I've been working on my tree now for about 5 years. Any other genealogists here?

Have you found any interesting connections/scandals etc?

One of my grandmothers traced 5 lines back
to Adam and Eve as the story goes.
Part of that Salt Lake City mafia :-)

I have been working on mine for over ten years. Yeah. You would be surprised how many times we have married some of these women in the past to keep our tree growing. It has been real fun for women in our surname forum. It like she couldn't possibly had that many kids.

I'm back to about 1340 on mine. I've been told by another researcher that I'm something like the 22nd or 23rd grand-daughter of Lady Godiva but I haven't got that far back yet!

I have gotten back to 1109. Its highly addictive and fun. I have had my ego destroyed many times. I don't know how many times I have had to prove both sides of a family line. Sure can meet some interesting people who really take the stuff seriously.

I've found quite a few of my ancestors who were transported to Australia or Tasmania.

A cousin of some kind who was killed in the Courtenay Rebellion in England.

And a 1st cousin 9 times removed who was tried as a witch in the Salem Witch Trials.

We had one who was beheaded because of her sister. To be a Queen was a big thing back then. Her father like to behead his wives. They didn't have divorce before he came along. A mind is a terrible thing to lose.

I take it you mean King Henry VIII? Yes, he was a bit of a rogue.

Yeah. Queen Jane only made it 9 days. Its sad. But Queen Elizabeth was cool. She signed my ancestors papers so he was a captain. Got him land in Virginia and left his son with a friend. Then moved down to Nevis Island and took to farming on a sugar plantation.

Oh!you were referring to my roots.Sowwwwy!

Allegedly one of my ancestors is a character in one of Shakespeare's plays. Shakespeare did use the names of real people in at least one of his plays.

im from a looooooooooooooooooooong line of Sicilian Cosa Nostra

Brooklyn Cosa Nostra



Now a thriving part of the Catskill Cosa Nostra!!hahahahah

I just recently got in to geneaology and I find it fascinating. I can't go back very far though 'cause then people started changing their names, and stuff, and I don't know what their name was before they changed it. So, I'm kind of up a creek without a paddle. :(

Yes, it does get difficult when you come across name changes. Once you get back to the days when most people couldn't read or write, names can be very 'open to interpretation'!

I spent years looking for census reports for someone in my direct line. Their name was HULLOT, which was how I was doing my search. Eventually I found them. Their name had been recorded on the census as 'OOLO'. Of course, they were French, and they'd obviously told the census taker that their name was HULLOT, but 'OOLO' was what he heard!

I'm getting closer and closer now to the days of William the Conqueror, and most of my names on my tree are slowly changing back to their original spellings. Later generations were listed as BOWFORT, then further back it changes to BEAUFORT, then DE BEAUFORT.

Which site do you use? I find the ancestry site to be by far the best.

I'm really lucky because in Downtown Salt Lake City is the Family History Library for the LDS Church. Even though I'm not an active member of the LDS church, I go to that library and I can use ancestry.com for free.

LDS likes that stuff. My dads side of the family r lds so my grand dad went back to Lief erickson. That was cool because that means that my family found America befor Columbus. HAHA

Could anyone direct me to a FREE site that actually works? I went several I "googled", none could even find ME! Thanks in advance, John. Oh yeah, I would like to prove my Native American status...if I have one!

I've wanted to trace my family for a while but I don't even know where to start. And my father was adopted so I don't know how to find his information.

if you have a state liberary in your state
you can do your family tree there or even at a morman church for free

my cousin started working on our family tree number yrs back actually way before my grandmother died(27yrs ago)

he still ads in additional family members that been born on the tree

i had always thought that i was part aztec to found were not were part apache and my grandmother mom name was geronima hawks
my grandma was born in clovis new mexcio the same yr that mexcio was declared a state