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Al Swope

Al Swope

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I spent Christmas day with my sister. She is really into genealogy and family history. We started talking and she pulled out a binder with flow charts, census records, birth/death/baptism/marriage certificates and various deeds. She traced our fathers paternal line back to Lawrence Swope, born in 1742, about 5 miles from my current home! He was a soldier in the American Revolution. His parents came from Germany. It was pretty neat. I had no idea.

I am the eight generation in the Swope line (in N. Ammerica). Anyone else traced themselves back to arrival in N. America?
 
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My family traced the line back to the late 1600's-early 1700's. Theres a mix through time of various races/nationalities. Several varaities of Celt, some German, some other nothern country (Swede or Norwegan?), and a little English. Had at least one that fought with Washington.
 
My aunt has our family tree, going all the way back to mid 1700's in Ireland. I'm 6th generation born in the USA.
 
My dad has traced our family back to when they came from Scotland/Ireland in the 1640s with a vague reference to running from the law as the reason they came. From there it goes back several hundred more years, including some royalty. My friend who is immigrated from Ireland about 30 years ago was not particularly impressed. He said every little clan and area had a king back then.
 
My Dad and his cousins and Uncles were and are big into the family history thing. Our group of Seawell's left Boston after/during the Tea party thing and sailed down the coast line then up the Cape Fear in NC and settled the area where we live now. Before that things are murky, there is some mention of our name During the Battle Of Hastings where we came over from Normandy. There is also some mention of what could be are family name during the Scandinavian Invasions of Normandy.
 
I've been going down that rabbit hole for a couple of years now.
My first Van Meteren relative in North America was a cabin boy on Henry Hudson's third expedition: http://www.ianchadwick.com/hudson/hudson_03.htm
His nephew came here and settled in NY in 1663 ---- his son married a girl who was born here in 1663; he father settled in NY in 1660. Those two kids and 41 others were abducted by Indians and held for 3 months in an event that started the Second Esopus War: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esopus_Wars
The girl was Sara duBois.
I've been to their graves and visited quite a few of their homes. They founded dozens of towns in Upstate NY, NJ, VA, and West by-God Virginia. Shepherdstown and New Paltz are our two favorites and the old family houses are welcome centers.

This is a cool bit of a story:
http://www.geni.com/people/Louis-The-Walloon-DuBois/6000000006168775363
 
BushHead said:
My Dad and his cousins and Uncles were and are big into the family history thing. Our group of Seawell's left Boston after/during the Tea party thing and sailed down the coast line then up the Cape Fear in NC and settled the area where we live now. Before that things are murky, there is some mention of our name During the Battle Of Hastings where we came over from Normandy. There is also some mention of what could be are family name during the Scandinavian Invasions of Normandy.
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Interesting. My family fought with William the Conqueror at the Battle of Hastings. They flew their own banner too --- which was some sort of honor.
 
My mother traced us back to Oglala Sioux Medicine Horse, and to Charles Carroll of Carrollton(know the name?). The other side of the family hails from Switzerland, and is a very rare name in the US(Schibler).
 
Stuart said:
I think Lucy is in my family tree.:D
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So Stuart, which one is Lucy?

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libarata said:
My mother traced us back to Oglala Sioux Medicine Horse, and to Charles Carroll of Carrollton(know the name?). The other side of the family hails from Switzerland, and is a very rare name in the US(Schibler).
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One of my coworkers is from Switzerland and might be able to tell you something about the Swiss side. He camps with us from time to time so you could get some fireside time with him.
 
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One of my coworkers is from Switzerland and might be able to tell you something about the Swiss side. He camps with us from time to time so you could get some fireside time with him.
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That would be awesome. Die Schweitz is on my bucket list. Just working on PTO!
 
The first Roberts in my line arrived here in 1636 from England. He settled in Vermont/New Hampshire and the family moved west over the generations. So far I have found that we fought in every war from the colonial Indian wars to OIF/OEF. Somehow we are still around...
 
I have a lot of family history with a fair amount of in and non direct famous persons. People like Lord Admiral Horatio Nelson. Commodore Perry, and Merriweather Lewis, among some others. Moms side we can date well into the 1700's in France and afterwards here in America. My family owns the oldest operational family run plantation in the country which is still in operation today in south central Louisiana. Dad's side goes back to the Sheldon's in the late 1700's in America from the 1000 Lakes region of Illinois. We supposedly have Blackfoot and a couple other Native American tribal relations as well.
 

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soc.diver said:
The first Roberts in my line arrived here in 1636 from England. He settled in Vermont/New Hampshire and the family moved west over the generations. So far I have found that we fought in every war from the colonial Indian wars to OIF/OEF. Somehow we are still around...
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I'm a Roberts too! That's my paternal grandfather's side and they hail from Texas and Oklahoma... not too sure about his ancestry though I'd sure like to know. He married an English woman after WWII (she was Royal Air Force, he was a US Marine).

On the other side, my maternal grandmother's ancestry has been traced back to early English-Irish colonists. That side of the family was Mormon, which helped with the ancestry when that grandma looked into it. I understand they keep incredible records.
 
The Mormon family that I grew up/played with the kids were very into Genealogy, seemed to be an important part of their faith. My sister-in-law has traced my wife's family back to the Vikings. Family lore has my roots going back to the Cherokee Indians/England, but I haven't verified that.
 
On the paternal side, we got here in 1756, came from Lincolnshire England to Poughkeepsie New York. As a Mormon it is an important part of our faith. We have certain ancestral lines traced to the 1500's.


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