Family history
Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:44 pm
How big are you into your own family history? Does your family have legends or hearsay about lineages? Any proud genealogy buffs?
Americans, do members of your family belong to the Daughters of the Confederacy/Revolution, or Sons of the same?
Do you have a family coat of arms? Do you know it? Is it legitimate (meaning approved by historical royalty and decended down a male line)?
Americans, do members of your family belong to the Daughters of the Confederacy/Revolution, or Sons of the same?
Do you have a family coat of arms? Do you know it? Is it legitimate (meaning approved by historical royalty and decended down a male line)?
Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:52 pm
I'm not much into it, but my grandfather is a lot. He's putting together this huge family tree, and went to Finland over the summer to meet all these distant relatives...
My family in general hasn't been in America all that long, so nothing big on that front...hmm. Dunno about the family coat of arms. I think my last name is English...hmm...
My family in general hasn't been in America all that long, so nothing big on that front...hmm. Dunno about the family coat of arms. I think my last name is English...hmm...
Tue Jan 25, 2005 5:53 pm
Awhile back my Dad's Mum mapped out the family tree by going around the archives, graveyards, etc. If I remember correctly she managed to go back as far as 1700s but at that time there were too many people in the location of our family with the same name to determine who was the correct ancestor. I did do a school project on it one year and it was very interesting. There are accounts of some of the members of our family too, eg, some travelled from Wales to America during the gold rushes.
Sadly, my Mum's side of the family doesn't have much of a family tree as she didn't really know her Dad.
We have a crest that is the relevant one for our last name. I don't know if its legitimate but its one of the ones you find on those tea-towels of all the crests in various regions of the British Isles.
Sadly, my Mum's side of the family doesn't have much of a family tree as she didn't really know her Dad.
We have a crest that is the relevant one for our last name. I don't know if its legitimate but its one of the ones you find on those tea-towels of all the crests in various regions of the British Isles.
Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:00 pm
I know sod all about it.
Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:47 pm
I think my dad is obsessed with Family Trees... He even bought a computer program for it...
And I have done research for a project and other stuff... But I can't say i'm that much into to all of it.
And I have done research for a project and other stuff... But I can't say i'm that much into to all of it.
Tue Jan 25, 2005 6:51 pm
Shifty wrote:I think my dad is obsessed with Family Trees... He even bought a computer program for it...
So did my grandfather.
Tue Jan 25, 2005 8:37 pm
Nah. My ancestors did lots of things, obviously both good and bad, and none of it really affects me. If I'm related to someone rich or famous, so what? It doesn't have anything to do with me.
Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:30 pm
I've never really bothered to try anything like a family tree. I don't know much of anything about my family, and it doesn't really bug me.
Tue Jan 25, 2005 9:48 pm
Yeah, very much so.
I've been looking up everything. I knew nothing about anyone but my parents until a month or so ago, and even them I knew very little about.
I've found out so much during a month. I found pictures of my great grandparents gravestones, I've seen where my great great great grandfather grew up, where him and his wife farmed. I found out that I'm related to the Ratrays, which, for you nongolf historians, helped invent the rules of golf. I'm related to the Kenyons, which came up with the second flag in running for canada at the last time they needed a flag (The one with the three maple leaves in the middle, and blue on the sides). My great grandfather came up with the birth control pill.
Uhh.. thats all I know.
I've been looking up everything. I knew nothing about anyone but my parents until a month or so ago, and even them I knew very little about.
I've found out so much during a month. I found pictures of my great grandparents gravestones, I've seen where my great great great grandfather grew up, where him and his wife farmed. I found out that I'm related to the Ratrays, which, for you nongolf historians, helped invent the rules of golf. I'm related to the Kenyons, which came up with the second flag in running for canada at the last time they needed a flag (The one with the three maple leaves in the middle, and blue on the sides). My great grandfather came up with the birth control pill.
Uhh.. thats all I know.
Tue Jan 25, 2005 10:00 pm
I'm not really interested in it. My younger brother and my parents can tell me a bunch of stories from my ancesters from Scotland though. I really don't know much about my family history. I have a family crest and I think it is legitimate. My brother said it was anyway.
Tue Jan 25, 2005 11:47 pm
Yeah, I tell amusing stories I've heard about my ancestors all the time. My delivery sucks, though. I even consider myself a Leslie, even though the name is actually Lizhevsky and there's only two family members actually named Leslie.
Hey, do you realize that the Guardian royal bloodline in Chrono Trigger is matrilineal, and that they all marry a bunch of poor saps who have to change their names to Guardia when they ascend the throne? A group that will probably include Crono? And that Marle is only Leene's great-great-granddaughter, so all of her ancestors, including Leene, must have been nearly Henrietta VIIIs to have eleven King Guardias between Guardia XXII and Guardia XXXIII?
Um, yeah...
EDIT: I hardly think that we have a family crest. We're an all-around mass breeding of European peasants. And if we did, I would give it a hiss and an evil eye, because it's me.
Hey, do you realize that the Guardian royal bloodline in Chrono Trigger is matrilineal, and that they all marry a bunch of poor saps who have to change their names to Guardia when they ascend the throne? A group that will probably include Crono? And that Marle is only Leene's great-great-granddaughter, so all of her ancestors, including Leene, must have been nearly Henrietta VIIIs to have eleven King Guardias between Guardia XXII and Guardia XXXIII?
Um, yeah...
EDIT: I hardly think that we have a family crest. We're an all-around mass breeding of European peasants. And if we did, I would give it a hiss and an evil eye, because it's me.
Wed Jan 26, 2005 7:07 am
I barely know anything about my family history, nor do I really care.
Two reasons:
1) My family is fairly distant from most of the rest of the family on both my mom's and dad's side, geographically and emotionally
I do know that my great-aunt on my mom's side is really into genealogy, so I could probably ask her if I wanted to. However, her knowledge is also limited by the fact that
2) My ancestors were basically from a lot of various countries in Eastern Europe. Fortunately, quite a few decided to move to America a fairly long time before WWII... but as for the rest, well...their history isn't exactly accessible to us anymore.
Two reasons:
1) My family is fairly distant from most of the rest of the family on both my mom's and dad's side, geographically and emotionally
I do know that my great-aunt on my mom's side is really into genealogy, so I could probably ask her if I wanted to. However, her knowledge is also limited by the fact that
2) My ancestors were basically from a lot of various countries in Eastern Europe. Fortunately, quite a few decided to move to America a fairly long time before WWII... but as for the rest, well...their history isn't exactly accessible to us anymore.
Wed Jan 26, 2005 8:01 am
Eh, not really.
My mum's maiden name is that of the family who reigned over China for the longest period of time (Li,) but then, there are millions of Lis in China, and I don't really care
My mum's maiden name is that of the family who reigned over China for the longest period of time (Li,) but then, there are millions of Lis in China, and I don't really care
Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:06 am
I'm interested in it. Not extremely so, but I've made an effort to find out what I do know, and am glad I did.
Wed Jan 26, 2005 11:34 am
I don't even know my grandpa's name.