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Tartakovsky surname study by classical and genetic genealogy

Sat, 19 Feb 2011 19:14:07 GMT

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Dmitry L. Tartakovsky

Tartakovsky surname study by classical and genetic genealogy

In 1834-1850 approximately 40% of Tartakovskys lived in three locations in current Zhytomyr region (Ukraine) and belonged to four families — two families of merchants and two of urban commoners. No archival records confirming residence of Tartakovskys in the first half of 19th century outside the current Zhytomyr region have been found. The participants of Tartakovsky DNA project belong to two families. One of the families is identified as descendants of the merchants Tartakovskys who lived in the first half of 19th century in Zhytomyr city. No relationship between the family of merchants from Zhytomyr city and a family of the urban commoners of Chervone settlement has been found in the autosomal DNA test.

The project is not limited by time. The main prospect of the project is to attract new participants to identify branches of the surname have not been discovered yet.

Haplogroups E1b1b1c1 (M34) and E1b1b1c1a (M84) among Jews. Could Abraham be E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a?

Wed, 04 Aug 2010 06:54:00 GMT

What is the paper about in simple words:
There are about 8% of Jewish male lines and some percent of Arabian male lines originated from a man called E1b1b1c1 and about 4% of Jewish male lines and some percent of Arabian male lines originated from another man called E1b1b1c1a. E1b1b1c1a was a descendant of E1b1b1c1. We wanted to check if the common ancestor of the Jews and the Arabs E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a was biblical Abraham. How did we study it? It is known that the descendants of Abraham are the Israelites, the Jewish priests — Cohens, the Arabs and the Seyyids. If Abraham was E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a, the calculated time to most recent common ancestor (TMRCA) of the Israelites', Cohens' and Arabian E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a lines would be about 4000 years before present (lifetime of biblical Abraham) and 1400 years before present for the Seyyids (lifetime of imam Ali). We calculated different times for the groups listed above, so Abraham could not be E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a.
Other conclusions of the paper:
- the ancestors of the Jews of E1b1b1c1 and E1b1b1c1a lines were included in Jewish community during the conquest of Canaan.
- the Jewish and Arabian E1b1b1c1a lines are close one to the other, their common ancestor lived 4080±1440 years ago, so, most probably, both are descendants of ancient Canaanites.

Haplogroups E1b1b1c1 (M34) and E1b1b1c1a (M84) among Jews. Could Abraham be E1b1b1c1 or E1b1b1c1a?
Akper Aliev, Dmitry Tartakovsky

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Arabian clusters of haplogroup E1b1b1c1 (M34)

Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:05:47 GMT

Akper Aliev, Dmitry Tartakovsky. Arabian clusters of haplogroup E1b1b1c1 (M34). The Russian Journal of Genetic Genealogy, Vol 1, No 2 (2010) (PDF)

Abstract
Haplogroup E1b1b1c1* (M34) and its subclade E1b1b1c1a* (M84) were detected among the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula. A possible reason for migration of the founder of cluster E1b1b1c1a-E from the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula could be the Crusades.

Theme talk
The highest diversity of subclades of haplogroup E1b1b1c1 (M34) is observed in the Levant and Anatolia, therefore its ancestral home is often placed in the Eastern Mediterranean [1-3]. In addition, haplogroup E1b1b1c1* (M34) and its subclade E1b1b1c1a* (M84) were detected among the Arabs in the Arabian Peninsula [4, 5], where they form specific clusters — E1b1b1c1-B [6] and E1b1b1c1a-E [7]. Knowing the age of the clusters and their area of distribution, we can find out the history of clusters’ origin and resettlement of their carriers. In this paper we will try to find out the history of E1b1b1c1 and E1b1b1c1a subclades in the Arabian Peninsula on the example of these clusters.

Arabian clusters: when and why?
To find out the origin of the clusters, let us define their ages with the probability of 95% according to [8]. At the time of writing the paper (July 2010) cluster E1b1b1c1-B has had only two 67-marker haplotypes (N=2). Obviously, due to such a small number of haplotypes, their TMRCA (time to most recent ancestor) is “too young” and is 350±320 years, and gives us no reason to draw any definite conclusion about the history of its origin.

The sample of cluster E1b1b1c1a*-E consists of five 67-marker haplotypes. This cluster’s TMRCA is 1090±510 years.

Despite the fact that, due to different size of samples, the ages of these clusters’ founders are different, it should examine the entire period of their confidence intervals, which are intersected.
It is possible that both clusters have arisen in about the same medieval era and are linked to the migration of their founders from the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula according to some important event. What could cause this migration?

We think that a possible cause of the medieval migrations from the Levant could be the Crusades — a series of Western invasions to oust the Muslims from Palestine, which lasted almost two hundred years (1096-1272 years).

The first crusade ended with the capture of Jerusalem and the massacre of Muslims [9]. Apparently, these invasions, and, as a result of them, looting and killings, forced part of the Muslims to seek refuge from persecution of the Crusaders closer to Mecca. This, in our view, could cause to arise at least one cluster of Arabia — E1b1b1c1a-E.

Conclusions
1) Carriers of subclades E1b1b1c1* (M34) and E1b1b1c1a (M84) identified in the Arabian Peninsula, where they form clusters E1b1b1c1-B and E1b1b1c1a-E.
2) The TMRCA of cluster E1b1b1c1*-B is 350±320 years ago, the TMRCA of cluster E1b1b1c1a*-E is 1090±510 years ago. They possibly arose at one time.
3) A possible reason for migration of the founder of cluster E1b1b1c1a-E from the Levant to the Arabian Peninsula could be the Crusades.

1. C. Cinnio?lu et al. (2003), «Excavating Y-chromosome haplotype strata in Anatolia». Hum Genet (2004) 114 : 127-148. DOI 10.1007/s00439-003-1031-4
2. Mirvat El-Sibai, Daniel E. Platt, Marc Haber, Yali Xue, Sonia C. Youhanna, R. Spencer Wells, Hassan Izaabel, May F. Sanyoura, Haidar Harmanani, Maziar Ashrafian A. Bonab, Jaafar Behbehani, Fuad Hashwa, Chris Tyler-Smith, Pierre A. Zalloua. Geographical Structure of the Y-chromosomal Genetic Landscape of the Levant: a coastal-inland contrast. Annals of human genetics, 2009
3. A. A. Aliev, Bob Del Turco. Modern carriers of haplogroup E1b1b1c1 (M34) are the descendants of the ancient Levantines. Russian Journal of Genetic Genealogy. Vol 1, 2010
4. Haplozone E3b, Arabian E-Y-DNA Project, Arab DNA Project
5. Cadenas et al. (2007), «Y-chromosome diversity characterizes the Gulf of Oman», European Journal of Human Genetics 16: 1–13, doi:10.1038/sj.ejhg.5201934
6. E1b1b1c1*-B cluster
7. E1b1b1c1a*-E cluster
8. Adamov D. Raschot vozrasta obschego predka po muzhskoy linii dlya chaynikov. The Russian Journal of Genetic Genealogy (Russian version), vol. 2, ?1, 2010 g. (in Russian)
9. Raymond d'Aguiliers. Historia francorum qui ceperint Jerusalem

Конференция перенесена

Fri, 07 May 2010 09:18:29 GMT

Конференция перенесена

Конференция "Провинциальные дворянские усадьбы: прошлое, настоящее, будущее", проведение которой планировалось на 13-15 мая 2010 г., будет перенесена на 10-12 июня 2010 г. Приносим свои извинения. Условия участия прежние. Организаторы конференции оплачивают проживание и проезд иногородних участников.

"Little Known" genealogical service by US Government

Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:32:26 GMT

From here ...

LOS ANGELES — At first glance, the photo-copied documents simply looked like government forms and applications.

But when Susanne Mori read more closely, she found the story of her grandfather's life as he made his way in America.

Those 23 pages of facts and dates revealed how a young man, Jinbei Mori, left Japan and arrived in San Francisco the month after the 1906 earthquake, how he spent decades working for the Union Pacific Railroad, how his home was searched by the FBI during World War II.

Mori said seeing her grandfather's photographs and reading his words brought his immigrant experience to life.

“We are all descendants from immigrants, and at some point our families decided to leave the place they called home for whatever reason and come to someplace new and start over,” said Mori, 52, of Santa Barbara, Calif. “Seeing in print the name of a ship and where (my grandfather) was born somehow makes it more real.”

The documents came from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, which runs a little-known genealogy service for relatives wanting to learn more about their family history.

The records include naturalization files, visa applications and citizenship tests, and may reveal family secrets and mysteries, said Marian Smith, the agency's historian.

“The details of the story have been told over time, and the edges kind of wear off,” Smith said. With the documents, “there are a lot of “aha!” moments.”

In the past, genealogy researchers had to file document requests under the Freedom of Information Act and sometimes waited years for a response.

Under the genealogy program, which started in 2008, requests are usually completed within 90 days. For $20, the government will run a search of the name, as long as the person is deceased. If there are records available, the government charges additional fees for the files.

In fiscal year 2009, more than 5,300 requests were made, fewer than expected. In addition to relatives, historians or researchers can also request files.

Alan Latteri, 34, had a practical reason for the document search. The Brentwood, Calif., man wanted dual citizenship with Italy and needed to know exactly when his grandfather was naturalized to complete the complex application. After requesting the documents, Latteri learned that he was not eligible. But he did learn more about his grandfather.

“Reading about him is really interesting,” Latteri said. “I don't really have a connection to him other than seeing a few photos and hearing a few stories from my dad.”

Mori was just a toddler when her grandfather died, and she wanted to find out more about his life. She heard about the immigration documents during a genealogy class and submitted a request early last year.

Even though she knew some information, the documents completed the picture in her grandfather's words.

According to the immigration files, Jinbei Mori was born in Okugaita, Japan, on May 25, 1888, and came to the U.S. in May 1906 on the steamship Korea from Hawaii. Soon after, he started working for Union Pacific and became a section foreman. He married and had four sons and a daughter. The family lived in several states, including Wyoming, Idaho and Utah.

During World War II, Mori completed an application listing his height as 5 feet, 3½ inches and his complexion as “yellow.” A photo shows a stern man with a tall forehead who is wearing a dark suit.

In April 1942, the FBI searched his home in Brigham City, Utah, looking for anything prohibited for “enemy aliens of Japanese, German and Italian nationalities.” The agents interviewed his wife, who said her husband had turned in a Spartan shortwave radio to the sheriff.

In 1953, Mori applied for naturalization and took the citizenship test just before Christmas. Though his answers were in Japanese, a notation about the test said, “Apparently OK.” On March 9, 1954, he became a U.S. citizen.

Susanne Mori said the documents confirmed a lot of family stories. She remembered her father talking about making that radio from a kit and how annoyed he was that his father turned it over to authorities. The papers also cleared up some confusion about dates. “What we know about our relatives is what they choose to tell us, and they don't always tell you the truth,” she said. The files also gave her leads for future research.

“It will be a treasure chest for genealogists,” said Pam Wiedenbeck, president of the Southern California Genealogical Society. “Oftentimes these files will have information on brothers, sisters, aunts and uncles that will help connect the dots.”

For experienced genealogists, the files may open the doors to even more research, perhaps leading people to hometowns in their ancestors' native countries. And for those new to genealogy, they may be just the beginning. “For every question you answer, you come up with two or three more,” Wiedenbeck said.

For more information Check out www.uscis.gov/genealogy

Letter to 80 year old great aunt re geneaology

Tue, 22 Dec 2009 07:11:07 GMT

cut/paste from the present sent to my aunt in Mississippi today. I am remiss in correspondence as she provided the necessary information to get going on the project. It has been paused at the middle ages in England w/ the eldest relative born in 1288, an ancestor of Lord Throckmorton. The mormon's seem to have uploaded everything from England given the missionaries who brought pilgrims back to the states - my benefit though none of us ever encountered them. encouragement to everyone to keep at it and print something for your families even if it is just a sketch!
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Dear Aunt Betty Jane,

Please find following a lengthy, hodge-podge printout of the Ward/Cope family line. It may be found online at www.Ancestry.com under search for the file - ______ family’ for those who may be so interested. A link to the file may also be emailed to someone along with an invitation to collaborate. It may be ‘easiest’ to lay the printouts out on the floor or a table after initially unfolding the package. Tacking it to a wall may also aid in viewing the extensive family tree.

I hope I have not inundated you! All but the most far-reaching lines have been included with a few examples. It is certainly understandable why some charts take years to complete ensuring thorough records evaluation let alone time. A few further general notes follow:

• I have hand-written some further dates and information as the screen print-outs do not, for whatever reason, show the birth and death dates with locations. (Please forgive my handwriting!)
o The bulk of the research was completed this summer with some holes filled-in during this last week.
o The project is ongoing as time permits.
• Most of the last 150 years of more immediate relatives have been the hardest to determine due to lack of online records. It will be possible to fill in this information later at the county or city level. For example: Gramie’s birth record; the West family marriage records and anything from the US Civil war.
o I may hire an expert to find the local level records and do plan on DNA family tests in the coming year ultimately determining lineage.
• Not all siblings are printed out simply for a matter of space. As others share common ancestors; the process has been easier given other distant relatives who are also seeking common ancestors. We have shared and tag-teamed research.
• Original records have been printed out for your interest – your father’s WW I & II, census records and the oldest which is the marriage record of 1816 for Absolom Lasater.
• Records further-back than the first ‘official’ U.S. census of 1790 were not able to be printed as they are yet to be scanned but are officially certified by the Millennium project, International census records and other families who have transcribed records from their family bibles to local county and parish records.
• Most of our distant relatives date to England coming-over in the 1600’s. Our ancestors were some of the first colonists in Virginia progressing to North Carolina, Pennsylvania through to Tennessee and Kentucky before reaching Southern Illinois at the turn of the last century. (There are many English records online due to the Mormon archives – several of their early followers were immigrants ‘fresh off the boat’ from England due to Mormon Missionaries. Note NO MORMONS are listed as our blood-lineage.)
• Age differences from the father/husbands to the mother/wives were common along with multiple wives who died in childbirth (12+ children were common) or later in life due to complications.
o Not all wives maiden names were recorded hence the end of some trees.
• My records have stopped along the middle ages with the eldest ancestor being born around 1288.
o Notable names of England include Lord Throckmorton.
o Our American family surnames are numerous throughout early colonist publications. To date, we are not traced directly to any of the founding fathers of the USA nor Johnny Appleseed, Davey Crockett or Jim Bowie as Gramie/your sister told tales when I was a child. It does seem we have a history of ‘staying out of it’ particularly the wars though
 we did have family member’s siblings fighting in the Civil war.

There are numerous other notes one could make but I shall stop here and wish you a happy Holidays before inundating you even further. Please contact me with any further questions you may have. I will be traveling to Canada over the holidays but return for work commencing on the 7th. My next major venture is to Kuala Lampur, Malaysia in October of 2010 for three months returning from there or Singapore to move everything else over in January of 2011 after employment has finally been secured. Do find the phone number and mailing address in the header and footer of this correspondence.

Happy Holidays and to Pam!

With Love,

Anna M. (Flaharty) Smalley

Fri, 11 Sep 2009 14:24:01 GMT

Hello fellow genealogy lovers, I've been using Ancestry.com and have been researching much of my family history for 6 years (I'm 18). My paternal grandfather is the hardest to find information on past his own parents because he came over to the States from Germany at the age of 2.

I am trying to find more information on my paternal grandma's grandmother. Her maiden name is Flaharty (as written in my grandma's Ancestry book) and she was married to William Henry Smalley on March 1, 1888. Her name is Anna M. (not sure what the M stands for) but, as with other ancestors, I'm not sure if it was listed with an alternate first and last name for spelling.

She was born in Illinois (no further information on city- not 100% sure this state is accurate) August 18, 1865 and died in Hobart, Lake (county), Indiana February 7, 1931. I am paying for worldwide (bullshit since I can't find anything in Germany) for a month on Ancestry.com but still am very frustratingly limited with factual sources.

Help please and thank you!

foreign births register

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 00:06:26 GMT

My grandfather lived in ireland as a child for a short time, but his father's intention was to return permanently. While there, my grandfather went to school. How can I determine whether or not he was registered as a foreign birth and given citizenship during this period? I'm in the US, so online resources would be most helpful.

Thanks.

can't find "first papers" (x-posted to Genealogy)

Tue, 01 Sep 2009 03:38:09 GMT

My grandmother's father died when she was very young. In the 70s or 80s, her brother said he had equipment for copying photographs and all the siblings sent him their photos. Well, he never got around to doing it and then he died. His ex wife seems to have thrown everything out. I would love to give my grandmother a picture of her father.

I found my great-grandfather on both the 1920 and 1930 census (he died in 1933). On both he is listed as "PA" for citizenship, which means that a declaration of intent for naturalization was filed. This includes a photograph.

I can't seem to find it anywhere on ancestry.com (where I found other relatives' papers). I may not be doing something right. We know him as Charles Holovacko, but on various forms he is listed as Vasily Holovcsak (1907 passenger record, ship: Fiume), Charles Holovaka (1920 census, Vermont), and Charles Holovaesko (1930 census, New Jersey).

He's listed as PA by 1920, but I don't know if I should be looking for Vasil, Vasily or Charles, or any of the myriad permutations of the surname that seem to have cropped up in various records. Soundex searches seem to be of no help.

How should I be doing this?

Halp!

Newbie questions

Thu, 27 Aug 2009 20:30:42 GMT

Hello!

Yours truly may get sucked into ancestry.com. i'm seeking tips to do my own research before plunking down any money so i'm building out the tree on my paternal grandmother's side. i am a graduate student so doing research w/ persistence is not a problem for me. anything further back than census records of the mid-1800's then i may start to pay someone for help.

so - before i become too entrenched, a few questions and i'm sure i don't know enough to ask what i don't know to ask so please chime-in!

1) what else is out there w/ the DB like ancestry.com? it can reside on my machine or internet. i'm not fond of the UI design of ancestry as much.
2) sites to connect w/ others of similar surname, doing other geneological research in the USA?
3) other government sites?
4) things you wish someone would have told/warned you when you began your family research?

i do know my paternal grandfather's side. good story of about 10 years ago, went through the freedom of information act to find his background, everything the FBI found on his original parents as he was adopted - didn't find out till he was accepted by the FBI who asked for his birth certificate and his parents couldn't produce it...so it was a family secret till his 20's post law school. he was german thru and thru given up to an orphanage when his father died of smallpox. shocking as one of the first FBI agents, da' gov kept all the records on him down to his last home loan, 50+ years later after leaving the service post-wwII.

yada yada - research, tips, thoughts appreciated as i start this journey...

census question (x-posted to Genealogy)

Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:51:53 GMT

I'm wondering how much leeway I should give when evaluating information contained in an old census.

I've been looking for my great-grandparents in the 1930s census. I think I found the household, but there are things that don't jive.

The names listed are Patrick (head), May (wife), Mary (daughter) and Patrick (son). All that is correct save that my great-grandmother's name was Mary and not May. I see how a reasonable error may have been made with my great-grandfather's Irish pronunciation, if the recorder did not share his accent. Also, May is not a common Irish name, and the daughter is not named May, which would be a further break with custom. The recorder seems to have had neat handwriting, but, as can be seen from the "occupation" responses being recorded on the wrong line and corrected with arrows, he may have gotten to their building at the end of a long day.

The ages of all four people seem to correspond to my relatives.

The birthplaces of all four people correspond to my relatives

The neighborhood is correct as far as where they were living at the time (but I don't know a specific address...that's what I'm hoping to find with the census).

The year of immigration for "May" (Mary?) seems reasonable according to family history.

The year of immigration for Patrick (1907) does not seem reasonable according to family history. 1917 could be reasonable, and he supposedly came to the US on the run from the law, and so might possibly be inclined to lie (?)

So it basically all fits save the wife's name (awfully close) and the husband's immigration year. There is nothing else in the 1930 census on ancestry.com that appears to be as remotely close to what I expected to find as this.

What I'd like to know is, should this result be tossed, forever regarded questionable, or accepted "with an asterisk" as most likely the correct family?

the page (household begins on line 5):
http://i26.tinypic.com/2ry2889.jpg

much thanks in advance for any advice

Hello

Mon, 13 Jul 2009 00:36:00 GMT

I am searching for a person in my family and am not sure where to turn too. I am sort of new at this and all I have is my mothers records she got from a cousin of hers.

I am looking for information on John AUER. According to what information my mother & I have he was born in Bisofgrven Bavaria. His daughter was born in 1826, I don't have a date on him. When doing a search at ancestry.com and familysearch.org it comes up with the information my mom has entered at those sites **rolls eyes**.

I thought I'd try to find the city, or information on that general area and wouldn't you know it, it isn't listed. I looked at this site which lists off cities in Germany.

his daughter was Rosina AUER who married a Henry Louis Mendell I haven't tried finding more information on them, I do know their children were born in New Jersey.

Anyone know how to go about researching cities that may no longer be there?
Thanks.

Surname Adams (Jacksonville, FL) 1943

Sat, 11 Jul 2009 02:16:26 GMT

To make a long story short my mother is secretive about life. Her maiden name is Adams and she was born in April, 1943. She's never even given me the definitive date, but it's between the 6th and 9th. She grew up in Jacksonville, FL and graduated from high school in 1961. Her mother was an English teacher from what I remember in some of our talks. Her mother was remarried to a fellow by the last name of Gaskins after she was widowed. She had 7 brothers. I believe some of them were half-brothers from the second marriage. One brother was killed in Vietnam. I am hoping to make contact with some of my cousins from that side of the family.

Thank you,

Melanie

Sun, 03 May 2009 19:30:50 GMT

I'm looking for people with the last name SONIN. I'm trying to find out about my great grandfather, whom my grandfather never mentioned. No one in my immediate family even knows his name. HELP!

Quebec Genealogy

Mon, 16 Mar 2009 18:27:45 GMT

First, I would like to thank ms_geekette for all the help and resources that she was able provided me.

*Drum roll*.... And now to my question.

I was wondering who else is researching their family in Quebec? With the help of ancestry.ca and familysearch.org, I was able to trace my roots pretty far back. As a newbie to this, I have no clue where to search for "cause of death" "land deeds", etc. The only thing I do know how to search for is the Drouin marriage, birth and death records as well as the censuses. Anything beyond that is beyond my knowledge.

If anyone could provide me some tips it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

(x-posted)

RANT!!!

Tue, 24 Feb 2009 09:36:38 GMT

Damned Ancestry.com is buying up all the free Genealogy sites (it seems)so they can start charging people for it.. Ive lost my best free census site. Damn you, you extortionist money grubbing buttheads!!

My ancestor dilemma

Mon, 17 Nov 2008 15:37:41 GMT

I've been researching my family history for about three years now.

You know how frustrating it is to get stuck on one person. . . That's happened to me a few times, but this one is a real dilemma.

She is my g-g-grandmother on my father's side. Her name is Mary C. Dunn.

She was born in 1849 and according to census records, in Georgia. Moved to Arkansas sometime before 1866, because that's when she married for the first time to Allen Mason Lowery Callaway in Clark County, Arkansas. He was born in 1847. They had one child (I know, that's weird for the time) in 1873, my g-grandmother, Julia Ann Callaway. "Mace" (as he was called) died in 1877, leaving Mary a widow with a four year old daughter.

In 1878 in Clark County, Arkansas, Mary married a widower named David Andrew Williams, who had a daughter named Mary Etta. This is where it starts getting fun. David Williams' previous wife was named Martha L. Dunn and she was born in 1850, died 1871. All of these folks lived in the same county, in the same township. It was not uncommon for widows and widowers to marry siblings from other families - you knew these folks, their families, and likely all went to the same church. You knew what you were getting.

I can't help but feel that Mary and Martha were sisters, but I can't prove it, because I can't find information for either of them about who their parents were.

And more interesting than that is the 1880 census. David and Mary Williams are living with his daughter Mary Etta, and Mary's daughter, Julia three houses down from Robert J. Dunn and his wife, Sarah. Robert's age is listed as 26, which means he was born around 1854. That would make it possible that he was the younger brother of Mary and Martha. The census says he was born in Georgia.

But I can't find any information on his parents either.

Right now, I'm looking at men with Dunn last names from Georgia as soldiers in the Civil War, and running each one of them through searches to see if I can find any with children born in 1849, 1850 and 1854 with the names I've got. I've just started that, so I have no news on that search yet.

Any suggestions or thoughts?

Hello!

Sun, 12 Oct 2008 21:40:15 GMT

I'm an amateur geneaologist, but the third in my family who has pursued the history (at least, out of the ones that I know :P). If anyone has any information about the Swettenham family from Somorford Booths OR Swettenham, England, I would be interested in swapping information/stories. In addition to my research, my brother's, and our great-uncle's, I also have a long document about family legend and Swetnams across America that was created by a distant relative but which, unfortunately, does not cite sources.

At the moment I'm trying to find any information related to Alexander Swetnam and his wife Ann Roane; the only thing I know is that Alexander died in 1789 and they lived in Stafford County, VA. They had possibly two sons - John Swetnam, born 1747, and married to Sarah (Fickland) Ficklin (born before 1751), and Thomas Swetnam, who married Frances (Fanny) Call in 1765 in Hanover, VA. Any information about Alexander or his wife Ann would be greatly appreciated!

RAGAGELES

Sun, 31 Aug 2008 17:45:58 GMT

Hi!, If you are looking for the name Ragageles, you have just found one XD I'm looking for others with the same name and I'm doing the family tree, you can find information on my BLOG, there is a portuguese version too.
Every thing I found I post there, sone I will post the names I have there.

new around the family trre

Tue, 20 May 2008 14:57:59 GMT

hi! my name is Liliana, and I'm from Portugal, I'm looking for other people with the weird name Ragageles : D or any information about it! thanks!

Civil War / Transcription

Wed, 14 May 2008 02:14:47 GMT

The following transcription is on my great great grandfather's headstone and I was wondering if someone could help me decipher it as I cannot find any record besides his obit that he was even in the war...

Michael Weyer
O.F. 3 REG F.A. N.Y. V.

Ancestry.com free trials warning

Sun, 04 May 2008 06:23:27 GMT

Please remember to keep track of when your free trial runs out.. Ancestry WILL bill your bank account without warning. They did this to me Friday night and over drew my account. I had no warning that my free trial was up and that a bill was coming, just the aftermath of 155.40 vanishing from my bank account and not knowing where it went until driving the 45 mins to my bank to speak with a live person. I had not accessed the free trial in 6-8 months(it was a year trial that came with the family tree maker program.

Lost bird

Wed, 16 Apr 2008 06:57:12 GMT

I'm not really involved with genealogy for its own sake, but I have been trying to track down my grandmother, Shirley Mae Barnes (or that was her name when she had my father). I did not know who my father was until I was 14, and having heard the bad things that happened to her before she ran away from my grandfather, I haven't had the nerve to try and find her until now. She was ndn, born May 5,1926, adopted into a white family (Prince) in Milwaukee, and I have no idea how to go about finding out more about her or her family. Any suggestions or even just encouragement would be helpful....

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 02:04:41 GMT

I love genealogy! It is one of the Coolest things ever... I am a Fourth Generation Genealogist. My mother, her mother and her mother (my Great Grandmother) were/are all genealogists. But I must say I have made the most progress thanks to the internet. I have found through the17th Century on a couple branches.

What I wanted to post about is, I am a member of a site called Photomax. And what this site does is scan and archives your photos. I went though my photos and found pictures I had of my Grandmother and Grandfather. As far as I know I am the only one with a copy. I was always afraid that I might lose them, or my house might burn, or more likely where I live a flood (I'm from Oregon where is rains a lot ;) So what i did when I found this site was send them my photos and they scanned them and archived them. I then payed a little more and the made a Movie out of them... Where my family photos fly around and it played great music...

Anyways I thought that I should pass this on to the people that would love it most, fellow Geneologists.

The site is www.photomax.com. If you sign up you get 20 free photo prints. Its a members tells members only site, so you have to have a referral... So you have to put my Email address... which is jamesleekelley@yahoo.com and then the rest of the info is yours... I hope some of your find this fun! I would love to post a copy of my DVD but I haven;t figured out how yet lol... but I will once I figure it out.

James Lee kelley

Family Names ~ Kelley, Belletto, Jacobson/sen, Goss, Peterson, Struthers, Baird, Hoover

Adoption ...

Wed, 05 Mar 2008 09:17:34 GMT

Hello.

My name is Kristina Hall and I am adopted. I am trying to make a basic family tree for my doctor and to track medical issues throughout the family and because I am curious.

My birth mothers name is Patricia Nixon, born 01/01/62 and my birth fathers first name was some variation of Steven and last name was a variation of Combs or Coombs.

They were not married, or anything like that. I can get and very information for the Nixon side of the family but cannot for the other side since I don't have any such information.

Is there a way to build a tress with this information? How would I go about doing it for free?