Dude...
I hit a break in tracing my geneology today! I always wanted to know but I dont want to know bad enough to go pay to look through the vital records at the courthouse, so if I couldn't find it free online I didnt bother...I was always searching my paternal line, today I got a LUCKY break! My mother's side i know NOTHING about, i never even knew my Grandfather's name... i FOUND HIM! His bible says JW and they called him Jack and i FOUND a JW "Jack" Garrett and i looked and its him, his birthday and death date and burial site and on the site where i found this information, it has a whole line going back through his mother's side because some woman has her family's bible and i've found all the way back to 1800..
and DUDE my maternal ancestors must've been fucking colonists, because i'm back to 1780's and its only moved from GEORGIA in 1800. Before Georgia for that line it was South Carolina. I think i'm going to run into a block of only names or possibly the line die out soon, because the earliest i've found had only a birth date and death date, not any locations. And its in aproximates "about 1772" and 'after 1768'
So i still haven't traced it back to my ancestry pre-american, BUT this is a BREAKTHROUGH! I have so many names and places to try... actually thats a lie, lol. I have Dublin, Ga (here); Cherokee, Ga; Fannin county, Ga; and then just South Carolina...
EDIT!!!!!! I traced it all the way back to a man named Peter Pfister, born in 1709 in Canton of Bern, Switzerland. Sadly the only other information (other than his son's name) was that he died in 1740 (at 31) in Virginia and was buried along the side of the road. The other ones farthest back (that had more than just a name in relation to someone farther down) were an EXTREMELY long-living man named Richard Cantrill: Born 1660 in Derbyshire, England- died 1753 (93 years old!!!), Ellis Jones: Born circa 1637 in Flint, Wales- died in Philadelphia (year not found), his daughter Dorothy: Born 1672 in Denbigh, Wales- died 1730 in Philadelphia, and his wife Jane, who lived to be 88 (born- 1642, died- 1730)
That was all from a family bible someone had that linked to my great grandmother. I found my mother's dad's name and he was the last on the list of links, and it went to his mother, then her parents, and on and on it went, lol. I found and recorded every person until I hit dead ends. I asked her why I couldn't find anything on her grandfather and she says its probably because they are native americans, but honestly? I think I just got really really lucky with that bible, because i cant find ANYTHING on my dad's parents. Not even their wedding record from the 50's. Although if you've ever looked, most of the free directories are pre-1900s and idk the names of ANY of my dad's side before my grandparents, and i'm not sure they remember either. My grandmother had like... 14 siblings and all but a few of them are dead. Then the 1930 census records for my county aren't on the online directory, it stops at 1850. And i'm not hauling my ass to the courthouse and paying 20 bucks for it. Hell, one of my grandmother's brothers died when he was 17... which was before she was born... and she was born in 1929, lol. It's just too hard for that. I'm going to have to go to their house and go in the room with all the random shit and look for the old family bible.
This is really interesting. It got to be too much to write down so i'm making a family tree graph on the computer, lol.
Have any of you ever successfully traced your ancestry? Its really tedious, lol. I mean, you multiply by 2 every generation back just staying on YOUR blood line. I'm going back later to fill in siblings and shit, because after about two generations back that got HARD (i couldn't find my grandfather's siblings, but GOD my mom says he had 16 siblings... wow... i have tons of distant cousins out there, lmao.)
See, my mother's dad died 2 months after she got married, all her grandparents were dead before that, and i wasnt born for 6 or so years and then her mother died when i was really small, so i know next to NOTHING about my mom's side (other than the fact that there are 2390482394820934 old people in this city who walk up to me and start talking to me like i've known them forever and idr ever seeing them in my LIFE)
and DUDE my maternal ancestors must've been fucking colonists, because i'm back to 1780's and its only moved from GEORGIA in 1800. Before Georgia for that line it was South Carolina. I think i'm going to run into a block of only names or possibly the line die out soon, because the earliest i've found had only a birth date and death date, not any locations. And its in aproximates "about 1772" and 'after 1768'
So i still haven't traced it back to my ancestry pre-american, BUT this is a BREAKTHROUGH! I have so many names and places to try... actually thats a lie, lol. I have Dublin, Ga (here); Cherokee, Ga; Fannin county, Ga; and then just South Carolina...
EDIT!!!!!! I traced it all the way back to a man named Peter Pfister, born in 1709 in Canton of Bern, Switzerland. Sadly the only other information (other than his son's name) was that he died in 1740 (at 31) in Virginia and was buried along the side of the road. The other ones farthest back (that had more than just a name in relation to someone farther down) were an EXTREMELY long-living man named Richard Cantrill: Born 1660 in Derbyshire, England- died 1753 (93 years old!!!), Ellis Jones: Born circa 1637 in Flint, Wales- died in Philadelphia (year not found), his daughter Dorothy: Born 1672 in Denbigh, Wales- died 1730 in Philadelphia, and his wife Jane, who lived to be 88 (born- 1642, died- 1730)
That was all from a family bible someone had that linked to my great grandmother. I found my mother's dad's name and he was the last on the list of links, and it went to his mother, then her parents, and on and on it went, lol. I found and recorded every person until I hit dead ends. I asked her why I couldn't find anything on her grandfather and she says its probably because they are native americans, but honestly? I think I just got really really lucky with that bible, because i cant find ANYTHING on my dad's parents. Not even their wedding record from the 50's. Although if you've ever looked, most of the free directories are pre-1900s and idk the names of ANY of my dad's side before my grandparents, and i'm not sure they remember either. My grandmother had like... 14 siblings and all but a few of them are dead. Then the 1930 census records for my county aren't on the online directory, it stops at 1850. And i'm not hauling my ass to the courthouse and paying 20 bucks for it. Hell, one of my grandmother's brothers died when he was 17... which was before she was born... and she was born in 1929, lol. It's just too hard for that. I'm going to have to go to their house and go in the room with all the random shit and look for the old family bible.
This is really interesting. It got to be too much to write down so i'm making a family tree graph on the computer, lol.
Have any of you ever successfully traced your ancestry? Its really tedious, lol. I mean, you multiply by 2 every generation back just staying on YOUR blood line. I'm going back later to fill in siblings and shit, because after about two generations back that got HARD (i couldn't find my grandfather's siblings, but GOD my mom says he had 16 siblings... wow... i have tons of distant cousins out there, lmao.)
See, my mother's dad died 2 months after she got married, all her grandparents were dead before that, and i wasnt born for 6 or so years and then her mother died when i was really small, so i know next to NOTHING about my mom's side (other than the fact that there are 2390482394820934 old people in this city who walk up to me and start talking to me like i've known them forever and idr ever seeing them in my LIFE)