Spin Off - Ancestry Thread

[disfan07]

I am 3rd generation on both sides....i think.

My dads grandparents were from italy (paternal grandparents) and spain (maternal grandparents)

Im not sure where my moms grandparents were from.
I do know that on my moms side I am russian, spanish, turkish, hungarian and polish. and on my dads side I am italian and spanish. And I am Jewish but I am both ashkenzai and Sephardic (both form my moms parents...my grandma is ashkenazi and my grandpa is sephardic)

I just tell people that I am a mutt

 

[Geoff_M]

Strangely enough my revered Mayflower ancestor, Gerald Mathers (known as Beaver) Legalsea, wrote of Samuel Fuller in a fragment of a letter that has survived the years.

That's interesting, but I've got to issue a small correction here... that's what I get for typing my response without looking at my genealogy software first. I got the wrong Samuel Fuller on board the Mayflower! There were two. One was the doctor and the other was his nephew. My 10th GGF was the nephew, not the doctor. My Samuel was 12 when he came over with his parents (Edward and Ann) who both died the 1st winter in America. Young Samuel was then raised by his namesake Uncle. It's also interesting to me that I have two generations of family that sailed on the Mayflower. This is on my Dad's side of the family. There's legend my Mom's side that she's related to Peregrine White, the first child born in the new colony, but it's not been documented.

Another interesting personal side note is that Sarah Morton, the first wife of one of my other 10th GGF's (George Bonham, who came over on a later boat "The Phillip"), has a fictionalized children's book published about her Sarah Morton's Day: A Day in the Life of a Pilgrim Girl.

 

[SC Minnie]

My Dad's side goes back to the early 1800's- English and Irish. My maternal grandfather's side came from Germany in the mid 1800's.

DH is 2rd generation from Germany. Both sets of his grandparents came here in the early 1900's.

 

[Crankyshank]

Depending on the side of the family, I am as little as 3rd generation and as far as 5th generation American. My family immigrated here at points between 1815 (born at sea on the way here) and 1905.
I have lots of early French Canadian ancestors who immigrated as far back as 1636

I am of French (really French Canadian would be more accurate), Italian, Irish, Swedish, English, and possibly some unverified Dutch background. Although Italian isn't entirely accurate either since it wasn't united as a country when my family came over here from the Marche region.

 

[legalsea]

That's interesting, but I've got to issue a small correction here... that's what I get for typing my response without looking at my genealogy software first. I got the wrong Samuel Fuller on board the Mayflower! There were two. One was the doctor and the other was his nephew. My 10th GGF was the nephew, not the doctor. My Samuel was 12 when he came over with his parents (Edward and Ann) who both died the 1st winter in America. Young Samuel was then raised by his namesake Uncle. It's also interesting to me that I have two generations of family that sailed on the Mayflower. This is on my Dad's side of the family. There's legend my Mom's side that she's related to Peregrine White, the first child born in the new colony, but it's not been documented.

Ah! That helps explain this other fragment of a letter from Beaver Legalsea:

“That young snooty Samuel F. doth trod upon the deck telling all of his grande connections, stating that his dear Uncle is a mender of bones and boils of great Repute, and that he, Samuel, hath been entrusted with the Cabinet of Medicines to bring to the New World against his Uncles future arrival to set up shoppe. Since the Medicines do but consist of Whiskey and Scotch I have befriended said Snooty Sam for my own purpose. As for his parents, Eddie (who irritates me by always saying to the Captains Wife “Good Eve Madame Captain” in a voice of Oil) and Anne (who plans to drop the “e” from her name upon arrival at the New World) I hath already availed myself of their Great Coats and Under Garments and advised them that It Is My Great Hope it Doth Not get too Cold this coming Winter. They have but little sense of the humor.”

 

[disneyjunkie]

I have no idea how my family has been here. Thanks to the slave trade, my ancestors didn't have a say in coming to America.

 

[Geoff_M]

Legalsea, Hee, hee... good one!

 

[moburg]

I guess I'm 5th (or maybe 6th) generation. My G-G-G-Grandfather and family came over around 1850. My G-G-Grandfather was in his teens at the time, so my Great-Grandfather was the first of that line to be born here, in 1863.

Thats the line of my surname. There are other lines that go back a lot farther here in the US. One goes back 12 generations to 1655.

 

[Feralpeg]

I'm the 8th generation on my father's father's side from England. My great grandmother on my father's mother's side was from England.

I'm the 8th generation on my mother's father's side from England. My 13th great grandmother on my mother's father's side was Mary Tudor (sister of Henry VIII).

 

[mandylo]

On my father's side I am a descendant of Robert Daniell who came from Wales in the 1600's. I think he was the governor of South Carolina for a bit.

I am descended from slaves on my mother's paternal side and her maternal side remains a mystery.

 

[moburg]

On my father's side I am a descendant of Robert Daniell who came from Wales in the 1600's. I think he was the governor of South Carolina for a bit.

I am descended from slaves on my mother's paternal side and her maternal side remains a mystery.

According to Wikipedia, Robert Daniell was a Governor of the South Carolina Colony from April 25, 1716 to sometime in 1717.

Robert Daniell (1646–c. 1718) of Cardigan, Wales arrived in Charleston, South Carolina in 1669 as captain of the ship "The Daniell". In 1682, he was commissioned as Major of the Goose Creek Men. By 1691, he was commissioned as a colonel for King William. In 1702 Daniell led an expedition to St. Augustine, where he participated in the Battle of the Yamassee Indians. Daniell is best known for being governor of the British Province of North Carolina from 1703–05, and governor of the British Province of South Carolina from 1716–17.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Daniell

Portraits, stories, family tree's and other documents on Ancestry.com.

 

[autumnpalm]

I'm 2nd generation (Canadian, not American). All four of my grandparents were born in Scotland and came here in the 1940s.

 

[Syrreal]

My son is first generation on my side of the family. I have no idea how long DH's family has been here but I know they have some documents dating back from before the civil war on his dad's side.

 

[ElizK]

One part of my dad's family came over in the late 1600's! The closest in time would be one of my maternal great-great grandad - came from Austria in the mid-1800's (married a Cherokee woman), and my paternal great-great grandparents came from Ireland. The last 4 generations have mostly been born here in Texas!

 

[mandylo]

According to Wikipedia, Robert Daniell was a Governor of the South Carolina Colony from April 25, 1716 to sometime in 1717.



http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Daniell

Portraits, stories, family tree's and other documents on Ancestry.com.

Thanks! I had a conversation about this with my grandad recently. I mean to dig further one of these days!

 

[claudia]

I go from 13th generation from England to 3rd generation from Ireland....

 

[DisneyGirl421]

On my mom's side, I am the third generation here. My great-grandparents came from Sicily and Naples.

My dad's father's side has been in America since the mid-1600s. I can trace ancestry to the Carr's, a very prominent family in the early Americas. A Carr married Thomas Jefferson's sister.

My dad's great-grandmother on his mom's side came to America from England. So, that's... 5th generation? Otherwise, everyone else has been in America since early 1800s.

... I spent a good portion of last summer figuring out my ancestry. It's what interning at Ellis Island will do to you, lol.

 

[Lassie Lynne]

DH's brother is very into geneology and has traced their family WAY back. We found out that Geoffrey Chaucer is my girls' 16th great-grandfather. DH's great-great grandfather came here (to this city) in 1813; my girls are 7th generation residents of our city. I don't remember when exactly the family came over here, though. I'd have to get the book out and look - lol.

Geoffrey Chaucer has close connections with the British Royalty - specifically the House of Plantagenant (I probably spelled that wrong) through his own grandchildren's marriages. His sister-in-law was Catherine Swynford (sister to his wife Philippa) who later in life married the Duke of Lancaster and had her children with him legalized....and from them, eventually, the Tudors. Very interesting ancestors!

 

[Lassie Lynne]

The first actual record of any of my ancestors is Martin Tichenor who settled in Newark in 1644. Although, since I am part Native American, I am sure that my other side of the family goes waaaaayyyyyy back. My last relative to have immigrated that I know of would have been around 1880 - give or take a decade. We even have a possible Mayflower connection, although never have been able to nail it down exactly.

Now, my DH is second generation Russian Jew. His grandfather immigrated during the Programs right before WWI.

 

[snowy76]

I'm first generation born here on both sides. Mom's and dad's parents are all from Ukraine but mom's side was part of the Russian Empire (the eastern end of Ukraine) and dad's was part of Austria-Hungary (the western end). I'm told I have one or two great-grandparents or great-great grandparents who were German and/or Jewish.

DH's side is a whole other story. Here in America, he goes back to the Mayflower via a couple of branches and Irish immigrants who came during the potato famine, all on his dad's side. His mom's side is mostly German from the late 1800s (Alsace-Lorraine, now part of France). The other side of her family is German or English at least as far back as the Revolutionary War.

I've been able to trace part of DH's lineage even further back to England, and if the records are accurate, to Normandy during the time of William the Conqueror.