Genealogy thread

[CdnCarrie]

I've been working on my genealogy certification from this institution. https://www.genealogicalstudies.com/
May dabble in the field professionally in retirement.

 

[disneyworldsk]

Have you tried the genealogical translations group on the book with a face?

what do you mean? I'm not following...

 

[Buzz Rules]

what do you mean? I'm not following...

Is this what their talking about?:
https://m.facebook.com/999GenealogyTranslations/

 

[Buzz Rules]

I've been working on my genealogy certification from this institution. https://www.genealogicalstudies.com/
May dabble in the field professionally in retirement.

Good luck.

 

[Deb]

Is this what their talking about:
https://m.facebook.com/999GenealogyTranslations/

this one

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GenealogicalTranslations

 

[Buzz Rules]

this one

https://www.facebook.com/groups/GenealogicalTranslations

The one I listed seems to be a business. The one you posted seems to be a private group. To be honest, I’ve never heard of either before I googled the name.

 

[Deb]

The one I listed seems to be a business. The one you posted seems to be a private group. To be honest, I’ve never heard of either before I googled the name.

the one I posted seems to be used a lot by people on other non translation genealogy groups I'm part of.

 

[Buzz Rules]

the one I posted seems to be used a lot by people on other non translation genealogy groups I'm part of.

Cool.

 

[kanne323]

The one thing I have found is going by family trees on Ancestry can send you in the wrong direction. I have a cousin who has been posting the family tree but I know for a fact that much of what he posts is dead wrong. He has our family being here pre-Revolutionary War but we have documents to show that the family came in the 1880's from Germany. The trees are good for hints but until I can verify things I only use them for hints.

As someone who has dabbled in genealogy for many years, I completely agree and want to highlight this. Just because it is on a tree on ancestry.com does not mean it's valid.

One side of my family is very well plotted out and verified, and the other side is not. My Acadian side is much, much easier to trace and validate; not only does every Acadian essentially have nearly every other Acadian in their tree, the records are pretty solid. I have records going back to the first ancestor to come to North America (New France) in the 1600s. It just gets a bit questionable before that, though we know where in France he came from and his father's name.

My genetic testing (both Ancestry and 23andMe) mirrored the paper trail and brought no surprises, which was actually a bigger surprise.

 

[disneyworldsk]

Is this what their talking about:
https://m.facebook.com/999GenealogyTranslations/

Oh!!! thank you, yes.

 

[disneyworldsk]

The one I listed seems to be a business. The one you posted seems to be a private group. To be honest, I’ve never heard of either before I googled the name.

are they legit?

 

[tazdev3225]

My genetic testing (both Ancestry and 23andMe) mirrored the paper trail and brought no surprises, which was actually a bigger surprise.

I had one or 2 surprises using Ancestry DNA, but it also verified things my grandmother told me about my grandfather's family. I have put off that research for a bit as it's all very common Irish names. It did show that I was spot on as far as the area of Ireland. My husband was shocked to learn how much Irish he has in him. I kept telling him his grandmother was 100% Irish. I had a fairly good idea where in England and Ireland his family came from, but the DNA test again confirmed I was on the right track.

 

[Marionnette]

I had one or 2 surprises using Ancestry DNA, but it also verified things my grandmother told me about my grandfather's family. I have put off that research for a bit as it's all very common Irish names. It did show that I was spot on as far as the area of Ireland. My husband was shocked to learn how much Irish he has in him. I kept telling him his grandmother was 100% Irish. I had a fairly good idea where in England and Ireland his family came from, but the DNA test again confirmed I was on the right track.

I did my mother's Ancestry DNA before she passed away. Her father was "born out of wedlock" and while there had always been whispers about who his father was, there had been no confirmation by the older generation. It turns out that the whispers had some truth to them. Her first cousin had also done an Ancestry DNA and it shows without a doubt that her grandfather was the father. My grandfather and her uncle were born just a month apart.

 

[Buzz Rules]

are they legit?

I’ve never used them. The business I posted supposedly has a building in NYC. They have a website listed on their Facebook page. You could check with the Better Business Bureau to find out.
https://www.bbb.org/

 

[Deb]

are they legit?

the one I posted is. Volunteers translate short items for free. For pages and pages you will probably need to pay, but this site may put you in touch with someone reasonable

 

[Buzz Rules]

Virginia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania, I think, judging by the first records I can find for them that show their location.

 

[Buzz Rules]

 

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[Buzz Rules]

The only thing I remember is they fought in the "German Regiment" which I failed to research any further than the name.

https://whatsupwoodbridge.com/historical-association-revolutionary-war/

 

[Buzz Rules]

The only thing I remember is they fought in the "German Regiment" which I failed to research any further than the name.

https://www.mountvernon.org/library/digitalhistory/digital-encyclopedia/article/hessians/

https://ancestralfindings.com/hessian-soldiers/