Friday 5s

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Friday 5s
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Thu, 03-12-2009 - 7:22pm

1. How far back have your family roots been traced?

2. From what countries have your ancestors originated from?

3. Are you the genealogist of your family, someone else or is it a combined effort of several people?

4. What is the most interesting piece of information you have found in your family history? Anybody famous or involved in a historical moment in time?

5. Is your genealogy in published form (i.e., bound book) or is it kept all on floppy/disk or hard drive?

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Registered: 03-14-2007
In reply to: twoki
Thu, 03-12-2009 - 8:25pm
1. How far back have your family roots been traced? I don't know.

2. From what countries have your ancestors originated from? Scotland-Ireland, Hungarian on Mom's side...England, Holland on Dad's side. I relate most to being Hungarian as my mother and aunts talked about their heritage often growing up, ate the foods, spoke a few words, etc.


3. Are you the genealogist of your family, someone else or is it a combined effort of several people? Not me! I have a cousin on each side of the family who is doing this, but I have no idea what they've discovered.


4. What is the most interesting piece of information you have found in your family history? Anybody famous or involved in a historical moment in time? No information. If anyone was famous, I expect I would have been told by now as the cousins have been doing this for many years.


5. Is your genealogy in published form (i.e., bound book) or is it kept all on floppy/disk or hard drive? I don't know.


I think geneology is interesting, I just don't follow it closely and don't want to do any of it myself. This reminded me though that my cousin on my mom's side emailed me asking for a copy of my father's birth certificate. I forgot to find it and send it to him. Will write that on a sticky note and


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Registered: 03-17-2007
In reply to: twoki
Thu, 03-12-2009 - 8:56pm

OMG questions I can actually answer....lol

Granny to Caleb and Scotia

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Registered: 09-12-2005
In reply to: twoki
Thu, 03-12-2009 - 9:56pm
Take Me Camping ! 

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Registered: 09-01-2003
In reply to: twoki
Thu, 03-12-2009 - 11:37pm
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Registered: 04-24-2000
In reply to: twoki
Fri, 03-13-2009 - 6:26am

1. How far back have your family roots been traced? I think 5 or 6 generations


2. From what countries have your ancestors originated from? ALL from Scotland...I am a purebred !!!

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Registered: 09-12-2003
In reply to: twoki
Fri, 03-13-2009 - 6:53am

Hi Deb, thank you for the thought provoking questions this week... love them.. wish I had more info about my family and dh's... (his side would really be difficult to do as here records were not kept until after the 1920's I think it is).

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Registered: 10-15-2005
In reply to: twoki
Fri, 03-13-2009 - 12:50pm

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Registered: 12-12-1997
In reply to: twoki
Fri, 03-13-2009 - 1:19pm

1. How far back have your family roots been traced? - We can go back solidly about 15 generations or more, I'm not sure. I can trace my roots, sketchily to about 500 and some Norseman named Erick.


2. From what countries have your ancestors originated from? - Tom's are from Ireland on his father's side and Germany on his mother's side and My ancestors came from France, Sweden and England, mostly.


3. Are you the genealogist of your family, someone else or is it a combined effort of several people? - Tom gathers most of the info and I help type it into the computer if he has a lot. He got started by a letter from his father's cousin in Canada and it's grown tremendously since then.


4. What is the most interesting piece of information you have found in your family history? Anybody famous or involved in a historical moment in time? - I'm related to the poet, Robert Herrick and Tom is pretty sure he's related to the Daley's of Chicago (although that connection is, understandably, a bit vague) and supposedly


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Registered: 02-09-2007
In reply to: twoki
Fri, 03-13-2009 - 2:13pm