Lisa99
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I've recently gotten very interested in tracing our family trees.
My dad's side was well documented on paper so all ancestry.com did was confirm what I already knew.
My mom's side was a different story. There is an anecdote that my mother's grandmother was full blood Osage. But I've recently done a DNA test using 23andme.com and the results say I'm 100% European. So the native american story isn't true, but mom wouldn't believe the results so I started digging.
It was hard tracing mother's line since her mom died when mom was 5 and the eight kids were farmed out to lots of relatives (mom and her twin brother were sent to different relatives!).
Using lots of digging in ancestry.com I've confirmed my DNA results. My mother's line comes from Ireland and I was able to trace them back to the mid-1600s.
Since I had the DNA test it wasn't surprising. What was hugely surprising is that my mom's dad's ancestors were some pretty important folks in England back in the 1600s. Seems they had a castle, were knighted and when they came to the US, one of them was the governor of Pennsylvania for a time.
No idea where that money went since by the time my grandfather was born they were sharecroppers who moved just about every planting season!
I'm still digging since I'm stuck in the early 1600s on both sides of my mom's line. I've only been at it for about a month but I can see where this could be an all consuming hobby!
My dad's side was well documented on paper so all ancestry.com did was confirm what I already knew.
My mom's side was a different story. There is an anecdote that my mother's grandmother was full blood Osage. But I've recently done a DNA test using 23andme.com and the results say I'm 100% European. So the native american story isn't true, but mom wouldn't believe the results so I started digging.
It was hard tracing mother's line since her mom died when mom was 5 and the eight kids were farmed out to lots of relatives (mom and her twin brother were sent to different relatives!).
Using lots of digging in ancestry.com I've confirmed my DNA results. My mother's line comes from Ireland and I was able to trace them back to the mid-1600s.
Since I had the DNA test it wasn't surprising. What was hugely surprising is that my mom's dad's ancestors were some pretty important folks in England back in the 1600s. Seems they had a castle, were knighted and when they came to the US, one of them was the governor of Pennsylvania for a time.
No idea where that money went since by the time my grandfather was born they were sharecroppers who moved just about every planting season!
I'm still digging since I'm stuck in the early 1600s on both sides of my mom's line. I've only been at it for about a month but I can see where this could be an all consuming hobby!