Who's In YOUR Famly Tree?

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SC seagoat

Trad climber

Santa Cruz, Moab, A sailboat, or some time zone

Mar 27, 2018 - 04:53pm PT

A bunch of Whiskey Rebellion rebels. No surprise there.

Susan

steve s

Trad climber

eldo

Mar 27, 2018 - 05:02pm PT

Monkeys.

Clint Cummins

Trad climber

SF Bay area, CA

Mar 27, 2018 - 05:08pm PT

It's more fun if you have some old photos to go with the tree diagrams or lists of names.

justthemaid

climber

Jim Henson's Basement

Mar 27, 2018 - 07:06pm PT

Fishfinder:

I come from a long line of alcoholics

There is a car wrapped around my family tree

That ^^^ is the funniest thing I've read in a long time. E and I are in stitches.

Gramma went delving into the tree a while back. I had some interesting people on my mom's side.

* Direct Mayflower descendant -
D.A.R (Daughter's of the American Revolution) sent me and invite - I declined.

*Direct descendant of Martha Washington's first marriage.

*Eli Whitney was an uncle.

*John LaFarge married an aunt. ( Cool cuz Im a stained glass artist) .

Dad's side- no accurate records so I got nothin' If there are any famous people from Puerto Rico- we are probably related. JayLo???

Wayno

Big Wall climber

Seattle, WA

Mar 27, 2018 - 07:28pm PT

Being a mutt, my family tree is all over Europe. The Miller part goes back to early Pennsylvania Dutch which is actually German. (Deutsch)

The other part of Dad's tree comes from England, Ireland and Scotland.

Mom's tree is from Napoli and records are hard to find or gone. The tree only goes back four or five generations to the ones that left Italy.

My brother did some kind of Genealogical DNA test that showed things that the tree didn't.

Something about Beserkers. and some Native American too.

ShawnInPaso

climber

Paso Robles, CA

Mar 28, 2018 - 12:32am PT

Seems Happiegrrrl2 and I hang out with the same people. :)

Guess while I'm at it, the Ziegfeld's (i.e. Ziegfeld Follies) are in my family tree (my dad is Richard, on the left).

With a little more obscurity, Theodore "Teddy" Buhl is also in the family tree. He was the President of the Buhl Stamping Comping in Detroit from the late 1800's. Teddy was credited with the invention or creation of the old classic milk can. I would have never known he was in our family tree had it not been for my dad's dismay. One day in 1974, while he was a bit down on his luck, he went out to the mailbox and opened a letter from an attorney figuring he owed money to someone. Instead, he found a checked for $70k as part of an inheritance that took decades to reach him.

Trump

climber

Mar 28, 2018 - 09:30am PT

You’re related to the white guy who invented the blues, Warbler? Sweet, that’s pretty cool!

I expect that we monkey-brains spin these things to ourselves in the way we spin these things to ourselves for the reasons we spin these things to ourselves the way we do.

400 years after my ancestors got here, there seems to be some commonality in the way we’re still spinning these things.

Man, I need to get some help for my narcissisitic personality disorder thing! Or maybe I’m the only one who realizes that I’m doing this self-serving spinning thing on purpose. (character jest)

Happy spinning!

Crazy Bat

Sport climber

Birmingham, AL & Seweanee, TN

Mar 28, 2018 - 09:55am PT

I found my ancestors were from an area where most folks claimed to be farmers, but they secretly sailed with Black Beard. They claimed to be farmers.

Cragar

climber

MSLA - MT

Mar 28, 2018 - 10:05am PT

The Hag

It is where my LiberalConservative/socialist tendencies come from. Stick me in a corner with a singular label and you'll get the fight'n side of me in no time.

mouse from merced

Trad climber

The finger of fate, my friends, is fickle.

Mar 28, 2018 - 03:56pm PT

Ardi and Lucy, originally

We are all cousins of some degree,
All hanging out in the same family tree.
I am related to he and to she.
They are related to thou and to thee.

Trad climber

Calgary

Mar 28, 2018 - 04:24pm PT

The worst kind, English and German

Reilly

Mountain climber

The Other Monrovia- CA

Mar 28, 2018 - 04:31pm PT

Irish sheep thieves, Bohemian intellectuals, Norwegian fishermen, and English imperialists
and race car drivers. WOOF!

labrat

Trad climber

Erik O. Auburn, CA

Mar 28, 2018 - 04:53pm PT

Happie. Don't be too hard on "Benedict Arnold (the Traitor!)" He was first a hero and it could certainly be said that he was pivotal in the colony's sustaining and eventually winning the Revolutionary War.

My families claim to fame is Harriet Beecher Stowe.

originalpmac

Mountain climber

Timbers of Fennario

Mar 28, 2018 - 08:36pm PT

Interesting stuff, family history.
Unfortunately, also related to this as$hole.

Ward Trotter

Trad climber

Mar 29, 2018 - 01:59pm PT

I'd like to claim this gentleman from 40,ooo years ago; that is if no one objects. Perhaps as much as 3% of European ancestry is derived from Neanderthals.

My dad did much genealogical research before his death. Poor guy did so several years before the Internet. But he got lucky and came across a pro genealogist in Florida , our 3rd cousin.

We learned we were related to:

Jimmy Carter
General Patton
Al Gore
Gore Vidal

Later on I discovered a link, by marriage only, to ol' swivel hips Elvis himself.

It may have been Mark Twain who said people only like to talk about genealogy if theyre related to the famous or the infamous.

Again, I'm not sure if it was Twain who said he hopes he's not related to anyone yet to be born.
LOL

Mighty Hiker

climber

Outside the Asylum

Mar 29, 2018 - 02:08pm PT

Most of us are deluding ourselves if we believe we're descended from anything but farmers and manual labourers. That was well over 90% of the population until the industrial revolution. Church and family records often whitewashed family trees, and DNA now shows that the father of a significant percentage is not as claimed. And most whites came to the new world for opportunity, usually because they were poor.

Until urbanization, it was common for people to marry cousins, or at least second cousins.

My father's father's mother was a cousin of Sigrid Undset. We know of people with our family name (a farm name) from the 15th century. Probably ancestors of some sort, given that farms tended to stay in families, but in those days many didn't have family names, just "son of" or "daughter of".