Genealogy - your family tree

[jillio]

i dont exact percentage of my heritage. All i know i am polynesian indian which is mixture of chinese, german and hawaiian plus being british and italian.

You've got a lot floating around in there, Meg!:P

 

[CrzyMeg]

You've got a lot floating around in there, Meg!:P

Yes i know But people saying i look so hawaiian overall. so close though just Polynesian Indian. Oh yea i forgot, possibly of African in me possibly. i dont know.

 

[Beach girl]

Meg, I love it! You can claim a bit of everything.

My mom told me once that her grandmother once told her that we have Jewish/Spanish in our background on the Dutch side, from way back in the 1500's or so. She didn't know more than that. Could have been a Jewish family expelled from Spain during the Inquisition who came to Holland, or could have been a Spanish soldier posted in Holland. That was a century of a lot of movement between Spain and Holland. It would be interesting to know more.

Has anyone ever sent away for that National Geographic DNA test thingie? I did it a few years ago, and it was very unsatisfying. It was very, very general. Said I was Caucasian with roots in Northern and Western Europe, and a blood type that was common in the roots of the Caucasian race.

Yeah, I knew that already. I don't know what I was expecting, but somehow found that not terribly informative.

 

[deafskeptic]

We could be sisters! African American and Jewish!

Yep.

 

[Reba]

mom's 50% irish, dad's 1/4 irish.

What is that?

P1 = 4/8
P2 = 2/8

Child = 2/8 + 1/8 = 3/8

 

[deafskeptic]

I love it mixed with Kahula and Bailieys. I went to the liquor store but I came five mintues too late.

 

[Beach girl]

50% = 4/8

1/4 = 2/8

4/8 + 2/8 = 6/8

6/8 = 3/4

Then you have to divide by 2 to get what a child would inherit.

So mom's 50%, divided by 2 = 25% (1/4)

Dad's 25%, divided by 2, = 12.5% (1/8)

1/4 + 1/8 = 3/8.

And the remaining 5/8 would be whatever else Mom and Dad are.

 

[Miss-Delectable]

All the fractions in here is making me

Don't even know what fraction I am, lol!

All I know is that I am mainly Anglo Saxon and Celtic.

One day, I'd love to hire an genealogist and have them trace it way back before 1700s since the late 1700s is the most furtherest I have traced back to.

 

[Beach girl]

Do you ever go on ancestry.com? My husband has done a lot of work researching his family line (all British, so no language problems), and he has found a TON of stuff. He researches various archives, goes on message boards, goes through military records, etc., etc.

Every so often he will stumble upon a rich cache of information done by someone researching some far-flung branch of the family tree, and whoops! All of a sudden he's got several more generations.

He is back to the 1500's on one line now. It's very fascinating. So far no one famous, unfortunately. But it's been fun seeing how families change. It was sad seeing how many women died young, either in childbirth or shortly after, or sometimes, one would guess, from sheer exhaustion after having a lot of children.

Made me really, really grateful, not just for myself personally, but for women in general, to really see very graphically the difference that reliable birth-control has made in women's lives.

 

[Reba]

I have ancestors, Pilgrims and non-Pilgrim, who arrived on the Mayflower, on both sides of my family, including some criss-crossing on the family tree during the 17th Century. On the family tree, I'm like my own cousin.

A few Dutch mixed in during that time. In the 19th Century, one ancestor arrived from Azores, Portugal.

That makes me 1/16 Portuguese, 1 micro dot Dutch, and the rest English, back to the 16th Century. I have records that go further back but I don't trust them fully. From the Mayflower forward, that's all documented. We still have family in Azores with whom we keep in touch, and some family members have come recently from Portugal, and some have moved there in their retirement.

Reading ancestors' diaries, letters, and other documents makes history more interesting and alive.

 

[jillio]

Yes i know But people saying i look so hawaiian overall. so close though just Polynesian Indian. Oh yea i forgot, possibly of African in me possibly. i dont know.

If that is you in the avatar, I can see the polynesian. The shape of your face.

 

[jillio]

I love it mixed with Kahula and Bailieys. I went to the liquor store but I came five mintues too late.

I've done Bailey's and coffee, and Kahlua and coffee, but not both at the same time. I bet that is rich!

 

[jillio]

All the fractions in here is making me

Don't even know what fraction I am, lol!

All I know is that I am mainly Anglo Saxon and Celtic.

One day, I'd love to hire an genealogist and have them trace it way back before 1700s since the late 1700s is the most furtherest I have traced back to.

The numbers really don't mean anything. Bloodlines are nothing but names unless the culture is attached.

 

[deafskeptic]

All the fractions in here is making me

Don't even know what fraction I am, lol!

All I know is that I am mainly Anglo Saxon and Celtic.

One day, I'd love to hire an genealogist and have them trace it way back before 1700s since the late 1700s is the most furtherest I have traced back to.

All I know is that I'm feeling a bit fractured. I guess I'm going to pieces!

 

[CrzyMeg]

Meg, I love it! You can claim a bit of everything.

My mom told me once that her grandmother once told her that we have Jewish/Spanish in our background on the Dutch side, from way back in the 1500's or so. She didn't know more than that. Could have been a Jewish family expelled from Spain during the Inquisition who came to Holland, or could have been a Spanish soldier posted in Holland. That was a century of a lot of movement between Spain and Holland. It would be interesting to know more.

Has anyone ever sent away for that National Geographic DNA test thingie? I did it a few years ago, and it was very unsatisfying. It was very, very general. Said I was Caucasian with roots in Northern and Western Europe, and a blood type that was common in the roots of the Caucasian race.

Yeah, I knew that already. I don't know what I was expecting, but somehow found that not terribly informative.

well in america it cost a grand to get specific what nationalities where you come from.

If that is you in the avatar, I can see the polynesian. The shape of your face.

Yea i noticed that. My dad said same thing but he also said skip generation since my great grams. Dad said i look like her.

 

[deafskeptic]

The Grove/Graf side of my mother's family can be traced back to at least the 17 century. My poor ancestor Martin Graf doesn't get as much as his brother Hans Graf/John Grove who was said to be the Baron von Welden in Alsace who had a fallout with some jealous parties and he went to America as a result.

My ancestor Christian Grove who moved to the Shenandoah Valley, VA is tentatively descended from Martin Graf. He was named in a will that Martin Graf made before his death.

My niece's family can be traced back to the 13th century from my BIL's side of the family.

 

[deafskeptic]

The Grove/Graf side of my mother's family can be traced back to at least the 17 century. My poor ancestor Martin Graf doesn't get as much as his brother Hans Graf/John Grove who was said to be the Baron von Welden in Alsace who had a fallout with some jealous parties and he went to America as a result.

My ancestor Christian Grove who moved to the Shenandoah Valley, VA is tentatively descended from Martin Graf. He was named in a will that Martin Graf made before his death.

My niece's family can be traced back to the 13th century from my BIL's side of the family.

Other sources on this branch indicates that the Groves was a rabbinic family before the Church forced them to convert and then they became Mennonites when the Protestant Reformation happened.

 

[Beach girl]

well in america it cost a grand to get specific what nationalities where you come from.

I must have done the el cheapo version, because I think it was a couple or three hundred dollars, maybe. Probably a case of getting what you pay for.

 

[CrzyMeg]

I must have done the el cheapo version, because I think it was a couple or three hundred dollars, maybe. Probably a case of getting what you pay for.

yes if you want deep knowledge of where coming from then yeah. but i havent heard about 300 dollars or 200 dollars.

 

[deafskeptic]

Hmm. I would love to find out but Im afraid i can't afford to fork out 1k.