Genealogy - your family tree

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What have you found out about your genealogy (family tree) and your bloodline?

As for me, I found out that I'm 1/128th Cherokee Indian.

I am also probably a direct descendant of the father of Pocahontas of the Powhatan Indian tribe but I think I have a little more faith on my lineage on the Cherokee side.

Rebecca Nakisha Sutton (Cherokee Tribe 1790). She married William Buck L Sutton (he is listed as being born into the tribe, but his parents have anglo names). Below is the lineage along with blood division.

1/2 - They had Luticia Nakisha Sutton. She married David Alexander Reynolds (1801-1853).
1/4 - They had Amy Reynolds (1824-1874). She married James Alonzo Clayton Hancock (1829- 1904).
1/8 - They had John Francis Hancock. He married Mary Etta Stone (1865-1950).
1/16 - They had Ruth Virginia Handcock. She married Charles Addison Davis (1883-1965)
1/32 - They had Charlotte Davis (1919-2004). She married her hubby, Verl (1918-1997). And my mother was born.
1/64 - She married my father.
1/128 - And they both had me!

Remember, in determining your blood division it goes by 1/2. It'd be impossible to have a bloodline where you're 1/3 of something when determining your ancestry lineage. It simply does not add up, literally. It'd be mighty silly to say you're 1/3rd of something. Unless, of course, you're suggesting that you were somehow created in a lab? Remember, it takes two to tango, and not three to have an offspring. Blood division by 1/2 such as 1/2, 3/4, 1/8, 1/16, 3/8, etc....but never 1/3. :giggle:
 
i have no idea who are my ancestors...the communists destroyed all records of such things during cultural revolution :( and also, my grandma was adopted....sooo...who knows? lol
 
sheila022 said:
i have no idea who are my ancestors...the communists destroyed all records of such things during cultural revolution :( and also, my grandma was adopted....sooo...who knows? lol
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That was under Mao? I remember seeing a Chinese oil painting that commented on the loss of one's ancestors and not knowing who they were years ago. I'm afraid the name of the Chinese painter escapes me.
 
I've been doing extensive research on my ancestors. As far back as we can trace, my dad's side is 100% Swedish. We're stuck there because the records from 1600-1700 are all in Swedish and I can't read 'em !! :lol:

My mom's side is, paternally, as far back as we can trace 100% Norweigan, and maternally, a mix of Danish and French.

So I'm pretty much Scandinavian :)
 
My ancestors were Swiss-German and German (Though Germany was called Prussia then) and English from my mother's side. My dad's family is from England. If I were to break down ethnicities even further, I would say that my dad's family is Saxon and Norman in origin if the surnames in my family are any example.
 
Always knew the Irish were a little off-center!

My ancestry is fairly boring. 1/2 Italian, 1/4 English, 1/4 Dutch. No one famous, although a slight connection (great-aunt of my grandmother) to someone who sang opera at La Scala in the late 1800's - early 1900's.

Dutch ancestors included some shipbuilders. English side came from London. Italian side came from Tuscany.

Tight-laced Dutch Orthodox great-grandma had her first child 7 months after getting married. Ooohhh, scandal!! Guess those laces weren't ALWAYS that tight!
 
posts from hell said:
It is, I know that. I was just pointing out the possibility of having a 1/3.
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Yeah but it's not. It's 3/8 Say you were 3/8 Irish and 3/8 Russian....that leaves only 1/4 for anything else.... Somebody is getting screwed! :lol:
 
It really, truly isn't possible to be 1/3 anything. You always had two parents, four grandparents, eight great-grands, 16 great-great-grands, etc.

There is no way to get 1/3 (2/6) out of that. It's always going to be 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, etc., etc. You can add some of those fractions up, but they will never be divisible by 3.
 
TXgolfer said:
Yeah but it's not. It's 3/8 Say you were 3/8 Irish and 3/8 Russian....that leaves only 1/4 for anything else.... Somebody is getting screwed! :lol:
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Are you also saying over the duration of like lets say 500 people that contributed to your being that you can't ever be 1/3 of something and 2/3 of everything else?


But, straightforward genealogy, it doesn't make sense
 
Erk. The nitpicking already about numbers. If PFH wants to feel he's roughly a third Irish, let it be.
 
How about if first cousins married and lowered the pool of grandparents? Because then there would be six ancestors.
 
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