Antone Bual: To complete a family tree. The family of an aunt's husband's family is certainly part of that tree, directly or indirectly depending upon how you look at it. They may not be blood relations but family is family.
Ha Wolski: Scots whose parents/ancestors migrated to northern Ireland for some period of time and who themselves were born Ireland, are those who are called Scotch-Irish.How you learn about your roots there in Ireland and maybe more importantly how much you can learn may depend upon timing: WHEN you need to learn about.
Kalyn Proietto: which are the best DNA ancestry tests to take? i want to know my ancestry for sure, but i don't want to spend a ton of money. i've heard of ones where you take a cheek swab and send it to a DNA lab for analysis. what is a reliable and inexpensive test to take?
Johnny Sirko: Doesn't seem in the least weird to me: someone who loves family history research posts a message on behalf of their aunt's husban! d of whom they are fond and wish to help, the uncle not being computer literate and so unable to do it for himself. Well, that is one possible explanation.
Gilberto Cratin: RE:Best DNA ancestry test out there?which are the best DNA ancestry tests to take? i want to know my ancestry for sure, but i don't want to spend a ton of money. i've heard of ones where you take a cheek swab and send it to a DNA lab for analysis. what is a reliable and inexpensive test to take?
Rachal Osaki: It is according to what you are looking for. There are 3 types of DNA, Y, Mitochondrial and Autosomal. Your Y & Mitochondrial are a small part of your DNA but they go back in a straight line virtually unchanged.Most of your DNA is Autosomal which you get from both parents coming down from all your ancestors. It represents your total genetic pattern.Most Genealogy DNA companies use Y & Mitochondrial only for genealogy. Y goes from father to son only. Mitochondrial goes from mother to! both sons and daughters but only the daughters pass it on to ! their children. It is helpful in enabling you to match yourself with other family trees. It will not include all your ancestry. The companies that do the test advertise that they will help you discover "your deep ancestral roots." Just understand it is your deep ancestral roots in 2 lines only and represent a very very small part of your total ancestry. Example: As you go back the number of people you descend from pyramids. Barring any duplicates if you get back to your 6xgreat grandparents, you are directly descended from 510 individuals. Of those 510 individuals, you get your Mitochondrial DNA from only 8 and if you are a male, in addition, you get your Y DNA from only 8, leaving out 494 ancestors.Now it is valuable in family research if you match yourself with other family trees, along with your other research, it will better enable you to discover who some of those 494 people are.http://www.familytreedna.com/It is more complicated to use Autosomal DNA to match you! rself with other family trees but they use it to match you with population groups throughout the world. If you want to get a view of your somewhat racial, ethnic genealogical backgrond Autosomal is the only DNA that can give you an overall picture.FamilyTreeDNA does Autosomal but not for genealogy purposes. I haven't found where any of the other companies uses Autosomal.The only one I have found that does ishttp://www.DNAtribes.comOnce you get into their site, you can send them an email and ask questions.Edit: I might add that Y & Mitochondrial DNA should be the same among your brothers and sisters. However, DNATribes states that Autosomal DNA, which really determines your appearance, is frequently similar but can vary among siblings.
Rena Pepe: My wife does genealogy on my side and hers, there are many branches to these trees. I think it becomes an addiction to those that are in to it.
Von Houskeeper: Whether you accept it or not, we are tied together throu! gh indirect ancestry. When I include information about great aunts and ! great uncles in my Personal Ancestry File I want to know about their spouses and children because of the importance that without our ancestors we will not be complete in the next life. Family cohesiveness is crucial to our salvation.I don't research my genealogy just to have a book on a coffee table or to have a pedigree chart on the wall for others to admire. My reasons for researching my ancestry are connected with my religious beliefs and the necessary temple ordinances that must be vicariously performed either now or during the Millenium....Show more
Lauri Ohl: You don't search for living people in genealogy, you research dead people, which is why genealogy website do not have recent information and many public records are not available to even look at for 50 - 100 years, which is why you start at home and not on the internet and use the records you already have so you can get back 3-5 generations http://familytimeline.webs.com , start here and do your groundwork ! or you will just endup lik e many copying other peoples tree 'hoping' it is your ancestors and will end up like thay have with a collection of unrelated names and not their family tree...Show more
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Vernon Martorana: After the flight of the O'Donnell and O'Neill earls, Scots were planted in Ireland during the time of Elizabeth I. They were called covenanters.When their descendants immigrated to the American shores, they were identified as Scotch-Irish, meaning they were racially Scottish but their geographic origin was Ireland. Those that came during colonial days came with as bitter of hatred toward Mother England as the Catholic Irish did. They were gung ho for the American Revolution. They were called Rabid Radicals Ready for Revolution.Now, you have to understand that the Celts were in Ireland first. Legend has it they came Spain for a time and then were in Egypt for about 100 yearsbefore going almost straight north to Ireland. Ireland was! at one time called Scotia.Then Celts from Ireland migrated to Caledoni! a (Scotland) so the Scots and the Irish are close cousins but not entirely the same people as the native people in what is now Scotland and Ireland before the Celts were not the same people.My father had both orange and green Irish. His paternal grandmother was a descendant of (not a direct descendant)Andrew Jackson. Andrew Jackson did not have any direct descendants....Show more
Lawanna Livsey: It still fleshes out the family tree for everyone, plus maybe she is just doing a favor for someone with no time or access to a computer.
Michel Mccaulley: I've been working on my family tree as a hobby for over 3 years now, and have over 9100 names in it - it is interesting the stories you find out about people - like a brother to a cousin's wife - was lost at sea in WWII in a submarine, the USS Growler. I found linkage to Pres. Herbert Hoover in the tree by looking at other family members - plus, some time - you'll find relationships to others in the tree that you di! dn't know existed. - It just ties the families together....Show more
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Bibi Tyron: There are so many people on this site who think step-parents, adopted whoevers are part of their family tree.No matter how one feels towards parents, siblings, etc., only one's parents, their parents, etc., are ancestors.Any one else can be mentioned in footnots.
Sherrill Botting: Most of my best leads came from descendants of in-law ancestors who have been researching families for years. Some of them had old photographs of my line. Cousin lines --- even if through marriage only -- can be terrific research resources.I understand the importance of documents and citations, but if you want to know about how your ancestors really lived, and what their life was like, you need to know their friends and close associations.Genealogy is not about bean counting. It's about understanding our ancestors' motivations, hopes and dreams.It's a pretty thic! k discipline. It needs a wide detective effort....Show more
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Kaylee Schmittou: Have you ever gone to someone's house for dinner, seen a half-finished jig-saw puzzle on a card table in the corner, picked up one piece, seen another . . .You wife calls "Appetizers, dear" and you call "Go ahead without me - I'll be there in a minute or two". Repeat for the soup, salad, fish, and meat courses.Four hours later you've finished it off and the other guests, who are now at the dessert and coffee are looking at you like you had little green feelers where your ears should be.If you have, you wouldn't ask such a question. Take another example; why did Sherlock Holmes solve crimes? For the thrill of the chase, not from any personal involvement.And a third: I know a fellow who saved for 5 years, flew to Alaska, had a bush pilot drop him and an equally fanatic buddy at a lake where they spent a week catching and releasing 35 - 45 pound Arctic char. They ate one a night and took pictures! of the rest. They were in a tent hundreds of miles from anything close to a hotel, restaurant, bar, movie theater . . . and he tells everyone he knows about it, frequently. It was the high point of his year. Why would anyone go to all that trouble when you can buy fish from the grocery store? For the thrill of the sport.If the bug has bitten you, you don't have to ask. If it hasn't, you'll never understand. It's a genealogist thing.==================Added later:Mine's a lot more than "plausible". It is drawn from life. I'VE never sat for three hours chasing someone through the censuses as he changed his middle name for his first and how he spelled his surname, so intent that when I stood up I had cramps, because I'd neglected to pee, of course. It was a "friend" of mine. The same one who drinks too much and cheats here and there on his income tax.> if one needed to be careful about sharing info with those who aren't direct descendants.Sure. And with those who are dd's, jus! t in case they don't know much about genealogy on the internet. They mi! ght post details of living people out of ignorance. I privitize every GEDCOM I send to anyone....Show more
Jonie Lauria: I am trying to find out where my family comes from on both sides and what they did in the past. Were they royalty, were they theives? I know they were immigrants on both my mom and dad's side. But one is immigrant from Mexico another from Germany, ireland. What is the best website to use to find accurate information. I have already used Ancestry.com and it gave me some good information but got hard tosearch after awhile. Plus they had no records of my parents or even myself. Please advise!...Show more
Tillie Wynott: People like me...we simply love doing it. It is a challenge and satisfaction. Not weird at all...and for all you know, the person asked his relative to find it for him.I spend maybe 4-5 hours a week here, researching for others. That is not simple answer question time, but actually off site looking for info.
Ty Kirton:! Only 12 miles of Irish Sea in some places separate Scotland from Ireland, so when the British Crown offered canny Lowland peasants the opportunity to lease "virgin" land--only occupied by the native, Roman Catholic Irish--for a term of 21 years, many of them accepted particularly since landlords were driving up their rents. Religious persecution during Charles' I reign, as he tried to foust the Anglican episcopacy upon the Presbyterian Scots, accelerated the emigration process. During these "killing times", thousands of Covenanters would escape to the "relative calm" of Northern Ireland, bringing their Presbyterianism with them. Of course, their martyardom in defense of the Kirk made them resist aligning themselves with the native Roman Catholic Irish. Furthermore, Oliver Cromwell's invasion of Ireland didn't help matters. In summary, two very similar ethnic groups, both embittered towards each other, both feeling themselves put upon, and both despising the English resu! lted. Between 1717 and the American Revolution a quarter of a million! Ulster [Protestant] Irish made their way to America, among them the families of Patrick Henry, Andrew Jackson, Davy Crockett, and Sam Houston. Since English settlers already occupied the coastal areas, these Irish of Scots' descent pushed into the interior. [Highland Scots forced off their land by enclosures would come to America from about 1750 to 1850, the largest number arriving during the 1790s]. Although many an Ulster Scot began his or her life in America as an indentured servant, by the 1840s when their grandchildren noticed a wave of starving Roman Catholic Irish peasants crowding into the urban centers of Boston and New York, those who had formerly called themselves "Irish" wished to differentiate themselves from these newcomers and started calling themselves "Scotch-Irish". Of course, in some cases, for instance, Ronald Reagan, the two groups eventually intermarried. Isn't America grand? Tis' indeed!...Show more
Arlene Maycumber: Because some peoples int! erest include something besides themselves. The world is comprised of much more than the person that you see each morning in the mirror. I know of people who have gifted others with a rough outline of their ancestry. The world does not rotate around just you.
Marcel Then: These are all plausible answers. I know some geneologists don't post info on living relatives...so I wondered if one needed to be careful about sharing info with those who aren't direct descendants.
Charlotte Bryar: You are Scot-Irish its a American term they are not called that in Britian they are the Ulster Scots they started to call them selves Scots-Irish to make a difference between them and the later Irish immigrants that came later on to America. Ulster Scots are differents now researching them is slow but worth it that my fathers family they are mostly protestant and usually Presbyterians from the Ayrshire and Argyll districts of Scotland. Parish records in Scotland is what I have focu! sed on and also the Covenanters lists they also had to pay a certian ta! x for there faith. Now here in America to research Scot-Irish blood use Land grants,Probates and Baptisms records,and sometime Military records usually Militia.Until you can locate these records it will be extremely hard to make the connection over seas.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Covenantershttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots-Irish_Americahttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulster-ScotsIf you need any help feel free to email me through my profilealways a pleasure to help a fellow Scot....Show more
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Manual Burtis: For ancestry by DNA the company to go to is DNA tribes. The test is the autosomal test.
Toby Women: the answers you got are good but I'd like to comment about the time before the English confused everything. The Irish, Scots and Welsh were related Celtic tribes, that settled in different areas of the same region (the Brittish Isles). The original English, the Brits, were also related Celts. This was prior to the Roman i! nvasion.
Gaston Edgcomb: Isn't it possible that they are trying to help others find their genealogy just because they are good at it and have possibly been asked to??? It doesn't seem that weird to me. Maybe they love genealogy and want to make a gift of their research to those mentioned?The History Manhttp://wwwhistoryman.blogspot.com/...Show more
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