Ancestry/Genealogy

Spider Jerusalem

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20. I was personally a bit surprised to discover how much you can find online now...

Thu Dec 15, 2011, 08:45 PM

Dec 2011

my personal interest in genealogy started more or less accidentally; I followed a link to the LDS Familysearch site, years ago now, and out of curiosity searched for my surname in the Washington DC area and found my great-grandfather...and now several years later I've managed to trace most of my ancestry back at least to the earliest immigrant to America, and in some cases several generations further in Britain (I seem to be somewhat unusual in that about 90% of my ancestry traces back to the British Isles, and most of my ancestors, as far as I can tell, arrived in America before the Revolution)...and I've gotten somewhat lucky in finding that many other distant cousins have traced family lines well before I have (although a lot of erroneous information seems to get perpetuated nonetheless; my general rule is "trust, but verify" ).

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I'm glad they have this group, hope we can keep it going. [View all] CanonRay Dec 2011 OP

Me too! Cooley Hurd Dec 2011 #1

K&R! Rhiannon12866 Dec 2011 #15

Hi! We certainly could use it! csziggy Dec 2011 #2

I just got my wife's side approved by the Mayflower society CanonRay Dec 2011 #5

Cool! Hubby goes back to one of the lines, but he's not into approval. csziggy Dec 2011 #6

For me, I wanted to see if I could really document it successfully CanonRay Dec 2011 #10

The documentation is the hard part - congratulations on that! csziggy Dec 2011 #11

Actually... Spider Jerusalem Dec 2011 #14

FreeBMD.org.uk is where I found the marriage information csziggy Dec 2011 #16

You should be able to order it from the General Records Office, I think Spider Jerusalem Dec 2011 #18

Oh, I know I can order it - and how to set up the account to order csziggy Dec 2011 #19

I was personally a bit surprised to discover how much you can find online now... Spider Jerusalem Dec 2011 #20

It is so much easier than it was years ago to do research! csziggy Dec 2011 #21

Several of my ancestors were Quakers, actually Spider Jerusalem Dec 2011 #22

Wow....Sounds a lot like my husband and me...He had an ancestor in the Civil War and is whathehell Dec 2011 #8

Geneaolgy is a fun hobby Maccagirl Dec 2011 #3

I've found numerous relatives over the years PatSeg Dec 2011 #17

I do too The Genealogist Dec 2011 #4

Like this group! DearHeart Dec 2011 #7

Thanks for the information! whathehell Dec 2011 #9

I wish you luck! DearHeart Dec 2011 #12

Thanks, DearHeart. n/t whathehell Dec 2011 #13