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Correction. My dad's side;
Grandfather: Poland and Prussia
Grandmother: she traced her family all the way back to the Revolutionary War.

Same. Great polls!

Have you ever used ancestry.com? It’s quite helpful for finding some basic information, such as dates of death and birth, full names, marriages and children, and locations of births and deaths.

I’m currently doing a two-week free trial and I’ve managed to trace nearly all of my lines back to 200 years ago within a half day’s work.

Not really - I think I used it very briefly when it was pretty new, for a similar trial period, but I didn’t do much with it.

That’s a very good idea, though; thanks for reminding me of it! I don’t have time to do a good job of it right now, but I’ll make it a project for later.

A couple of my aunts on my dad’s side put together a “family history” thing, but I don’t remember how far it goes back. And my dad researched at least one side of his family to qualify for Sons of the American Revolution. We had an ancestor who fought in the Revolutionary War, and he traced that one back to his origin in England. I have the material my dad submitted around here somewhere.

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Yes Dr. What most fail to realize that ancestry.com started early 80's and people used it as a family tree maker and they use all that info over 30 years later for people now to build their Geneology. When I used it back then there was absolutely NO information on any relative of mine, I spent a lot of time researching other websites to compile my tree. Cyndi's List was by far the most helpful with massive lists of known and proven links to other countries birth & death certificates, ship information, details on how and why surnames changed when emigrating to America or even before. Back then it was a huge undertaking.thousands of hours of work when now all you do on Ancestry is click a couple buttons. Many people have the very hard work of others to thank for their now newfound family information.

Fitz - I’m well aware of how ancestry works and why there are so much information on there now. My great uncle has an extremely developed family tree that he’s been working on for decades and can be thanked for the knowledge that I have now and was able access from his tree.
That said, there’s nothing wrong with accessing that information. Perhaps I’m reading too much into your comment, but it seems you’re a little upset that it’s so easy to do now, when you had to work for it once upon a time. I don’t understand that. The whole point of it is that it’s shared history.

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Huh

We might be cousins then! Some of my ancestors were German and Swiss who settled in Pennsylvania

Do you know where in PA they lived??? Mine are from the northeast, in the Erie area!

Nope, I don’t. My bunch left PA after a while and settled in Missouri, so I don’t know much about them before that

They were Mennonites