I think interest in ancestry tends to be a conservative thing. Liberals spend their lives trying to distance themselves from their “oppressor” past while conservatives want the connection.
I recently discovered that my great grandfather wasn’t the Austrian immigrant we believed him to be but a Polish Jew. My uncle is trying to find the best way to “break the news” to my liberal cousins. LOL
I’ve had an account on ancestry.com for years now. And I agree with what you say. But as you probably know, the Mormons are very big on genealogy in fact next to ancestry.com their church is the next biggest website to visit for info on your ancestors. They actually have their own site similar to ancestor.com and I’m not 100% that they are not somehow affiliated with ancestry.com but that’s beside the point.
I found out that my 9th Great-grandfather was John PROCTOR who was accused of being a witch in and hung in Salem in 1692.
. My uncle is trying to find the best way to “break the news” to my liberal cousins. LOL
Spewed caffeine free Diet Coke on my keyboard, CC! LOL.
They are libel to kill themselves due to the lefts hatred of Jews.
“I recently discovered that my great grandfather wasn’t the Austrian immigrant we believed him to be but a Polish Jew. My uncle is trying to find the best way to “break the news” to my liberal cousins.” LOL
BOL, genealogy can be very disturbing to the oral legends we are often reared on.
A couple of decades ago, my Dad died, and we realized that we knew nothing of his side of the family.
Fortunately, a cousin of his on his mother’s side with a memory like a healthy computer gave us a some data that started me looking. She let us know that my Dad’s dad was a no good Scottishs coundrel. She let me copy the key pages in her dad’s bible with a promise, I would trace the good side of my Dad’s Family. She died a few months later, and we lost her as a resource.
The search for my Dad’ father, actually got me into Genealogy, and I became a librarian at the local Mormon Temple, even though I was not a Mormon then or now.
My Dad’s mother’s genealogy was fascinating and well established to the Revolutionary War, into Devon England. I went decades without finding anything on my Dad’s father.
He appeared in a 1880 census and that was basically the paper documentation we could find. He and his immediate ancestors avoided censuses and other documentation. He didn’t show up again until the 1920 Federal Census.
That side of my family was Scottish as per my Dad and his cousin, and she basically sneered, when she told us that. Then she refused to tell us anymore. She did allow me to photo copy the front pages of her family bible. Which helped me to trace the English side back through our history, including a famous sea trip from England to New England. The ship was the MayFlower.
A few years ago, my wife read a book about Scottish Soldiers fighting in the War of 1812 in Canada on England’s side. She wondered if my ancestor might have been one of those Scots.
I asked a friend in Genealogy about those Scots if they migrated to America during or after the War of 1812. He had labeled some of these migrators as Moss Backs, who came over to the states after the War of 1812 or even before it was over to avoid going back to Scotland and being Royal Scot mercs.
He said many of them avoided censuses or any paper that might trace them back being Scot Mercs. He said that some became POWs and deserted the Royal Scots and surrendered to the Americans during the War of 1812.
Some became citizens, who just blended in without a lot of family history.
That enabled me to find my Dad’s father’s birthplace/date, which was 50 years after the War of 1812. He was possibly a grandson of a former Scottish Merc in the War of 1812.
One of my first cousins on my Mother’s side and I did a good Genealogy run on my Mother and her sister, his mother’ family.
Then, he decided to do one on his dad’s side and an elderly cousin on our side of the family tree warned him about uncovering horse thieves and worse. Apparently, a few of his ancestors on his Dad’s side were hung or shot as rustlers and/or horse thieves.
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