Genealogy

[AllisterFiend]

Is anybody else interested or do you know about your family history?

I just received a book and a pedigree chart that lists my family history back almost 16 generations... It's not complete, but it's still really fascinating.

The furthest person listed on my moms grandmothers side is a guy named Mark Staton. He was born in 1585 in Leicester, England and died in 1657 in London, England. He would be my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather.

I love this stuff.:xyxthumbs:

[Nanabunga]

sounds cool !

Have you found the first person in the states ? was he/she like a settler or did they come well after that ?

[AllisterFiend]

The first person I can tell was a guy named John Staton. He was born in 1632 in England and died in 1670 in Delaware. So I guess that would mean he was a settler, right? :)
He would of been the son of this Mark Staton guy I think.

[raize te gaff]

Sorry but i dont need to track my family tree, it would be impossible, nearly half the world has irish roots, thats what they blame their drinking problems on. Allister, is there any irish rellies in your tree?

[Snuff.]

The first person I can tell was a guy named John Staton. He was born in 1632 in England and died in 1670 in Delaware. So I guess that would mean he was a settler, right?
He would of been the son of this Mark Staton guy I think.


Boggles the mind a bit, don`t it?

Apparently my aunt`s investigated my dad`s side- I just haven`t got around to asking her. My mum`s got a weird recent history, though [BOREDOM WARNING]: my great-grandfather wrote anti-fascist material in Austria. His father was Austrian and his mother was Nigerian (I`d really like to know the story behind that one), and they escaped penniless to England with the rise of the Nazis, but were given a small estate in the Midlands by a mysterious and, to my knowledge, unidentified donor. He was a war-damaged WWI vet, apparently- only ever ate cheese and eggs (guess what he died of :p) and went on to be a maths professor in the UK.

I`ve never met their daughter (my grandmother) because my mum doesn`t speak to her, and by all accounts she was a total bitch. She spent all her inheritance on stables and horses and tried to 'integrate' with the hoorah-Henry country society. She ended up running off with an abusive, drunkard lawyer when my mum was in her late teens, apparently. My mum passionately hates the woman.

...Yeah. [/BOREDOM WARNING]

[AllisterFiend]

Sorry but i dont need to track my family tree, it would be impossible, nearly half the world has irish roots, thats what they blame their drinking problems on. Allister, is there any irish rellies in your tree?

I don't think so. At least, not directly. Mostly English and Croatian on my moms side. English and apparently... Prussian/German(?) on my dads side. :omg:

My mom and grandmother are both redheads though. :xyxthumbs:

Boggles the mind a bit, don`t

It really does. This stuff is really fascinating.

[Big Ozzie]

My parents and their mothers (my grandmothers, I never new my grandfathers) would never say much other than my relatives were from the British Isles (Scotland/Irish) on my mom's side and from Norway and Germany on my fathers.
I did find out that there were a few criminals and outlaws on my father's side, and were given the choice of imprisonment or settling in America. Whereas my mom's side seems to be more professional and educated! :eek7:
Looks like I take after my Fathers lineage! buahahahahahaaha :1orglaugh: :1orglaugh:

[jammin91]

one of my moms uncles was doing research to get the girls in the family into the daughters of the revolution. i think he was only 2 generations away

[brownbearclan]

Wow that's pretty dope Allister.

On my mom's side they have it going back quite a few generations and we found out that we are related to Martin Harris who was one of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon lol.

Now on my dad's side they haven't figured it out as much. I asked my dad what we would mostly be considered and his answer was, "Heinz 57, a little bit of everything." Thanks dad heh.

My family name actually comes from England though, it was and still is a small town where the people who originally formed the town all took the last name of the town or vice versa. Overall we're mostly English, Irish, and various other European descents from what I've gathered. But that's most Americans nowadays, a mix of this and that. :)

[AllisterFiend]

I'm going to try to fill the rest of this family tree thing out... On my grandmothers moms side is the Staton family and it goes back really far but on my grandmothers fathers side it's all mixed up.

Does anybody know any good (free) websites that I can look stuff up on?

[Josh85]

Yeh I'd be interested in knowing that shit. As it is I don't know too much about my family history other then on my mother's side it goes back to the first convicts that came over to Australia. On my dad's side I think a few generations up someone came over from England or something,

[Afronaught]

Our family did the Geneoligy thing a few years back... found out we've got a Tartan... and all that... and a coat of arms.... My dad asked me If I wanted a kilt made... I told him whats the piont.. I wear skirts and dresses on a regular bases in any case why would I want one that looks like a table cloth ;)

[Raidenator]

Wow that's pretty dope Allister.

On my mom's side they have it going back quite a few generations and we found out that we are related to Martin Harris who was one of the witnesses to the Book of Mormon lol.


On a related note, Brigham Young is a relative of mine. I think he's a great great great uncle or something like that.

I know a good deal about my family geneology. From my moms side anyway.

One guy who was I believe...my great great great grandfather traveled across the plains with the mormons, a pioneer. He was a Captain of one of the treks that made it down here and he did something noteworthy during the trek but I don't exactly remember what it was.

I had a relative that fought for the North in the Civil War, he was some kind of commander of an artillery battalion. I also had a relative that fought for the south.

Some of my family used to own slaves, while the other part used to fight against slavery.

Then, on my dads side my great Grandpa is a german. His dad fought in WW1 against us and then later my grandpa fought for us in WWII.

So strictly speaking I've got one side of the family being mostly English, the other side is mostly German. I'm Germish.

[AllisterFiend]

Also, I just traced back on my grandmothers fathers side of the family a man named Francois de la Chaumette back to the 1500's. He was born around 1500 and died before 1600...

So, apparently I have French in my blood, also. lol:drinkup:

[Raidenator]

Also, I just traced back on my grandmothers fathers side of the family a man named Francois de la Chaumette back to the 1500's. He was born around 1500 and died before 1600...

So, apparently I have French in my blood, also. lol:drinkup:

Suicide is the only option.

[AllisterFiend]

The family name De la Chaumette, which became Shumate in America, is of old French origin. The earliest mention of the name occurs in Poitou, in the second half of the thirteenth century, when two brothers, the De Calmis, were invested with lands lying near the towns of La Fochefoucauld and Rochouard, by Count Alphonse of Poitiers, the younger brother of Louis IX, known as Saint Louis. Barthelemy de Chaumette was in residence in the garrison castle of Biennac, a dependency of Rochouard, in 1260; the Archives of Rochouard list Jean de Rosiers, Seigneur de Graine and husband of Jeanne de la Chaumette, as founding a vicarage at Biennac in 1400; on 11 August 1502, Antoine du Teil, Sieru de Saint Christophe, married Francoise de la Chaumette. A contemporary and possibly a brother of Francoise was Pierre de la Chaumette, Sieur de Brissoulet, who was living between 1506 and 1519. These well known people in this area of France were the large family of De la Chaumettes -- virtually a clan, as they have been described -- lived until the end of the seventeenth century are undoubtedly founders of our line.

Can anyone make any sense out of this?
And how it relates to this "Francoise de la Chaumette"?

[verticalkiller]

I know my lineage, some motherfucker came to America in a boat, don't think he wanted to. he fucked some broad, smacked a white man and set the house on fire. He had babies. crossed with some motherfucker came to Puerto Rico fucked some indians who fucked some black people who fucked some spaniard wfo fucked some indian who fucked some blackperson.

...........entertaining

[AllisterFiend]

Umm.... I just found out I'm directly related to King Edward I.

cool eh?

Imma post this family tree soon. I'm finding out so much.:drinkup:

[Nanabunga]

Umm.... I just found out I'm directly related to King Edward I.

cool eh?

Imma post this family tree soon. I'm finding out so much.:drinkup:

I was kinda' hoping you'd post the family bush.

:omg:

[Afronaught]

hahahaha.... Damn that was funny

[Snuff.]

Umm.... I just found out I'm directly related to King Edward I.

cool eh?

Imma post this family tree soon. I'm finding out so much.:drinkup:

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Many who served under him took up his name, coat of arms etcetera- that doesn`t mean they`re directly related to him, though.

[yup]

All I know is my dad's side of the family is Dutch for three or four generations, and my mom's side of the family can be traced back to the Civil war apparently my great x3 grandfather was a general for the confederate army and has his name on a plaque in Robert E. Lee's mansion. But a full family tree would be cool as hell to see.

[Afronaught]

Dunno... I think it would be cooler to be directly related to Blackbeard the pirate... or some other swashbuckling villan... or Buffalo bill (The real one... not the SOTL one)... or Doc Holliday... Billy the kid, butch cassidy, Jesse James... or some other famous gun toting wild west icon...

[AllisterFiend]

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Many who served under him took up his name, coat of arms etcetera- that doesn`t mean they`re directly related to him, though.

well, what I'm seeing...

I'm related to a Sir William de Baggiley...

and

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:1970152&id=I1221

[Sweet Little Devil]

Is anybody else interested or do you know about your family history?

I just received a book and a pedigree chart that lists my family history back almost 16 generations... It's not complete, but it's still really fascinating.

The furthest person listed on my moms grandmothers side is a guy named Mark Staton. He was born in 1585 in Leicester, England and died in 1657 in London, England. He would be my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandfather.

I love this stuff.:xyxthumbs:


Yes i have gotton back to the early 1700's so far :)

Rootsweb is a very good site http://www.rootsweb.com/

genealogy.com http://www.genealogy.com/index_r.html is another great site for searching so is genforum http://genforum.genealogy.com/

The best way is to sign up on rootsweb under the surnames list what ever surnames you are after it is amazing what you can find out

Do you use PAF or Family tree maker?

[skunk the disc golfer]

Dunno... I think it would be cooler to be directly related to Blackbeard the pirate... or some other swashbuckling villan... or Buffalo bill (The real one... not the SOTL one)... or Doc Holliday... Billy the kid, butch cassidy, Jesse James... or some other famous gun toting wild west icon...


There's only one person directly related to Jesse James that I know of and that's.....well, Jesse James. Truth.

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[skunk the disc golfer]

My grandmother came here from Ireland with her brothers and sisters when she was a little girl....They all got seperated right away.

I can only trace my tree back to about the 1760's....then I get lost because I have American Indian history and it was all lost.....The government destoryed the records or some shit.

[Sweet Little Devil]

Mine come from all over Ireland, Scotland, England, America :)