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Honey, if you can trace your ancestry back thousands of years, you're doing very well. On Mom's side of the family, we're stumped after going back about 125 years.
On my moms side it my mom, her parents and grandparents. After that we know nothing. Her grandparents immigrated here from Italy.
just sayin' ..... unless you can find actual verification of paperwork, view with great skepticism, any ancestry in Europe
there have been several "crazes" for lineages, tracing ancestry, and everyone seems to want to find royalty in the background
so quite often, a person with "the same name" is claimed as an ancestor, when that lineage is actually incorrect
personally, I usually quit tracing at the point of the immigrant ancestor, since I am aware that paperwork in England, particularly, has been forged or altered; and in Ireland and Scotland and Wales and part of England, people DODGED the census takers, since being counted usually meant being TAXED
also there have been many instances of religious persecution, with people having to move or decamp in the middle of the night, sometimes far far away
not to mention wars, fires, floods, insect infestations, and so on, destroying paperwork and records
also, people LIE ... my paternal grandmother, for example ....
(yes, I found several skeletons in her closet, that she attempted to hide; I also found she was WRONG in claiming a particular Revolutionary ancestor ... she did in fact have a documentable one, but not the one she picked)
Honey, if you can trace your ancestry back thousands of years, you're doing very well. On Mom's side of the family, we're stumped after going back about 125 years.
On my moms side it my mom, her parents and grandparents. After that we know nothing. Her grandparents immigrated here from Italy.
just sayin' ..... unless you can find actual verification of paperwork, view with great skepticism, any ancestry in Europe
there have been several "crazes" for lineages, tracing ancestry, and everyone seems to want to find royalty in the background
so quite often, a person with "the same name" is claimed as an ancestor, when that lineage is actually incorrect
personally, I usually quit tracing at the point of the immigrant ancestor, since I am aware that paperwork in England, particularly, has been forged or altered; and in Ireland and Scotland and Wales and part of England, people DODGED the census takers, since being counted usually meant being TAXED
also there have been many instances of religious persecution, with people having to move or decamp in the middle of the night, sometimes far far away
not to mention wars, fires, floods, insect infestations, and so on, destroying paperwork and records
also, people LIE ... my paternal grandmother, for example ....
(yes, I found several skeletons in her closet, that she attempted to hide; I also found she was WRONG in claiming a particular Revolutionary ancestor ... she did in fact have a documentable one, but not the one she picked)
