Where I Come From

We had a family meeting around 25 years ago. There was a family tree. It span over 4 panels. That's my mother's side, from my father's side I don't have a clue, honestly. I know that my grandfather was a honorary citizen of the Maldives, and was originally from Czaplinek in Poland, which was still Prussia when he was born. But that's about it. Maybe one day I'll take the time to dig deeper into it. It's quite impressive that you managed to go back that far in your family history.

It is amazing what we discover when we learn about our families. My brother had a high school work and he did a nice research about our family and my uncle at least has a great record from my mom's side. With this research, we know today that we have family in many places around the world! Since we are the second generating in Latin America, our ancestors from Europe chose different paths, so we have distant family in LA, Sydney, and Copenhagen, among many other countries... our direct family is small since my mom has 2 brothers and my dad 2 brothers but for sure our family genes are spread much wider if we think in our past.

Back to England in the 1600s.

Whereabouts? I get mine that far back too, to England. I traced ancestry during COVID when I was stuck there. In my mind my grandparents were from Yorkshire/Derbyshire, which they were, but my Granddad was born near Bath. I ended up living SIX MILES from the town where his parents lived and there was a war memorial in the church there that had his uncle's name on. Plus I found so much more that my Granddad didn't even know about (and he never will as he died some 15 years back). Amazing what the census can reveal!

Yes. I love all the family history stuff too. I have done a fair bit of work and got many of my branchs back mainly England and Ireland to the 1700s. Maybe you're missing 2x great grand father had brothers and sisters that might help your research.

That is great to hear Joe and we have France in common. We came over to England in 1066 with William the Conqueror from France.

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I didn't tried to dig up my ancestors . I just listen to what my parents and grandmother told me about it. It would be interesting to know further.😁

Fascinating to find out so much of your family history! Some crazy stuff happened back then, being born on a ship on the way to the US wasn't uncommon believe it or not! I had family from my mother's side who fought in the Revolutionary War as well. Five brothers all joined the fight but only four returned. Back then if you died in the field no letters home to the family, you were buried where you fell...

Interesting history going back to France and Germany, and a great great grandfather that just vanished. There must be records in Algeria if he went, but you know how things are in that part of the world. And finding records would be a very daunting task involving months of searching through old records in Algeria.

On my mother's side we did have one tie into a royal line that traces back to Charlemagne which was pretty cool. That was in England where records were pretty meticulously kept. But my family from Scotland on my dad's side hits a brick wall, records weren't nearly as good and were the one's in Sweden.

Interesting to study genealogy, so much to learn!
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My sister and her husband are really into this sort of thing, but I am not really. Which is funny because I do like history, but somehow I feel more disconnected from these people than you would think I should be.

I know someone who has requested a DNA analysis on where he is coming from (maybe this is not the right term) and found out he has ties with the region I am from, yet he has never known to have any ancestors here as he lives in Hungary.

It's interesting what you can find out when digging.

I know quite a lot about my mother's side of the family, but I know nothing or almost nothing about my father's side. However, I feel connected to the side I do know: my Spanish grandfather and my Italian grandmother. I hope to visit both countries and learn more about where they were born.