So the whole ancestry/geneology deal has always interested me. After doing a bit of research and talking to family, I've tracked my family all the way back to Ireland. My family got started here in the states by a 19 year old kid named "Jeremiah Anglin". He came over here alone around 1830. He came in through New York and worked his way here while working on the railroad lines. He married Katherine Sullivan and started a family, and the name changed from Anglin to Englum. In fact, there's a small township around where they settled and farmed, and the main road running through it is "Anglin Road". It was pretty neat checking the old census records and seeing his signatures. But anyways, I couldn't imagine coming to a new country alone back then, in an attempt to start a life. Just seems wild. It feels pretty neat to know the story of my family, and makes me feel more attached to them and to the area that I live in. Anybody here know their family's story??
My paternal family came from Edinburgh, Scotland arriving in America in 1701. Before that, they built and owned Castle Gogar there. If I had the 2.9 Million pounds I would buy it back into the family. On my mother's side we came from Leiden, Holland in 1810 and have that history back to 1392. I worked on our family tree for 12 years until I hit the final brick wall. Without travelling to Europe, I won't touch it again.
I'm grandma does a lot of this stuff as as well. I'll have to double check the details but I remember doing a project back in school that my ancestry was traced back to several families that came over on the Mayflower. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
It's pretty cool...my wife has done my Dad's side of the family. It's very interesting to me at least.
Very cool guys! Castles and pilgrims! I couldn't track my fathers side back any further unless I purchased the international package on ancestry, which I haven't done yet!
All I know is that my family originated in the North near the city of Akita. They were recruited to work on the farms in Hawaii. They later managed to relocate to California where they opened a business. They were interned during WWII and lost the business. Afterwards, they started again a business selling and servicing appliances. It's interesting to read about the backgrounds of everyone. Some families came from castles and some, maybe, came here to avoid prison. May The Sheep Be With You
Very cool guys. Never done mine. My great grandfather was a drunk and my great grandmother devorced him and so we never tried to look back much further. Ignorance is bliss. It's also interesting to look back and think about what was happening in the world the years your ancestors moved here. My Grandmother on my Fathers side moved here from Finland and moved to the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and a cousin just finished a book on that and had it published. Waiting for my copy to arrive now.
All my ancestors came from Norway. My maternal Grandfather came over in early 1900s. We have a copy of the page of the book from Ellis Island with his signature when he entered the country. It was my great grandparents on the other three branches of my family tree that came here from Norway. All settled in the Midwest and were initially farmers. My Dad's family has been traced as far back as the 1300s. It is quite a huge list of relatives when you go back that far. Who knows? We may all be related some how or another. Scary thought, huh!
Oh there is a castle that is currently for sale, and there is an ancestor on my mother's side that was hung for being a horse thief, there was Susanna North Martin, on my father's side, who was hung at the Salem witch trials, a cousin who spent most of his military time in a German POW camp after being shot down over Germany in WW II. It's amazing how much you can come up with a little digging. If you look at my wife's history, it is recorded back over 2000 years (she is from Asia).
I don't really know much about my family history. Here's a picture of my grandfather on my mom's side. I know that he and my grandmother lived in small fishing village in Kanagawa Prefecture. He was a fisherman during the war. My aunt was still a teenager when she was mowed down by shots from an American fighter plane as it shot at people running away down the streets. Because higher education was difficult to afford for families after the war, my mom went to nursing school and became a nurse where she met an American GI. She married him and came to USA. My oldest brother was born in Japan, otherwise he'd be President right now. On my father's side... there's not much that I know of. One of my cousins tried hard to do the genealogy thing but at the time, it didn't go back far. Too many injuns and outlaws on my father's side of the family I guess. :D Blackfoot Indian and somebody from Europe at some point... I do know that I seem to come from a family of wanderers. We're scattered all over the place.
Dad's side is fairly easy, he's 100% Irish. My great grandparents from his side came over. My grand parents were the 1st generation born in the US. My Great grandpa on my moms side was English and Scottish. He was kicked out of England by his father because he and a buddy took out a couple of "showgirls". He spent some time in Australia and wondering about the globe. Eventually settled in FL & AL. He was an artist & writer. My mom's mom was Slovakian. Basically, I'm a mostly Irish Euro-mutt.
Im a Euro-Mutt as well...families been been living in Chatham since the 1830's Sent from my SCH-I510 using Tapatalk 2
Thatd be real interesting bro! Im not real sure on mine, i know my mothers side is FULL 100% Italian and my fathers side is a little bit of German an i think a few other things
My Great-Great Grandfather on my Dad's side was a Breeding Slave. His name was Jack Jones. He came through Charleston,SC in the early 1860s. He was sold to Charlie Jones, the man that my hometown is named after in Jonesville,SC and he of course took on his last name. Since he was a breeding slave, he slept with 3-4 different women everynight to make strong slave babies that could be sold for profit. We often joke that we are probably related to every black person in South Carolina because of this. He (Grandpa Jack) was often rented out to other slave owners to breed because of his strength and size. He could carry 1000lbs. 200lb bag of grain in each hand, 200lb bag of grain on each shoulder and a 200lb bag in his teeth. My Grandfather said when they would be plowing with the mule and the mule got tired, that Grandpa Jack would take the harness off the mule and put it on himself. My Grandfather would be behind the plow and he would joke and say "Sam, when are you going to put the plow in the ground?" Grandpa Jack's oldest daughter Cindy, married my Great Grandfather Buster and they had 6 kids. Of which my Grandfather (Sam Jones) was the oldest. My parents call me Sam since I was a child because I resemble him so much. He always said I have eyes like a hawk. From which comes my name SharpEyeSam. I don't know much about my Mom's side. My Grandmother doesn't talk about it much. My Grandmother is still living and she turned 100 years old this past March.
Now that is some neat family history! If I were you i started askin her soon before its to late an ya never get to ask. Thats where i went wrong, I have no grandparents anymore to ask bout our family.
some real cool ones!! Not sure about mine, no one in my family really seems to know. people always ask me about my last name "Mammay" and say what nationality is that? I just say "uhh...I don't know"!!! Iknow on my moms side they are at least 4th generation old school new England farmers on the same 2 farms...and my dads side is from western PA north of Pittsburgh, my dads dad is gone and everyone out there is and was a drunk.....lol
Mine is quite easy both my mother and father are from a place that should be part of Albania but was taken away to be part of Montenegro. I'm 100% Albanian. My father also has a family tree of all the men on his side of the family for over 10 generations.
My great grand parents on my mothers side arrived from Ireland. On my fathers side my great grand parents arrived from Germany. My mothers family originally settled in Canada but quickly moved to Upstate NY. Same with my fathers family... Canada and then Upstate NY. I probably have as any family tree members in Canada as I do in NY. My fathers cousin had 23 children in Quebec. She went through 4 husbands. 2 of her children died at birth. She actually outlived a lot of her kids.
