Its 1763, where is your family?

[JohnKleeb]

I don't know :).

[da_chimperor]

1. Umm . . . europe?

:shrug:

[JohnKleeb]

2. same with mine

Hell I only know my family lineage back to the mid 1800's.

[da_chimperor]

7. I know little about mine

My dad's ancestors were all from Germany, and came here sometime in the late 1800's, and my mom's side of the family had been here for a while longer than that. Not much to go on.

[JohnKleeb]

12. I only found out recently where in Ireland, my dad's mom's family was from

[brainshrub]

3. Belgium.

[Feathered Fish]

14. Mine too.

Raising chickens or painting - I don't know which.

[AwakeAtLast]

4. Part of them are in the colonies.

I have an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War.

edit: I forgot to add the others were in Germany.

[FuzzySlippers]

5. Some are in Woodstock, Conn.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

11. could we be cousins?

I had some relatives drifting in and out of there, but I think it was in the 1600s, not the 1700s.

[FuzzySlippers]

13. Any of them named Child or Carpenter?

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

46. Yes.

John Carpenter m Rebecca Readaway, who d. Woodstock CT 29 Dec. 1702.

[FuzzySlippers]

67. Those were some of my ancestors!

I think we are cousins.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

70. Hi cuz!

I'll PM you with a url you might be interested in.

[BBradley]

6. America, England, and Ireland

[Kellanved]

8. I have no idea

Probably Poland.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

9. Massachusettes,

namely Berkshire County. Some were even then drifting towards New York state. I've heard that one of my great great great great uncle's houses near Albany is now a B&B.

Other branches of the family were in: Germany, North Carolina, Viriginia, and southwest England.

[Liberal In Texas]

10. someplace in Germany

[stpalm]

15. probably somewhere above the arctic circle

in Lapland, herding reindeer. seriously.

[Mr.Green93]

16. North Carolina and

Kentucky

[AlCzervik]

17. Ireland and Lithuania

[fishwax]

68. Yay Lithuania

Some of my ancestors were in Lithuania as well.

[drumwolf]

18. For me, that's a real easy question to answer... they're all in Korea.

On the other hand, "what they were doing" is a whole different question, and my answer to that is "I have no fucking idea." :)

[pres2032]

19. same as 1863 - dad's side in Pennsylvania, mom's side in Italy

[outraged2]

20. Maryland and Virginia

... arrived in the colonies 1685.

[Lizzie Borden]

21. The colonies, and Germany.

n/t

[American Tragedy]

22. In Bavaria and the Netherlands, probably raising some hell

According to what I've read, some of my earlier ancestors were pretty violent and belligerant.

[NoPasaran]

23. Europe

Being oppressed by the King of Poland

[Phoebe_in_Sydney]

24. As far as I know...

Ireland. But i've got no concrete evidence to prove it.

Is there any significance to the year 1763???

[ikojo]

25. Being persecuted somewhere in Europe I am sure

My dad's ancestors were in Ireland...

[JohnKleeb]

26. so was my dad's

[Left Is Write]

27. My uncle did a genealogy going back as far as the late 1700s.

To the best of our knowledge, the family was still in Norway and Sweden.

Our branch of the family didn't come over until the very late 1800s.

[BiggJawn]

28. All over the place...

Germany, Scotland, Sweden, New England and down in the Smokey Mountain region...

[B Calm]

29. Holland

[Acryliccalico]

30. In America, Ireland, Sweden, Germany, England

[orleans]

31. france heading to canada and germany

[Penndems]

32. According to the genealogical research my second cousin did,

my maternal ancestors on my great-grandfather's side were living on Rokeby Plantation in Loudoun County, Virginia around that time. They were well-to-do planters who had 300 slaves, the youngest being a twelve-year-old boy by the name of "George". During the Civil War, 56 members on my material family branch fought for the Old South. My second cousin found out during her research that when the family discovered that Northern troops were headed their way, they took all the money they had -- $5,000; a substantial sum in those days -- and buried it in a strongbox in the back yard of their home in McLean, Virginia. Too bad it was in worthless Confederate money.

As if owing three hundred human beings wasn't bad enough, Rokeby Plantation -- my family's ancestral home -- is now owned by none other than (get this) Richard Mellon Scaife. (Rokeby was sold out of the family a long time ago.)

My father's ancestors were farmers and planters who settled in Grayson and King George Counties in Virginia around the early 1700s. During the War Between the States, 42 of Dad's ancestors fought for the Confederacy (none of them made it past buck private, LOL). Six of those 42 were African-American -- his family's slaves. My paternal grandfather's family eventually migrated to Fauquier County, which is were my father was born. He grew up in Warrenton, Virginia and in the City of Alexandria.

My mother's family were from Loudoun and Fairfax Counties. Mom and my aunt were both born in Old Sterling (now Sterling Park), Virginia. My maternal grandparents owned an operated a general store at the intersection of Old Dominion Drive and Spring Hill Road in McLean. My maternal great-grandmother lived in a huge house about 150 feet from the store on Spring Hill. You wouldn't know it today, because that area is covered with McMansions.

BTW John, my maternal grandmother -- the same one that help run that general store -- was the first woman on the Fairfax County Police Force. She was a liberated, independent lady before it became the standard.

I'm proud to be a native Virginian, but knowing that my ancestors were participants in the slave trade repulses me.

[ikojo]

47. Thanks for sharing your family story. There is nothing you

can do about what your ancestors did, but fighting for social justice is one way to right wrongs.

I have a friend who got her MSW degree at a local university. She told me that in one of her social work classes they had to relate a family story and she told about how some of her ancestors in Arkansas were founders of the local KKK. After she told the story someone in her class asked her why she thought that was a good thing to share and my friend said it was important that she acknowledge her family's racist past and that she did not share those attitudes. As a matter of fact my friend works tirelessly for justice for the poor of all races. She also told her fellow student that it was important for people to know that they don't have to be like their forebears.

[BamaGirl]

33. Tn, Va, Ga,

England and Palestine. But mostly Tn, Va, and Ga.

[Boswells_Johnson]

34. Nova Scotia and England

Some things never change:)

[salin]

35. living in a parallel universe in a Star Trek episode

and desperately hoping the hour long show will end quickly...

[Reverend_Smitty]

36. Off doing peasant like stuff...

in Ireland, or in the area that is now Poland and Czech Republic (I have no idea what empire they were a part of...Ottoman, Austria-Hungary, Prussia, Russia???) Unfortunately they were all peasants, not a descendant of any Kings or Popes

[JohnLocke]

37. Mother's side: Getting chased through Europe by pogroms and the like.

Father's side: Sicily, working in the quarrys.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

54. Father's and my Mom's mother's side too. My Mom's father's side

came from Germany, and I don't think back then they had to run as much. That side came here in the 1860s.

[Mr. McD]

38. Augusta Co., VA

:)

[deadparrot]

39. Pennsylvania, Germany, Ireland, Belgium, Switzerland...

[madinmaryland]

40. Central PA on one side, and

eastern Tenn on the other side.

It was a mess during the civil war, but i am here so it worked out ok.:hi:

[Huckebein the Raven]

41. The whole slavery thing makes it difficult for me to know but

there is a village in France that has my last name. I was surprised when I found that out. My last name is not common.

[Parrcrow]

42. Quebec and Ireland. n/t

[realisticphish]

43. half is in germany and hungery

the other half has been in the american colonies for 100 years already


:hippie: The Incorrigible Democrat

[Emops]

44. My mom's side of the family are Quakers from central Pennsylvania.

They even operated a medical house during the Civil War in Gettysburg.

[REP]

45. New Jersey and Virginia

New Jersey since 1692; Virginia since 1607.

[Seabiscuit]

48. England, Ireland, France and Germany.

But I wasn't born yet, so I didn't know it.

[nuxvomica]

49. France, Italy, Spain and the Colonies

All the lines that ultimately produced me hadn't begun their convergence yet. The Colonies I am less sure about. They may still have been in Wales at the time.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

50. Ireland + Italy + Scotland

yeaaah.

[achtung_circus]

51. How much detail do you want?

Simplistically,
Settler in upstate New York, waiting to be on the losing side of the American Revolution and running in the woods.

Peasant in Hereford area of England, working as farm labour.

Peasant in Argyle area of Scotland, existing on oatmeal.

Peasant in Kerry area of Ireland, eating potatoes.

[catbert836]

52. Working in the fields of

Ireland, Poland, England, Sweden, Russia, Ukraine, ad Germany. :)

[BigMcLargehuge]

53. Funchal - The Azores (dad's side) Paris - France (Mom's Side)

[youngred]

55. Boston

drinking beer with the Adams' Actually my ancestor and Sam Adams were best friends (aparently) and some the planning for the Boston Tea Party is said to have been conducted at my ancestors home and bar. He's also buried next to Sam Adams in the Patriot's graveyard

the rest were still in Europe.

[JohnKleeb]

58. Yer shitting me man

Dude I read your LJ today, and I'll have the money for that thing I promise.

[youngred]

66. it's in the evening

and no, i'm not :-)

[JohnKleeb]

74. where are ya posting from?

Yeah I realized, its in the evening.

[almostfamous74]

56. Depends on the side of the family

My dad's side of the family moved to the US in the 1620's from Ireland/England so they've been here for a long, long time in the Lancaster/Hanover PA area. My mom's side of the family moved here from Germany in about 1920 or so. I've traced my dad's side of the family back to about sometime in the mid 1400s and a lot of them were teachers in England...

[obxdreamer]

57. Ireland.....

My mothers parents emigrated from Ireland in 1921. I have done a little research, my fathers family came to this country in the mid 1800's. They were famine Irish.

I actually found a relative on a genealogical discussion forum. She is the granddaughter of my grandmothers sister. We were both researching the family at the same time.

[HamdenRice]

59. They are already slaves ...

somewhere in Virginia. In a few years they will move west with their "masters" into the Piedmont section of southwest Virginia, where they will stay for over 100 years.

My family has a very long oral geneaological history.

[methinks2]

60. damn, I'm not digging all of that paper out of the closet

I know we were here . . . somewhere . . . somewhere east.

[oxymoron]

61. Sweden and England

[rustydog]

62. somewhere in der fatherland Germany...

[methinks2]

63. GO STEELERS

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce: :toast:

[JohnKleeb]

65. Yes!

[Bok_Tukalo]

64. Working diligently to produce the perfect human through procreation

Congratulations family! It worked!

[Anarcho-Socialist]

69. Ireland, England and Scotland n/t

[catmandu57]

71. Northern Ireland, Scotland, Germany, Smoky Mountains

Those in N. Ireland were making linen and being racked out of their estates, they came to America in 1773 locating in western Pennsylvania near what is Pittsburgh, and joined the revolution bearing a huge grudge against the British.
Those in Scotland I'm not sure, but the family castle is in Edinburgh and is still in family hands.
Germany I have no idea, they came here in the 1840's.
The ones down in the smokey mountains had been there for thousands of years already.

[curse10]

72. Germany

doing god knows what. probably growing potatoes

[PittPoliSci]

73. Ireland

County Wexford.

[Rhiannon12866]

75. Most of mine are in Eastern Europe or Ireland

But my Nana's family were over here, and had been since 1663, settled in Northern New York State, raising cattle and far too many children, since so many of them didn't survive their first year.;(

[RadicalMom]

76. Napoleon wasn't to be born for another six years, so since that's as far

back as our history has been traced, they're somewhere in Italy, and the rest scattered in Europe. I'm actually a Princess. No kidding. No castle. No money. No rude comments, please.

[tsakshaug]

77. Norway, Germany

doing whatever people in those places did

[Spider Jerusalem]

78. The colonies and Europe...

More specifically, Ireland (probably County Cork), the Netherlands, England, and also Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Connecticut, and North Carolina.


The earliest any of my ancestors arrived in the colonies was 1608 (1607 if you go by the Julian calendar; he was one of only 2 original Jamestown settlers to leave descendants), in Virginia; the earliest in the direct male line was 1665, in Maryland (this seems to be the general area most of my ancestors on my father's side of the family are from). And then there are Quakers, whio were in Pennsylvania by about 1700, and early Pennsylvania Germans who immigrated about 1750...almost all of my ancestors, that I know of, were in America by 1763, with the exception of one who came about the turn of the century from England, and my great-great grandfather who came over from Ireland in 1849.

[TyeDye75]

79. Most leikely dowm a coal mine or in a cotton mill

because they were still right here in Merseyside which at that time was part of Lancashire.

[TyeDye75]

80. Probably down a coal mine or in a cotton mill

because they were still here in Merseyside which at the time was part of Lancashire

[Bridget Burke]

81. Ireland....

Half of them possibly already in East Galway--where they'd stay until about 1900. Others elsewhere on the island--their descendants probably came over during the Great Famine, but the details are unclear.

And a few of them were getting ready to leave the North--saving their descendants a grim future of Orange sashes & silly bowlers.

[FlashHarry]

82. England, Scotland, the Isle of Man.

Rather than the Mayflower, my family came to America on a British Airways 747!

[Famine]

83. on the move

Moving into Kentucky (or what will become Kentucky) with Daniel Boone.

[Worst Username Ever]

84. New York, Sweden, Ireland, Slovenia, etc etc etc

[rene moon]

85. Somewhere in Mexico!