ancestry dot com ?? anybody do this ??

[frenchy]

so i'm flippin thru the dial on the remote and i end up on pbs and i catch the tail end of derek jetter on this show about who your ancestors are .. and it occured to me .. i don't really know much about my ancestors .. my moms parents died when she was about 5 or 6 and my dads side of the family is a mystery to me as well cause i never really saw them except once at a family reunuion before i moved to florida .. i know my moms parents were german but thats all i know ..my dads parents were irish and english but i think i have equal amounts of scottish and welsh in there too .. and if you know about the british isles the vikings came down and raped and pillaged .. the italians were there since cesar and there were some stories that king aurthur was actually italian , ( probably where i get my ability to cook like a piasan ) and then the irish have what they call the black irish from when the spaniards invaded and of course they raped and pillaged too .. and them french were always invadin and rapin and pillagin .. of course the brits carried off a few french girls too i'm sure .. so when i think of what my ancestral makeup is i'm sure its as mixed up as can be .. but just out of curiosity i'm thinkin i might look into it .. find out if my ancestors were royalty or horse thieves .. or both ..or a jewish door to door salesman .. anybody else ever look into it ?? or think about doin it ??  

[crestofwaves]

I was watching the show on PBS where Gates looks into people's pasts also, and there was an advertisement for a DNA test that could tell exactly what people are-- like 40% Irish, 30% Arabic, 30% Italian--whatever. This was a couple of nights ago, so THAT night I logged onto Ancestry.com and started the free look see and they showed me the ship's manifest for when my grandfather came over from Italy.  I had seen it before, but I don't feel like spending the money and going deeper just yet. I just paid for 6 weeks of yoga and it's my husband's sixtieth so I have to make a little party and I have to go to a baby shower and I'm meeting a person from Eons Thursday in NYC--she lost her twin sister in the WTC attacks and needed someone with whom to go to the memorial  so she's flying in from Tennessee and I'm going with her and we are redoing the bathroom and we just redid the front walk prepping the house to sell it and my house insurance is due, so this is a month of spending a lot of money. Phew!

[frenchy]

whew is right cresty .. you stayin in jersey when you move ?? my ex wife ( number one ) just sold her house not too long ago and she got a place out in pennsy .. allentown actually .. funny cause my sister moved out there from the island in 85 when billy joel had that song allentown and she moved to myrtle beach when my ex moved in  ..not in the same house mind you now ..  in any event the taxes are a lot less.. in both places .. and so is florida ..   

[frenchy]

speakin of ancestry my ex can trace her roots on her moms side to the mayflower .. me ?? i have no clue .. hard to get a clear picture with all that rapin and pillagin goin on back then.. i still think i got a little italian in me tho .. snuck in somewhere .. the way i cook .. has to be .. but then i made some enchiladas last night that might make me think some little mexican bastard could be in there somewhere too.. ole... 

[crestofwaves]

Frenchy we are moving to South Carolina near Myrtle Beach, we think, but definitely out of the damned COLD!!!

[Wayne Goodwin]

I asked my dad one time who his ancestors came from . He said Irish . Dad's mom died when he was 12 . Just don't know much of anything about his past . His step mom raised him . She was a good woman . Guess everyone is dead now . I have a lot of step cousins ( if they even count ) that are scattered all over the country . Have no idea where any are . On moms side , maybe English ...

[crestofwaves]

I didn't know that about the Mormons and Ancestry.com

[frenchy]

i knew they were heavy duty into the ancestry stuff and really anal about keepin records ( could be cause they have so many wives it could get confusin maybe ) but i didn't know about em buyin up all the other sites to corner the market all for themselves .. hmm.. maybe cause they're so anal about it they don't want anyone else screwin it up perhaps ?? 

[P.A.]

On my mother's side a relative of her's traced their ancestory back the Scots Irish in a place called Enren. I think that is the right spelling but who really knows. Anyway the first Nesbitts came to America in the 1750's. They originally settled in Pennsylvania but moved to Tennessee after the Revolution to take land grants they got for fighting in that war. Robert Nesbitt became a fairly successful politician in the 1790's.
I know nothing at all about my father's side of the family. His mother died of the Spanish Flu in 1919 and his father abandond him. He lived with several relatives but never had a real home until he grew up.

[AmerikinWmn]

I did the ancestry DNA test during the summer and was rather surprised at the results. As I knew my Dad's background was basically 100% German and my Mom's about 50%, the western European part was a given. My Mom's maternal Grand dad was half Native American, part English, part French (also considered western European by Ancestry.com). I've never heard of any Irish but still enjoy my St Paddy's Day, so was I surprised to get the results of that test. Evidently I inherited some of my great Grandaddy's DNA because I'm 29% English, 26% Western European and 24% Irish, with the rest being something they called Iberian (Portuguese,  Greek etc) and less than 1% Jewish. They also give you a list of 'cousins' that are a 94% and up DNA match. Very interesting and now one of my winter goals is to get in touch with a few of them and try to find our common link. As for the Native American DNA, I didn't get it but the way they explain it is that my brother might have. My Mom looked Indian but us kids didn't so who knows. I'm glad I did it though.