What are your relatives up to?

[jewscout]

Say you were to go back in time. 100, 500, 1000, 2000 years and were able to track down your ancestors. What might they be up to?

if i went back far enough i'd probably find part of my father's family running around in face paint, w/ pants and long beards somewhere in Germania duking it out w/ Rome

 

[michel]

Say you were to go back in time. 100, 500, 1000, 2000 years and were able to track down your ancestors. What might they be up to?

if i went back far enough i'd probably find part of my father's family running around in face paint, w/ pants and long beards somewhere in Germania duking it out w/ Rome

When I first went to school Iin the Congo) the Nuns were telling us very young kids about the history of Belgium; apparently I went home and as we sat for our evening meal asked my father "What was it like, Daddy, when you were an ancient Belgian, living in the caves ?"...

 

[Shadow Wolf]

My dads family has been traced to tennesse mountain people. Thats as honestly as far as anyone traced it. So I guess if I went back thed be up to drinkin' some whishkey. Wow, new task for me. Trace dads family tree.

 

[Watcher]

Traveling with a gypsy caravan! I have gypsy on both sides of my family tree.

 

[Neo-Logic]

If I went back into time about 600 years to my father's side, give or take a couple of years, I would find my great-to the 10th power?-grandfather in the throne of one of Myanmar's 3 main providences. That providence was overthrown towards the end of my great-to the 10th power?-grandfather's reign. If I went back a good 600 years + back in time on my mother's side, I would find one of my great-to the 10th power?-uncle as a Uniche. Weird huh?

 

[almifkhar]

funny you bring up this thread. a relative from canada whom we have never met called my dad 5 years back and wanted some information on the family tree of my dad's dad's family. anyways she starts telling my dad about how in 1820 the family got kicked out of france and had to immagrate to canada. she went on to say that there is a river in the south of france that has the same name as our last name and that it is in vineyard country. she wanted to know why we they were kicked out of the country. i have always wanted to know the since i heard this story and i haven't been able to find anything on the web that was free of course.

 

[Master Vigil]

Traveling with a gypsy caravan! I have gypsy on both sides of my family tree.

Mine on my mother's side were either doing that, or building the wagons for the gypsies. From what I've read however, Carrozzoni was what the Italian Gypsy wagons were called, and Carrozzoni was broken down to Carrozza which still means wagon or carriage. And my mother's maiden name is Carrozza. I have no doubt my ancestors on her side were gypsies that later on conformed to italian culture and became catholic. It was certainly not uncommon.

 

[TrueQ]

As far as I'm aware, no one in my family has traced our heritage to further back than the oldest can remember, which would be my great, great grandparents. So I can say that about a hundred years ago my relations were doing nothing of terrible importance, one guy was a WWI grunt (Mainly because that was better than unemployment), another was a cook for the marines, and one was, in fact, a marine. The rest were working pretty mainstream jobs. Two people did missionary work and one was with the Peace Corps in the past 50 years.

Although I can't say for sure, I kind of get the feeling that before the 20th century my family members were what was at the time called 'drunks' and 'sluggards'. Somebody told me that four hundred years ago one of my relatives was involved in governor-level politics in colonial America, but I'm not sure I believe that. It seems that people from my family that aren't just simple, half-competent workers tend to either get roped into low-position government jobs, or join the age-appropriate counterculture. Either way, though, we tend to be a pretty mellow bunch. The only current exceptions are the aging ex-marine and a cousin of mine in the Midwest, those two are wound pretty tight.

If you want to hear about how and why my family moved and spread, I'd have to say that we go where we think the money is good. There are even two or three instances of us guessing right!

 

[Pah]

I trace some family to the Mayflower [John Alden (his wife and her father), William Mullins, and George Soule] but the documentation dies about that time. Three Revolutionary War soldiers. My mother's family to 1563, Cornwall England. Others in my father's side to as early as 1083 (St Gilbert), many to the 15th century. All in all, 3312 direct ancestors with their siblings in 32 generations- no cousins untill my generation. The huge majority are documented with primary and secondary data.

There are good ties to history in some of the secondary documents

 

[cardero]

What are your relatives up to?

Probably no good.

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

I do not know what my ancestory is past 4 generations, so I will have to go on what I have now. My maiden name is Jordan, so I would assume at some point my family lived in that area. My father is a carpenter, and I literally inherited his talents, he was also very intersted in things like "silva mind control". My mother works in a hospital she is an x-ray tech, but she does much more, the doctors collaborate with her on everything from how to handle a patient, to how to make the hospital work better, I have her 'healing' nature. Both parents are very artistic, so to am I.

Since I think these are things that repeat from one generation to the next, I guess my relatives would be building houses, helping the sick, and creating beautiful things.

 

[michel]

I feel envious when I hear people takking about their 'Pedigree'; I start with gradparents on both sides. Beyond that I haven't a hope of finding anything out.

I know there was white Russian on my Mother's side, and I am not even sure of the name. That's the trouble when you are Heinz's 57!