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Historic NY

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19. I've actually hired them on and with my finding out stuff they were pretty successful
Mon Jul 18, 2022, 08:27 AM
Jul 2022

with the Italian Genealogist who had to go to city halls and archives where the info is not digitalized and make copies. I was able to come up with a couple of relations there and here that had gaps but the data all matched. We're back to around 1500. Unfortunately, it will means another go. There is a monastery over there that has the towns records which was closed during Covid. They definitely got info my family never knew. My ggfsather from Italy came here 3 times in the late 1880s for some period to NY City. No one even knew but I now suspect that given our last name as it was correctly spelled it had to do with a major "family" person. A cousin I found said a lot of time they didn't talk about such things. His last name is notorious also. It was strange but they did find a 3rd ggrfather was murdered. Now if we can crack the Irish side beyond 1825. They have been zeroing in on DNA markers, I have to try another test as not all DNA companies do the same tests.

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I think if you have an account you can do it. Ocelot II Nov 2021 #1
I found it too intrusive, and got off it. secondwind Nov 2021 #2
I actually leave some incorrect information on my trees Sherman A1 Nov 2021 #3
I get your point, but facts are facts bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #5
No, they're not. Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2021 #13
I have seen a family tree for one wnylib Nov 2021 #14
Absolutely! I especially learned to question... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2021 #15
I am on Ancestry all the time, it is a hobby of mine. Irish_Dem Nov 2021 #4
Ugh mahina Nov 2021 #6
You don't correct other people's trees. You make your own. njhoneybadger Nov 2021 #7
I had a family tree done in 1895 or so. I felt an obligation to put it applegrove Nov 2021 #8
Imagine finding your 1895 tree expanded with 3 times the number of people in your families bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #9
Yes. For me I wasn't afraid of mistakes, I can see how aggravating that would be. For me it applegrove Nov 2021 #10
OK - you need to realize this isn't how Ancestry works. Algernon Moncrieff Nov 2021 #11
Yes, I'm beginning to realize bucolic_frolic Nov 2021 #12
I've actually hired them on and with my finding out stuff they were pretty successful Historic NY Jul 2022 #19
A lot of family trees are completely inaccurate csziggy Apr 2022 #16
If it's a family tree, and you have an account Montauk6 Jul 2022 #17
Lots of people jumble stuff they think is theirs.... Historic NY Jul 2022 #18
True surnames may timms139 Mar 2024 #20
The census takers in any given area tended to be the ethnicity of earlier immigrants bucolic_frolic Mar 2024 #21
Supposedly my grandfather had a... duncang Jun 2024 #22
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