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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Angus on March 20, 2008, 12:42:52 PM
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Ok. Here is the challenge.
Find the ancestor furthest back in your family tree. Where does it date?
Anyone in for the game can "top" the date promoted if there is a lower year.
I am hoping for this to make fun, as well as you folks to look into your geneology. There is now amazing amounts of information available on the internet about this, so if you can trace your name to some of the older geneologies, you may be up for quite some surprizes, related heroes and villains alike.....
Nothing is better than some competition here:)
I'll start by putting the date at an ancestor born before or in..1850
Mine is
"Jóhannes Jóhannesson 1850 Bóndi í Syðri-Vík"
(Johannes Johennes-son, Farmer of Souther-bay born 1850). My great great grandfather.
So, Top me :D
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I'll have to wait until I get home but I have my family tree traced all the way back to the late 1600's. I can tell you "Wild Bill" Hickok is my great great second uncle. President Bush is also a distant cousin of mine, but I normally don't discuss that one.
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Adam - of the garden. :D
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Adam - of the garden. :D
winner, game over. :aok
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An aunt on my mom's side did a family tree all the way back to the 13th or 14th century. My family acutally had people come over on the Mayflower with columbus in 1492 (when he sailed the ocean blue, hit a rock, split his...) never mind, ya'll know how that ends.
They actually published our family tree in a hardcover book. It was at least 300 pages long. It took her many many years and several trips to europe. I haven't looked at it in a long time, but it was pretty intersesting.
I'll have to see if I can get a copy of the page with the mayflower on it.
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Mine is: Timothy O'Brien 1790 Cork,Ireland :aok
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My family acutally had people come over on the Mayflower with columbus in 1492 (when he sailed the ocean blue, hit a rock, split his...) never mind, ya'll know how that ends.
(http://i278.photobucket.com/albums/kk81/Fenian_album/WTFSpaceballs.gif)
I REALLY hope that was a joke....otherwise, things are much worse than I thought.....
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I'll have to wait until I get home but I have my family tree traced all the way back to the late 1600's. I can tell you "Wild Bill" Hickok is my great great second uncle. President Bush is also a distant cousin of mine, but I normally don't discuss that one.
Ditto. I'll get our geneology catalog out. It goes back to 1490 on my mothers side.
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Ok. Here is the challenge.
Find the ancestor furthest back in your family tree. Where does it date?
Anyone in for the game can "top" the date promoted if there is a lower year.
I am hoping for this to make fun, as well as you folks to look into your geneology. There is now amazing amounts of information available on the internet about this, so if you can trace your name to some of the older geneologies, you may be up for quite some surprizes, related heroes and villains alike.....
Nothing is better than some competition here:)
I'll start by putting the date at an ancestor born before or in..1850
Mine is
"Jóhannes Jóhannesson 1850 Bóndi í Syðri-Vík"
(Johannes Johennes-son, Farmer of Souther-bay born 1850). My great great grandfather.
So, Top me :D
FWIW, before the "internets" they did it through research in libraries.
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I think my grandfather came over with Leif Ericson when he sailed the Queen Elizabeth to Cuba and claimed the New World for Spain.
;)
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[I REALLY hope that was a joke....otherwise, things are much worse than I thought.....
Sorry, got my dates mixed up. I meant the Mayflower and Plymouth rock. Cut me some slack.
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I think my grandfather came over with Leif Ericson when he sailed the Queen Elizabeth to Cuba and claimed the New World for Spain.
;)
Are you sure that was Leaf? I thought it was Eric the Red, because my Grandmothers, neighbor's, best friends, cousins pool boy's grandfather was the cabin boy.
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FWIW, before the "internets" they did it through research in libraries.
libraries are over rated :D
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My sister is a geneology freak. She tracked the Brady side back to the 1780's in Charleston, SC. She tracked the Bullard side (John Bullard & Wife Rebeccah) back to 1742 in Virginia---and prior to that back to the 1670's in Scotland via church records.
She's digging back even more, but the information isn't always reliable.
The geneology websites you have to pay for are usually no more reliable than the free ones.
One of the best ways are church records and going to old cemeteries.
I am also related to Charlie Pride and Fannie Flagg.
We have some kin in Denton, TX we have never met...I need to go down there some day and get some records from the county for my sister someday.
ROX
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Ah, just having a bit of fun. Not really totally aimed at you but it seemed like fun to try to top your little mis-step there. No offense meant.
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Ah, just having a bit of fun. Not really totally aimed at you but it seemed like fun to try to top your little mis-step there. No offense meant.
None taken - I figgered it out after the next couple of posts :D
my fuse is a little short today. House almost burned down this morning from what appears to be a malfunctioning pellet stove. Between the lightning strike last august and this, I'm starting to think the house is cursed.
Carry on the mocking... :rock
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None taken - I figgered it out after the next couple of posts :D
my fuse is a little short today. House almost burned down this morning from what appears to be a malfunctioning pellet stove. Between the lightning strike last august and this, I'm starting to think the house is cursed.
Carry on the mocking... :rock
Whew....ok. Glad to see it wasn't what I though. Sorry about your house, man.....curses suck! :O :devil
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Contact the Ghost Hunters. Maybe your house is haunted and they are trying to tell you something. At any rate you might get to be on the Sci-Fi Channel :D
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William, Duke of Normandy, 1066 or thereabouts (seriously). My uncle had a family tree done many years ago.
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Your best bet is to get a DNA test done. You'll never know if your Great Grandmother had an affair just by tracking paperwork.
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Edward Beales, Hingham, England. 1550.
My uncle did all the work getting it back that far. To get any further we'd have to go there and dig through church records or censuses, if they even still exist.
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My grandmother's sister traced her side back to 1320's in the Kent area of England. My mother's parents were Mormon's so have an extensive geneology done with a couple famous/infamous persons., not sure how far back they go, England though. My dad's stops with my GG grandfather born in 1855, Died 1955. I am hoping to take after him and be around a long time just to bug people. :D I am too lazy to go look things up, someone give me a swift kick to get me started... Just think of all the threads geneology weaves.
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Modas and I may be related :aok. I just traced my maternal grandmother's side back to this guy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Warren.
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Jeremiah MOWRY [Parents]-3262 was born 1 on 7 Apr 1711. Jeremiah married 2 (MRIN:1683) Alice MOWRY-3637 on 27 Feb 1734.
My Great great great great grandparents
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Eight Generations B.C. – no kidding. I had been meaning to study my family’s genealogy for years and finally got around to it a couple months ago. I got the basics from my parents and then joined Ancestry.com I was able to go further than great-great with 10 of my 16 great great grandparents. The key is getting back far enough where you can tap into a documented family tree; this usually comes with royalty. Most of the work and dead ends seems to come from more recent generations. Luck plays a role as well. It seems that many places have excellent records. Other places had records destroyed in fires, floods, wars, etc. My mother-in-law’s father was orphaned when he was a baby; couple that with a common name like John Kelly and research becomes very difficult.
Here’s an important concept that I really had never thought about or comprehended: Save even distant incest, we all have 1024 ancestors 10 generations back. Go back 20 generations and we have 1,048,576 ancestors. 30 generations back gives us over a billion. I’m convinced that all of us have royal blood somewhere. I’m also convinced that we are all the product of second, third and fourth, etc. cousins marrying over and over again. When you look at the huge size of many families from older generations, the situation becomes confounding. Suppose that a couple had three children who each survive to have three children, who each survive to have three children, etc. After 10 generations they have nearly 60,000 descendants. At 20 generations they have 3.5 million and at 30 generations the number becomes over 200 trillion. Distant incest keeps this number realistic, however.
When I realized this and also found one line that went back 8 generations before Christ, it kind of took the thrill out of the research. When I tapped into the pedigrees in one world tree and saw how many lines kept spreading and going and spreading and going, it kind of sunk in that at a certain point it’s not as much my family tree as it is just history and ancestry of maybe half of the white folks alive… It seems like you could spend forever reading names and dates.
Anyway, here’s my family tree page on my website:
http://hallbuzz.com/family_trees/hall/david_halls_family_tree.htm
And here’s my wife’s:
http://hallbuzz.com/family_trees/wilsterman/joan_wilstermans_family_tree.htm
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WOW! I'm impressed by the responce!
Anyway, a certain decendant of William the Bastard, who won the Battle at Hastings in 1066, seems to be the leader here, namely VULCAN!!!
Now I'm all ears to see how the tree goes that far, and to stir things up, I'll poke an evil top on the bid for 1066 if needed.....tree will be suppotred :devil
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WOW! I'm impressed by the responce!
Anyway, a certain decendant of William the Bastard, who won the Battle at Hastings in 1066, seems to be the leader here, namely VULCAN!!!
Now I'm all ears to see how the tree goes that far, and to stir things up, I'll poke an evil top on the bid for 1066 if needed.....tree will be suppotred :devil
Eight Generations B.C.
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Here's where one line gets fuzzy:
Godeguslus Of The Vandals
Born: abt 370
Andalusia Spain, Roman Empire,
Died: 406
Battle,
Radagaisus Vandals
Born: abt 350
Eastern, Hungary
Died: 405
Rome, , , Italy
Miecislaus I Heruli
Born: abt 320
, , Germany
Died: 388
, , Germany
Wisimar King Heruli
Born: abt 260
Danube Valley, Yugoslavia
Died: 340
Denmark
Alberic I Heruli
Born: abt 225
Germay,
Died: 292
Danube Valley, Yugoslavia
Teneric Heruli
Born: abt 195
Hungary
Died: 237
Heruli,
Dietric Heruli
Born: abt 160
Germay,
Died: 201
Alaric I Heruli
Born: abt 126
Germay,
Died: 162
Heruli,
Vitilaus King Heruli
Born: abt 86
AD, Heruli,
Died: 127
Heruli,
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Guilliame Gamache ~ France ~ 1460ish (or something close to that... frankly, I don't want to look it up right now).
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Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus[2] (27 February ca. 272[1] – 22 May 337), commonly known as Constantine I, Constantine the Great (among Roman Catholics), or Saint Constantine (among Eastern Orthodox and Byzantine Catholic Christians), was an Illyrian Roman Emperor. He was proclaimed Augustus by his troops in 306, ruled an ever-growing portion of the Roman Empire until his death. Best known for being the first Christian Roman Emperor, the Edict of Milan - issued by his co-emperor Licinius - helped to put an end to institutionalized persecution of Christians in the Empire.
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This is about as far back as we have found
John Treadwell
Born: ABT 1488 - Oxford, England
Marr: ABT 1508 - Oxford, England
Thomas Treadwell
Born: 1510 - Oxford, England
Marr: ABT 1534 - Oxford, England
Died: UNKNOWN -
Alexander Treadwell
Born: 1539 - Oxford, England
Marr: 1559 - Dorothy Treadwell
Died: 16 JUL 1603 - Oxford, Swalcliff, England
Edward Treadwell
Born: 20 DEC 1607 - Epwell, Oxfordshire, England.
Marr: 1630 - Sarah Howes
Died: 12 MAY 1690 - Huntington, Suffolk, N. Y.
just some stuff I've found and saved periodically while building my info
This was a time of great social upheaval in England, including religious persecution, and sometimes families travelled considerable distances to settle in other parts of the country in search of a better life. It was a time when some families even left the country in search of a new life overseas, notably America.
Although it cannot yet be proven, it is quite likely that our Treadwell ancestors are directly linked to the Treadwells who emigrated to America from north Oxfordshire in the early 17th century. Their modern day ancestors can claim connections with the actors Orson Welles (his great grandmother was Mary Jane Treadwell born 1827) and Spencer Tracy (he was married to Louisa Ten Broeck Treadwell born 1896). There is even a gold rush town in Alaska called Treadwell named after John Treadwell, the owner of Alaska Juneau Mining Company. John sold his interest in the Treadwell properties in 1889 for a reported \$1,500,000 and returned to California, only subsequently to be bankrupted in 1914 after a failed venture with his brother James in a trust company. More details of the Treadwell family in America can be found in Charlie Wall's website.
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Contact the Ghost Hunters. Maybe your house is haunted and they are trying to tell you something. At any rate you might get to be on the Sci-Fi Channel :D
Well, I'll tell you, when we built the house four years ago, they came out to dig the well, and the drillers went down about 25 feet, then the drill bit "free fell" about 25-30 feet before they hit something solid again. They had to pull all the equipment and move to a different spot. So we've got this cavern or sinkhole by the house. We have no clue how big it is, but when they hit it, we jokingly said we opened up the 7th seal of hell. Well, we've had more weird things go on in this house than I could image.
The lights flicker, sometimes, we'll loose power in certain rooms for several seconds, and other rooms are fine. We've had the electrician and the power company come out couple of times and they couldn't find anything. Course then last summer we go lit up by a direct strike of lightning (hit the satallite dish directly off the bedroom, talk about needing new shorts). The lightning traveled up LP line (one of those flexible metal lines) connected to the gas fireplace and exploded the line and started a fire between the ceiling of the basement and the first floor. How the whole house didn't light up from that one is beyond me. Now the pellet stove incident. Makes me mighty nervous sometimes. :O
I'm probably heading up to my folks house this weekend for easter, I'll see if I can find the Mayflower reference in my aunt's book and see who the names were. Seems to me that the last name was Poole or something like that.
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Tryggvi 300 A.D. with Rollo's invasion of Normandy.
still haven't dug some more yet, since the last time someone posted a similar thread a while back.
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Tryggvi 300 A.D. with Rollo's invasion of Normandy.
still haven't dug some more yet, since the last time someone posted a similar thread a while back.
Please... the invasion of Normandy was 1944. :rolleyes:
as for me, I am not quite sure about the date, as written records are scarce, but my family roots can be traced back to a small australopithicene hominid family on the eastern shore of Lake Tanganyika.
(garden of Eden winner indeed :rolleyes:)
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Please... the invasion of Normandy was 1944. :rolleyes:
invasion of France that became Normandy. you happy now?
hmmm wiki says it was 886 or 887. I am going to have to dig some more.
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It would definately be close to the 9th century.
One of my line goes into blur close to that period, but I have another one to back it up :D
Anyway, DieAz now holds the torch ;)
Very many nice inputs!
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My sister is a geneology freak. She tracked the Brady side back to the 1780's in Charleston, SC.
ROX
She can add this to the family photo album if so desired.
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh194/fastblastus/brady.jpg)
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Ditto. I'll get our genealogy catalog out. It goes back to 1490 on my mothers side.
Pulled out the 1/2" thick book this morning. My family on mothers side kept maticulous record and two were librarians in the 1800's! Must not have been much to do back then except "see where I can from".
Anyway, ours goes back to the Finley (or Fynlay, it was spelled differently over the years) family. Andrew Finley and Janet Hayes, in Forfarshire, Scotland in 1457. NOt sure if these scans below will show up:
The first scan is the 2nd to last page of the tree portion of our book. The next scan shows the final Finley link in 1457 and it stops there. The last two scans were hand written notes (typed out years later) from my great great Grandmother who lived from 1803 to 1925. These are just the first two pages of what it was like to live in the Wilderness of America, which WAS OHIO during her life! Interesting story about "the axe men" and how they spit on their hands to prevent the axes from leaving their hands when they swung them back.
Our geneology has stories from 6 generations explaining what life was like during their times. Each is about 3-4 pages long.It brings you back to earth! I've actually had co-workers scan a few sheets off to bring home to their children and read it to them to let their kids how well they had it today!
last few branches that were traced
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/309595302.jpg)
Very last branch to "Finley" in Scotland, 1474
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/309595314.jpg)
Great Great Grandmother's writingsof how they lived, its very humbling!
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/309596629.jpg)
Page 2 of Great Great Grandmothers writings. (There are 2 or 3 more pages, if you want to read more, let me know and I'll scan them)
(http://pic4.picturetrail.com/VOL767/2726312/8668097/309595306.jpg)
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Really really cool. :aok
I'll give you some slab of mine:
(From great-great grandpa and back....quite a bit)
Þorvaldur Kjartansson 1055
Ingiríður Þorvaldsdóttir 1110
Vigdís Guðlaugsdóttir 1140
Oddur Álason 1180 - 1234
Hrafn Oddsson 1225 - 1289
Jón "korpur" Hrafnsson 1255
Jón "langur" Sveinsson 1330 - 1361
Finnbogi "gamli" Jónsson 1360 - 1441
Finnbogi "Maríulausi" Jónsson 1440 - 1514
Jón Finnbogason 1470 - 1546
Erlendur Jónsson 1520
Hjörleifur Erlendsson 1570 - 1626
Þórdís Hjörleifsdóttir 1600
Ólöf Eiríksdóttir 1630
Einar Þorvarðsson 1668
Pétur Einarsson 1715 - 1778
Jón Pétursson 1764 - 1848
Sesselja Jónsdóttir 1821
Jóhannes Jóhannesson 1850
I have most of their titles and locations where they lived.
But this is just beginning:D
Anyway, I'm all the way to William the Bastard now....
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I suspect you won't get any further than William the Bastard as he probably didn't know who his father was. ;)
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She can add this to the family photo album if so desired.
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh194/fastblastus/brady.jpg)
(http://i256.photobucket.com/albums/hh194/fastblastus/brady.jpg)
I've been called that ever since the show came on in the early 70's.
BTW: Bradys (O'Braughneigh) were the ancentral kings of County Cavan for centuries.
ROX
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Ok this is as far back as i could get. Subspace partical rocketing through space after big bang eventually landing on suitable world and evolving into an overworked, overtaxed, underpaid, undersexed, so called dominant species. :O :lol
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invasion of France that became Normandy. you happy now?
hmmm wiki says it was 886 or 887. I am going to have to dig some more.
Do you mean the Norman Invasion?
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I suspect you won't get any further than William the Bastard as he probably didn't know who his father was. ;)
:rofl
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Karl Philipp von Wrede , 1767-1838, Bavarian general.
He helped reorganize the Bavarian army, commanded part of the Bavarian troops fighting with the French against Austria in 1805 in the Napoleonic Wars, and led the Bavarian corps that aided Napoleon's victory at Wagram (1809).
Just before the battle of Leipzig (1813) he negotiated the Treaty of Ried between Austria and Bavaria and fought with the allies against Napoleon.
Created (1814) prince and field marshal, Wrede represented Bavaria at the Congress of Vienna.
(http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c6/Wrede_Feldherrnhalle_Muenchen-1.jpg/330px-Wrede_Feldherrnhalle_Muenchen-1.jpg)
Bronze statue of Fürst Wrede in the Feldherrnhalle in Munich.
*note* no pidgeon poop.
Karl (or Carl) Philipp Josef Wrede, Freiherr von Wrede, 1st Fürst von Wrede (April 29, 1767 – December 12, 1838), Bavarian field-marshal, was born at Heidelberg, the youngest of three children of Ferdinand Josef Wrede (1722-1793), created in 1791 1st Freiherr von Wrede, and wife, married on March 21, 1746, Anna Katharina Jünger (1729-1804), by whom he had two more children Luise, Freiin von Wrede (September 23, 1748 - February 9, 1794), married to Philipp, Freiherr von Horn (-1834), and Georg, Freiherr von Wrede (December 8, 1765 - April 3, 1843), married on January 17, 1808 to Julie Zarka de Lukafalva (1781 - August 1, 1847).
He was educated for the career of a civil official under the Palatinate government, but on the outbreak of the campaign of 1799 he raised a volunteer corps in the Palatinate and was made its colonel. This corps excited the mirth of the well-drilled Austrians with whom it served, but its colonel soon brought it into a good condition, and it distinguished itself during Kray's retreat on Ulm. *run away, run away...* At the Battle of Hohenlinden (1800) Wrede commanded one of the Palatinate infantry brigades with credit, and after the peace of Lunéville he was made lieutenant-general in the Bavarian army, which was entering upon a period of reforms. Wrede soon made himself very popular, and distinguished himself in opposing the Austrian invasions of 1805 and 1809.
The Bavarians were for several years the active allies of Napoleon, and Wrede led the Bavarian corps that aided Napoleon’s victory at Wagram in 1809. Just before the Battle of Leipzig (1813) he negotiated the Treaty of Ried between Austria and Bavaria *can't we all just get along?* and fought with the allies against Napoleon. *never trust the French!* After Leipzig, he tried to block the French escape at Hanau but was beaten by Napoleon. *Napoleon sux, eat paint chips in exile you Bastage!* In 1814 he was created prince and field marshal, Wrede represented Bavaria at the Congress of Vienna.
He married on March 18, 1795 Sofie, Gräfin von Wiser (May 23, 1771 - May 7, 1837), by whom he had eight children.
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Adam - of the garden. :D
Actually,if you want to know where your ancestors came from going all the way back,you can send $100(and a dna sample) to National Geographic.For this small fee,they will chart your DNA and tell you what region of Africa your ancestors migrated from.
You will also see how much your DNA has in common with other animals(and even plant life)
Further study will reveal that our species was down to only a few thousand(and could have joined the countless other species that became extinct) before the decision was made(because of arid climatic conditions) to move on.
The great news about this is it abolishes the concept of race(and racism) and creationism..us being 1 race of people subdivided by different ethnic backgrounds(not by race).
A new definition of "Racist" now being:"Someone who believes the Homosapein species is subdivided by different races"
Even if you do believe we decended from Adam & Eve...that misconception too follows the "one race" of people,does it not?
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Do you mean the Norman Invasion?
mater toomater tomatoe tommietoe tomato
tater pootater potater potatoe pottietoe potato
call it what you want.
a rose by any name is still a rose and poop still stinks.
;) :P
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Adam - of the garden. :D
Interesting. But what I really want to know is who is related to Cain's wife????
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Wab
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Interesting. But what I really want to know is who is related to Cain's wife????
:t,
Wab
Actually I phrased that badly. What I should have said is who was Cain's wife related to. :huh
Wab
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My mother's mother traced our roots back to the Magna Charta and some insignificant dukes and princes of Britain. But they are worthless jerkoffs seeking validation, so it's probably all made up.
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ripsnort, i'd have to check, but if you're great great grandmother lived for 122 years, i believe that would qualify for at least a tie in the guiness world records. if you had documentation, might be something to look into...
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Actually I phrased that badly. What I should have said is who was Cain's wife related to. :huh
Wab
cain went out and got a wife from the other races that where allready here, adam and eve where the first made in GODS image.
and yes GOD made those other races also, so we are all chrildren of GOD.
but, seeings we live in the end of days, most people do not believe in GOD and think that science is the way.
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My wife is kin to Samuel Clemens (Mark Twain) on her mothers side. I think it's the coolest thing ever, but her family could care less :lol go figure. My roots are in and around Yorktown Virginia, so I could only get info from after the Union army burnt Richmond to the ground. But my last name is Crockett, and I'll probably never know if I'm kin to Davy Crockett. :frown:
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As far back as I can go is John Wooldridge a Scotsman who came over in the late 1600's as a blacksmith's apprentice and settled in Richmond, VA. I also have had relatives in every American war since the revolution...I'm like Lt. Dan!
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mater toomater tomatoe tommietoe tomato
tater pootater potater potatoe pottietoe potato
call it what you want.
a rose by any name is still a rose and poop still stinks.
;) :P
I was actually being serious and trying to be helpful for a change, thought that might have been why you couldnt find much info on it. The Norman conquest of Britain was not an invasion of Normandy!
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are you even aware of who Rollo is?
1066 Battle of Hasting was with William the Conqueror.
that was when my ancestors Richard and John went to Britain, in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings.
Rollo's invasion and conquest of France, and giving the part that is now called Normandy (for holdinghisgroin) as a form of danegeld was quite a bit earlier.
on that note. that may be as far back as I can get as far as directly known ancestor.
farther back in time in the Old Norse Land, may have to just settle with knowing the Clan or area they are from. The names given to children during that time are usually to honor someone who recently died. The name may not even be from inside the clan or could be to honor the mother's great grand pappy from an entirely different clan.
the son or dottir was sometimes added to the first name of the father or mother and used for a last name. for example, John the son of Richard. giving the name of John Richardson. or Richard the son of John giving the name Richard Johnson. or in the case of a daughter, Susie the daughter of John giving the name Susie Johndottir. or could use the mother's name, Susan the daughter of Jan giving Susan Jandottir. meaning when speaking about Susan Jandottir, it is understood that to mean Jan's daughter Susan.
check out the Tree for William and Rollo.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_I_of_England
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollo
be sure to read the part under the title Legacy.
and this might be Rollo's father, no guarantees though.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rognvald_Eysteinsson
(ok spent enough time proof reading, fixing errors I've seen. if there are anymore errors of any kind, I don't care. figure it out yourself.)
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are you even aware of who Rollo is?
1066 Battle of Hasting was with William the Conqueror.
that was when my ancestors Richard and John went to Britain, in 1066 at the Battle of Hastings.
Rollo's invasion and conquest of France, and giving the part that is now called Normandy (for holdinghisgroin) as a form of danegeld was quite a bit earlier.
Cool I can go back a bit further now :) (I'm a Stuart).
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I can track mine way back a few hundred years but I can't pronounce most of the names beyond my grandfather. We still have our original family home from 2 or 3 hundred years ago.
My wife's family came from county Cork in Ireland. They came over in the 1840s. But with a name like Connell they just as well be Smiths. :D
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cain went out and got a wife from the other races that where allready here, adam and eve where the first made in GODS image.
Can you quote me the chapter and verse that sepcifies these other races existed? Another garden next door?
Thats seems like an important fact to leave out.
Or are you inferring?
Regards,
Wab
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Seems Im decended from one
Neander t. hal
but that was a long time ago
;)
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Those are from nearby Dusseldorf, so that makes you a...German :D
Anyway, you cannot trace the line down there, now can you :D
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Seems Im decended from one
Neander t. hal
but that was a long time ago
;)
Yes, we can see the resemblance. ;)
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I can go back to 975 for a poet sharing my name. I have an ancestor or at least a member of my clan who was a famed warrior who died alongside the famous high king of Ireland Brian Boru at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 fighting against Angus' ancestors who were a raping and a pillaging back then. We won the battle :rock
But direct ancestors are tougher to find. My sister is in the middle of it. One of my great great grandfathers was a Lord somebody or other who has had a statue erected to him in a park in Limerick city. You may address me as 'M'lord'.
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cain went out and got a wife from the other races that where allready here, adam and eve where the first made in GODS image.
and yes GOD made those other races also, so we are all chrildren of GOD.
but, seeings we live in the end of days, most people do not believe in GOD and think that science is the way.
Which generation has not lived in the end of days in the last 3k years or so? Why is everyone in such a hurry to stop playing Aces High? Please, stop yelling FIRE. By-the-by, how did this thread go from fun to religion?
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By-the-by, how did this thread go from fun to religion?
Well I have yet attended a Family Reunion without GOD or his SON being brought up...
Grandpa: "GOD dangit Cora where the Hell are my teeth?"
Grandma: "Jesus Christ Herman they're still in the dam glass you left them in.
Mom: "Holy Chit, Pop lost his teeth again?"
Dad: "Well come Hell or High Water somebody under GODs creation better find his dam teeth."
My Brother: "Can I have Pop Pops corn if we don't find his teeth?"
Mom: *Slaps the GOD fearing crap outta my Lil Brother, then looks at me*
Me: "To Hell with this corn!"
My Sister: *Begins to cry like Hell*
Yeah I see alotta religion in a thread such as this. Family Reunions are Fun.
:D
Mac
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Morroco in the 1800s. But realisticly proably could trace all the way to 1400's pre-inquisition spain.
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I can go back to 975 for a poet sharing my name. I have an ancestor or at least a member of my clan who was a famed warrior who died alongside the famous high king of Ireland Brian Boru at the Battle of Clontarf in 1014 fighting against Angus' ancestors who were a raping and a pillaging back then. We won the battle :rock
But direct ancestors are tougher to find. My sister is in the middle of it. One of my great great grandfathers was a Lord somebody or other who has had a statue erected to him in a park in Limerick city. You may address me as 'M'lord'.
Just wait...
I'll get into my British line. I could also get into my Norse line, but that one bluts away in the 8th century.
My British line comes from Pillaging. Well, actually Ireland. My ancestor-ess was grabbed by Norse Vikings and sold to an Icelandic Viking who fell in love with her, while doing his "pillage" duty for the King of Norway.
Oddly enough, they split up later, and he gave her a farm, where she lived with her son, who later took over..
Names arrive later :D
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BTW, as far as I know, we do not come from Neaderthals. They were a sideline.
I am amazed that nobody actually quoted on this...
Getting back...into line...I can go as far as "Melkorka daughter of Mýrkjartan" which is in Gaelich "Muirckertoch" from the clan of McNeill.
I will need to get into some files for tracking, but it goes down deep into the Irish Monarchies of 1000 and earlier.
Their logs are quite interesting. The onland of England post-Roman untill their kings seems quite blurry for instance.
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we tracked my Daddy as far as North Carolina, but after that his trail just dried up. :frown:
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Yes, we can see the resemblance. ;)
LOL if you ever saw a picture of me.
you would see just how accurate that statement is LMAO
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my dad has it all the way back to when my family moved to america from ireland in the early 1900 i am a litle over 50 irish and my dad has it back to the early 1800
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If you're back to 1800 in Ireland, you should be able to get further.
My wife (who is German) has it back to 1600 or so, but then things blur out, - constant land warfare on the continent you see.
But Ireland had long and well registered lines. If you can track to a line of nobles, then Presto, - you have an express backwards for centuries.
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The records of my own line have been lost in burning churches during the wars, 1939-40 and 1941-44 :(
However, my kids, through my wife, can be traced 15 generations back to Swedish king Erik XIV. His father was King Gustav I (Gustav Vasa) and 13 generations back from Gustav, there are Leopold III (Saint Leopold) the Margrave of Austria (1073-1136) and his wife, Agnes of Germany (widow of Duke Frederick I of Swabia).
It is also told that Erik XIV was very interested in genealogy and had drawn his family tree back some 90 generations, all the way to Adam... :)
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Blauk, you might want to keep a close eye on those kids.
read the end of the 1st paragraph.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_XIV_of_Sweden
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My grandfather researched it back to a man beheaded for rape, murder, and stealing horses, in what became Bavaria, in the 800's AD.
Following my geneology back I'm related to some rather dubious fellows, 1 burgermeister (spelling?), 1 American President (Reagan), 2 serial killers, most of the Irish mob in Boston, alot of WW1 and WW2 vets, and possibly a girl I dated in high school (we may have had a common ancestor who was born in 1650ish).
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Blauk, you might want to keep a close eye on those kids.
read the end of the 1st paragraph.
Yup, that is known, but really of no concern :)
There are 16384 possible great grandfathers and great grandmothers at exact 15 generations back. However, in truth there are some less, since the family lines often not only fork out, but also come back together. Still, counting also the generations from my wife to the 14th generation doubles the possible people to 32767. Then adding the 32767 from my side makes it 65534.
What do you think are the chances of anyone having at least one insane ancestor among 65534? ;)