Jennings (the ABC news anchor). I'm going to a family reunion this summer in Prince Edward Island and will be meeting many cousins for the first time. Apparently, some of them are really into geneaology.... so maybe I'll learn more or maybe get motivated to start my own research. It's interesting to see how many of you are involved in geneaology... certainly having the Internet makes information more accessible to the masses. |
Myjohnhenry | Monday, April 08, 2002 - 07:10 pm     One of my Dads cousins just put out a book on one line, but I haven't seen it yet. A few errors I know, but thankfully he did talk to some of the other cousins before finally deciding to go with what he had found so far and they were able to catch some errors and add some info. Some other distant relative did another distant line years ago and I have seen that one. There are some inaccuracies in there though that have misled other researchers...luckly though we are finding some of the errors and the correct answers. My dad is still interested and works on it periodically as do I....the fun part is that we almost always seem to be working on a different section without ever talking to each other about it. I have used google too....it does sometimes bring you to something you might never have found otherwise....some of which may surprise you! |
Neko | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 05:01 pm     I just looked up "Dunbar Family Genealogy" from Google and found that Patrick of Dunbar married Ada of Scotland...Princess of Scotland. I thought that sounded cool but since I know nothing about family names on my fathers side, I wouldn't know if that had anything to do with me  |
Twiggyish | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 05:26 pm     Cool! We have royalty =) |
Neko | Tuesday, April 09, 2002 - 05:55 pm     I wish. If that is my ancestor, her blood has probably been bred out of my blood LoL |
Twiggyish | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 09:31 am     You never know! |
Neko | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 10:37 am     *Smiles* One can only hope. Though it was in the 1000's. |
Rissa | Wednesday, April 10, 2002 - 11:20 am     You are very welcome Twiggy !! Although I never did help with your original question. LOL |
Twiggyish | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 12:57 pm     Rissa, you have no idea to the floodgate you opened..LOL I am finding all kinds of stuff now. My one line may (and I am only saying may) be related to the Washington family. I am in touch with a genealogist who is further researching this possibility through a Richard Gregory of VA. We know a Roger Gregory married into the Washington family. We think our line might be linked to them. Roger did have a brother who was a Richard. The search is to find if HE is the same Richard. You know genealogy is a lot like putting together the pieces..which is why I love it. |
Neko | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 01:18 pm     I just found out that there's a Dunbar Castle too. In ruins unfortuneately but I got to see a video of it form a website. I'm hoping that I'm going to get some more information from my father soon about his side of the family. You're right Twiggy, Genealogy is fun. |
Twiggyish | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 01:29 pm     That's great Neko. Where's the castle in Scotland? |
Neko | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 02:11 pm     Ummm...let me check. I'll be back. Actually...I think It's IN Dunbar too. |
Neko | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 02:14 pm     "The East Lothian coastal fortress of Dunbar Castle dates back to the twelfth century when it was built for the Cospatrick family. The Cospatrickís later changed their name to Dunbar after the place name of their main Castle, i.e. Dun - tower, on the bar." "Located in Dunbar (East Lothian) on a headland jutting into the North Sea, the ruined remains of Dunbar Castle date back to the 12th Century when it was a Cockspatrick family stronghold" So it is in Dunbar |
Moondance | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 02:21 pm     Twiggs.. I will post in here when I get a chance |
Neko | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 02:25 pm     I even have a map of it.
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Twiggyish | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 03:20 pm     Cool.. I see it. I love Scotland. I'll pull up my one ancestor's hometown and see if it's near Dunbar. |
Neko | Saturday, April 13, 2002 - 03:34 pm     I love Scotland too!  |
Riviere | Wednesday, April 17, 2002 - 11:01 pm     Been working on my genealogy for years, with some queries at GenForum and my tree online at 2 free sites I've met several distant cousins the past 2 years.. Seems like these cousins also have some O'Briens in their ancestry but no common links on US side between our 4 lines! Mine were here by 1760, theirs arrived 1820-1875.. The LDS has a lot of useful things but their familysearch.org has let too many folks submit errors. They even sell CDs with garbage info. One of my ancestors is in several online trees, a few list his death and duly note the LDS source saying the man died 1712 and was buried 1711... Hmmm, need we ask what he died of??? I don't suppose anyone has Smith ancestors, aye? LOL!!! I have about 4 separate lines of those, none related to each other, that would make it too easy.. I've got ancestors in the Revolution, War of 1812, Civil War, etc, no desire at all to join DAR or other 'societies' since I do this for fun, as a legacy for my descendants. Great thing about the Net, a cousin 3 states away found my edress & got in touch, she had photos of my GGGgrandparents nobody on my side of the family ever saw before! It's a fascinating if often frustrating hobby, the nicest thing is hooking up with distant kin since they usually have things I don't and vice versa, we pool our data and suddenly the puzzle all goes together.. |
Twiggyish | Thursday, April 18, 2002 - 05:57 am     I feel the same way. The moral of the story, be careful with the information written on family trees, sometimes there are errors. One frustration with my family tree,has to do with a genealogist of one family line. (It's not a common name) He is considered the "expert". He shows my ggrandfather's marriage to his first wife, with their one son. But, he neglected to put the second wife with 7 children. As a result, people who use this website as a guide, keep putting up wrong information. I emailed this man, and I messaged him on a messageboard, but he has yet to change it. This has been going on for years. One woman who swore this man was the absolute family source, would not change HER website because he still showed only the first marriage. I've also put up a few of my own family trees, too. I hope my information (on my ggrandfather) will be used instead of his! |
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