Geneaology

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Fri, 06-08-2007 - 3:21pm

Have you ever tried to trace your family history?


My dad had a box of pictures and documents that my grandpa and grandma had.

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In reply to: cl_shywon
Sat, 06-09-2007 - 5:28pm
Good thinking, I was going to suggest you leave them all at home, but the CD was a great idea.
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Sat, 06-09-2007 - 6:52pm

That is so cool! I'm really interested in learning about my heritage/family history, as well. I have a short family tree that my mother's father drew up for me, and there's a family tree that one of my dad's cousins had been working on for years, and she emailed it out, in case anyone else was interested. So the French side of my family is traced back to around the late 1500s, to a Louis Campau. I'm descended from one of the "Filles du Roi", the young ladies sponsored by the king of France to go to the Canadian territories and populate the colonies there, since the male to female ratio was so off. lol. From what I understand, though, most people who had ancestors in French Canadian colonies are descended from at least one of those ladies.

Another ancestor was a partial founder of the Grand Rapids area of Michigan, and someone else married the daughter of an Ottawa chief. I'm actually not 100% sure if they were Ottawa, but I'm going by the region my ancestors were settled in, which maps show as being Ottawa territory.

I need to make some pilgrimages to Michigan, New England, and the UK. My grandad wrote down a URL to a website for Scottish documents on the family tree he drew me, so I can browse through that as well.

My heritage is Irish, Scottish, Polish, French, and Ottawa (?).

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In reply to: cl_shywon
Mon, 06-11-2007 - 8:31am
I have a cousin who is very into geneology. She's focused on one specific line (which is the only way to do it with a huge family like ours - and apparently yours!) She's gotten to the early 1500's and is kind of stuck. When I go to Scotland on vacation, she's sending me with homework - she won't fly, so she's pretty much at the end of the road research-wise.


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