#ancestry family tree

[orangeflowerpetals]

I'm really curious about my family tree, but mostly to see whether my ancestors were on the Yorkists side, or the Lancastrians

Fight fight fight

[emilytopaz]

[sims-half-crazy]

The girls were 6 months old when the family decided it was time to hold their third family reunion. Lillian recounted tales of that disastrous first family reunion during Thanksgiving. She reiterated that family reunions should not occur during holidays, and everyone agreed with her. After that, there were conversations on top of conversations as three generations of Gosnolls laughed, talked, and remembered those who had been lost. Memories and plans were made for more visits and reunions. For over 150 years, the Gosnoll family has persevered and continued their story, and these 13 people will continue to live that legacy.

**I have had a blast writing the stories of the Gosnoll family. I didn't expect to actually finish, but now that I have, there are myriad emotions attached. There is no clear-cut favorite from my cast of characters, but a few notable ones stand out. Effie was my first favorite. She was modeled after my own great-great-grandmother. While I never met her, the stories I've been told molded Effie's character. Lena was another favorite, with her emotions that were too big to contain. Her love of fashion definitely stems from my own family's interest in fashion over the last six generations. Writing Lena was an embodiment of my youngest daughter and how she feels things so deeply and animatedly. Heather was my "Sims"-ification of myself. Her story arc matches mine in some ways, but she also found her own path. Letting the dice decide the story was sometimes a good thing, but I also hated them at times. They definitely forced me out of my own way in developing the highs and lows of this saga. I hope you enjoyed following along with this little pixel story, and I hope you'll join me for a new story coming in August, full of drama and passion.**

[williamvrex]

BRADLEY CARL GEIGER

Paternal Ancestry scan - SPECIES ANALYSIS

Maternal Ancestry scan - SPECIES ANALYSIS

[catherinetheprincessofwales]

Famous People related to Catherine, The Princess of Wales. 

Queen Elizabeth II - 10th cousin 3 times removed

Elizabeth Montgomery - 12th cousin 2 times removed

Diana, Princess of Wales - 13th cousin

Lewis Carroll - 13th cousin 4 times removed

Charles Darwin - 13th cousin 4 times removed

Sir Winston Churchill -  14th cousin 2 times removed

Dame Olivia de Havilland - 14th cousin 4 times removed

Katharine Hepburn -14th cousin 4 times removed

Helen Keller -  14th cousin 4 times removed

[wormsngods]

Sudanese Ancestry

On account of my 0.3% Sudanese ancestry (whopping I know), I will be making a reading list and a watch list for (historical) Sudanese/Ancient Egypt centric content, recommendations are appreciated although I doubt there are any Sudanese people on here who will encounter my post but fingers crossed.

Reading List (unfinished)

• Papyrus of Ani

• Ethiopian Apocrypha

• Funj Chronicle

• Stelae of Piye

Would appreciate if someone could point me in the direction of english sudanese texts that focus more on traditional life and history rather than contemporary issues with an emphasis on the Funj, Alodia, Makuria, Nobatia, Kush and the 25th Dynasty of Egypt.

Watch List (most of this is crypto racist propaganda)

• The Egyptian

• The Ten Commandments

• Khartoum

• The Four Feathers

• Storm over the Nile

• Tajouje (Can not find this for the life of me)

Once again would love to come in contact with Sudanese people or people more well versed on the subject to give pointers.

[rotinmycore]

how does one sever their own branch off the family tree?

[llyfrenfys]

hey hope yr good! was wondering if u have any tips on researching yr ancestry? diolch!

Thank you for the ask! I go about my ancestry research in a very specific way, but I'm happy to describe what I tend to do.

Researching your ancestry (or the ancestry of historical people etc.):

My number one tip for researching ancestry is having perseverance and patience in spades. It's important to know going in that you will get led up blind alleys, dead ends and amass plenty of non-starters, but don't get put off by this! In my experience, the information you're looking for is there, but you have to get real creative about how you go about finding it. Subscriptions to genealogy sites can be helpful too, but aren't a necessity if you're only interested in going a few generations back.

My number two tip is that in general, you will have more information starting out than you think you do. To use myself as an example, when I sat down to research my ancestry, all I knew about my biological family was my birth mother's name, birth city and date of birth - my grandparent's names and dates of birth and a few patchy bits of information about aunts etc. That was 3 years ago. Since then, I've been able to trace ancestors to the second half of the 17th Century. I don't know anything about my biological father's side, so my research was all matrilineal. Starting with my grandparents, I was able to cross-reference entries in the register of births to confirm I had the right people. Once you successfully do this, you can then start on locating your grandparent's parents. In my case, I went from knowing about 2 ancestors to 6 - adding in the 4 which are my matrilineal grandparent's parents. Then repeat the process as far back as evidence and records will allow.

My number three tip concerns the how of researching ancestors. It's all well and good saying 'confirm if X is the parent of Y' but how that's done is another matter.

Taking my own ancestors, lately I've been looking into my Irish ancestors. My matrilineal grandmother's maiden name begins with B [full name redacted for privacy] (naturally you'll need to acquire maiden names of female ancestors for certain bits - this can be done by speaking to family members if that's possible, or by ordering a copy of their marriage certificate. General Register Office index records in the UK will also display maiden names and appear on mainstream subscription genealogy sites). Having ordered my grandmother's marriage certificate and found her GRO index record, I was able to find her maiden name B. as well as her father's name. So then the next step is to find records of that name which match known details (e.g. the marriage certificate usually lists a profession, in the case of my great-grandfather, he worked in sheet metal). In order to identify my great-grandfather with 100% certainty, context like my grandmother's place of birth (Stockport) and year of birth (1950) theoretically places him in Stockport around that year (given 9 months leeway at least) - there's exceptions such as if a male ancestor died before their child was born or if they were never in the picture, but generally this is a rule of thumb. The next thing to do is find records of my great-grandfather in Stockport around 1950 - give or take ~10 years (this is more difficult with more recent ancestors due to census data not being available for most of the 20th Century yet). If one were to look at the 1939 Register (accessible via mainstream genealogy sites and in-person at Kew for free) a person matching my grandmother's father's first name, middle name and surname and who is married and worked in sheet metal is recorded in the same district my grandmother would be born in in 1950. A good start - but as with any good research, you gotta corroborate. In most cases, it would be fine to presume at this point that the woman my great-grandfather is married to in the 1939 Register is my grandmother's mother. However, upon checking the GRO Index of births, my great-grandfather and his wife's name do not come up when searching for my grandmother's birth record. Instead, my great-grandfather's name comes up with a different name. To be brief, the actual situation is that he separated from his first spouse before my grandmother who was born. Thus why his wife in 1939 *isn't* my great-grandmother. Upon checking the second spouse's name against the GRO index, my great-grandfather married her in the 1980s (thus legitimising my grandmother - one can only assume the law and taboo around divorce led to the delay in marrying his new spouse). Great-grandmother's name confirmed. So that gives me both my great-grandparent's names. But sticking with my great-grandfather, lets say I want to trace his father. Knowing more detail about my great-grandfather's later life means I can double check details of his early life. After having ordered his marriage certificate with his second wife (most certificates on the GRO are about £11 with second class post) I find out his father's name. Through that, I repeat the process above to verify and corroborate his father's details to match him 100%. Assuming by now I have my great-grandfather's parent's names through this method, I can locate his birth record on the GRO index and find my great-grandfather was born in 1912 in Liverpool.

And so on and so forth. If you're not in the UK you'll have to look up what resources (paid and free) are available in your country - but some records are possible to find online. My ancestors above were Catholic, so this resource was no use to me. But the Church of England Parish Clerk records for Lancashire are available online here, for example - with similar sites existing for other counties. Another thing is to make use of Boolean commands on Google. Typing "ancestor name" "[year]" "[city or town]" can bring up results - e.g. digitised books, records and newspapers in the public domain are indexed by Google and if you ancestor is mentioned in any of them, they will come up. This happened for me with an ancestor on my grandfather's side - some County Councils keep some historical records online and it turned out one of my ancestors had had sex with two men in 1769 (I guess it must have been the Summer of 69 tbqh!) who were both possibly the father of her child - the court decided they both had to pay child support to the parish (who actually raised the child ).

But remember that you can easily be led up blind alleys, so my biggest tip is still to corroborate and check your work as you go along. Like with my example, if I assumed my great-grandfather's first wife was my great-grandmother, I would have gone completely in the wrong direction. Historical records have a habit of being slippery fish so it's good practice to be critical of sources and make sure you're clear on the timeline of things. If you're using a paid genealogy site, getting things wrong or assuming things can affect other users (if they see your family tree and it has wrong information in it, that can mislead people down the wrong path as well). I've seen this mostly with North American users who might get a fact wrong about a European ancestor and will not notice, causing a lot of headache in setting the record straight. Carelessness from other users pollutes the timeline and can make it difficult for others to research an ancestor you have in common with them if you get it wrong. If you're researching an ancestor who is only a theory or a hypothesis, there are tags you can put on that ancestor's page which show they're a hypothesis/theory - which can really help others know so they don't take the information you have on the ancestor as fact. Despite this, still have fun with it and enjoy finding out more about your relatives - I hope that you're able to find this answer somewhat useful.

If you (or anyone else reading this) has any more questions, you are very welcome to make a comment or send another ask.

Good luck! Pob lwc!

[raointean]

I made a PowerPoint for the English club at my school and I thought y'all might appreciate it.

Art of Dior and Nimloth is by Jenny Dolfen.

Art of Celebrian is by Veronnikka of Deviantart and posted on tumblr by @elf-esteem who might be the same person? Idk

[juicy-cloture]

Happy BHM to my fellow AAs!!

My name is Ariel and I am an amateur genealogist. It’s actually something I really enjoy and have spent countless hours going through archives to construct my family tree and those of others.

In the spirit of the season, I’m offering my ancestry investigatorial services to help you build your family tree & trace it back as far as we can go. Obviously for us things get sticky around the late 1800s as far as documentation goes, but I have been able to trace a couple familial lines up to enslaved individuals arriving in Virginia in the 1600s. I’ve also been able to find a lot of fascinating records- one of which was the enslaved “marriage certificate” of my great great great (3x) grandparents. Obviously I can’t promise anything but I will search as diligently as I can 🫡

I’m doing this on a pay what you can basis. $5, $20, whatever y’all can afford. I’ll just need your family names & info- the more you know the better. Your grandparents’ names, birthdates, and birth places are a great place to start but if there are some holes you don’t know I’ll do my best to help you figure it out. Just lmk! 🤎

[yooniesim]

for the longest time i thought you were asian, but like specifically korean or japanese idk why 😭

hahaha anon no worries, I am multiracial/mixed. specifically blasian (japanese tho not korean) so you were kinda right 😂

[hepbaestus]

Doing some of my own family tree things, and I really did just come from a line of only children huh.

But my god am I thankful that I have older siblings who've already done some of the hard work in terms of finding ancestors. I can just connect people like it's connect four ot some shit.

[kitthew]

genealogy is suuuuuch a boring and confusing and stressful hobby until all of a sudden u find something that makes soooooo much sense and all the dumb weird pieces start fitting together and u feel like ur meeting urself for the very first time!

[focsle]

They think I’m looking up Family Members when I’m really looking up Whale Ships.

[passionfruitmango]

My ancestors on my father's side are begging me to connect with them and I don't know where to start?

[sims-half-crazy]

50 years have passed since our last look at the Gosnoll family tree.