Not sure if this has been done here before, but Im bored and I figured I'd post something.
Im always curious about peoples heritage, and I've always thought it's interesting to know where you come from. So, if you know anything about yours, share it here if you wish. My family, specifically my mother started taking a serious interest in it several years ago, we've traced very far back, as follows:
Father- this was very easy to trace, you go back two generations of New Yorkers, and the whole family is right off the boat from Ireland. We have traced the lineage back to about the end of the 13th century in the Drumlich area of Ireland so far.
Mother- much more difficult and has required years of serious effort and research. The family lived in the west-mid west for several centuries, and has roots back to the civil war, revolutionary war, and original colonists in the Mass./VA area. Before that the family emigrated from Scotland, specifically the Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire area. The family is fairly concentrated in the area and the roots go back several centuries in this area. Around the ninth/tenth century the lineage actually goes back Iceland, from Iceland we see the family move from sweden for about a century. At this point the data becomes more and more sparce, but at the current time, we trace the family back to Norway, possibly to the year 292! The main data we are using are historically archives and Ancestry.com.
Here is where it gets nuts. The historians that hace traced the family from sweden since around the year 650-700 actually trace the roots back to Turkey, Syria, and eventually an area simply labeled Mesopotamia. This line of family roots is supposedly one of the oldest on Ancestry.com, the timeline goes back to 234 B.C. Now granted, the last 700-800 years are very very difficult to verify, and the chances of our family tree going back to ancient Mesopotamia are more than very slim. Even so, I think its pretty fucking cool thats there even a chance this could be our family tree.
Damn that was long. Anyone else?
Im always curious about peoples heritage, and I've always thought it's interesting to know where you come from. So, if you know anything about yours, share it here if you wish. My family, specifically my mother started taking a serious interest in it several years ago, we've traced very far back, as follows:
Father- this was very easy to trace, you go back two generations of New Yorkers, and the whole family is right off the boat from Ireland. We have traced the lineage back to about the end of the 13th century in the Drumlich area of Ireland so far.
Mother- much more difficult and has required years of serious effort and research. The family lived in the west-mid west for several centuries, and has roots back to the civil war, revolutionary war, and original colonists in the Mass./VA area. Before that the family emigrated from Scotland, specifically the Aberdeen/Aberdeenshire area. The family is fairly concentrated in the area and the roots go back several centuries in this area. Around the ninth/tenth century the lineage actually goes back Iceland, from Iceland we see the family move from sweden for about a century. At this point the data becomes more and more sparce, but at the current time, we trace the family back to Norway, possibly to the year 292! The main data we are using are historically archives and Ancestry.com.
Here is where it gets nuts. The historians that hace traced the family from sweden since around the year 650-700 actually trace the roots back to Turkey, Syria, and eventually an area simply labeled Mesopotamia. This line of family roots is supposedly one of the oldest on Ancestry.com, the timeline goes back to 234 B.C. Now granted, the last 700-800 years are very very difficult to verify, and the chances of our family tree going back to ancient Mesopotamia are more than very slim. Even so, I think its pretty fucking cool thats there even a chance this could be our family tree.
Damn that was long. Anyone else?
