Geneology

[Shadow]

Ok, I dunno how many of you are intrested in this, but I'm trying to research my family line.

I found out today that the surname of my Irish blood is Fineran.

Now how would I go about finding info on them ? I tried google, but that didn't help too much and I don't have the $200 USD that Ansestory.com wants.

Any assistance in this would be helpful :)

Oh, and if your all curious, I'm

Polish
German
Scotish
Irish
French Canadian

All rolled into one.

[Fiona C]

Church records.

Also try asking other family members (providing you can). ^^

For the record, I am:

2/8ths Irish
1/8th Spanish
5/8ths Scottish

[Peterodl]

My uncle researched his side of my family tree and found the Odlo family living in the valley that the Lillihammer Olympic skijumping was held in. They've lived in the valley for at least 300-400 years and as a result, lived up to the Iowa/North Dakota/rural Wisconsin joke my neighbor likes to make "Hey sis, what'cha doing tonight?" Not much outsiders in the valley. Supposedly, to my uncle, this accounts for some of the wierdness of behavior in our family.
It's where my last name comes from but the bastardized Dutch derrivative which is odd, since he found no evidence of anyone being Dutch in our family.

Anyways, if y'all are wondering, (I'm just copying Shadow)
I am:
German
Norweigen
Swedish
French
French-Canadian
Polish (maybe)
Italian (very slight/uncomfirmed)

I used to work with a guy at Tomahawk scout camp who ran the Weblos trading post while I ran the clerk desk (I ran the camp basically). He was apparantly decended from an Irish king which I found funny, saying "and look at you now! hahahaha!" And ran out of the shop with my watering can before he could chuck a wood block at me.

Anyways...I wish I could help w/ the $ situation but I don't have any $ for myself.

[Snow]

I've tried familysearch.org before... it's a free search. Didn't work for me, but I hope it works for you. ^^

[hideko_dahlia]

My grandmother was born and raised in Montreal, hence, I am 1/4 French-Canadian... Yes, her family's roots are French... Other than that I am... 1/4 Swedish (ya sure ya betcha!), 1/4 Dutch (for the longest time we thought we were German, but it turned out it was a Dutch settlement in Germany... That's also where my last name comes from...), and 1/4 uh... Welsh/Scottish/English. Go me.

I would say do a general google search on the name, you never know what you'll find.

[Maverick]

I am pretty evenly split:

Russian
German
Polish
English
(Tiny percentages of god knows what else)

And I have a celtic name? Wtf?

[Cheshire]

As far as I know, I'm part:

German
Irish
English
Native American (apparently my great-grandfather's mother was once)
And a whole lot of other stuff.

Meh, I'm a mutt. :D

[Chanteru-chan]

German
African
Italian
Polish
Cuban

^__^ Is this like roll-call?

[Chris Nagy]

Cherokee (1/8th or 1/16th, Great Grandma was full or half, accounts vary)
Hungarian (1/2)
Romanian (technically 1/2 as well. Family lived in the disputed teritory)
Irish (Great Grandpa was full Irish, it shows only in my beard and alcohol tolerance)
Scotish and Assorted English (Grandpa supposedly had some of this.)

How many people's geneology do that? Huh? :-D

[Chanteru-chan]

I'm getting so confused with these fractions!! @_@

[Shadow]

Cherokee (1/8th or 1/16th, Great Grandma was full or half, accounts vary)
Hungarian (1/2)
Romanian (technically 1/2 as well. Family lived in the disputed teritory)
Irish (Great Grandpa was full Irish, it shows only in my beard and alcohol tolerance)
Scotish and Assorted English (Grandpa supposedly had some of this.)

How many people's geneology do that? Huh? :-D

So 1/8 + 1/2 + 1/2 = you being 3/12ths or 1/4 a person if you divide the 12 by 3...

I think.....

[Matt Alan]

My dad and uncle did their research. www.turnerfamilytree.com some lines have been traced back to 11th century England.

I'm a bit of EVERYTHING if you look back far enough.

Shadow, if you really want to find out, pay the fee for ancestry.com, check the Mormon church records, who have the biggest database in the world, check the records at the local libraries, go to the court house and find the marriage, birth, death certificates. Check the cemetaries. Interview family members.

Lots of stuff you can do if you're serious. My dad and uncle have spent about 4 years on it now. You find out all sorts of interesting stuff.

For starters, I've had a relative fight in every single American war and then most of the wars in Europe before the American Revolution. XD I had a relative that fell out of the boat when Washington crossed the Delaware. Funny stuff.

[Matt Cruea]

I honestly have no idea about my ancestor's origins and whatnot.

I know there were six Crueas in the Civil War, though.

[Chris Nagy]

So 1/8 + 1/2 + 1/2 = you being 3/12ths or 1/4 a person if you divide the 12 by 3...

I think.....
Such a shoddy state of math these days, in the states. First off, 1/2 + 1/2 = 1, so technically I am more human than human. Here is the qualifier in that, though: my father's family lives in a part of romania that used to be hungary. They consider themselves hungarian, but they are also romanian, and speak both languages. So the 1/2 is actually RomanoHungarian or HungaroRomanian, whichever sounds cooler.

1/8 (Cherokee) + 1/2 (HungaroRomanian) + 1/8 (Irish) + 1/4 (Scottish and other English) = 1.

[cabbagemcgee]

i'm 100% awesome
2% cool
67.3% ridiculous
8% kickin' rad

[Matt Alan]

i'm 100% awesome
2% cool
67.3% ridiculous
8% kickin' rad


So you're 173.3% of a person? Thats cool.

[lizanneh]

I got a lot of good information from my baby book that went back a few generations. I was able to get more from some family members, and then I input it all on Ancestry. I found my half-sister had a relative that had done almost her entire tree, and I was able to access it. I had absolutely no luck with google searching, either because the name I was looking for was too common, or it was too obscure.

Start with family, and then go to a geneology site to see if you might be able to connect with a tree some distant cousin has put together. Most families have at least one person that's caught the geneology bug.

As for mine...
I can't break out specific percentages, but I am prob about 1/4 each:
Armenian
Irish
German
English (I think -- the name is Holcomb)

[Coffeeman]

I've never delved into my family history.

For one half, my Mother's family are Chinese. But Malaysian Chinese. I've only been over twice, so I don't know them very well... And I don't speak the languages, so trying to find out too much is difficult. However, I know a few things, like how I lost a great-great-uncle in WW2, how one of my great-aunts used to own such-and-such a stretch of apartments, where my Grandfather learned to cook Chicken Rice, that kind of thing.

The Scots side... I'm pretty clueless. I've never asked. For one, we don't have an auld scots name (no Mc') and I'm really not fussed about it.

[Matt Cruea]

i'm 100% awesome
2% cool
67.3% ridiculous
8% kickin' rad

I disagree with your 8% kickin' rad heritage, because we all know the kickin' rad bloodline was rendered nonexistant in the mid-1990's.

[Holy Crap!]

I disagree with your 8% kickin' rad heritage, because we all know the kickin' rad bloodline was rendered nonexistant in the mid-1990's.

Was that the result of the mass genocide our government secretly initiated after "Ice, Ice Baby" was released?

[Maeko]

Was that the result of the mass genocide our government secretly initiated after "Ice, Ice Baby" was released?

-Sigh- I'm afraid its true. :-^