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family history
PaulN/KS:
I'm First Generation here on my Father's side. Not much to look up and I only been here 65+ years so not far to look back ... ;)
Strichev:
According to old church books my ancestors have been living in the same valley (an area of some 50 square miles) since 1490's on my father's side and maybe a few decades less on my mother's side. They most likely originally came from what is today Serbia and relocated to today's Slovenia due to the Ottomans and stayed in the same area for the next 500 years or so. In fact both family names can be traced to their respecitve villages as far back as 1600's. My father's surname is mentioned in relation to "attempting to incite a peasant's revolt". The guy got punished with 30 strikes using a "light stick", tried to incite another revolt a few years later and got sentenced to 30 heavy stripes using a "heavy stick". No mention of defying authorities for the next 370 years after that. On my mother's side the surname is mentioned across several generations as clergymen or their brothers. More recently, one of my great great grandfathers came from Italy some time before 1900.
PEARL DRUMS:
I love my direct family's history. I've "studied" my dads side extensively. Im the 5th generation off the boat from Germany. My family earned its way over here by twisting up rope in exchange for rides on ships. It took them a few years and several stops. But they made it and here we all were and are. They had intended on settling in another German Catholic community about 15 miles farther away. But, the carts were falling apart, the weather was miserable and the ox were whooped. So they stopped in Fowler, Michigan. Needless to say I belong to one of those super enormous midwest German Catholic families where every family had 6-10 kids each back in "the day".
BowEd:
100% Dutch as far as I know.Pretty much all farmers.My sister did a heritage history of us long ago talking to very old local relatives of us tracing us clear back to the Netherlands.I have long shirt tail relatives there.
osage outlaw:
My wife got me one of those DNA history kits. The results didn't line up with what we've been told on my Dad's side. The small percentage of African was a surprise.
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