Ancestry

[Baron1710]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

wow that's awesome, 1191? who did the tracing for you and what kind of records did you use? were they family archives?

The records from the book are fairly easy to trace as the deGraffenreid name is well known in the local area of Switzerland where they came from, just outside of Bern. Baron Christophe deGraffenreid came to New Bern, in 1710 and his son stayed in America when he went back to Switzerland. I went to Worb 2 summers ago and took pictures of most of the grave stones there, and the pews with deGraffenreid carved into them at the church in Bern. It was pretty cool.

[Esther]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

I just came across ancestry.com yesterday. It is a place where you can start a family tree and reseach gov't records for ancestors.

Has anyone here researched their ancestry? How far back were you able to go? I only got to my great great grandparents. My great grandparents signed the census of 1910.

On a side note, I am also researching the Jews from Spain and how they migrated to Latin America and the new world starting in 1492. 1492 was the same year that Columbus left for the new world and that the roman catholic inquisition was happening in Spain. Thus the reason for the Jewish migration to Latin America. There are serveral websites about crypto jews in Latin America. Two of my grandparents last names are listed as spanish jews from the records of the inquisition. Any comments?

ancestry.com is great and also cindyslist which may be spelled with a "y" instead of "i". It has been awhile since I have done any research. I love to do it, but it is very time consuming.

There used to be a chat room for generalogist that was helpful to ask questions from folks that do a lot of the research.

[Dedicated Mind]

Originally Posted by Esther

ancestry.com is great and also cindyslist which may be spelled with a "y" instead of "i". It has been awhile since I have done any research. I love to do it, but it is very time consuming.

There used to be a chat room for generalogist that was helpful to ask questions from folks that do a lot of the research.

just found cyndislist, thanks for the info.

[Esther]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

just found cyndislist, thanks for the info.

Welcome.

She also used to have a lot of links that were helpful.

[Blubayou]

I researched my mother's family a couple of years ago. I used Ancestry.com, and a state library that had a lot of genealogy records. The baptism records of the Catholic Church were very helpful. I traced the family back to the 1500's in France. It was my Christmas gift to the family at an annual family gathering. And I agree with Ester, it is very interesting but very time consuming.

[tamor]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

Great news! Glad I could help. My last name should be Rivera also. I have grandparents with Molina, Maldonado, Pagan, Vega and Diaz. Did the home page work for you? It always freezes up for me, don't know if its dialup or not.

I was able to open the ones that I tried. I didn't have alot of time when I was looking at it. He has an ancestry book at home that one of his aunts did a few years ago. I need to get it and compare it with what I can find on that website.

[True Believer]

Originally Posted by Dedicated Mind

I just came across ancestry.com yesterday. It is a place where you can start a family tree and reseach gov't records for ancestors.

Has anyone here researched their ancestry? How far back were you able to go? I only got to my great great grandparents. My great grandparents signed the census of 1910.

On a side note, I am also researching the Jews from Spain and how they migrated to Latin America and the new world starting in 1492. 1492 was the same year that Columbus left for the new world and that the roman catholic inquisition was happening in Spain. Thus the reason for the Jewish migration to Latin America. There are serveral websites about crypto jews in Latin America. Two of my grandparents last names are listed as spanish jews from the records of the inquisition. Any comments?

My aunt did our family tree years ago. She got it back from my grandmothers side to 1700 and my grandfathers side she got back to 1500. She went over to Norway and did a lot of research.

My father's family we are not so good. We are just to the 1900's with them. So now we have to try & find some more about them.

[Margies3]

Rootsweb is another great genealogy site.

I've researched the Stuckey line of my family back to the early 1700's.

My Whitcomb line has been done already by people better than myself. They've got that line back to the 1300's.

I've only been able to get my Harper line back to the early 1800's, but found some really, really interesting material on them.

I can't go any further back than the late 1800's on my Hosler/Chavalier line. I've hit a brick wall that will not move on that one!

And I can't even make my self start out on my Smith line. I look at that as hopeless. Part of the Smith line includes the Croninger/Groninger line tho and I've got that particular branch back to the late 1700's.

If you get really interested and want them, let me know. I have lots and lots of websites for general genealogy. Good luck on your research.

[Dedicated Mind]

Originally Posted by Margies3

Rootsweb is another great genealogy site.

I've researched the Stuckey line of my family back to the early 1700's.

My Whitcomb line has been done already by people better than myself. They've got that line back to the 1300's.

I've only been able to get my Harper line back to the early 1800's, but found some really, really interesting material on them.

I can't go any further back than the late 1800's on my Hosler/Chavalier line. I've hit a brick wall that will not move on that one!

And I can't even make my self start out on my Smith line. I look at that as hopeless. Part of the Smith line includes the Croninger/Groninger line tho and I've got that particular branch back to the late 1700's.

If you get really interested and want them, let me know. I have lots and lots of websites for general genealogy. Good luck on your research.

I just started looking at websites yesterday. I've only gone 4 generations back. I don't know what kind of searches I need to do next since Puerto Rico was captured from spain in the 1800's (I think). I need to check on that tomorrow. Do you know of any websites that specialize on catholic records from puerto rico or spain?

[berkeley]

Originally Posted by tamor

Spain. My husband's last name is Moraga.

(as a side note, so is mine now!)

That's better than More agua...