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Originally Posted by 107barney  I think ancestry gives a free month. |
Ack, it's now only 2 weeks!! Geez! Who can get much done during that short of time? Clearly, they know this and are just reelin' us in. Oh well.
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Originally Posted by Harrysmum Totally agree, Jeanie 
My father has managed (so far) to track back to the 1600's (as has Sandy) - and all of it has been within 'our own Country' - he was able to actually visit gravestones, look at church records etc. etc....
But there are many, many iffy bits - still quite a bit of guesswork - and loads of Downton Abbey bits (for instance, my dad was a high-flying aviation lawyer - and his g-g-g-g- grandmother was a scullery maid, God bless her  )
Apart from that, I think he, too, started on good old ancestry.com. |
How interesting! I love this kind of stuff. On my Dad's side, someone in the fam did all the research decades ago, and I have a huge amount of info tracing back to pre-immigration to the US, it's so fascinating.
On my Mom's side, I'm not yet getting very far...I can only get to my Grandpa's Grandpa - who it looks like emigrated around 1884 from "Bohemia", Germany...his wife was also from Bohemia but I can't tell if she emigrated w/ him or if they found each other after immigration.