Anyone enjoy Genealogy?

[banditpony]

Why did they type the lower case "s" with an "f"?  It makes reading it out loud sound funny.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_s

[Pokeyonekenobie]

Ah.  I see.

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[Haruna]

Just found this from one of my ancestors:
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That's so cool! How did you find that? Have you ever found any photos of your more recent ancestors?

My dad's side of the family can trace itself back to John Smith (no . . . not a common name at all . . .), our Scottish ancestor who came to North Carolina with his wife and kids (his wife died during the voyage, sadly). He came from Argyllshire in the 1700s. I'm super proud of the Scottish side of my heritage, partly because I'm told I take after the Smith side.

[Sky_Rocket_Sammie]

Representing clan MacTavish! Via my dad's mother's side of the family. Within the family, his parents and going back from them have all been well documented. Growing up I had easy access to that and guess that's what started my love of family histories.

My mom's family has been trickier due to things like the boarding school system, which cut a huge chunk out of her families history. Her immediate family are enrolled members of the Eastern Band Cherokee, which traces its degree of blood differently than the rest of the Cherokee nation. Plus a lot of the family history is oral which also leads to gaps in the physical record.  Our sir name very common among Native American people here's in the States.

Like uber common, so that a certain movie franchise brought it to light and now I get "did you pick it because of "blank". Nope, I was born with it and the family has been using it for well over a hundred years.

[vira]

My aunt recently got into it, and found out we're descended from one of the Wilhelm Grimm, of the Brothers Grimm!! IIRC, he's one of my 4 times great grandfathers.

Our library system lets us use Ancestry, so my mother and I are probably going to do some digging as well. I'm interested in knowing about my dads side of the family, since they almost never talk about family history.

Also, I'm getting a kick outta seeing some other Clan MacDonald friends! :-D