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My mom has been researching her family for over 20 years. She could never get the whole story until 3 days ago. A new death certificate was released for her long-lost grandfather, which told her who his parents were.
A new name appeared in our family line since we knew who his mother was. Interestingly also, we also found out we had more ethnicities than we thought. I started researching the name...come to find out, everyone with the name comes from one main patriarch in 1530 in England. There were pictures of the manor in Surrey, too. I found my entire family tree on my mother's grandfather's side including all my relatives, back 12 generations to my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents. I did some more research and also found newspaper anecdotes as far back as the early 1700s about their lives. They were once prominent and wealthy...what the heck happened? LOL
I also found out I am 1/32 Irish, which amuses us because we are predominantly Italian-American but have brown hair with a very heavy copper-red cast
People were always asking my mother about her hair color. When I got older and got out of my hair-dying phase in my teens, my hair grew in this coppery auburn deep brown.
Genealogy is fun! I would like to do more research now! It gets expensive and time consuming, I've been warned. I've got all summer
A new name appeared in our family line since we knew who his mother was. Interestingly also, we also found out we had more ethnicities than we thought. I started researching the name...come to find out, everyone with the name comes from one main patriarch in 1530 in England. There were pictures of the manor in Surrey, too. I found my entire family tree on my mother's grandfather's side including all my relatives, back 12 generations to my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents. I did some more research and also found newspaper anecdotes as far back as the early 1700s about their lives. They were once prominent and wealthy...what the heck happened? LOL
I also found out I am 1/32 Irish, which amuses us because we are predominantly Italian-American but have brown hair with a very heavy copper-red cast
Genealogy is fun! I would like to do more research now! It gets expensive and time consuming, I've been warned. I've got all summer
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