vee Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 Anyone else ever use the site? Any surprises in the family tree? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
He is Risen! Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 I'm always a little nervous about those ancestry sites, I heard a rumor that many are run by the Mormons (they are interested in ancestry because they baptize their dead) and that if you put your info in, your doorstep will be crawling with Mormons. I also heard that they baptize all kinds of dead people, not just their family, but everyone whose records they can find. Not sure if this is true, it just something I heard and it put me me off from trying it out. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amppax Posted March 5, 2016 Share Posted March 5, 2016 (edited) 42 minutes ago, He is Risen! said: I'm always a little nervous about those ancestry sites, I heard a rumor that many are run by the Mormons (they are interested in ancestry because they baptize their dead) and that if you put your info in, your doorstep will be crawling with Mormons. I also heard that they baptize all kinds of dead people, not just their family, but everyone whose records they can find. Not sure if this is true, it just something I heard and it put me me off from trying it out. It is affiliated with the genealogical research arm of the LDS Church. I believe the reason they are so into genealogy is for the purpose of baptisms. I'd have a blast with Mormon missionaries personally, but I've got a pretty solid background in theology and apologetics. Edited March 5, 2016 by Amppax Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vee Posted March 5, 2016 Author Share Posted March 5, 2016 Yeah Ive heard about the Mormons doing that but they can use it for whatever they want, Im Catholic and I'll use it for my own research out of interest. One of the things that I found a bit surprising or impressive is how well and how far back countries like England and America kept records. Colonial America kept records it seem from very early on, and England the furthest back I can get is about 1550s or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nihil Obstat Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 My paternal family can be traced back to one of the early French soldiers who went to Canada, but unfortunately the research stops there because the town hall in Saintonge burned down and those records were lost. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 I got as far back to the late 18th century on my paternal side using the limited info from a US census at first, then from death registries for the era before the territory was ceded to the US by Spain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gabriela Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 (edited) I scoured Europe for my ancestors in the days before yer newfangled internet and got all the way back to the 1400s, when a Hungarian soldier was injured in Baden, treated by a German nurse, healed up, married the nurse, and made my daddy's pplz with her. My mother, on the other hand, tasked her Mormon colleague with finding her ancestry, and she couldn't get past my great-great-grandparents in West Virginia in the 1850s, concluding they must have "sprung out the wormwood". Edited March 6, 2016 by Gabriela Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Genealogy is a passion of mine that I don't get to spend as much time with as I'd like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amppax Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Though I haven't done much genealogical research myself, I do know that my great-great-great-grandfather (I think that's the right number of greats) wrote the Cuban national anthem. So that's kind of a cool surprise in the family tree. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spem in alium Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 I have a lot of very interesting people in my family tree: a convict, a prime minister who is remembered for making it legal for women to vote in his country, a man who went on a 31-day fast for research reasons, and several others. Really interesting for me is one of my ancestors who was charged with grave-robbing (he was the dissecting room superintendent at a hospital and claimed he had authority from the hospital to transport bodies). He died in prison, and his wife petitioned parliament, bought a printing press and published a pamphlet on the circumstances of the case. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dominicansoul Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 im related to a great Dominican saint! Unfortunately, all we share is our name and eyebrows.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Papist Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Knowing such things never interested me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CatherineM Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 Descended from several saints and loads of sinners, marauders, and the like. I find the women most interesting. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luigi Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 I know my family history back to each line of immigrants. That's all I really care to know. I learned it from grandparents and grand aunts, and a great-grand aunt. No surprises. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximilianus Posted March 6, 2016 Share Posted March 6, 2016 (edited) If it wasn't for the information I received from my parents and especially my grandmothers it would have been very hard to get as far as I did on Ancestry.com. Because of them I was able to determine ancestors by verifying the names and location of relatives I had little to no knowledge of. I went of the trail at one point because of the similarity in names and geography. Edited March 6, 2016 by Maximilianus Laetare! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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