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LIPH wrote:

springparrot wrote:Afternoon BNers


I have been trying to track family for months. Once I started with my family, I got involved in Larry's family too. OMG
You remember when some comedian used to talk about his family tree didn't branch?.....I'm afraid that is our tree.
2 sisters marrying 2 brothers from the next farm.
After one Aunt's husband married, she married his brother.
Makes following the kids more difficult.
But, slowly I am making some progress and this is all without joining Ancestry.com.

I never tried to do my family tree, but I did the ancestry.com DNA test earlier in the year. Some of the results surprised me. My father's family is Portuguese and it came back 25% Iberian peninsula so I guess there might be some Spanish in there too. My mother's family is Irish and there was 24% from Ireland, but another 16% from Great Britain. Maybe we had royalty in the family way back when. The surprising parts were 15% Italy/Greece, 5% Middle Eastern, 4% Scandinavian and 3% western Europe. We also have 2% northern Africa, which doesn't surprise me since Portugal is so close to northern Africa. But there were also trace amounts, 1% or less, from Finland/northwest Russia, the Caucasus, Senegal, southeastern African Bantu, Nigeria, Benin and Togo. Apparently I had some ancestors who got around.

bodypainter wrote:Ahoy!
My dad always bragged up his mother's family,so I asked about his father's side."A bunch of crooks and thieves!" he snapped.

springparrot wrote:Why I didn't listen to my family members while they were still living? I have a cousin on my Mother's side that is trying remember the family stories. And I have a cousin on Daddy's side....neither of us really know nothing. It seems like my great grandmother liked variety and had a few last names....like maybe 4-6? She is really getting hard to track.

About the time I think I have all the info I can find, a leaf shows up and I get excited again.

LIPH wrote:

springparrot wrote:Why I didn't listen to my family members while they were still living? I have a cousin on my Mother's side that is trying remember the family stories. And I have a cousin on Daddy's side....neither of us really know nothing. It seems like my great grandmother liked variety and had a few last names....like maybe 4-6? She is really getting hard to track.

About the time I think I have all the info I can find, a leaf shows up and I get excited again.

My father was the first one in his family born here but my mother's family has been in the US for over 150 years. I remember hearing stories when I was a little kid about someone on my mother's side of the family being part of the honor guard at Abraham Lincoln's funeral. I never saw any documentation to prove it, just stories from older family members.