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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: eskimo2 on February 01, 2008, 06:52:51 PM
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Ive asked my parents to give me what they know about their family trees. My dad gave me what he knew; mom is still working on it. I joined ancestry.com for a month to research what I can. Three of my grandfathers grandparents came up as dead ends. I found out quite a bit about the fourth however. I can trace that family back to four of my great great great great great great grandparents to the 1740s. Pretty cool stuff. I have 12 more great great grandparents to research now
My wife has a tree from an uncle that goes back on her fathers side to someone who died in 1549.
So, how far back can you go?
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On my father's side to around 1880, immigrated from Germany.
My mom's hasn't been researched in a while. Don't remember how far back they go.
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Pre-Mayflower. One branch, pre-Columbus.
The German-Swiss side of my Dads family is intermarried with Bavarian nobility between about 1750 and 1850. My Great-Great-Grandfathers (the one who immigrated here from Switzerland) grandmother was listed in the family records as "Freiherren von Schleissen".
We can also trace my Grandmothers family in England (she emigrated here in 1946) to pre-Norman Britain.
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Dad always said his side of the family was German ... however the family tree has been traced back to Robert of Blandford, born County Dorset, England in the year 1490. Nothing of Roberts line can be documented but it is believed he was descendent of French Norman dating to 1066.
After family side trips to Belgum, Germany and Austria, William "The Emigrant" (1636 to 1695) settled in Surry County, Virginia. After spreading out to the Carolinas and Tennessee my fathers direct line moved to "Ole Choctaw Agency" in Oktibbeha County Mississippi in 1831. My father moved to California in 1936 and I to New Mexico in 1990.
Mom's line is just word of mouth, but her grandmother came to America from Peru, in 1888, and claimed to be of Inca decent. Mom was the first to marry outside the Indian clan linage that came from Peru.
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You need to be very careful. A lot of people attach a lot of worth to someone they've never met.
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I have no idea how far back I can go but a distant relative on my Dad's side got stuck in an outhouse for 3 days during a blizzard in '49 I think it was. Just how bad would that suck? :D
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I've got mine back to 1540 ~ France.
I've heard tell of some real pirates. :) Had a very interesting time learning about that branch.
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Ive known some people that their family tree is more like a lightning rod then a tree.
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Originally posted by texasmom
I've got mine back to 1540
Fixed! :aok
Kidding Ma'am.
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Furthest back I've seen was an Edward or Robert Treadwell 1609 England. We havent made all the connections yet. There are some Treadwells in the French Indian war, Then a split with the Treadwells during the Revolution, some stayed and others loyal to the crown went to Canada. So far we have only traced back to 1848 in South Carolina, everybody kinda lost interest after that. I did find some that served both sides in the Civil War, and then WW1 and WW2.
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Originally posted by eskimo2
So, how far back can you go?
I'm guessing if I really wanted to I could go to the time of Norse Runic texts.
to 1066 A.D. easy enough when Sir Richard (father) and Sir Thomas (son) went to Hastings with William the Conqueror . to 300 A.D. when Rollo invaded Normandy might be spotty. in Norway before 300 A.D. maybe. dunno.
if any of my Norse distant kinsmen want to look and see how far back the name goes. the original spelling of my Family name is Tryggvi. phonetically it is the same today as it was couple thousand years ago. the spelling changed in Normandy and then again in England and yet again when we hit North America in the late 1600's. sounds the same though.
from the name Tryggvi comes about 23 (maybe more) different spellings and split off families. some are kind of a real reach to see it. it changed a little then alittle more then again so many times it is nothing like the original name, and phonetically not even close.
the main problem in Norway in those times (B.C.) was adding son of (and dottir as in daughter of), as in Tryggvason. back and forth and names passed down from either parent. though if you come across a Clan with a lot of the name used, it is most likely Kinfolks.
yes, I'm a Viking. :p
anyway enough rambling on this subject.
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I feel your pain DieAz, my grandmothers family name (Buzzard) has changed a LOT in the last 1,000 years too- closest I've seen in the old spellings to the modern one is "Boussard" from the 18th century back to about the 14th.
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Originally posted by DieAz
I'm guessing if I really wanted to I could go to the time of Norse Runic texts.
to 1066 A.D. easy enough when Sir Richard (father) and Sir Thomas (son) went to Hastings with William the Conqueror . to 300 A.D. when Rollo invaded Normandy might be spotty. in Norway before 300 A.D. maybe. dunno.
if any of my Norse distant kinsmen want to look and see how far back the name goes. the original spelling of my Family name is Tryggvi. phonetically it is the same today as it was couple thousand years ago. the spelling changed in Normandy and then again in England and yet again when we hit North America in the late 1600's. sounds the same though.
from the name Tryggvi comes about 23 (maybe more) different spellings and split off families. some are kind of a real reach to see it. it changed a little then alittle more then again so many times it is nothing like the original name, and phonetically not even close.
the main problem in Norway in those times (B.C.) was adding son of (and dottir as in daughter of), as in Tryggvason. back and forth and names passed down from either parent. though if you come across a Clan with a lot of the name used, it is most likely Kinfolks.
yes, I'm a Viking. :p
anyway enough rambling on this subject.
Far out!
How do you know this? Is it something that someone in your family researched or have records been handed down through the generations?
Im totally new at this and am looking for methodology and resources if anyone has a clue.
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Fortunately I have some distant cousins still living in Germany. They have traced things back to Hans Hinrich CARSTENS born 13 NOV 1766 in Hemslingen, Germany.
My Swedish ancestors I have traced back to Erik Nilsson SKAGERBERG born 1746 in Ekeberg, Sweden.
My Irish ancestors I have traced back to Richard MCCORMICK born about 1773 in Ireland.
Unfortunately I have gone back about as far as I can go. I spend most of my time filling in the gaps.
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Originally posted by eskimo2
Far out!
How do you know this? Is it something that someone in your family researched or have records been handed down through the generations?
Im totally new at this and am looking for methodology and resources if anyone has a clue.
to the 1600's close family members researched (even made it all into a book).
to 1066 and 300 a distant kinsman in Ye Ole England had old records and researched it a couple of years ago. I was doing my own research and ran across him. then used his info as clues to do more research. I found out we were Norse before he did. lol he got as far as we are from Normandy and went Yay. I dug deeper to get the 300 and before info. I didn't tell him my findings. wanted him to find it on his own. to be kind of a cross check verifying kind of thing. he finally found it.
only thing I can tell you is be prepared to spend long hours and days digging. it can be very frustrating. try to find others in your extended family digging too.
look long and hard at everything you can find. some clues may be subtle. some may be glaring.
you just might be like a close friend of mine. 3 generations ago, the name changed completely and no one here has any idea or clue at all what it might have been before. only thing known is from Germany by the way of Spain. that tells me something in itself but I kept my mouth shut about what it tells me. I'm sure since we in this Game you may have an idea what I mean.
just saying is all.
Best of Luck to you all in your searches.
I gotta get in bed.
laters *Poof*
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Blood Descendant of Rob Roy.
Currently I'm stalled on a relative who died at Bunker Hill. I have some letters to mail out.
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1634 Virginia on my Dads side. Descendant of Geronimo on my Moms.
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edit: went farther back 1871 in England.
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We were able to find our first ancestor who came from France to Canada, he was a soldier in the late 1700s. Prior to that, we're stuck as some of records were in churches that were damaged in WWII.
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1490. I'll scan some docs tomorrow.
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I can't document it but I'm betting my family tree goes back as far as anyone's here. ;)
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I have traced my ancestors back to sailing from England via Ireland to South Carolina in 1789. We have been unable to trace it any farther back due to English recordkeeping. You have to know the shire from which the person immigrated. I have a distant relative that really did some intense searching and hit the deadend in England.
There is a rather famous family story about one of my ancestors that was captured during the Civil War. He was a POW and was summoned to the White House by President Lincoln. He was sure he was to be executed in a very public fashion.
Upon arrival he was escorted to meet the President. Lincoln took a long look at him and asked him if it was true he was a talented dancer. He answered some said he was and gave a quick demonstration. The president then asked if he would like to entertain during a dinner that night.
Well, DUH!! He did indeed dance for the President's dinner party and afterward instead of sending him back to prison camp, Lincoln gave him a full pardon and set him free to return to Mississippi.
True story (or so I have been told all my life).
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My Dad's side did a research in the 60's , and made a book on it for our whole family .
They traced it to 1440 in Switzerland , five brothers Cueni , Hensli , Budger , Uli and Little Uli .
On Monday , Oct. 4th 1734 Caspar N. and his son John Caspar came over from Zurich , Switzerland , they landed at Philadelphia , PA on May 29 , 1735 .
They have letters of some of the ships passengers etc and sailing dates etc of this journey also .
Interesting reading . My family on Dad's side to were I live went like this >
Switzerland > Lancaster Pa ,
Dark County , Ohio
, Mid Michigan .
Always on the look for good farmland that was cheaper etc .
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My Daddy was a Gibson, my Mother was a Fender..........
That's why they call me....
Mind Bender
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1 William Faughan d: 1758 in Surry Co. Virginia
........ 2 James Faughan b: 1735 in Virginia
.............3 William Faughan b: Mar 13, 1768 in Virginia
................+Amanda Springer
...................4 James Faughn d: Feb 19, 1859 in Lyon Co., Kentucky b: 1800 in North Carolina
.....................+Sarah Cotton
.......................5 William F Faughn d: Apr 2, 1879 in Lyon Co., Kentucky b: Oct 22, 1824
..........................+Eula Cotton (1st wife)
..........................*2nd Wife of William F Faughn:
..........................+Emma Cotton d: in Lyon Co., Kentucky b: Mar 6, 1833 in Lyon Co., Kentucky
............................. .6 Eli Faughn d: 1888 (? might not be right) b: 1858
............................. ...+ Margaret Stephens ( her father William Jasper Stephens is buried in Campbell, Mo.)
............................. ......7 U. S. Grant Faughn b. 1886 in Campbell, Mo.
............................. .........+ Emily Inabelle Williams
We lost that last "a" sometime after 1800. Grant is my grandfather, didn't really see a need to go any further.
Notice the 2 generations of Cotton girls.....seems my family tree didn't have a lot of branches at one point lol.
Now heres how I got my information:
I sitting around one fine day and decided to check my email. Well i recieved an email from a Mike Faughn (which happens to be MY name), and I was thinkin some kinda spam maybe. Well no its a long distance cousin who is researching the family tree.
He sent me everything he had and I fitted our group in (Eli down) by finding Eli's brother, Fitzhugh Lee Faughn d: 1939 in Missouri b: 1865 in Missouri. He was known to my father and his sons also as they had moved to California (Taft area, one decendant is the newpaper editor there I believe) and we lived nearby. I had a teacher who knew them though I personally did not. He told me about some of them, once in a while.
Dont know about going farther, seems there is a brickwall at Ireland. There are other Faughns in the US, but they seem to hail from England and even from Isle of Man. Supposedly, also, the name seems closely related to studmuffinan and Faulkner and maybe a couple of others as well.
Seems a lot of folks can go back to 1700's Virginia pretty easily, eh?
So, theres my method......just sit around and see what happens! :aok
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I can go back to 1940.
After asking many times, my parents won't give me any details of the family.
I guess they feel it's not important or maybe they're hiding something.
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I've never tried to go all the way back before.
I love this one though. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joaquin_Murrieta) Bwahahaha.