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Anyone here is interested in genealogy?

I have been really interested in genealogy for 15 years and I volunteers at New England Historic Genealogical Society for 5 years now.
 
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I am. The trouble is that all of my grandparents were born in Europe so I have to do the search at LDS Family History.
 
RustyLastCall05 said:
Anyone here is interested in genealogy?

I have been really interested in genealogy for 15 years and I volunteers at New England Historic Genealogical Society for 5 years now.
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Yes, here I am. A little motivation in researching my genealogy after tiring years with a little or no more information left to find where and who my Swede and Norsk relatives before 1850 are. Not sure what else to find other than ancestry.com
 
Many people who have looked at the LDS data base have complained that it contains many inaccuarcies. Be best to double-check everything.

LDS use geneaological information to perform temple rituals for deceased people who are not related to them. I recently found out that two of my great great grandparents have been recently sealed in marriage forever in a Mormon temple. Odd, since he was one of the men who participated in the killing of Joseph Smith. :eek3:

I personally think that geneaology is only useful for finding lost living branches of your family, and understanding your cultural heritage. For that, going back to great-great is all that is necessary.
 
I've done extensive genealogical research on my family. I've used family documents and hands on research at cemeteries and museums. Ancestry.com is useful. The LDS site is handy but not totally reliable. I use Family Tree Maker software to keep everything organized.

I've found websites that are specific to the home countries are very helpful. I got a lot of personal help from the administrator at the Portuguese website, including translation of documents.

The Ellis Island resources are supposed to be pretty good. I couldn't use them because none of my ancestors came thru Ellis.
 
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I just got Family Tree Maker to save my trees on ancestry.com. Still learning how to use it.
My cousins already researched my paternal side. Working on the other side.
Any one have suggestions for OK territory records?
 
MCB said:
Many people who have looked at the LDS data base have complained that it contains many inaccuarcies. Be best to double-check everything.

LDS use geneaological information to perform temple rituals for deceased people who are not related to them. I recently found out that two of my great great grandparents have been recently sealed in marriage forever in a Mormon temple. Odd, since he was one of the men who participated in the killing of Joseph Smith. :eek3:

I personally think that geneaology is only useful for finding lost living branches of your family, and understanding your cultural heritage. For that, going back to great-great is all that is necessary.
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The census records do contain errors. I found some mistakes in one of the census and I believe it is due to my grandmother's limited English. What she said became something completely different. I would love to be a fly on the wall when that happened.

I like doing genealogy because it makes you see history up-close. You learn more about the country(ies) the further back you go. I would go far back as I can.

The tidbit about your ancestor involved in the murder of Joseph Smith and was sealed in the marriage is very interesting. I thought one had to be related to the person so one could be baptisted in the ancestor's name.
 
Reba said:
I've done extensive genealogical research on my family. I've used family documents and hands on research at cemeteries and museums. Ancestry.com is useful. The LDS site is handy but not totally reliable. I use Family Tree Maker software to keep everything organized.

I've found websites that are specific to the home countries are very helpful. I got a lot of personal help from the administrator at the Portuguese website, including translation of documents.

The Ellis Island resources are supposed to be pretty good. I couldn't use them because none of my ancestors came thru Ellis.
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Can you tell me about some of the Ellis Island resources you mentioned?
 
Reba said:
I've done extensive genealogical research on my family. I've used family documents and hands on research at cemeteries and museums. Ancestry.com is useful. The LDS site is handy but not totally reliable. I use Family Tree Maker software to keep everything organized.

I've found websites that are specific to the home countries are very helpful. I got a lot of personal help from the administrator at the Portuguese website, including translation of documents.

The Ellis Island resources are supposed to be pretty good. I couldn't use them because none of my ancestors came thru Ellis.
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Did your ancestors come before there was Ellis Island? or they came via New Orleans?
 
My mothers Aunt had done a family tree of my mother's father's side of the family. The Aunt was his sister. That is all basically in Australia and going back to England and goes back to the year 1571. Mother and I had been slowly working on both her mother's side of the family as well as both sides of my father's family. Her mother's family I have back to 1790 and they originally came from England and Cherokee. My father's family, we have both sides back to approximately 1600's going to Prussia and England.
 
my mom and my family search family tree genealogy but my mom's family is from Scotland and my dad's family is from Germany..

last years my mom went to Scotland May/June 2010 to find her family genealogy its hard find but i wanted go there somedays..
 
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The census records do contain errors. I found some mistakes in one of the census and I believe it is due to my grandmother's limited English. What she said became something completely different. I would love to be a fly on the wall when that happened.

I like doing genealogy because it makes you see history up-close. You learn more about the country(ies) the further back you go. I would go far back as I can.

The tidbit about your ancestor involved in the murder of Joseph Smith and was sealed in the marriage is very interesting. I thought one had to be related to the person so one could be baptisted in the ancestor's name.
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They continue breaking the rules. There is still a problem with them baptising Holocaust victims. The sealing was not a baptism, so I guess they thought it was OK. I really don't care, because the more time they spend in their temples, the less time they have to play their other games.

I want to go to England to research my grandfather's family. He was the only European-born grandparent.

Another branch of the family in the 1850 census, they left "race" blank. That is an indication that they were Native. I have a bunch of dead ends, probably because of Native (and possibly other) ancestry.

Freed slaves who could pass for white would blur their history. That could also account for another dead end. It was much easier for people to disappear into the population then, than now.
 
On my father's side - surnames: Frederick, Dunn, Rodgers (From Germany, Ireland, Scotland-United Kingdom)

Frederick clan came to America in 1851 and Frederick settled in Ohio and later in Nebraska and Kansas.
Dunn and Rodgers came to America in 1750s.

On my mother's side - surnames: Dempsey, Karlsson, Faergstrom. (From Ireland, Norway, Sweden)

My mother's grandparents of Norway and Sweden fled to elope in America (in New York City) from Scandinavia in 1880s?

Dempseys raised in New York City during 1800s - my great-great grandfather, my great grandfather, and my grandpa raised in Hell's Kitchen and somewhere in Five Points. If you have seen the movie - Gangs in NY, you know what it was like back then. Yes, my grandfathers were involved in Irish gangster organization. My grandpa used to sell blackmarketing -Whiskeys during Prohibition Era.
 
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