Thank you friends from north of the border. 
This year marks the 400th anniversary of my family's arrival in North America. Little could they have imagined our 21st century, and not even that revolution, which was over 150 years away.
This year marks the 400th anniversary of my family's arrival in North America. Little could they have imagined our 21st century, and not even that revolution, which was over 150 years away.
Amazing Pano! 😀
You telling us your folks came over on da Mayflower?
I only know this because it was in the Saturday Pub Quiz of the Daily Telegraph which had a July. 4th American theme this week. I guessed 1597, but it was 1620. But I did alright. I got 11/20 plus "the snorter" queastion.
FWIW, "The Snorter" was:
"Who is the only Astronaut to have gone to the Moon twice without landing?"
I knew that. 😎
Pano said:
You telling us your folks came over on da Mayflower?
I only know this because it was in the Saturday Pub Quiz of the Daily Telegraph which had a July. 4th American theme this week. I guessed 1597, but it was 1620. But I did alright. I got 11/20 plus "the snorter" queastion.
FWIW, "The Snorter" was:
"Who is the only Astronaut to have gone to the Moon twice without landing?"
I knew that. 😎
Nope. They actually arrived before those rascals on the Mayflower. Settlers at Jamestown, the Virginia colony.
I always admired US Astronaut Jim Lovell. Apollo 8 was amazing. Flying round the Moon on Christmas Day, 1968. Wonderful. I can claim to be one of the few living Earthmen who watched Apollo 13 too. Through my childish telescope, I saw it fire off to the Moon.
All went horribly wrong, of course. Some stupid Oxygen tank exploded. Rubbish tech, IMO.
JIm Lovell is not only still alive, but not bitter about it: 50 years later: Jim Lovell recounts the Apollo 13 disaster | Astronomy.com.
He just gave it his best shot. 😀
All went horribly wrong, of course. Some stupid Oxygen tank exploded. Rubbish tech, IMO.
JIm Lovell is not only still alive, but not bitter about it: 50 years later: Jim Lovell recounts the Apollo 13 disaster | Astronomy.com.
He just gave it his best shot. 😀
That's pretty cool Pano that you know that history of your family. 400 years ago was a whole bunch different than nowadays for sure.. Imagine what it took to make that voyage across the great blue back in those days. It wasn't a cruise ship experience for sure lol. You basically got on board leaving all you knew behind for some new world to start anew, in doing so the gamble just to make the voyage was not in your favor let alone the hardships if you made it to the shores of the new world.
Anyhow I wish I knew when my kin came over. 400 years is a lot of great great grandfathers going back lol. 🙂
Anyhow I wish I knew when my kin came over. 400 years is a lot of great great grandfathers going back lol. 🙂
I was wondering why Pano always seemed so well grounded. My family didn't get to the new colony until around 1700.
Next time Pano is at my house, I'll take a blood sample to make sure his recollection is correct. I love taking blood samples, especially from guys like him. He's like a brother.
Next time Pano is at my house, I'll take a blood sample to make sure his recollection is correct. I love taking blood samples, especially from guys like him. He's like a brother.
On the paternal side we've managed to trace back about 400 years. My daughters have a family tree via their mother that goes back to the norman conquest. Then I decided to try some hybridisation, but that's another story 🙂.
Wow! That's impressive. I managed to get back to about 1450, but then the records are all in handwritten Latin, which is near impossible to read. I'll have to pay someone to do that research. There are hints at coming over with William, but nothing solid.
I was quite surprised that I was able to do it. It took a local library and a number of different websites. I had asked my mother what she wanted for her 80th birthday and she asked me to trace back her mother's mother's family. The results were surprising. I knew we'd been here a long time, but not that long.
Wait, on that last visit you told me those blood samples were to check if my blood alcohol level was "sufficient."
Given nearly everyone invaded England at some point we're nearly all immigrants.
I spent a lot of time with my father way back going through parish records on microfiche. We got stuck around 1750 until a relative got in touch with her research and we linked the two. Given a silly surname and illiterate ancestors gets fun! One day should try and get a DNA match with some clusters with my name in USA to see if we are related (well we are all related if you go back far enough).
The Celts started their westward march from Turkey! Did they skip over England on their way to Scotland and Ireland?
I have a friend who has traced his German lineage to the 1300's. Irish and Germans were the predominant immigrants to the US from the 1830's until the Civil War.
Brittany and Normandy were Celtic outposts.
It starts to get into the prohibited area pretty quickly, but fascinating nonetheless to see how the sentiments of various religious groups in England and Scotland set in motion the experiment in North America.
Now can we even imagine the histories of the people who lived in what came to be called "Virginia" before Europeans arrived?
If you like this genealogy stuff I highly recommend "The Juggler's Children" by Caroline Abraham. You think your family history is complicated? 🙂
If you like this genealogy stuff I highly recommend "The Juggler's Children" by Caroline Abraham. You think your family history is complicated? 🙂