Ancestry/Genealogy

csziggy

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6. Cool! Hubby goes back to one of the lines, but he's not into approval.

Mon Dec 12, 2011, 07:04 PM

Dec 2011

I expect I connect to one somewhere - grandmother and Mom were into DAR and once they had their Revolutionary linkage, they really didn't care.

Since Walter Palmer was hanging around with the Mayflower crowd, probably more than one of his sons' wives was a daughter of the original group.

Ancestry is adding more European sources - and you don't have to know the language unless you want to translate the original documents. I found some about my brother in laws family from (at various times) Austria-Hungary, Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc. And I certainly don't speak either of the languages his ancestors spoke!

My dead end are the Welsh members - and I may have to learn Welsh to trace them! Trying to find which Mary Morgan married my great-great-grandfather and who her parents were is pretty much impossible from here. I think there were several hundred Mary Morgans born in the time period she might have been in Cardiganshire - and a good number of them were born in the village she claimed to have been born in.

I've found the marriage in 1838 and I guess the next step is ordering the wedding certificate to see if it has parents listed. But the chances are that it will be in Welsh and won't do me any good.

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I'm glad they have this group, hope we can keep it going. [View all] CanonRay Dec 2011 OP

Me too! Cooley Hurd Dec 2011 #1

K&R! Rhiannon12866 Dec 2011 #15

Hi! We certainly could use it! csziggy Dec 2011 #2

I just got my wife's side approved by the Mayflower society CanonRay Dec 2011 #5

Cool! Hubby goes back to one of the lines, but he's not into approval. csziggy Dec 2011 #6

For me, I wanted to see if I could really document it successfully CanonRay Dec 2011 #10

The documentation is the hard part - congratulations on that! csziggy Dec 2011 #11

Actually... Spider Jerusalem Dec 2011 #14

FreeBMD.org.uk is where I found the marriage information csziggy Dec 2011 #16

You should be able to order it from the General Records Office, I think Spider Jerusalem Dec 2011 #18

Oh, I know I can order it - and how to set up the account to order csziggy Dec 2011 #19

I was personally a bit surprised to discover how much you can find online now... Spider Jerusalem Dec 2011 #20

It is so much easier than it was years ago to do research! csziggy Dec 2011 #21

Several of my ancestors were Quakers, actually Spider Jerusalem Dec 2011 #22

Wow....Sounds a lot like my husband and me...He had an ancestor in the Civil War and is whathehell Dec 2011 #8

Geneaolgy is a fun hobby Maccagirl Dec 2011 #3

I've found numerous relatives over the years PatSeg Dec 2011 #17

I do too The Genealogist Dec 2011 #4

Like this group! DearHeart Dec 2011 #7

Thanks for the information! whathehell Dec 2011 #9

I wish you luck! DearHeart Dec 2011 #12

Thanks, DearHeart. n/t whathehell Dec 2011 #13