Genealogy..digging up facts!

[Mary Kay]

Hobby! Yeah right! One of my long lost cousins from a branch of the family we almost forgot..is doing a dna test on another one of the "lost" cousins to see if we can find country of origin. Family lore has them coming from Ireland, but that may have been the departure point..not the Country they were from.
Some Hobby..more like an obsession!

Happy Haloween!

 

[mischiefgrrl]

Thank you Mary Kay for posting this and giving me something to get other things off of my mind tonight.

I've tried before to find things and have been pretty successful with my Mother's side of the family. They were "High Society" so there are a lot of records. For my Father's side it's been more difficult. He's 93 years old and was born to a poor Italian immigrant family. His father died of the Spanish Flu in 1919 and was buried in a mass grave. The only record I've been able to find on any of that family is my Dad's enlistment card for the Army. His Mother went to dance with Vaudeville after his Father's death (she was still a teenager and a widow with children - not many career choices) so she had a lot of different stage names.

I'm going to get back to digging around to see if I find something this time. I gave up on this a while ago.

 

[PatriciafromCO]

wow abhowe ,, that so cool,, anything really interesting to share on anything you found...

I know all about my Dad's side of the family and it's nice to know and have a sense of connection.. Thanks for the sites

 

[Mary Kay]

mischiefgrrl, That's sounds like a lead! Vaudeville has lots of sites with playbills. They may be able to help. If you come up with the names you can try the Ellis Island site.
Does your dad have any clues for you? His birth record..Italian, maybe a First Communion record or Baptism record? Old Churchs records are sometimes on-line. Try to find the flu epidemic of 1919 and see if they list your Grandad in the mortality listings. New York is listed in Free Genealogy and Family History Online - The USGenWeb Project check there for mortality records.

Happy Halloween

 

[mixxy]

Thanks for sharing the links MK I've never been too interested in researching family. Would be more inclined on my Mother's side (and may just do that) but Dad's family had some really ugly skeletons in the closet, from what I've heard... and not sure I want to know more!

 

[abhowe]

Hello Patricia, yes plenty of interesting facts, good and bad..... You got to check everything because people add everything that is not checked...... Instance, Morman library said I am related to ABE Lincoln directly...... Untrue...... If you go back to ABE's grandfather, cross to his cousin, then come forward to me, yep, related..... If you do it that way, everyone is related.......
Found royalty and thieves...... Found Irish, Scottish, English royalty, and French nobles ....... Found war records, family land grants, cemetaries, and all kinds of stuff.....
If your family has been here for over 200 years, chances are, we are directly related.....
Learned more about history from Genealogy than I did from the History Books......

 

[mischiefgrrl]

Right after I posted on this thread, I took my daughter to the Los Angeles Central Library for the first time. I couldn't believe it when we were checking out all seven floors that there is an entire floor for Geneology!!! We were just about out of time by the time I found that so I may have to go back again and spend a day in there poking around.

 

[Mary Kay]

You have to figure that back in the 1600/1700's the U.S. was concentrated in a small area (the parts that kept written records other then just in a family bible were in the East) Everyone was related to everyone by marriage or birth.
My Dad's maternal family the Stith's can be hooked to every one in the History books around the time of the birth of this Nation. But that was so long ago the statute of limitations must have run out by the time it gets to me. My Ex's family from Virginia is the same..we even have some common ancestors. My other ex's family goes back to the Lee's of Virginia and is also related to us by marriage. It's just the way it worked then, the gene pool was kind of small and crowded!
Relation by marriage is as valid as Adoption and Birth. The people we are discussing are so distant that it really doesn't matter and is only a nice family tradition to hand down to our children as a point of interest. Embrace it! Enjoy it!
My Grandson was reading our history and came on the part about my ancestor (Stith)marrying the grandson of Pocahontas. In another history of ours he saw that another ancestor was married to the greatgrand daughter of Pocahontas. (different families) He was little and very impressed! LOL So he told his teacher who called him a lier. I took in my paperwork (well documented by many genealogists, not me) and she had to apologise. It's not like a kid would make it up. But I find that some people are genealogy proud and some are genealogy jealous. Neither are nice things to be.

 

[Mary Kay]

bringing this back up if anyone is interested.

 

[kellogg]

Wow! When I saw this thread, I just had to join this group.

I have already decided to devote some time in September to research. So...get ready for the questions.

 

[Fudgey]

Wow! When I saw this thread, I just had to join this group.

I have already decided to devote some time in September to research. So...get ready for the questions.

Welcome to the The Womens Room!!!

 

[Mary Kay]

Wow! When I saw this thread, I just had to join this group.

I have already decided to devote some time in September to research. So...get ready for the questions.

I saw your name and thought about a cousin of mine..also a Kellogg..But she doesn't smoke and doesn't live in the great State of Texas! But she is a genealogy nut!
Ask all the questions you want...now answers may be few and far between! Just teasing. Welcome to the Women's Room!

 

[kellogg]

Oops!

I was so excited to see a thread on genealogy that I forgot to introduce myself.

My name is Debbie. I have been trying to completely give up analogs. Slowly but surely I am getting there. Been vaping for about 3 weeks.

MaryKay - My screen name came from the author of some book that is on the shelf above the computer. Guess we aren't related but you could be related to some guy that wrote an accounting book.

 

[Mary Kay]

Nope..I don't do math! Reading, writing but no arithmetic! maybe my cousin's hubby is related to the cereal people!

 

[Mary Kay]

Bump for those interested!

 

[Safira]

My genealogy is sooo boring, my mother is off the boat from a small town in Sicily. On my fathers side it's my grandparents that are off the boat Italians from the same exact tiny little town in Sicily.

I feel like everyone else in this world is like a nice Sunday ice cream with whip cream and all the toppings. I'm just a bowl of vanilla ice cream, minus the vanilla flavor, the sugar, and the heavy cream that makes up the ice cream.

 

[Fudgey]

I'm just plain old ice cream to (can I be chocolate...hehehehe) My family come from France add a little Cajun and Indian, all born and raised in Louisiana.

 

[Mary Kay]

Fudgey, My 2nd husbands paternal line is from the Abbeville area of La. His people are English who married into French/Cajuns. His family tree is so very interesting! They even had a real pirate in there..back in the 1700's.
Saphira, I just did some looking into my best friends family..we found out they were from the Canary Islands! My other best friend's father was Cuban..but his father imagrated to Cuba from those same Canary Islands. (Gran I believe) Those two families ended up across the street from each other in Tampa.
Look into your History and the history of your family home in Italy...you never know!

 

[Fudgey]

MK....I know Abbeyville, one of my uncle's lived there. I lived on Avery Island where they make the McIlhenny Tobasco Sauce, for a few months. Did a lot of fishing in the bayous that summer, first time I had ever seen a gar fish. Totally freaked me out....LOL

 

[Rosco]

I've learned that ALL - ANY site is only as good as it's contributors too.

I've gone back 4 generations and it's a challenge at times, but I love it.