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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2012 2:47:00 GMT -5
A friend sent these genealogy sites -he was trying to help an email friend of mine who had a closed adoption-she was able to find her mother( deceased-) but her birth father's family refused to help she is in her early 60's -but this has bothered her all her life- she never felt at home in the adopted home of 6 other children- He helped her as far as he could. I have never tried this as I only know my grandparents not great-greats- but I find it fascinating. usgenweb.org/ genforum.genealogy.com/ wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi www.n2genealogy.com/
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Post by colleensews on Jan 23, 2012 6:44:25 GMT -5
Thanks, Bertie. I've always been interested in genealogy. Not enough to pursue it on my mom's side though. I'm the end of the line there. She has no siblings. I have no siblings, so there doesn't seem to be a point. My aunt has done the work on my dad's side. I know that the findings can be surprising, and may not match up with what one has been led to believe. I thought my last name was German since that is a common heritage in this area. Come to find out that it is actually a French lineage.
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Post by triplemd2 on Jan 23, 2012 9:15:53 GMT -5
Hey, Y'all! =:^) How y'all doin' on this glorious FINISH THE NYS TAX FORM Monday! <g>
I'm swell, great sleep, good rest, phenomenal dreams and IN THE CORRECT FORM COMPLETING frame of mind. <g>
Just wanted to say Mom was very into our genealogy, the more she dug, the more her siblings wanted COPIES of all the literally precious old photographs she found, especially of "Mumma and Puppa's Wedding" when they were young strapping healthy virile folks,
and of all our war hero and law enforcement uncles, some lost in those efforts, others lived full lives, the children of the siblings, THEIR children, and more, the ROOTS of the family all the way back into the old country which Mom really wanted to visit but that was never really a likely thing as she didn't fly and she hated water so Italy would never have been reached unless someone drugged her and she wasn't likely to take to that either.
My folks would do road trips to genealogy resource locations and one trip I took them on had us stop in Utah at a Mormon facility, one trip they took to Montreal I think had them actually accidentally DISCOVER a cousin, and this was remarkable because Mom's last name is not an UNCOMMON name in Italy or in America, even though her heritage goes back to Italian nobility.
ONE DAY I will have to read Italian history other than the Don Bosco books I read and loved as a kid to learn WHAT HAPPENED to Grandpa's "wealth and property" because he came here with nothing, worked in Pennsylvania coal mines, got black lung disease and died very early (not in his twenties, but before I had a chance to meet him).
Mom CREATED photo albums with pictures of all family members and wrote details on the backs, clipped articles, my various uncles' obituaries, one was a parachuter shot down in France, that courage and conviction stirs me today, such a bleak chance of surviving that drop yet all those men volunteered for that unit and that duty, I wish I'd have had a chance to meet him.
On Dad's side so little was shared initially in my childhood because he had no interest, I barely knew some of his family who moved out to San Diego, that same person had THREE STUNNING BLONDE Germanic hottie daughters I didn't meet until my Grandmother's funeral and Dad chuckled that he PURPOSELY had not shared their existence with me (I think they had to be second cousins or it wouldn't have been a matter FOR a joke), his point being I was a very determined young "dater" of very attractive young ladies, and I guess he thought I wasn't yet ready to "settle down" with just one. <g>
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