Cash, I'm getting sucked into ancestry.com and I blame you. I can find a ton of stuff about my Dad's side of the family (immigrated in the 1800s, lived in Pennsylvania and Ohio) but my Hawaii family? NSM. I wonder if it's because my Hawaii family was there before it became a state?
Wash: Captain, didn't you know kissin' girls makes you sleepy? Mal: Well sometimes I just can't help myself.
'Our Mrs. Reynolds'
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Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, pandas, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Kat - Sep 08, 2010 7:33:42 pm PDT #22907 of 30001
"I keep to a strict diet of ill-advised enthusiasm and heartfelt regret." Leigh Bardugo
Spidra Webster - Sep 08, 2010 7:37:33 pm PDT #22908 of 30001
I wish I could just go somewhere to get flensed but none of the whaling ships near me take Medicare.
Ai, shrift!
Kat, there are often genealogy groups for specific regions and ethnicities. Those folks are great to ask for advice because they can show you where records are if they aren't in the usual places.
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2010 7:42:32 pm PDT #22909 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Kat, it's like CRACK, isn't it???
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2010 7:43:12 pm PDT #22910 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
By the way, I'm somewhere in 11th Century Wales. Bless their hearts for being such great genealogists.
P.M. Marc - Sep 08, 2010 7:48:25 pm PDT #22911 of 30001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Cash, if you've found anyone in Kent, holy CRAP, those people are thorough. I got back to the 12th century with that branch.
Liese S. - Sep 08, 2010 7:48:36 pm PDT #22912 of 30001
"Faded like the lilac, he thought."
Yeah, I never looked into genealogy stuff because I know my records go back only so far; they were destroyed in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. But with social media versions of genealogy, it may be possible to find information if people had individual records held elsewhere. But it's a long shot, so I haven't been willing to spend any money on it. My great aunt went to Japan and did some extensive research, but yeah, everything ended at the bomb.
Burrell - Sep 08, 2010 7:49:35 pm PDT #22913 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I suspect my family would defy ancestry.com, what with my mother being adopted (and my not remembering her birth father's name) and my father's family having fled Russia.
Burrell - Sep 08, 2010 7:50:55 pm PDT #22914 of 30001
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
whoa, okay Liese beats me when it comes to lack of genealogy records.
Connie Neil - Sep 08, 2010 7:56:36 pm PDT #22915 of 30001
brillig
If this keeps up, we're going to need a genealogy thread (and somewhere ita twitches without really knowing why).
My folks are in southwestern Pennsylvania, Revolutionary era New Jersey, and Colonial New York and New England. From there it's various spots in England, Scotland, Wales, Germany. And, of course, Netherlands and Morocco, when the Jansens are sailing with the Sallee Rovers and sacking towns in Ireland.
Cashmere - Sep 08, 2010 8:06:27 pm PDT #22916 of 30001
Now tagless for your comfort.
Cash, if you've found anyone in Kent, holy CRAP, those people are thorough. I got back to the 12th century with that branch.
LOTS of people in Kent. Mom's side is strictly Welsh and English. Dad's I've found some Scots and some unexpected French back to the 16th Century.
Liese, that sucks.
Burrell, my husband's grandfather was adopted under the table so they're not really sure about anything. I'm going to see what I can find on his paternal grandmother's side, though--she seems to have kept some really good records.