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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #40 on: September 14, 2016, 12:17:21 PM »
You young whippersnapper you, always finding a way to flaunt your youth in our faces!  :P

Get off my lawn sonny boy!  :)

Sorry about that old timer!   ;)


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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #41 on: September 14, 2016, 12:20:47 PM »
Shouldn't be that hard to trace since people have only been on earth for 5000 years.

Uh huh...

One of the things that does make it hard is that over this 5000 or so years  ;) the census takers in this county didn't do a very good job (imagine that, our government workers screwing things up). Some of the names were changed or misspelled by the census takers and that makes things much more difficult.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #42 on: September 14, 2016, 01:35:32 PM »
It's not just the census takers, it's the family members giving the information.  They named themselves whatever name they were using at the time, at least with my relatives.  If someone was known with a nickname, that's what they told the census people. 
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #43 on: September 14, 2016, 03:51:29 PM »
Shouldn't be that hard to trace since people have only been on earth for 5000 years.

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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #44 on: September 14, 2016, 08:09:10 PM »
Shouldn't be that hard to trace since people have only been on earth for 5000 years.

Ask T Cro, he was around back then.  ::)
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #45 on: September 15, 2016, 07:32:38 AM »
Oh no you din't!    :popcorn:
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #46 on: September 15, 2016, 08:29:13 AM »
If he wasn't, Rick Hall was.  :rotflmao: :hitfan:
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #47 on: September 15, 2016, 10:58:27 PM »
A bit of useless info. My Mom's cousin did some digging in her side of the family tree, and has traced it back to 1687. French Settlers came to South Africa, seeking new opportunities back then.

Bare in mind that the first Europeans here were Dutch, and settled here in 1652.

The cousin has forwarded everyone that is still alive a copy of the family tree, which is in it's 12th generation since the French settled here in the late 1600's.

He has actually travelled to France as well,. to do some more research, and has found that we are actually descendants of the Cardinal de' Richelieu.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #48 on: September 16, 2016, 08:58:47 AM »
A distant c ousin was attending school in France and did some research. Found the family in Italy as far back as 600 AD.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #49 on: September 16, 2016, 01:05:00 PM »
A bit of useless info. My Mom's cousin did some digging in her side of the family tree, and has traced it back to 1687. French Settlers came to South Africa, seeking new opportunities back then.

Bare in mind that the first people here were Dutch, and settled here in 1652.

The cousin has forwarded everyone that is still alive a copy of the family tree, which is in it's 12th generation since the French settled here in the late 1600's.

He has actually travelled to France as well,. to do some more research, and has found that we are actually descendants of the Cardinal de' Richelieu.

There were no "people" there before the Dutch?

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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #50 on: September 16, 2016, 01:10:00 PM »
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #51 on: September 16, 2016, 05:04:41 PM »
Oh, I feel like the KoolAid man wanting to bust through the door. I can hardly contain myself.  :rotflmao: :rotflmao: :banana :banana :banana
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #52 on: September 16, 2016, 10:51:34 PM »
There were no "people" there before the Dutch?

Correction.... Europeans... (or civilised people if you will)...


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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #53 on: September 17, 2016, 05:50:16 AM »
Correction.... Europeans... (or civilised people if you will)...

Civilized? That's certainly open for review...
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #54 on: September 17, 2016, 06:39:34 PM »
Oh man, this is getting good!  :popcorn: :popcorn: :rotflmao:   Oh I needed that.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #55 on: September 18, 2016, 06:32:42 AM »
Oh man, this is getting good!  :popcorn: :popcorn: :rotflmao:   Oh I needed that.

Are we amusing you?    :)
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« Reply #56 on: September 19, 2016, 02:28:40 PM »
Endless amusement from the members.....priceless.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #57 on: September 23, 2016, 11:30:28 AM »
I know how that 'popped in' but it would take a few drawings and a LOT of 'Easy Boys!'

My ancestry goes back at least 400,000 years and I am related to just about everyone living on the planet right now. I am not entirely pleased with that fact but what can I do? Besides, we are all in the same boat no matter which system you believe in: if you follow the creation idea, we are all related. If you follow the evolution thought, it is current scientific belief that at one point, the species that would become "us" was down to a gene pool of less than 600 beings.... meaning again that we are all related. The idea does have a couple of interesting dimensions: if correct, I am related to Adolph Hitler, Mao, Ted Bundy, Joseph Lucas (A.K.A. The Prince of Darkness) et al. .... but I am also related to Fermi, 'Big Al', Leibniz, Copernicus and that guy who invented the wheel.

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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #58 on: September 23, 2016, 04:41:00 PM »
I just sent my wife's in and we'll see how much American Indian she has...I'm guessing none.
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Re: Ancestry
« Reply #59 on: September 24, 2016, 05:57:47 AM »
I just sent my wife's in and we'll see how much American Indian Native American she has...I'm guessing none.

FTFY :)

And I insist everyone start using the term "European American" instead of "White".  Since everyone else gets to be "XXXXXXX American".
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