October 17, 1689: Where were your ANCESTORS?

[charlie and algernon]

My dad's family was in Austria, on their way to Germany before immigrating to the Colonies. My mom's family was in Italy where they'll stay till the turn of the 20th Century.


edit: wrong century

[Aristus]

1. My earliest American ancestor, the Scots-Irish Andrew Totty, was working off his passage

to Virginia as an indentured servant.

[LadyoftheRabbits]

2. Mom's ancestors were in New Amsterdam

the other ones were in Crete. We think. And my dad's ancestors were in Iran, and would move to the Netherlands in the next century.

[graywarrior]

3. Drinking til they puked

[LeftyMom]

4. Rome and Hungary.

[Lyric]

38. I have ancestors from Eastern Europe, too.

On my Dad's side. The town they lived in is in modern-day Slovokia, but back then it was just another part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. It's in the Carpathian Mountains, so of course ThinkBlue1966 loves to refer to me as the "Scourge of Carpathia" on a regular basis.

:rofl:

[femmocrat]

90. Maybe we are related!

My family is also from Slovakia. I have relatives near Bratislava (my dad's side).

[Ptah]

5. Wurtemburg

Christmas Comes to Wurtemburg



"Now Christmas had come to be faithfully observed in Wurtemburg territory ans was an eagerly awaited annual event by the Geradstetteners. Thirty years of war had impoverished many in Wurtemburg and other parts of Germany, especially amount the commoners. Even though they had little heart for wartime economy, the early **generic surname**s were compelled to spend their good time and tax at the behalf of the war-lords. Tough-sledding as it was, they were happy in the religious life as was afforded them."

"Ulrich’s son Christopher, the next ruler, was strong on church government and Lutherism was having its sway upon the people during his reign and that of his son Louis. Prince Louis died childless and a kinsman, Prince Frederick 1st ruled to 1608.

Duke John Frederick was ruler of Wurtemburg when Simon **generic surname** was born in 1609 at Geradstetten. This **generic surname** was reared during the period when forks were first being used in place of fingers.

Simon **generic surname** married in 1644 and had one son, Johannas, who grew to manhood and married Anna Lemburger. They had three children."

[zanne]

6. France

My maiden name is Dupont, which, loosely translated, means "of the bridge". So either they were bridge builders, they lived near a bridge, or they lived under a bridge.

[charlie and algernon]

8. hm, any relation to the Dupont paint/chemical family?

[zanne]

9. "Better living through Chemistry"? no. nt

[Celeborn Skywalker]

7. In Ulster,

Wales, Northern England, Germany, and America (my cherokee ancestors).

[ZombieNixon]

10. Probably somewhere in central India.

Maybe east central India. :shrug:

[WolverineDG]

11. Mine were already here

Some came on the Mayflower; some came over soon after with Rev. Maverick & Rev. King (my ancestor).

Here's info on one of them: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Stoddard

dg

[Rosie1223]

75. My husband is also a descendant of Solomon Stoddard

Hi cousin! :hi:

[Redstone]

12. Moving in with their cousins the Abenakis, after having lost 90% of their

population from White Man's Diseases.

Losing their language, but preserving their identity as Pennacooks as long as they could manage.

(No bitterness here; all that was a LONG time ago. There are no full-blood Pennacooks left, just us half or less breeds who carry the memories. But that's OK with me, because I'd not be happy if there were enough of us left to open a casino.)

Redstone

[elshiva]

13. Okay, most of my mom's family was here. My maternal grandmother's

family came over on the Mayflower. My dad's family was somewhere in Eastern Europe.

[charlie and algernon]

15. wow, what are the odds of two DUers having ancestors on the Mayflower

Wolverine's ancestors came over on the Mayflower too

[Franzia]

14. Don't know, don't care.

But whoever they were, they were probably voting for some pre-paleo-republican somewhere.

Yuck.

[Iggo]

16. My mom's ancestors were still in Ireland.

My Dad's ancestors were somwhere here in what was Mexico but is now SoCal, USofA.

[madinmaryland]

17. From Dietfurt, Bavaria, my ninth-great grandfather Johann Casper who was born on April 20, 1675,

had a sister born on Oct, 17, 1683 who died during delivery on that day.

His son Johann (Hanns) Casper, Jr. brought his wife and son to America in 1738, whom I am a descendent of.

[MrScorpio]

18. Ireland, Northern England, Africa, the Cherokee Nation

[frogmarch]

19. My mom's family was in the Himalayan

foothills of northern India, and my dad's family in England and Holland.

[kwassa]

20. massachusetts and new hampshire

[jobycom]

21. Hopefully in the sack, insuring my future. nt

[zanne]

96. Best answer! nt

[mcctatas]

22. Some godforsaken bog on the Emerald Isle I suspect...

my great grandparents didn't come over until 1917.

[astonamous]

23. Wales...

You know what they say about the Welsh?

[fortyfeetunder]

24. Europe, North America, Africa...and Lord knows where else.

I am a mutt.

[evlbstrd]

25. Under the heel of the British oppressor.

Kilkenny.

[Flaxbee]

26. Bavaria, Scotland, England, France and the great North American

Plains..not sure what tribe, though I wish I knew.

[NNadir]

27. In the garden. It's not that they were gardners, but that they were slime molds.

As slime molds, they were the highest ranking members of my family thus far.

[The Inquisitive]

28. Boston and Italy

[Lucian]

29. Austria, Norway, and Canada.

My grandma's family were Chippewa living in Canada.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

30. Some were being farmers in Norway

Others were being farmers in Latvia.

Still others were being innkeepers in Germany.

A small contingent were Huguenots who emigrated to Germany to escape persecution in France.

[realisticphish]

31. my father's family (my last name) had been here for 50 years

we owned part of manhattan.

Not so anymore :D

the rest of my family was scattered around modern day germany and hungary

[grasswire]

34. hmmm.....what part of Manhattan?

Is your family part of the famous dispute over lower Manhattan? I am a descendent of Annetje Jans, the most famous woman in early New Amsterdam, whose husband was lost at sea and left her most of lower Manhattan. Her estate was never settled and reverted to the government. It cannot be re-opened, by law. Too bad, too bad.

[realisticphish]

43. not sure

all our genealogy books are at my parent's house. I do know that i've seen the maps, but unfortunately i can't remember what part. Phillipe de Truex was my ancestor, a Walloon from Belgium

[Drunken Irishman]

32. Mostly Ireland.

[grasswire]

33. Connecticut and Massachusetts

My Mayflower ancestors were John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley. Howland came to the New World as a manservant, and rose in stature in the colony to become an elder. Elizabeth was just a girl when she came with her family on the Mayflower, and her family died in the first winter. John and Elizabeth had many children and prospered despite the bitter hardships. John Howland actually fell OFF the Mayflower when it was at sea, and only survived by catching on to a trailing rope as the ship kept moving.

Family members settled many towns in Connecticut in the 1600s -- if only they had kept the property owned along the Connecticut River. Sigh.

No family members moved to the west until 1924, so they were in New England for 300 years plus.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

35. Some were in Maine; some in Scotland; some in Norway; a few in Switzerland.

[sarge43]

36. Of those I know about, most were in Germany or Britain.

Some had already immigrated from England to American.

[Lyric]

37. Having babies in Solingen, Germany.

They immigrated to France shortly thereafter, to make Solingen steel swords for the French king's Army.

http://www.engle-family.org

(note: this is not my surname, but this IS one of my ancestral families, and I am indeed named on the long list of Engle Family Cousins that's linked from the front page)

Lots of neat stuff there for genealogy nuts like me.

:hi:

[Turbineguy]

39. Groningen

Don't try to pronounce it until you cover your keyboard and screen with plastic wrap.

And my ancestor's name was Balster. With a name like that you have to father at least 12 children. And he did.

[Bossy Monkey]

40. Switzerland, Germany, Ireland, England, Denmark nt

[XNASA]

41. Marlborough Massachusetts

My paternal pedigree arrived in Salem from Great Yarmouth England in 1637.

My Mom's family was still in Germany.

[TZ]

42. Somewhere in Poland and Russia

I suppose. Probably busy being blamed for the latest disaster, or kicked out of their homes...( back then it was always the JEWS did it!)

[old mark]

44. 1689 - parts of my mothers family recently bought land from

Willian Penn's sons and settled in SE Pennsylvania. Another part of mom's family were already here - Osage Nation.

My father's family were in the Burgenland - Germans living in the mountainous area of Austria, where they would be till after my grandfather was killed in WWI while serving in the German Army.
They came here in 1919. ( My father is now 91, living in South Texas)

mark

[tismyself]

45. Virginia

[distantearlywarning]

47. Mine were in Virginia around that time too.

Perhaps we are related...

[tismyself]

51. Cool!

Let me know if you want to look into that, I think it would be fun.

[Sanity Claws]

46. In Ireland, making poteen and plotting against the Brits

Then probably going to the local priest for confession.

[harmonicon]

48. I don't really know

There is debate in my family about this..... but, either way, a number of the countries that my ancestors came to the US from didn't exist in 1689.

[Wetzelbill]

49. They were on the plains of Montana

Wreaking havoc. :) And the rest of them were mostly in Germany. :)

on edit:

Wait they would have came here by then. I think they were also spread out in Ohio, West Virginia and Pennslyvania and eventually made their way out West.

[Blue_Tires]

50. west africa?

[AwakeAtLast]

52. My Mom's side was in Ireland and England

My Dad's side was in Germany (his Dad), and here in the colonies. My grandmother's family can be traced in this country back to 1660 (last name is Smith).

[Lorien]

53. Here, Germany, Belgium, England, Ireland.

I'm descended from William and Mary Brewster, two Mayflower passengers. No Native American in me, unfortunately.

[Tektonik]

54. No clue, I would think France and Afghanistan

But there are some unknowns in my family tree, such as my mom's lineage may be partially Jewish, but no one knows. MY paternal grandmother has been rumored to be from Saudi Arabia, India, and some just say she was just from Afghanistan. :shrug:

[SarahB]

55. Massachusetts and Sweden

[Tikki]

56. Scattered along the Northern part of what is now....

called The United States of America.

I think the Sioux called it home.

Tikki

[dgibby]

59. Turtle Island?

[Tikki]

82. Oglala.....

Here is an earlier account of the Sioux...
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/tribes/siouan/sissetonhist.htm

Mine goes back 'known' to great-great-great grandmother. What circa 1775?
The land in our name is on the Pine Ridge.


Tikki

[GreenPartyVoter]

57. Many in were in massachussetts, some were still in ireland and wales, some place near

Hungary... Not sure where else. (Also not sure if the German and Scottish ones were here yet. I think so, or they came soon after.)

[TheCentepedeShoes]

58. Some ancestors

on my father's side and some ancestors on my mother's side were in Carolina, before it split into north and south.
And somebody on dad's side married somebody on mom's side.

[dgibby]

60. Ireland, Scotland, England, Germany,.

Mother's side settled in Pa, Ohio, West Va. Dad's side settled in Va, which is where I was born and still call home, even though I'm living in SC at present.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

61. Yorkshire, England

Ripon-Upon-Thirsk.

[libnnc]

62. Amsterdam

Prolly speaking dutch or something

[cynatnite]

63. Bavaria and England. n/t

[brook]

64. Celebrating

52 years in MA, on one paternal side. Living in old New York on the other.Maternal family was in Scotland & Ireland for another 200 years.

[haele]

65. Finland, Alcsias-Lorraine, Wales, Scotland, and the Carolinas.

The Scots may have been on their way to France and the Alcsias-Lorraine (Huguenot)group may have been on their way to the Americas around that time; there was a lot of religious and political turmoil that caused lots of moving around during that historical period. The family members in the Carolinas are the only ones who "stayed where they were" since then. Of course, they'd pretty much been decimated during the subsequent centuries... :(

Haele

[Cush]

66. some in the New England area, the rest in Europe

[applegrove]

67. I had some ancestors in the USA at the time...I think the name was Experience Rider. Also

Perthshire and Germany. One family in England. One family in Ireland. Mostly Scottish then German.

[cemaphonic]

68. My paternal line has a pretty complete geneology

Thanks to a transliteration issue, every person with my last name has a common ancestor, who in 1689 would have been a toddler in the Rhineland. He immigrated to New Jersey in 1710, built an inn and had a bunch of kids.

My mom's genealogy is much less detailed, but they were mostly Swiss farmers.

[lightningandsnow]

69. Somewhere in Poland/Hungary/Romania/The Czech Republic.

...I mean, whatever their equivalents were back in the day.


I think.

[sasquatch]

70. Still recovering from the thirty years war

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

71. Trying to survive famine, the Inquisition, and bowing to the last king of the House of Habsbourg.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain#Reign

[Tommy_Carcetti]

72. Harvesting grain in the Breadbasket of Europe?

Making pierogis? Mixing up a vat of borscht?

The truth is, I'm not completely sure, but I do know it involved some kind of food.

[meow2u3]

73. My mom's family was in Italy

My dad's family was in Poland--as serfs!

[One_Life_To_Give]

74. Mass Bay Colony

IIRC Moved north to what is present day Maine by 1697.

[Rosie1223]

76. Mom's family was in Williamsburg

and other parts of Virginia. Dad's family was still in Scotland and Germany

[noonwitch]

77. Slaughtering native americans in Massachussets and Rhode Island

At least on my paternal grandmother's side. Richard Warren was my Mayflower ancestor, and his grandson, Benjamin Church, was a really interesting guy, for an indian killer. He didn't want to slaughter the indians, and no one would listen to him when he proposed making peace with the other tribes so they could isolate King Phillip. His plan would have avoided the bloodbath that the colonists chose to pursue instead.

My maternal grandfather's people probably hadn't even made it to Austria, at that point. One of his ancestors was a deserter from Napolean's army, and his mother was jewish by birth and from Slovenia.

My maternal grandmother's people were still in England/Wales, so they were suffering through the aftermath of the civil war and the restoration of the monarchy.

[deoxyribonuclease]

78. In mainland China, growing rice and raising pigs

It's not long after the Ming Dynasty ended and the Qing Dynasty started. In a few decades some of their descendants will migrate to Taiwan, where they'll continue the farming tradition until my parents' generation.

[puerco-bellies]

79. Mine had been fighting the Van Guard of a genocidal invasion.

The few, the proud, the Apaches.

[Samurai_Writer]

80. Well let's see...

On my father's side, his family was in Germany and old Palestine (now Israel) until my grandparents came over in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
On my mother's side, her family was in Germany, Ireland, Wales until the mid-1800s, and in North America (Cherokee Nation).

[Bake]

81. St. Louis.

That's as far back as they'll tell me ...

:rofl:

Bake

[Catshrink]

83. Many of mine were in Virginia.

The earliest immigrant was 1635 and many followed shortly after that. I still had a gggggggrandpa in Ireland.

[coyotespaw]

84. I'm not sure where they were

but they were most likely not sober...

[MichiganVote]

85. Oh probably drinkin' in England and Ireland unless it was Sunday morning.

[JimWis]

86. Mostly Germany.

[Nevernose]

87. Texas and Alabama

Still simmering over their loss in the War of Northern Aggression.

[femmocrat]

88. Farming somewhere between Slavonia and Carinthia.

I guess. :shrug:

We don't really know beyond the late 19th century.

[Lethe]

89. gettin' piss drunk in Scotland and Ireland

why the hell not?

[nebenaube]

91. virginia...

unfortunately (in the end), living down the mistake of sleeping with some philandering magistrate from Salem Mass. Too bad they didn't take his scalp since the whole family was nearly wiped out five generations later when offered exodus or extinction.

[LaydeeBug]

92. My folk were in Baltimore for quite a time already,

and they haven't left since. :)

[ashling]

93. Gosh, there were so many of them back then, I hardly know where to start

I know that one group of them were living on the Isle de Re near Rochelle, France getting persecuted for being Huguenots ... that would be my mother's great, great, great, great great, ....

[ashling]

97. Come to think of it,

that may have been the day they took a holiday from being persecuted to go on that "sites of the Spanish Inquisition" tour group. :shrug:

[intheflow]

94. My mom's family was living in CT and MA.

I have no idea what my father's family was doing. One family line was in Italy somewhere, and my father's family was in Lebanon.

[RebelOne]

95. England, Ireland and Scotland on both parents' side.

[JCMach1]

98. Virginia... near Jamestown

Trying to figure out this New World thing...

[Maccagirl]

99. Mom's side were in Bavaria and Aslace

and Dad's were in England, Scotland and Ulster. All were probably smelling pretty bad.

[dropkickpa]

100. Galway, Ireland

Probably up to no good.

[Roon]

101. Living in the Basque region

raising sheep.

[hvn_nbr_2]

102. That's approximately when some of my ancestors were getting run out of Switzerland

for believing in the wrong kind of baptism.

Run out of Switzerland? How many people can claim that in their past?

[LiberalEsto]

103. Serfs in Estonia

At least that's my best guess. I don't have information going that far back.