Link to Anyone Famous?? - Genealogy Wise2024-03-29T12:17:32Zhttp://www.genealogywise.com/forum/topics/link-to-anyone-famous?commentId=3463583%3AComment%3A713941&feed=yes&xn_auth=noMy Canadian Indian heritage c…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2017-09-19:3463583:Comment:7458942017-09-19T18:24:20.464ZSusan Brennerhttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/SusanBrenner
<p>My Canadian Indian heritage covers the surnames of Richard/s, Lyon/s and Salteaux. The last name is the name of a tribe. What I've learned so far is that Europeans married native women, their children were called Metis among other terms. Also many tribes intermarried and it is difficult to name a person's main tribal ancestry. The area where my ancestors lived was the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. At that time a very large area was called the Northwest Territories. My ancestors…</p>
<p>My Canadian Indian heritage covers the surnames of Richard/s, Lyon/s and Salteaux. The last name is the name of a tribe. What I've learned so far is that Europeans married native women, their children were called Metis among other terms. Also many tribes intermarried and it is difficult to name a person's main tribal ancestry. The area where my ancestors lived was the Red River Settlement in Manitoba. At that time a very large area was called the Northwest Territories. My ancestors worked for both major fur trading companies.</p> Ctag:www.genealogywise.com,2016-01-25:3463583:Comment:7136402016-01-25T18:39:28.856ZChristopher Gene Johnsonhttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/ChristopherGeneJohnson
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<p>C</p> This is an interesting discus…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2016-01-24:3463583:Comment:7139412016-01-24T22:51:29.848ZMary Gretzschel http://www.genealogywise.com/profile/MaryGretzschel
<p>This is an interesting discussion. Yes i have those famous ancestors, including back to Charlemagne. My granddaughter got in trouble at her school because she told her classmates that she was related to George Washington and they thought she was lying. We are related through Samuel Ball, wonder what they would have said if she told them she was related to Jesse James? the interesting thing about genealogy to me is placing your ancestor in history. I am such a history geek. Famous,infamous,…</p>
<p>This is an interesting discussion. Yes i have those famous ancestors, including back to Charlemagne. My granddaughter got in trouble at her school because she told her classmates that she was related to George Washington and they thought she was lying. We are related through Samuel Ball, wonder what they would have said if she told them she was related to Jesse James? the interesting thing about genealogy to me is placing your ancestor in history. I am such a history geek. Famous,infamous, or unknown placing your family history in the historical context is the fun reason to keep on searching for those ancestors I haven't found yet. Iv'e found one ancestor hanged for killing a friendly Indian after King Phillip's War in early colonial New England, another involved in the politics in New York during the time of Leisler 's rebellion, another who was a forty niner, and one who was defended in a lawsuit by Abraham Lincoln. Not all ancestors will be well known, but they all have a history that will relate to the history of the world. You may have to search a little but you find those things as you search for records. That is the interesting part of the search.</p>
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<p></p> Like Gary and Ryan, I have se…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2016-01-16:3463583:Comment:7134272016-01-16T16:51:22.873ZChristopher Gene Johnsonhttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/ChristopherGeneJohnson
<p>Like Gary and Ryan, I have several famous folks in my family tree (41 U.S. Presidents - closest being Thomas Jefferson), Authors, Actors/Actresses, Scientists, Singer-Songwriters, etc. I love having them in the family tree, heck I even like the um, shadier characters in the family tree. Perhaps, that is why I want to teach history.</p>
<p>When I was young, my parents didn't know of our family history, because they never kept track of "the family." I was lucky to find a cousin who had done…</p>
<p>Like Gary and Ryan, I have several famous folks in my family tree (41 U.S. Presidents - closest being Thomas Jefferson), Authors, Actors/Actresses, Scientists, Singer-Songwriters, etc. I love having them in the family tree, heck I even like the um, shadier characters in the family tree. Perhaps, that is why I want to teach history.</p>
<p>When I was young, my parents didn't know of our family history, because they never kept track of "the family." I was lucky to find a cousin who had done some genealogy and was willing to let me in on the research. Now, I pay tribute to my cousin by giving information to those who what to know, so they can keep track. It's pretty cool there are famous folks in the family tree. Though I'm pretty sure the famous people won't invite me to Thanksgiving, its just cool that they are there.</p> I am supposedly related to Pr…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2015-12-29:3463583:Comment:7129012015-12-29T20:14:15.757ZLinda Hansenhttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/LindaHansen
<p>I am supposedly related to Princess Diana through her cousin, Winston Spencer Churchill, and then Prince Charles through Queen Victoria. I also have several Presidents, a Mayflower ancestor, Jesse James, Susan B. Anthony, Lizzie Borden, a few of the witches from the Salem Witch Trials and their accusers plus a "judge", members of royal families throughout Europe, including a country or two that I don't think exist any more! What is surprising to me is that most of these come through my…</p>
<p>I am supposedly related to Princess Diana through her cousin, Winston Spencer Churchill, and then Prince Charles through Queen Victoria. I also have several Presidents, a Mayflower ancestor, Jesse James, Susan B. Anthony, Lizzie Borden, a few of the witches from the Salem Witch Trials and their accusers plus a "judge", members of royal families throughout Europe, including a country or two that I don't think exist any more! What is surprising to me is that most of these come through my mother's side of the family, and she didn't know about them. It's probably a good thing she didn't.............. :) I think there's a site called famousancestors.com, but not sure. You can also go to relativefinder.org, which is hosted by familysearch.org. You will need to create an account with familysearch if you don't have one already (its free and you don't have to be an LDS member to use the site), then you can use your familysearch login information to login to relativefinder. If you don't have a tree on familysearch, you'll need to go back at least 3 generations before it'll pick up on anyone that you are related to. Sometimes you have to go even further back.</p>
<p></p> I hear what you're saying, ho…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2015-12-23:3463583:Comment:7125582015-12-23T14:39:31.056ZApril Lee Paynehttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/AprilLeePayne
<p>I hear what you're saying, however, Rebecca Hawkins (in my line) was the second child. All the other children were born in the very same area as the eldest child, my sixth great-grandmother. Also, Rebecca Sullivan Hawkins has different parents, that's also a HUGE clue.</p>
<p>I'm finding all kinds of names in the various children's list that don't belong. I think some wish it to be so hard, that they make false connections. It's totally ridiculous when the child is born when the mother was…</p>
<p>I hear what you're saying, however, Rebecca Hawkins (in my line) was the second child. All the other children were born in the very same area as the eldest child, my sixth great-grandmother. Also, Rebecca Sullivan Hawkins has different parents, that's also a HUGE clue.</p>
<p>I'm finding all kinds of names in the various children's list that don't belong. I think some wish it to be so hard, that they make false connections. It's totally ridiculous when the child is born when the mother was only seven years old, for instance. :O</p>
<p>On one of my lines, it was so totally messed up that several trees had a brother listed as the father. The brother was born about two years after the would be child. I finally ferreted out a tree that had it correct. Once I saw the Shawnee 'Chief' was the brother, then I accepted this as more 'correct.' If this is, indeed my family, I've got a minuscule amount of Shawnee blood in me. Which is amusing, for its irony.</p>
<p>This line is my fourth great-grandmother's family, and my sixth great-grandfather (her husband's paternal grandfather) fought the Shawnee in Virginia Colony. </p>
<p>Had they ever sat table together on Thanksgiving, you can imagine the conversation, or lack thereof.</p>
<p>Families are crazy, but that's how they got me. :P </p>
<p></p> While I understand the suspic…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2015-12-23:3463583:Comment:7127782015-12-23T06:51:22.679ZLinda Hansenhttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/LindaHansen
<p>While I understand the suspicions, unless she was a "middle" child, I would consider the possibility that her parents had moved from the original area, and after a few years and no success, moved back to where they started or perhaps even a totally new location. My 3x g grandparents, as an example, married in TN, had about 4 children there, then moved to KY. Had a couple more, then moved to IL. Had one or 2, lost one or 2, then moved into southwest WI, where my 3x g grandmother passed and…</p>
<p>While I understand the suspicions, unless she was a "middle" child, I would consider the possibility that her parents had moved from the original area, and after a few years and no success, moved back to where they started or perhaps even a totally new location. My 3x g grandparents, as an example, married in TN, had about 4 children there, then moved to KY. Had a couple more, then moved to IL. Had one or 2, lost one or 2, then moved into southwest WI, where my 3x g grandmother passed and about 14 years later my 3x g grandfather passed. In researching another branch (it turned out to be completely wrong!), the family started in NY, went to OH, then to NY, then to OH, for about 20 years before making the long trek to WI. And had children born in OH and NY each time they moved! </p> I hear you. One of the things…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2015-08-26:3463583:Comment:7077932015-08-26T14:11:31.061ZApril Lee Paynehttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/AprilLeePayne
<p>I hear you. One of the things I first read about as I began this genealogical journey (for that's what it is, a journey) was that until you find out the specifics and/or proof, it's only a family story. I had an unfortunate story that I thought was untrue when I was first digging, and wondered why my paternal grandfather would say such a thing. Then, I discovered, he had the dates wrong. The marriage year wasn't 1889, it was 1890. And my great-grandfather's wife's child was born just a few…</p>
<p>I hear you. One of the things I first read about as I began this genealogical journey (for that's what it is, a journey) was that until you find out the specifics and/or proof, it's only a family story. I had an unfortunate story that I thought was untrue when I was first digging, and wondered why my paternal grandfather would say such a thing. Then, I discovered, he had the dates wrong. The marriage year wasn't 1889, it was 1890. And my great-grandfather's wife's child was born just a few days before he married her. The whole thing was, he shouldn't marry her before the child was born, in order to prove it wasn't his. They had very different values then.</p>
<p>As for my connection to my sixth great-grandparents I doubted it all the way up until I found our link. My paternal grandfather said we were related, but he made it sound as if our branch was from a sibling of his. As for the information he had on John, he had everything correct (his year of birth, death and the years he served as Governor of TN and, if memory serves, the years he spent in Congress of the U.S.) The information he had way, way off, is that he stated John NEVER MARRIED. Sheesh. John had one child who never married. I keep wondering if that's where the mix-up occurred.</p>
<p>It was also suggested we had a connection to the Crocketts, which turns out to be untrue. The Rebecca (Sullivan) Hawkins who was David's mother, was NOT the sister of my sixth great-grandmother, after all. I first grew suspicious when I saw Rebecca was born somewhere else from the rest of her siblings. After a little more research, I discovered she was the wrong Rebecca.</p>
<p>It can be disconcerting and disappointing. Happy hunting!</p> Hello,, I am new..Im Styles,,…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2015-08-24:3463583:Comment:7075842015-08-24T15:28:27.821Zjanet lee cobbhttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/janetleecobb
<p>Hello,, I am new..Im Styles,,Moon,Proctor, Cobb,,Slade,, Knight,,French,, Lincoln,,,Boone?? The story was told to us,,but looking thru the story we find different.. Its very upsetting when your told one story then being older as in 30 you start searching with that small stoary that makes no sense..Ive had help with several people who helped me a lot..sent me to several free sites that have helped me.. Windhall,vt,,,,,Maurce R Cobb& Pearl B Slade..He was married to Olive M Herrick…</p>
<p>Hello,, I am new..Im Styles,,Moon,Proctor, Cobb,,Slade,, Knight,,French,, Lincoln,,,Boone?? The story was told to us,,but looking thru the story we find different.. Its very upsetting when your told one story then being older as in 30 you start searching with that small stoary that makes no sense..Ive had help with several people who helped me a lot..sent me to several free sites that have helped me.. Windhall,vt,,,,,Maurce R Cobb& Pearl B Slade..He was married to Olive M Herrick 1931,,</p> I don't worry of anyone opini…tag:www.genealogywise.com,2015-08-24:3463583:Comment:7075302015-08-24T15:14:01.440Zjanet lee cobbhttp://www.genealogywise.com/profile/janetleecobb
<p>I don't worry of anyone opinion,,its true.,I finding more from my ancesters lives then from parents,& a lot of what we were told s totally difrent..Cant change any of what they did,so live wth t.You get out what they put in..No is any beter then other people.Nce to e part of whom ever you find..Im connected to Lincoln,thru Cobb of Taunton mass.. Proctor is "Cherokee" I don't really care of whom I find,theyvare who they were.. I find we are cousins for the most,ya.So what..Can you change…</p>
<p>I don't worry of anyone opinion,,its true.,I finding more from my ancesters lives then from parents,& a lot of what we were told s totally difrent..Cant change any of what they did,so live wth t.You get out what they put in..No is any beter then other people.Nce to e part of whom ever you find..Im connected to Lincoln,thru Cobb of Taunton mass.. Proctor is "Cherokee" I don't really care of whom I find,theyvare who they were.. I find we are cousins for the most,ya.So what..Can you change it??</p>