I've been tracing my ancestry for a while now.

Anyone else do this?

It gets kinda hard, frustrating, and tiring sometimes, but I think it's worth it in the end. I've found a lot of interesting stuff about my heritage that I never knew before.

So far I have 1 branch of my family tree traced back to early 16th century England, and another branch traced back to late 16th century Scotland.

Jamestown Settlers

Revolutionary War

Civil War

All kinds of cool stuff.

That is cool....

My mother had been doing genealogy for 25 years or so. She can put one relative on the Mayflower. Pretty cool.

My aunt on my fathers side has traced back far enough to find our living relatives in Ireland and Scotland.We're planning a trip to meet them in the not so distant future.According to her the Bruce's are a huge clan on the emerald Isle.One of her contacts there swears she has records going back 600 years.I don't see how but suppose it's possible.

On my mothers side my great aunt has made contact with relatives in Ireland and England.If she wasn't such a biotch I'd go on a trip with here.

Ron

Jetblasted has recently posted some of his ancestors. My dad is working on our geneology, and I've dabbled too. I have wanted to get back into it.

On my Mother's side, there was a lot of info, records and such that traced back to Nantucket, 1620's English and Irish 1800's immigrants on her mother's side and Dutch whalers on her father's side that came to NY in the 1600's as well. On my father's side, my Great Grandfather came over to Bedford MA from Qeenstown (Cork Harbor) Ireland in 1880. Not much else was known other than he hailed form near Waterford. I've been very interested in trying know more about this part of my heritage. The wife and I traveled to Ireland in May after I'd done some geneological research to look for some of the Irish connections on my father's side. Didn't find any living relatives but did find the gravesites or relations near Kilmacthomas about 30 miles west of Waterford. Still many blanks to fill in, but it's been a slow, sometimes frustrating search for information that's turned up information but like mining a lot of ore has to be sifted to find what you're looking for. I had a conversation with a woman over in Ireland about what I'd found and my search, and she pointed out that many who never left Ireland, herself included, couldn't find any information on ancestors because of gaps in records, the famine, and various other calamities. I felt lucky to find what I did and, although I'm not a religous or spiritual person, the manner in which I was led to find what I did was almost beyond serendipitous.

Did quite a bit, when a teen with my Mother, before she passed. That was when we were having to go to the courthouses, libraries, etc. My Dad's side we were able to go back 6-7 generations to the local who first moved from NC. We have a family cemetery in the State Park in my home County where he was buried in the mid 1800's

On my mOther's side, in KY, her great or great/great grandfather was in the KY history books, some uppity pastor, had been Abe Lincoln's pastor, and preached his Mother's funeral, We have pics and a write up somewhere

I'm Scotts Irish, also known as Ulster Scotts. A tough bred of rugged, independent Reform Protestants from Ulster (northern Ireland) that settled mainly in the Blue Ridge Mountains and eventually the Smokies. In 1780, a small group of Scotts Irish "mountain folk" kicked the butt of a much larger British force in The Battle of King Mountain. Many historians consider this battle the turning point of the American Revolutionary War. How my family ever ended up in Jersey is beyond me.

Dad just told me Wednesday of last week, he's back to 990 a.d.

I'm afraid to ask him to show me.

Best web resources?

I tried a 30 day free trial with Ancestry.com. Some cool stuff, but not excited enough to want to give them money.

Nope......mine are in witness protection

You don't frighten us, English pig-dog! Go and boil your bottoms, son of a silly person. I blow my nose on you, so-called Arthur-king, you and your silly English K...kaniggets.

The Princes' ancesters are rollin in their english tomb