Geneology

[tinytherese]

According to my great uncle, Ashton Kutcher is my fifth cousin. Supposedly he has met him.

[Skinzo]

[quote name='rhetoricfemme' date='12 February 2010 - 03:35 PM' timestamp='1266003303' post='2055980']
I've been thinking about taking up geneology as a hobby, for lots of reasons. I'd like to find out more about our family, although for me it's a bit trickier because I'm adopted (it was an in-family adoption so not difficult to track, just difficult to [i]do[/i]). And I know that on my dad's side of the family they were raised Catholic, but I have no clue who was/is devout, or anything. I'd like to find those things out and a lot more.

I'm kind of confused as to where I should begin, though. Have any of you worked on your geneology? Was it worth the time you put into it?
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Genealogy is a fascinating subject. I have a distant cousin in California who works full time on this stuff. You can find out information in Church records, etc. Of course, determining who is or was devout will probably require finding more personal info. like diaries or memoirs. If you really want to find out more ultimate stuff you can submit a sample of your DNA and they can tell a lot about what part of the world your ancestors came from and even possibly whether you have a certain ancestry such as Jewish, or Native American. DNA can prove conclusively who you are related to and has been used to settle a lot of family legends and controversies. See: http://www.familytreedna.com/

S.

[Resurrexi]

[quote name='tinytherese' date='13 February 2010 - 06:38 PM' timestamp='1266104300' post='2056698']
According to my great uncle, Ashton Kutcher is my fifth cousin. Supposedly he has met him.
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Have you seen his new movie, [i]Valentine's Day[/i]?

[Sternhauser]

[size="2"]St. Paul, in Titus 3:9. "But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain."

~Sternhauser
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[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='13 February 2010 - 08:59 PM' timestamp='1266112779' post='2056790']
[size="2"]St. Paul, in Titus 3:9. "But avoid foolish questions and genealogies and contentions and strivings about the law. For they are unprofitable and vain."

~Sternhauser
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Don't tell St. Matthew that. It would TOTALLY screw up the flow of the first chapter of his Gospel.



I've done substantial research on mine. I can go back about 20 generations on my dad's side.

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='13 February 2010 - 09:37 PM' timestamp='1266115045' post='2056816']
Don't tell St. Matthew that. It would TOTALLY screw up the flow of the first chapter of his Gospel.



I've done substantial research on mine. I can go back about 20 generations on my dad's side.
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Off the top of my head, St. Matthew gave the lineage of the Christ for two important reasons.

~Sternhauser

Edited February 14, 2010 by Sternhauser

[Vincent Vega]

[quote name='Sternhauser' date='13 February 2010 - 09:40 PM' timestamp='1266115232' post='2056819']
Off the top of my head, St. Matthew gave the lineage of the Christ for two important reasons.
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To be:
1. Unprofitable, and
2. Vain
?

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='USAirwaysIHS' date='13 February 2010 - 09:44 PM' timestamp='1266115464' post='2056821']
To be:
1. Unprofitable, and
2. Vain
?
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Ensuring Christ enjoyed [i]His[/i] due glory was neither unprofitable nor vain.

To show that Christ was a real man in real time, and was of the line of David, to fulfill the prophecies.

~Sternhauser

[Winchester]

Avoid proof-texting and sanctimonious posts, for they are annoying and priggish--Book of Winnie.

[Sternhauser]

[quote name='Winchester' date='13 February 2010 - 09:50 PM' timestamp='1266115851' post='2056824']
Avoid proof-texting and sanctimonious posts, for they are annoying and priggish--Book of Winnie.
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Amen, brother.

~Sternhauser

[CatherineM]

Vanity aside, I especially enjoy the stories of the women in the family. Two especially. Both were fighting beside their husbands, one in one of the later Crusades, and one in the Revolutionary War, and both took over their husband's jobs when they were no longer there. The first because her husband died in the saddle on the horse next to her, and the second because he was taken prisoner. The second one had 15 children who lived to adulthood, and lived to be 98 years old herself. I always tell people that the women in my family are hard to kill.

[cmotherofpirl]

[quote name='CatherineM' date='13 February 2010 - 11:16 PM' timestamp='1266117376' post='2056837']
Vanity aside, I especially enjoy the stories of the women in the family. Two especially. Both were fighting beside their husbands, one in one of the later Crusades, and one in the Revolutionary War, and both took over their husband's jobs when they were no longer there. The first because her husband died in the saddle on the horse next to her, and the second because he was taken prisoner. The second one had 15 children who lived to adulthood, and lived to be 98 years old herself. I always tell people that the women in my family are hard to kill.
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Yes. Some of them were made of steel!

My gggrandmum's job as a little girl was to take the silverplate and run for the hills and hide it whenever the Indians approached the house.
My ggrandmum lived on the C & O canal and baked bread for the bargemen. When her children were little she had to tie them to the house so they wouldn't fall in while she worked and grandpap guided the boats thru the locks.
I remember Aunt Rachael up nailing shingles on her roof when she was over 90.
My aunt desperately wanted to finish high school, but it was the depression and there was no money for school clothes. She only had one dress, so every night she washed and dried it to wear it to school the next day. She had to walk the 2-3 miles to town snow or rain, but she never missed a day and she graduated.

[King's Rook's Pawn]

I also recommend Family Tree Maker. Rootsweb.com and Ancestry.com are good sites, although the latter is a pay site. Warning: it's very time consuming. Also be prepared to spend a lot of time on the phone with countless little old ladies.

[rizz_loves_jesus]

[quote name='Archaeology cat' date='12 February 2010 - 02:57 PM' timestamp='1266004626' post='2055986']
I used to do a lot of work on genealogy, but haven't in a while. Family Tree Builder, I think it's called, is pretty good. I'll have to see what else I've used, as I can't remember.
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I think that's what I used one time! Except I think it limits you to a certain number of names unless you buy it and I'm not sure how much the full version is.

[Deeds]

I've not spent a great deal of time on it, but I've done back to the mid-1800s on my dad's side of the family. That's when most of my family emigrated from Ireland to Scotland, and they're trickier to track down in Ireland. For anyone who's interested in tracing Scottish ancestors, I used [url="http://www.scotlandspeople.gov.uk"]Scotland's People[/url], which is really good. It's a paying site though. You can search the 1881 Scottish census [url="http://www.ancestralscotland.com/research-your-roots/scotlandspeople-search/"]here[/url] for free. I used MyHeritage Family Tree Builder (which is free) to keep track of the info.