[ARCHIVED THREAD] - Ancestry (Page 1 of 2)
Posted: 7/31/2016 8:22:54 PM EDT
| My SO has been pouring over Ancestry.com building our family trees, being very careful to verify everything against known records and family history. My Uncle ( former VP for Aerospace at AT&T) has been digging into our ancestry as well. He found out our Great Great Great Grandfather was a black Infantry Captain in the 73rd Infantry US Colored Troops, in the Civil War. We researched it, compared it to known people and census/birth/death/military records and it's 100%. It answers one question but raises many more... |
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My girlfriend had a similar situation in which her family always said that they had Native American blood. Whenever she had her DNA test it showed no Native American but it did show 2% cebtral Asian and 1% African. When she told her family about this several members her immediate family were mad about results. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile |
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Quoted: My SO has been pouring over Ancestry.com building our family trees, being very careful to verify everything against known records and family history. My Uncle ( former VP for Aerospace at AT&T) has been digging into our ancestry as well. He found out our Great Great Great Grandfather was a black Infantry Captain in the 73rd Infantry US Colored Troops, in the Civil War. We researched it, compared it to known people and census/birth/death/military records and it's 100%. It answers one question but raises many more... You are aware that the US Colored Troops were officered by white officers? |
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I was able to definitively trace the male line of my family name all the way back to 1769(possibly 1725), when my great (great...) grandfather Christopher was born in New Jersey. By 1785, he was living here in Western PA. It is here, in Western PA, where my family has lived since then. It's really neat to know that my family, and name, has been here since the 1700s. I mean, we were in Washington County for the Whisky Rebellion. How cool is that?
Now, where this story gets really cool, was when I found out that Christopher fought in the Indian Wars. Specifically, he was part of St. Clair's defeat. Less than three percent of the Americans who fought in what was known as "The Battle of a Thousand Slain" survived the engagement. From Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Clair's_Defeat The casualty rate was the highest percentage ever suffered by a United States Army unit and included St. Clair's second in command. Of the 52 officers engaged, 39 were killed and 7 wounded; around 88% of all officers became casualties. After two hours St. Clair ordered a retreat, which quickly turned into a rout. "It was, in fact, a flight," St. Clair described a few days later in a letter to the Secretary of War. The American casualty rate, among the soldiers, was 97.4 percent, including 632 of 920 killed (69%) and 264 wounded. Nearly all of the 200 camp followers were slaughtered, for a total of 832 Americans killed. Approximately one-quarter of the entire U.S. Army had been wiped out. Only 24 of the 920 officers and men engaged came out of it unscathed. Indian casualties were about 61, with at least 21 killed.
The number of U.S. soldiers killed during this engagement was more than three times the number the Sioux would kill 85 years later at Custer's last stand at the Battle of Little Big Horn. The next day the remnants of the force arrived at the nearest U.S. outpost, Fort Jefferson, and from there returned to Fort Washington. I am here today because he survived a battle that so many others did not. He was either one hell of a fighter, or one hell of a runner. |
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My SO has been pouring over Ancestry.com building our family trees, being very careful to verify everything against known records and family history. My Uncle ( former VP for Aerospace at AT&T) has been digging into our ancestry as well. He found out our Great Great Great Grandfather was a black Infantry Captain in the 73rd Infantry US Colored Troops, in the Civil War. We researched it, compared it to known people and census/birth/death/military records and it's 100%. It answers one question but raises many more... Cool story! Ancestry is interesting stuff. |
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73% Western Europe 12% Irish 6% Great Britain The rest is traces from Scandinavia, Finland/Russia, Iberian Peninsula, Italy/Greece, North Africa, Middle East and Polynesia. ZERO Native American DNA, even though both sides of my family claim it. No surprises. My dad is 1/2 German and his mom is some percentage Irish. My maternal line traces back to France and although we don't know of any British ancestry, I would be surprised if there wasn't some, given how long my maternal line has been in the New World. The traces may be ancestors way down the line or they might just be genetic noise and not actually DNA from those regions. |
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Quoted: My SO has been pouring over Ancestry.com building our family trees, being very careful to verify everything against known records and family history. My Uncle ( former VP for Aerospace at AT&T) has been digging into our ancestry as well. He found out our Great Great Great Grandfather was a black Infantry Captain in the 73rd Infantry US Colored Troops, in the Civil War. We researched it, compared it to known people and census/birth/death/military records and it's 100%. It answers one question but raises many more... |
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My SO has been pouring over Ancestry.com building our family trees, being very careful to verify everything against known records and family history. My Uncle ( former VP for Aerospace at AT&T) has been digging into our ancestry as well. He found out our Great Great Great Grandfather was a black Infantry Captain in the 73rd Infantry US Colored Troops, in the Civil War. We researched it, compared it to known people and census/birth/death/military records and it's 100%. It answers one question but raises many more... You are aware that the US Colored Troops were officered by white officers? He was a Captain in the Louisiana Native Guard, they were asked to resign their commissions after the units were redesignated. I have his letter of resignation. |
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My Dad recently did the Ancestry DNA thing. It was pretty much Northern European, as expected. However, he got contacted the next day through the Ancestry.com messaging function. A woman from across the country emailed him and said, "Uh, I think I might be your sister." Dad says, "Uh,  "Dad called his mom (now 90) and she told him, "Yes, it's all true. I've never told anyone. You were 7 and your brother was 9 at the time. I wondered when this would ever come out." Mom and Dad just flew to Michigan this weekend to meet Dad's new half-sister. Grandma came out too. Quite the adventure. |
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My Dad recently did the Ancestry DNA thing. It was pretty much Northern European, as expected. However, he got contacted the next day through the Ancestry.com messaging function. A woman from across the country emailed him and said, "Uh, I think I might be your sister." Dad says, "Uh, "
This woman says she was given up for adoption at 3 weeks old. She knew a bit about her birth Mom and that she had two older sons. She had all the details right. She's 60 and been looking for her birth mom for decades. Dad called his mom (now 90) and she told him, "Yes, it's all true. I've never told anyone. You were 7 and your brother was 9 at the time. I wondered when this would ever come out." Mom and Dad just flew to Michigan this weekend to meet Dad's new half-sister. Grandma came out too. Quite the adventure. Saw a similar situation on another forum. Member found out he had a daughter he never knew about. Very bitter attitude towards ancestry.com. Didn't seem very happy about his daughter contacting him. |
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I did the DNA test with 23andMe It was interesting but nothing really that I did not already know <a href="http://s979.photobucket.com/user/KryoSynkronis/media/23andMe_Info/Ancestry%201_zpskiolycsk.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae280/KryoSynkronis/23andMe_Info/Ancestry%201_zpskiolycsk.jpg</a> and I am also 2.7% Neanderthal 
<a href="http://s979.photobucket.com/user/KryoSynkronis/media/23andMe_Info/Ancestry%204_zpsqbrigjgt.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae280/KryoSynkronis/23andMe_Info/Ancestry%204_zpsqbrigjgt.jpg</a> So... When you see a monolith what do you do... |
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I did the DNA test with 23andMe It was interesting but nothing really that I did not already know <a href="http://s979.photobucket.com/user/KryoSynkronis/media/23andMe_Info/Ancestry%201_zpskiolycsk.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae280/KryoSynkronis/23andMe_Info/Ancestry%201_zpskiolycsk.jpg</a> and I am also 2.7% Neanderthal
<a href="http://s979.photobucket.com/user/KryoSynkronis/media/23andMe_Info/Ancestry%204_zpsqbrigjgt.jpg.html" target="_blank">http://i979.photobucket.com/albums/ae280/KryoSynkronis/23andMe_Info/Ancestry%204_zpsqbrigjgt.jpg</a> So... When you see a monolith what do you do... I don't know what am I supposed to do
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Nope, the OP. I haz a reason for asking. Quoted:
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Serious question: What is the reason for your screen name? is that directed @ me Nope, the OP. I haz a reason for asking. Grew up just a bit from Natty Bumppo's cave. Always a fan of James Fenimore Cooper. |
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My Dad recently did the Ancestry DNA thing. It was pretty much Northern European, as expected. However, he got contacted the next day through the Ancestry.com messaging function. A woman from across the country emailed him and said, "Uh, I think I might be your sister." Dad says, "Uh, "
This woman says she was given up for adoption at 3 weeks old. She knew a bit about her birth Mom and that she had two older sons. She had all the details right. She's 60 and been looking for her birth mom for decades. Dad called his mom (now 90) and she told him, "Yes, it's all true. I've never told anyone. You were 7 and your brother was 9 at the time. I wondered when this would ever come out." Mom and Dad just flew to Michigan this weekend to meet Dad's new half-sister. Grandma came out too. Quite the adventure. Amazing story, which in your case seems to have had a happy ending. |
My great-great-great-grandfather was an Army captain who fought in the War of 1812 at the Battle of Lundy's Lane  ...for the Brits  But he redeemed himself by immigrating to Texas and fighting alongside Jim Bowie at the Battle of Nacogdoches, which kicked off the Texas Revolution  He was also a county sheriff for a couple of terms.His wife was apparently descended from Spanish aristocracy. Must explain why so many Mexican girls like me |
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My girlfriend had a similar situation in which her family always said that they had Native American blood. Whenever she had her DNA test it showed no Native American but it did show 2% cebtral Asian and 1% African. When she told her family about this several members her immediate family were mad about results. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Sort of the same thing here. Family always thought that we had native American Indian blood. Took DNA test and found I have mostly Irish and Scandinavian and not sure where the easy to tan skin came from. Not one drop of native American Indian blood. Edited to add for the OP: I have heard that they can find out right down to the tribal area where your African ancestors are from with the DNA test. |
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Quoted: One of these days I want to get my genes tested. <- adopted and mildly curious In my case, my dad was adopted, so it would be interesting to see what we could learn about his ancestry (sadly, I don't think we have anything provably with my grandfather's DNA, as my mother has always suspected that his dad was really his dad, he was known for infidelity, they look a LOT a like). |
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My aunt did some digging on my grandmother's side.
We traced it back to Williamsburg (Bassett Hall or whatever), family traveling with Daniel Boone to Paintlick, KY, and somewhere in the history we're related to Queen Anne Bassett (butch cassidy bunch). My wife is a direct ancestor of the first man hung at Plymouth Rock. Fun shit to look up. |
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My SO has been pouring over Ancestry.com building our family trees, being very careful to verify everything against known records and family history. My Uncle ( former VP for Aerospace at AT&T) has been digging into our ancestry as well. He found out our Great Great Great Grandfather was a black Infantry Captain in the 73rd Infantry US Colored Troops, in the Civil War. We researched it, compared it to known people and census/birth/death/military records and it's 100%. It answers one question but raises many more... We just did the 23 and me thing. Well, by "we", I mean my wife bought them for us. $200 later... geeeze... Well I guess it's not the first time I've paid to watch a hot woman spit into something. |
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Grew up just a bit from Natty Bumppo's cave. Always a fan of James Fenimore Cooper. Quoted:
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Serious question: What is the reason for your screen name? is that directed @ me Nope, the OP. I haz a reason for asking. Grew up just a bit from Natty Bumppo's cave. Always a fan of James Fenimore Cooper. Just wondered of we were related. The Bumpos, Bumps, and Bumpass' all descend from the same man who came here in 1621. |
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My Dad recently did the Ancestry DNA thing. It was pretty much Northern European, as expected. However, he got contacted the next day through the Ancestry.com messaging function. A woman from across the country emailed him and said, "Uh, I think I might be your sister." Dad says, "Uh, "
This woman says she was given up for adoption at 3 weeks old. She knew a bit about her birth Mom and that she had two older sons. She had all the details right. She's 60 and been looking for her birth mom for decades. Dad called his mom (now 90) and she told him, "Yes, it's all true. I've never told anyone. You were 7 and your brother was 9 at the time. I wondered when this would ever come out." Mom and Dad just flew to Michigan this weekend to meet Dad's new half-sister. Grandma came out too. Quite the adventure. Neat. Adopted child here but only recently found my mom's name when the state unsealed their birth certificate records. Think I found my siblings from my mom's obituary. Haven't gotten ahold of them yet. No idea if they know about me at all. |
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Saw a similar situation on another forum. Member found out he had a daughter he never knew about. Very bitter attitude towards ancestry.com. Didn't seem very happy about his daughter contacting him. Quoted:
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My Dad recently did the Ancestry DNA thing. It was pretty much Northern European, as expected. However, he got contacted the next day through the Ancestry.com messaging function. A woman from across the country emailed him and said, "Uh, I think I might be your sister." Dad says, "Uh, "
This woman says she was given up for adoption at 3 weeks old. She knew a bit about her birth Mom and that she had two older sons. She had all the details right. She's 60 and been looking for her birth mom for decades. Dad called his mom (now 90) and she told him, "Yes, it's all true. I've never told anyone. You were 7 and your brother was 9 at the time. I wondered when this would ever come out." Mom and Dad just flew to Michigan this weekend to meet Dad's new half-sister. Grandma came out too. Quite the adventure. Saw a similar situation on another forum. Member found out he had a daughter he never knew about. Very bitter attitude towards ancestry.com. Didn't seem very happy about his daughter contacting him. You can keep your identification private and refuse messages. |
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Sort of the same thing here. Family always thought that we had native American Indian blood. Took DNA test and found I have mostly Irish and Scandinavian and not sure where the easy to tan skin came from. Not one drop of native American Indian blood. Edited to add for the OP: I have heard that they can find out right down to the tribal area where your African ancestors are from with the DNA test. Quoted:
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My girlfriend had a similar situation in which her family always said that they had Native American blood. Whenever she had her DNA test it showed no Native American but it did show 2% cebtral Asian and 1% African. When she told her family about this several members her immediate family were mad about results. Posted Via AR15.Com Mobile Sort of the same thing here. Family always thought that we had native American Indian blood. Took DNA test and found I have mostly Irish and Scandinavian and not sure where the easy to tan skin came from. Not one drop of native American Indian blood. Edited to add for the OP: I have heard that they can find out right down to the tribal area where your African ancestors are from with the DNA test. My adopted sister was always told that she was Native American, because that's what her birth mother told the adoption agency. She made it all up, not Native American at all. I don't think that's true. There seems to be very poor information on African ancestry, that seems to be a common complaint on Ancestry and others. |
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Quoted: You can keep your identification private and refuse messages. Quoted: Quoted: Quoted: My Dad recently did the Ancestry DNA thing. It was pretty much Northern European, as expected. However, he got contacted the next day through the Ancestry.com messaging function. A woman from across the country emailed him and said, "Uh, I think I might be your sister." Dad says, "Uh, "This woman says she was given up for adoption at 3 weeks old. She knew a bit about her birth Mom and that she had two older sons. She had all the details right. She's 60 and been looking for her birth mom for decades. Dad called his mom (now 90) and she told him, "Yes, it's all true. I've never told anyone. You were 7 and your brother was 9 at the time. I wondered when this would ever come out." Mom and Dad just flew to Michigan this weekend to meet Dad's new half-sister. Grandma came out too. Quite the adventure. Saw a similar situation on another forum. Member found out he had a daughter he never knew about. Very bitter attitude towards ancestry.com. Didn't seem very happy about his daughter contacting him. You can keep your identification private and refuse messages. |
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My wife is a direct ancestor of the first man hung at Plymouth Rock. Fun shit to look up. Who was that? John Billington is the name. She has more of the history at home.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Billington |
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My Dad recently did the Ancestry DNA thing. It was pretty much Northern European, as expected. However, he got contacted the next day through the Ancestry.com messaging function. A woman from across the country emailed him and said, "Uh, I think I might be your sister." Dad says, "Uh, "
This woman says she was given up for adoption at 3 weeks old. She knew a bit about her birth Mom and that she had two older sons. She had all the details right. She's 60 and been looking for her birth mom for decades. Dad called his mom (now 90) and she told him, "Yes, it's all true. I've never told anyone. You were 7 and your brother was 9 at the time. I wondered when this would ever come out." Mom and Dad just flew to Michigan this weekend to meet Dad's new half-sister. Grandma came out too. Quite the adventure. Saw a similar situation on another forum. Member found out he had a daughter he never knew about. Very bitter attitude towards ancestry.com. Didn't seem very happy about his daughter contacting him. You can keep your identification private and refuse messages. The man who found out about the daughter didn't send in for the test. It was another relative who apparently didn't keep his ID private. I haven't used this service, so I'm not sure how the dots were connected. |
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Well, thems the breaks. Everyone has a skeleton or two in their closet, although not perhaps to this magnitude. Quoted:
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My Dad recently did the Ancestry DNA thing. It was pretty much Northern European, as expected. However, he got contacted the next day through the Ancestry.com messaging function. A woman from across the country emailed him and said, "Uh, I think I might be your sister." Dad says, "Uh, "
This woman says she was given up for adoption at 3 weeks old. She knew a bit about her birth Mom and that she had two older sons. She had all the details right. She's 60 and been looking for her birth mom for decades. Dad called his mom (now 90) and she told him, "Yes, it's all true. I've never told anyone. You were 7 and your brother was 9 at the time. I wondered when this would ever come out." Mom and Dad just flew to Michigan this weekend to meet Dad's new half-sister. Grandma came out too. Quite the adventure. Saw a similar situation on another forum. Member found out he had a daughter he never knew about. Very bitter attitude towards ancestry.com. Didn't seem very happy about his daughter contacting him. You can keep your identification private and refuse messages. My wife was in a similar situation and we found her birth father before the internet and Ancestry came about. Very positive results in our case. The guy on the other forum's children were upset, so I guess that may have been why he wasn't thrilled with the situation. |
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Quoted: My grandfather once said nobody wanted to look into our ancestry, all they'd find is a bunch of moonshiners and horse thieves. Whatchagonnado? Quoted: Quoted: I'm a Black Irish mutt preceded by scoundrels drunks and slaves. I'm cool with that. My grandfather once said nobody wanted to look into our ancestry, all they'd find is a bunch of moonshiners and horse thieves. Whatchagonnado? EVERYBODY has the blood, related to royalty, a founding father, some political figure, or Jesse James. Apparently except you and I. Closest I come to anyone noteworthy is Lewis Dalton. A barkeeper in KC Missouri that fathered the boys that made up the Dalton gang. So I'm kin to some bank and train robbers. |
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My wife is a direct ancestor of the first man hung at Plymouth Rock. Fun shit to look up. Who was that? John Billington is the name. She has more of the history at home.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Billington I don't find him in my tree, darn it. |
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My wife's mother's side has certain characteristics, to include unusual scarring, that leads them to believe that there might have been a "CoC violation in the woodshed."
My family is Czech/Slovak/Hungarian on my mom's side, and my father's side basically screamed "Am I being detained?!?" as they moved across the country. |
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That's what I find interesting about this stuff. EVERYBODY has the blood, related to royalty, a founding father, some political figure, or Jesse James. Apparently except you and I. Closest I come to anyone noteworthy is Lewis Dalton. A barkeeper in KC Missouri that fathered the boys that made up the Dalton gang. So I'm kin to some bank and train robbers.
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I'm a Black Irish mutt preceded by scoundrels drunks and slaves. I'm cool with that. My grandfather once said nobody wanted to look into our ancestry, all they'd find is a bunch of moonshiners and horse thieves. Whatchagonnado? EVERYBODY has the blood, related to royalty, a founding father, some political figure, or Jesse James. Apparently except you and I. Closest I come to anyone noteworthy is Lewis Dalton. A barkeeper in KC Missouri that fathered the boys that made up the Dalton gang. So I'm kin to some bank and train robbers.
I'm going to jump on the bandwagon this year. Family legend has it way the hell back when on my mother's mother's side they were pirates. Whether that's the YMCA kind or Jack Sparrow, I have no idea
Should be fun to find out if there's any truth to the story. |
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My grandfather once said nobody wanted to look into our ancestry, all they'd find is a bunch of moonshiners and horse thieves. Whatchagonnado? Quoted:
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I'm a Black Irish mutt preceded by scoundrels drunks and slaves. I'm cool with that. My grandfather once said nobody wanted to look into our ancestry, all they'd find is a bunch of moonshiners and horse thieves. Whatchagonnado? Pretty sure that would be the case here. My wife's side fascinates me more. |
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Mom is 2nd gen in this country. Still have family back in Poland, but I can't trace those people. So I don't know anyone past my grandma there.
Dad's side seems to have been in this country longer than anticipated. Legend was they were Irish and emigrated to Canada, but i couldn't find any evidence of this. However, the surnames of those ancestors were as English as tea, biscuits and rotten teeth. Took dna test, 51% eastern european (polish, no surprise there) and 35% English. Not a drop of Irish. Makes me wonder how/why the family would claim being Irish. Maybe to fit in with all the hoards of Irish immigrants? Was it taboo to be english in canada/US back in early 1800's? |