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I went and looked again, and we have connected some lines to the 1200's


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Tracing my family line to when we arrived in this country is rather easy: November 2nd, 1982 (we emigrated from England). Before that, my father has traced our family lineage quite a ways (a retirement project of his). On my mom's side, he's gotten as far back as the 1500s (Found out my mother is related to Guy Fawkes, who tried to blow up parliament in 1605). It's actually not the first time my family was on American soil, I had 7 relatives in the "War of Colonial revolt" :D , 3 at the Boston Massacre.

My father has gone as far back as the late 1000s. He refuses to go farther, mutters something about finding out we've got French blood (so I guess we're Norman).
 
My family left Nouzilly, France in 1520, and ended up in Quebec, Canada. From there, they immigrated to Danvers, Ma. in I think 1920. Someday I hope to revisit the homes of my ancesters and document the voyage.
 
Fowldarr said:
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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One of my ancestor's brothers and his family were some of the first settlers to set up in Poughkeepsie.

It's pretty neat and addictive. I contacted a distant relative in the Netherlands and got an open invite for a tour of the old home town there, Meteren.

Pretty interesting account of the early settling of New Netherland here: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wynkoop/webdocs/vanmeter.htm
 
Not sure about our longest tenure here (Blackfoot), but the shortest caught the boat from Ireland around 1897. That makes me the third generation of O'Connells born here in my line.
 
Some of my east coast relatives hired some people traced our family history in the US to Palmer Tingley who was the first in our family to come here in 1614, he lived and died in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. There are 10 volumes of books following everyone in the family, I am 10th generation. My kids will be in the 11th volume which is being written right now.
 
megacabcummins said:
Some of my east coast relatives hired some people traced our family history in the US to Palmer Tingley who was the first in our family to come here in 1614, he lived and died in Charlestown, Middlesex County, Massachusetts Bay Colony. There are 10 volumes of books following everyone in the family, I am 10th generation. My kids will be in the 11th volume which is being written right now.
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That's pretty cool to have a confirmation on that early and that colony.
My family contends that the Shepherd on the role of Jamestown survivors is the ancestor of Thomas Shepherd of Shepherdstown, West-by-God-Virginia (my gggggg grandfather) but I can't find any proof of it. I've tried searching at Jamestown and Williamsburg in the archives and the tax records of VA and WV but there are too many holes.
I know that John Smith was friends with some of my Van Meteren ancestors and that the Shepherds knew the Van Meterens before the families wed the kids together though.
It's a puzzle with pieces missing.
 
Kind of a funny story along the lines of family history. I was at Pike Place market in Seattle and found some Darius Kinsey prints. Picked out 3 that I really liked. Was at my dads a couple years later and noticed he had one of the same prints, a team of logging oxen, a few loggers, and a little boy with a grease bucket for the skid logs. Later that day we were at my grandmothers and I noticed she had the same one too. So I had to ask what was up with the picture, my grandmother looked at me like my face was on backwards, "You don't know who that is?' I told her how I found the picture. Turns out the picture was of the Tingley logging team which was owned by my great grandfather, and the little boy was my grandfather.... freaky....
 
megacabcummins said:
Kind of a funny story along the lines of family history. I was at Pike Place market in Seattle and found some Darius Kinsey prints. Picked out 3 that I really liked. Was at my dads a couple years later and noticed he had one of the same prints, a team of logging oxen, a few loggers, and a little boy with a grease bucket for the skid logs. Later that day we were at my grandmothers and I noticed she had the same one too. So I had to ask what was up with the picture, my grandmother looked at me like my face was on backwards, "You don't know who that is?' I told her how I found the picture. Turns out the picture was of the Tingley logging team which was owned by my great grandfather, and the little boy was my grandfather.... freaky....
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Really really cool.
 
My dad recently mentioned that he was looking through his mothers papers and found that she had traced one of our people to the Mayflower in 1620. That was a little earlier than we had previously thought.
 
We've traced a few different lines.

One line, that of Gabriel Maupin, was a Huguenot that came here around 1700. He is my 8th great-grandfather and his inns are still standing and occupied at Colonial Williamsburg. A few years back, my Dad stayed in one of his inns and had a picture taken in front of the commemorative plaque.

Another line we've traced back to two Mayflower passengers, but I'm not sure of the specifics off hand.

Oddly enough, our specific Ferguson line can't be traced more than about four generations to a MO horse thief and neerdowell.
 
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