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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 10:41:46 AM
The Daughters of the American Revolution! My husband and I just got involved in our genealogy. I was able to trace mine back QUITE far (late 1700's) and I'm able to become a member of the DAR! Do any of you farmgirls belong to this group? I'm pretty excited!
Farmgirl #2879 :)
Starbucks and sushi to green fried tomatoes and corn pudding-I wouldn't change it for the world.
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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Sep 25 2011 : 2:45:02 PM
Mikki, it's a pretty cool place here. Such a RICH history. A lot different than my native California.
I guess my Aunt has my history traced all the way back to a king in france. I just don't know what "Proof" she has. We'll see!
Farmgirl #2879 :)
Starbucks and sushi to green fried tomatoes and corn pudding-I wouldn't change it for the world.
www.cattleandcupcakes.blogspot.com
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| Mikki |
Posted - Sep 25 2011 : 08:05:47 AM
I have proven my lineage...just have to fill out the paperwork. I went to Kentucky to visit my GGGGG Grandfather's grave last August and it was an amazing feeling. My Dad grew up in Kentucky...very dear place to me.
~~Blessings, Mikki Jo
"Courage is being scared to death... but saddling up anyway" ***John Wayne
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| Penny Wise |
Posted - Sep 23 2011 : 6:37:35 PM
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Originally posted by walkinwalkoutcattle
Ginny, those are INCREDIBLE stories! I especially like the one about the Swedes! LOL! I'm half swedish, and my great, great grandmother immigrated here from Sweden. My grandfather has fond memories of Sweden from visiting as a child.
I'm starting to try and figure this all out. I've got a basic family tree-but the geneaology on the DAR website is really weird. Do I need to trace it just back to what they have? Because what they have has already been PROVEN, ya know? Like my ancestor, Supply Reed (Weird first name!), had a son named John Reed, who was married to my great, great, great grandma. So I don't feel like I "Need" to proove from John Reed back. Am I correct on that?
Farmgirl #2879 :)
Starbucks and sushi to green fried tomatoes and corn pudding-I wouldn't change it for the world.
www.cattleandcupcakes.blogspot.com
you have to prove who you are/your parents and all relationships back---you really need to be able to prove john reed back also-more or less to prove that you are related and that he is the correct john reed...sounds silly but that's how it works!
it's possible to go in under another app but it's fun to know that you proved your own line---
my mother will go in on my number -cuz she is genereation 2 of my lineage-but she is not interested in "the hunt" as i was!and there is nothing wrong with that either!!!
Farmgirl # 2139
proud member of the Farmgirls of the Southwest Henhouse
~*~ counting my pennies and biding my time; my dreams are adding up!~*~ |
| Lieberkim |
Posted - Sep 23 2011 : 2:09:09 PM
Definately can't claim DAR! I'm a Canuk of Mennonite, German, English decent. But if you want to find relatives be Mennonite, we all breed like jackrabbits!!!! One time my Dad was at a family funeral and this man introduced himself as his Uncle and my Dad said he didn't have an uncle by that name. Turns out, my great-grandfather was the black sheep of the family and he didn't bother to tell his line about this particular brother that he had. We found 800 more relatives that day! And we discovered that my maiden name is very common in Germany so who knows how many I'm related to there! My family came out of Prussia (now part of Germany) and ended up in Russia (they needed good farmers), fled Russia due to persecution for Canada.
I loved learning about my German heritage when I visited my Oma's cousin there one year. It's amazing how Europeans know their geneology. According to this cousin the family originally came out of Spain, don't know when don't know why. They went to France and became affluent but were protestant and fled France as Huganots. They ended up in Germany and the family has been there since the 1500s. Fascinating stuff.
Good luck in your searches. :) It's fun learning the history.
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| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Sep 23 2011 : 12:14:46 PM
Ginny, those are INCREDIBLE stories! I especially like the one about the Swedes! LOL! I'm half swedish, and my great, great grandmother immigrated here from Sweden. My grandfather has fond memories of Sweden from visiting as a child.
I'm starting to try and figure this all out. I've got a basic family tree-but the geneaology on the DAR website is really weird. Do I need to trace it just back to what they have? Because what they have has already been PROVEN, ya know? Like my ancestor, Supply Reed (Weird first name!), had a son named John Reed, who was married to my great, great, great grandma. So I don't feel like I "Need" to proove from John Reed back. Am I correct on that?
Farmgirl #2879 :)
Starbucks and sushi to green fried tomatoes and corn pudding-I wouldn't change it for the world.
www.cattleandcupcakes.blogspot.com
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| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 5:57:22 PM
great ideas Kathleen, I'll sit my mom down and take notes of any info she can possible remember. There isn't much. I know she had tried really hard because she wanted to apply for dual citizenship.
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. ~Will Rogers |
| walkinwalkoutcattle |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 4:49:49 PM
Hey, sue! Look up DAR's website, www.dar.org-there you can download the membership packet and stuff. I'm just starting to trace my lineage thanks to tips from my family and some websites. I'll be going to the first meeting on the 3rd. I'm excited! Let me know if you sign up. I'll be sure to posdt my experience here! My husband's family has it traced to a patriot that was very famous and has a big monument-it's super cool! I mostly did it so I could make sure my daughter did it. :)
Farmgirl #2879 :)
Starbucks and sushi to green fried tomatoes and corn pudding-I wouldn't change it for the world.
www.cattleandcupcakes.blogspot.com
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| NixKat |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 2:41:06 PM
Many of the French-Canadians who came to the U.S. adapted the use of the English version of their names. My grand-mother's grand-father was Anselme Levesque and when needed he would switch to Sam Bishop, his name in english. Perhaps this is a possibility for your grand-father. If his sister is still alive I would definitely try to contact her; out of curiosity.... have you tried Googling his name?
If you would like to email whatever information you have I will attempt a search for information. When he crossed the border, even with a false ID, he still had to provide information... by checking border crossings for his name, you may be able to get another hint hiding in the little details.
Kathleen...... Farmgirl Sister #3447 |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 1:57:37 PM
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Originally posted by NixKat
Jen,
Do you have any idea which province the grandfather came from? Canadian churches kept amazing records, especially the Catholics.
I have be stumped with a great-grandfather's heritage too. His death certificate has his mother listed as "unknown" and anyone who may have know that part of the family has been long gone for decades. But I know there has to be an answer somewhere and one day I am determined to find it.
What I know about my maternal grandfather is that he never talked about his life before coming to the US. It was always a family secret that his paperwork was forged and they lived quietly. He owned his own businesses by the time he had a family so that he never had to have a social security number and the last name he gave himself was supposedly fake. His wife (my grandmother) was american and I don't know where she was from, I assume Illinois because that's where my mother was born?
My mother only found out what part of canada he was from when some kind of family or personal crisis came up and he called up his sister out of the blue, and she was shocked to hear he was alive. She came to visit them right away and it was from her my mom heard that they grew up in the "elephant's ass of Canada"-- That is somewhere northwest of Toronto.
My best idea for that route was to make a craigslist add in the area if anyone had a great uncle who ran away to wisconsin and changed his name! LOL
I believe they were catholic though. I was asking my mother about holiday traditions and she said they occasionally went to christmas mass and that was it.
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. ~Will Rogers |
| nabrown42 |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 1:39:06 PM
My mother was a mmember and I have all her paperwork so all I have to do is pretty much sign up and forward her membership info. My family is pre-Revolutionary war and the family's history has been traced back to England and Ireland on both sides. I am waiting until I get settled in KY before I join but feel it will be a great way to get to know people.
"I've wept in the night for the shortness of sight that to someone's needs I've been blind; but I've yet to feel a twinge of regret for being a little too kind." |
| Oggie |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 1:24:11 PM
True story: 28 years ago I told my Mom and Dad I was moving to this small town in Maine called Machias after my wedding. My Dad was blown away hearing this. He raced up stairs to their bedroom and came down with copies of DAR papers that his sister had done to get into the DAR. Turns out his family came from the small town I was moving to! Who would have thought the "family" would come full circle from Maine to Washington and back to Maine! Once here I helped him do a better job on his geneology and he made a book on it for everyone in his family. His 7th great-grandfather fought here in the first US Naval Battle ever June 12, 1775 which is called The Margaretta because these local farm boys captured the British ship The Maragretta and in those days the name of your "prize" was everything. It's a really big deal in our town and even the high school year books are called The Margaretta. We have even found most of the grave sites of his relatives. Considering our town only has about 2300 people in it, this is amazing to us.
The problem is, by blood he is my step father so I can't join the DAR. But I helped establish a historical society and the yearly festival called, what else, The Margeretta Day Festival, where we dress and do everything in 1775 period to educate people about their history. It's a lot of fun.
My true blood line I know all about because, until my generation, we were all Swedes who married only Swedes on both sides of my family and I still have relatives in Sweden who I email with all the time. When you have lived with your great-grandmother and she is the one who came from Sweden, it's not hard to learn about your family, lol!
Another story about that if you want to hear it? I was bored one night surfing the internet and brought up my home town. I found a message from someone on a geneology site asking if anyone knew of any Norgrens to please email ... So I emailed and said it was my great-grandfather who helped start the town. The next day I got a phone call from what turns out to be my 3rd cousin! His great-grandfather and my great-grandfather were brothers who came here together. But his great-grandfather left MN. and went to Washington and died there and we never knew more about him than that and that my great-grandfather had brought him back to be buried in MN. Turns out, he had a family before he left there that we didn't know much about! So about 3 months later we both meet up in MN and I take them to the town we are from, the cemeteries, etc... and when they found his great-grandfather's grave they started to cry because they are members of the LDS in Utah and it was the missing link for him. I was so happy to meet them and we had such a great time together!
Then about three years ago I suggested they meet my hubby and I in DC so they could meet my Mother who is the only living link to these great-grandfathers of ours. She knew them both, his only as a child, but being brothers she knew about him. So we landed at Mom's house for three weeks and it was as if we had known each other our entire lives. It was probably the best "vacation" I have ever had! We looked through all the family pictures and gave them copies, Mom told them family stories, and we did the tourist thing in DC to boot!
So it pays to know your geneology, you just might meet people you never knew were family!
Ginny
Farmgirl #2343
www.thedewhopinn.com
"I always have a wonderful time, wherever I am, whomever I'm with."
"Well, I've wrestled with reality for 35 years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." Both by Elwood P. Dowd (Jimmy Stewart) in the Movie Harvey
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| NixKat |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 12:31:26 PM
Jen,
Do you have any idea which province the grandfather came from? Canadian churches kept amazing records, especially the Catholics.
I have be stumped with a great-grandfather's heritage too. His death certificate has his mother listed as "unknown" and anyone who may have know that part of the family has been long gone for decades. But I know there has to be an answer somewhere and one day I am determined to find it.
For your g-grandfather, birthdays don't generally change, and if you can find out at least which province he was from it's a place to start. Add to that any other little bits of information your sister may be able to coax... Was his wife from the same area? Investigate her family... they crossed paths somewhere in time.
I can check with my aunt for suggestions on the best path to follow and let you know, if you want me to.
I love mysteries, yours is a good one. I think every family has one.
Kathleen...... Farmgirl Sister #3447 |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 11:59:40 AM
The first time I was assigned a geneology project in high school, All the kids who were LDS, or had LDS in the family basically got a free pass on the assignment because the church already had the family trees plotted, usually pretty far back because they had researched the lineage of the parishioner.
The problems I have are unfortunately recent history, I'm sure if I could get 3 generations back it would pretty much be cake! My maternal grandfather was a canadian illegal immigrant living under a false name. My mother only met one relative from that side of the family once during her childhood-- his sister, and she doesn't even know her father's real surname, or remember her aunts name. We've been estranged from her mother for 20 years, so she has probably passed and wouldn't be much help, and we know her father has passed.
My paternal grandfather was a paranoid cuke, and he instilled the same in his sons, my father and uncle. They believe the government is going to get us so they've done their level best to keep as many of their records off the radar as possible. Suffice it to say-- my dad is the most unbalanced duck of them all and when I started having a family of my own I realized it would be in their best interest to cut contact.
My only cousin (uncle's daughter) lives safely on the opposite coast and she checks in on them for us both. We're fairly close and she understand my position and keeps me updated on what's going on with them.
My best bet would be to partner with her to get birth dates and full names from them to follow as leads.
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. ~Will Rogers |
| NixKat |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 10:53:27 AM
All,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_History_Center_%28LDS_Church%29
The LDS branch libraries are called Family History Centers
Jen, Your local libray is the Mesa Arizona Regional Family History Center, Mesa, Arizona their link: http://www.mesarfhc.org/
The best part is we don't have to be a member of LDS, or any group for that matter. They records are multi-denominational.
I have an aunt who goes to Salt Lake City once or twice a year to do research and it's amazing the family records she has discovered there. Personally, I have been to the Family History Center in RI and the only fee I ever paid was when I needed to borrow micro-fiche from SLC.
good luck. Let me know if I can be of more help.
Kathleen...... Farmgirl Sister #3447 |
| heritagehunter |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 10:38:32 AM
Jen,
I don't think that the LDS actually does research for people; if they do you don't have to be a member of the church for them to do it. But you could try your counties genealogy society. They probably have more volunteers. They would charge you for copies though.
Where are you having problems. I'm willing to take a look at it. I love brick walls!! I'm working on becoming a certified genealogist. |
| Dusky Beauty |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 09:38:53 AM
I would like to be :( I haven't had any luck with researching my geneology. I've almost considered pretending to convert to LDS just to get them to do the leg work for me! LOL
"The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way it's animals are treated." ~Gandhi
http://silvermoonfarm.blogspot.com/
"After eating an entire bull, a mountain lion felt so good he started roaring. He kept it up until a hunter came along and shot him. The moral: When you're full of bull, keep your mouth shut. ~Will Rogers |
| Sue Feely |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 09:35:03 AM
Megan funny you should mention this, I have been thinking of looking into that lately; if you could, can you please tell me how to go about it, it sounds really exciting!
Sue Feely
suefeely@gmail.com |
| NixKat |
Posted - Sep 20 2011 : 09:32:43 AM
Jessie,
The LDS has the largest genealogy library in the world, there are branches throughout the country where you can access all their records in one manner or another.
I traced all branches on my mother's side (her parents, their parents, etc, etc Mothers and Fathers), I was also able to trace my father's maternal grand-mother's line (which is where I found one ancestor who qualifies me for the DAR). My paternal grand-father's heritage is most difficult because of a lack of records TX during the early 1800's.
My mother's ancestors were among the first to settle Quebec, Canada in early 1600's from France. My paternal grand-mother's ancestors came from northern England in 1624 to Virginia.
Feel free to contact me by email for any help in getting started with your family history.
{{{hugs}}}
Kathleen...... Farmgirl Sister #3447 |
| SylviaE |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 8:36:25 PM
I am eligible to be a member of the DAR, but when I checked into the local organization they were too foo fooey for me. Women with too much money and time on their hands for me. I am sure the organization is fine-great acutally-but locally is just not for me. I don't think they approved of this poor working school teacher either-THEIR loss:)
Sylvia E
Farmgirl Sister #2871 |
| heritagehunter |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 7:03:36 PM
Jessie,
You should be able to click on the library database and a list of all of them is listed in alphabetical order; then double click on ancestry. That's how it is at my local library, and hope it is that easy at yours. Also, check if your library has a genealogy desk. Some do and it is usually covered by a member of the local genealogy society. They can be very helpful in your search. Another good place to go (if your local LDS church has one) is the family history center. Those are usually located in the Latter Day Saints church. If you go to familysearch.com you can find out if the one in your area has a center. Good luck and feel free to email me if you have any more questions, I'm more than happy to help! |
| JessieLovesToCraft |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 6:20:12 PM
Julie,
Would you be able to post more on here or email me more details about finding this in a library?
I am extremely interested in finding out my heritage but am just another broke college kid!
I would LOVE you assistance (or anyone's :)!) in this matter.
Farmgirl Sister #3404
Jessie
A wise girl knows her limits, but a real girl realizes she doesn't have any! |
| heritagehunter |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 5:38:32 PM
Amy,
Most libraries have ancestry on their computers. It doesn't cost you anything to use it. It does have lots of information. Just be sure to double check what you find. |
| farmmilkmama |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 5:34:37 PM
Man would I love to get that far into genealogy to know if I COULD join...what have you done to research? My husband told me I should get on ancestry.com, but I know it's not cheap to use! :)
--* FarmMilkMama *--
Farmgirl Sister #1086
Be yourself.
Everyone else is already taken.
-Oscar Wilde
www.farmfoodmama.blogspot.com
www.thehmmmschoolingmom.blogspot.com |
| MEWolf |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 5:23:55 PM
My Mother is and has been bugging me to join. She has done so much of our genealogy, I guess I should!
Margaret
Kind hearts are the gardens, kind thoughts are the roots, kind words are the flowers, kind deeds are the fruits. Take care of your garden and keep out the weeds, fill it with sunshine, kind words and kind deeds. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1808-1882)
Farmgirl #3020
www.grey-wolf-farm.com |
| Penny Wise |
Posted - Sep 19 2011 : 12:32:58 PM
i am a member- i had something to prove so i DID join-wonderful folks and i love it except taht many of the ladies in many of the groups have WAAAAAYYYY too much money --and it is so pricey to join and prove your members--
i can prove almost 30 patriots but am going to have to be satisfied with teh one i have submitted so far--that is on my grandmother's side- i think i will submit one on my grandfathers too -just because i can.....
the whole scheme of the geneaology is so cool and i am soooooooooooo proud of all of my heritage-
megan i would be happy to talk with you off line if you'd like....
Farmgirl # 2139
proud member of the Farmgirls of the Southwest Henhouse
~*~ counting my pennies and biding my time; my dreams are adding up!~*~ |
