Who's Your Coolest Ancestor?
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I'm pretty sure that my however many greats grandfather was General Schuyler. A general in New York State during and after the american revolution. He was given command of an invasion of brittish canada(Hoping that the french canadians would help the colonies) but he fell ill shortly after beginning and had to give actual command to someone else. The invasion was repulsed sometime after that.
Not really sure about my ancestors.....
My dad's mum and dad are still alive, but my mum's dad died of a lung disease or somthing...
So, yeah :x
I wonder if my mum and dad remembers their grand parents...i mean its a longshot right? my parents parents are still alive, and my sister has a child, so thats about 4 generations known, 5 if the parents say anything, thenagain, my neice probally has a larger ancestry than mine due to knowing 8 parents (My Mum and Dad are parents to my sister, she had a baby with a person who themselves has a mum and a dad who probally knows their parents, hence 8 known people, even more so if he knows his parent's parents too)
Reeve, Ron, Thomson and Dennis' Parents
Unknown, but its logical they all had a mum and a dad, each
Dad's Parents (our family name comes from my dad's side from his dad..if it's to be believed)
(Mother) Reeve (unsure if thats her first name, or her father's last name..too vague)
(Father) Ron
Mum's Parents
(Mother) Thomson (confirmed to my mum's old last name before marrying dad, deceased)
(Father) Dennis (deceased)
Mum/Dad's Children
Me
5 Brothers
1 Sister
1 Half-brother (Dad's side)
Atleast 1 Brother and the only Sister has a child each with the same gender as our side of the family are, think the half brother had 2-3 girls and possibly 2-3/4 bots as children.
Pretty large....i also know mum has a sister or 2 known atleast, one has a son...can barely remember.
EDIT: Seems my mum's mum has died ages ago....mum doesnt have parents. :c
My dad's mum and dad are still alive, but my mum's dad died of a lung disease or somthing...
So, yeah :x
I wonder if my mum and dad remembers their grand parents...i mean its a longshot right? my parents parents are still alive, and my sister has a child, so thats about 4 generations known, 5 if the parents say anything, thenagain, my neice probally has a larger ancestry than mine due to knowing 8 parents (My Mum and Dad are parents to my sister, she had a baby with a person who themselves has a mum and a dad who probally knows their parents, hence 8 known people, even more so if he knows his parent's parents too)
Reeve, Ron, Thomson and Dennis' Parents
Unknown, but its logical they all had a mum and a dad, each
Dad's Parents (our family name comes from my dad's side from his dad..if it's to be believed)
(Mother) Reeve (unsure if thats her first name, or her father's last name..too vague)
(Father) Ron
Mum's Parents
(Mother) Thomson (confirmed to my mum's old last name before marrying dad, deceased)
(Father) Dennis (deceased)
Mum/Dad's Children
Me
5 Brothers
1 Sister
1 Half-brother (Dad's side)
Atleast 1 Brother and the only Sister has a child each with the same gender as our side of the family are, think the half brother had 2-3 girls and possibly 2-3/4 bots as children.
Pretty large....i also know mum has a sister or 2 known atleast, one has a son...can barely remember.
EDIT: Seems my mum's mum has died ages ago....mum doesnt have parents. :c
Well theyre not particulary my ancestors, but they are kinda of the great great fathers of my country....
In first i have D. Afonso Henriques, our first king that with courage and dedication fought his family members, to create a country of peace and freedom, and fought the "Arabs" to conquer the lands of the south (from my country), and he fought the spanish that greedly wanted to take what was not theyres....
And Second Infante D. Henrique, the great sailor, and the first man to chart the maps to travelling south, and when everyone tought the south (africa) was filled with monsters and creatures of the unknown, he had enough balls to go down there and prove His country and europe wrong. Also without he only in years people would discover that they could travel below the hemisphere....
Not related to these man, but i consider them to be the great fathers of my country....
In first i have D. Afonso Henriques, our first king that with courage and dedication fought his family members, to create a country of peace and freedom, and fought the "Arabs" to conquer the lands of the south (from my country), and he fought the spanish that greedly wanted to take what was not theyres....
And Second Infante D. Henrique, the great sailor, and the first man to chart the maps to travelling south, and when everyone tought the south (africa) was filled with monsters and creatures of the unknown, he had enough balls to go down there and prove His country and europe wrong. Also without he only in years people would discover that they could travel below the hemisphere....
Not related to these man, but i consider them to be the great fathers of my country....
I really have no idea, except for that one of my ancestors was on the Mayflower.....Could have been a huge dick, for I know, but he was on the Mayflower.
thread made me smile, as an historican speaking: without a genealogical tree in an old familybook (possible chance of counterfeit) or even better an offical issued proof of ancestry chances are high that your ancestor were Joe and Jane average, nothing more...
If you had some famous ancestors or want to find out about it, you can try to contact an institut for genealogy at an university or go to a church archive to study old church registers (where you are probably screwed if you cant read latin), if by some chance you're a descendant of an important noble lineage, your family should have its own archive...
don't let you fool you: the ancestry stuff on the internet is nothing more than viral marketing and there are always tall-tales in the oral tradition of your family history. If it can't be proofed by scientific standards, it's worth nothing.
If you had some famous ancestors or want to find out about it, you can try to contact an institut for genealogy at an university or go to a church archive to study old church registers (where you are probably screwed if you cant read latin), if by some chance you're a descendant of an important noble lineage, your family should have its own archive...
don't let you fool you: the ancestry stuff on the internet is nothing more than viral marketing and there are always tall-tales in the oral tradition of your family history. If it can't be proofed by scientific standards, it's worth nothing.
I don't know this for certain, but I'm allegedly descended from Captain James Cook, the first European to document Australia and the first European to discover Hawaii.
Well, I know for a fact that my ancestor is my ancestor. We have always known. Big family scandel and also a well documented family history in public records. How can you discount everybody elses? Though in my case this leads back over a over only one hundred years. That makes it a lot simpler to check out.Smokej said:thread made me smile, as an historican speaking: without a genealogical tree in an old familybook (possible chance of counterfeit) or even better an offical issued proof of ancestry chances are high that your ancestor were Joe and Jane average, nothing more...
If you had some famous ancestors or want to find out about it, you can try to contact an institut for genealogy at an university or go to a church archive to study old church registers (where you are probably screwed if you cant read latin), if by some chance you're a descendant of an important noble lineage, your family should have its own archive...
don't let you fool you: the ancestry stuff on the internet is nothing more than viral marketing and there are always tall-tales in the oral tradition of your family history. If it can't be proofed by scientific standards, it's worth nothing.
Of course i'm overgeneralizing in some casesspookydom said:
here are the reasons why i'm doubting the validity of the rest:
1. experience on the scienfific matter (although it was only a subdiscipline in my university education, i'm well aware of the strict criteria on objectivity if you're doing genealogical research)
2. experience with people (yeah i'm getting old
)3. closely linked with number 2: It's the internet!
I mean come on, if people claim they are a direct descendant of Captain James Sparrow or whatever, you probably know the outcome. If genealogical research wasn't such a tedious matter, it would be no problem to proof the validity of all the assertions... But as it stands i have to settle myself for a guess...
Grandfather of my grandmother's grandmother.
Killed the entire family of an abusive teacher and then killed him.
Killed the entire family of an abusive teacher and then killed him.
Well, let's see...
I am related (by marriage) to James A. Garfield, a.k.a. shortest acting American president (assassinated after two weeks in office, allegedly by his vice president's orders).
In direct lineage, hmm...
Well, I hail from Bourbon ancestry (the ex ruling monarchy of France), but the lineage research gets a bit fuzzy around that point, so I don't know if I'm directly related to anyone you'd know.
I WILL point out, however, that I share a few distinct facial traits with (in particular) King Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette.
I am related (by marriage) to James A. Garfield, a.k.a. shortest acting American president (assassinated after two weeks in office, allegedly by his vice president's orders).
In direct lineage, hmm...
Well, I hail from Bourbon ancestry (the ex ruling monarchy of France), but the lineage research gets a bit fuzzy around that point, so I don't know if I'm directly related to anyone you'd know.
I WILL point out, however, that I share a few distinct facial traits with (in particular) King Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette.
Sir John Gostwick was my great something-or-other, and a trusted lieutenant of Henry the eigth. He was one of the people sent around to closing down the churches but also marched with Henry in france and was at the Field of the Cloth of Gold. He had a helmet so big he had to have wooden struts from his breastplate to hold it up. It's apparantly hanging up in a church museum somewhere.
Well in my case, I have the ruins of a castle in my family's name, as well as a few Mausoleums that bear the family name in the surrounding area as well, so I have some pretty strong evidence of my lineage.Smokej said:thread made me smile, as an historican speaking: without a genealogical tree in an old familybook (possible chance of counterfeit) or even better an offical issued proof of ancestry chances are high that your ancestor were Joe and Jane average, nothing more...
If you had some famous ancestors or want to find out about it, you can try to contact an institut for genealogy at an university or go to a church archive to study old church registers (where you are probably screwed if you cant read latin), if by some chance you're a descendant of an important noble lineage, your family should have its own archive...
don't let you fool you: the ancestry stuff on the internet is nothing more than viral marketing and there are always tall-tales in the oral tradition of your family history. If it can't be proofed by scientific standards, it's worth nothing.