Do you know your heritage?

Colleen said:
Unfortunately, no I don't know anything about my heritage, ethnicity or medical background. I was 3 years old when I was adopted but my adoptee parents would never tell me anything about my bio parents, even though my adoptee mother worked with my bio mother. I'm 75 now, so what difference does it make?I was born in MI and adoption records are sealed from 1945-1980's (I believe) so I could never find out anything.

I envy those of you that know who you are and where you came from. I've always felt "lost" and felt like I never belonged anywhere.
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I would think of it as starting your heritage from square one...you. I don't know if you have kids and grandkids, but if you do, generations down the line will be tracing their ancestors back to you, the original!
 
Bretrick said:
My criminal relatives were shipped out as convicts to Botany Bay in Sydney and Port Arthur in Tasmania.
I was born in Tasmania so I am from fine convict stock.
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Did you know that in 2003, when England won the Rugby Football World Cup, their manager, Clive Woodward, was asked, as he entered Australia: "Any criminal record?" He answered with a grin. "I didn't know that you still needed one."
 
Alligatorob said:
You should try the 23 and me thing. It will both tell you about your heritage and show you genetic relatives. You would probably find something of interest.
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I did the Ancestry DNA, so I do know ethnicity but that doesn't help with knowing relatives. I have gotten "matches" but they're 4-5th cousins. I've contacted a few of these people but they never answer back. Oh, well.
 
Colleen said:
I have one son but he couldn't care less. Lots of "family's" die so I might be one of them.
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Sometimes the genealogy bug skips generations! My dad didn't care about it but I found it intriguing. My daughter doesn't seem to care but one of my granddaughters is interested. You just never know who or when the bug will bite! A hundred years from now someone may say, "wow, I just found great-great-great grandma Colleen mentioned in an internet article" or some such thing. I think that's the goal of most genealogists, to make sure no one is ever forgotten.
 
Bretrick said:
My surname is of Irish descent, from County Roscommon.
The current distribution throughout the world is 81% USA, 11 % Great Britain, 6% Canada,
2% Ireland, and 1% my island home Australia.
So most of my relatives went to the USA.
My criminal relatives were shipped out as convicts to Botany Bay in Sydney and Port Arthur in Tasmania.
I was born in Tasmania so I am from fine convict stock.
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Does that mean you're a Tasmanian devil? LOL!! :)
 
Yes & no ...... I have thought about looking into one those ancestry tracking firms [that do not require DNA] But haven't yet . I would imagine they are pretty expensive ?? Anyone know ?
 
Ancestry dot com will cost about $300 a year, but that's just for U.S. data. To go back to Europe or anywhere outside U.S. it can jump up to $500 a year. I personally have found all the data I needed from free genealogy sites and public records.
 
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About Haplogroup H3h​


Haplogroup H3h appears throughout Northern Europe, originating between 3,700 - 7,700 years ago, originating from generations of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers in South-Western Europe between 9,000 and 11,000 years ago. Recent findings believe H3h to be represented among the excavated remains of Cerdic, King of Wessex, leader of the Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain.

This is my MtDNA or the mother's DNA, which we all carry. Mine begins in Africa and finally to modern times in Norway/Finland.
 
Portuguese mom and dad
Grandfather mom's side may 8% Welch
Everyone else Portuguese great grandmother lived in Hawaii
 
My people came over here in 1634 from England, ancestors were French, they landed at Cape fear N.C. , went on up to Jamestown,
fought in the revolutionary war, a family came down to Georgia, a group, of my kin then came down thru Alabama 1810, (they needed a passport to go thru Alabama, because they went across Indian Lands) , the main ones I'm decended from went on down to Mississippi, they fought during the Civil War on both sides, I've always been proud of my Southern Heritage.
 
Bretrick said:
My criminal relatives were shipped out as convicts to Botany Bay in Sydney and Port Arthur in Tasmania.
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Story is from my Dads side of the family.... They were survivors from a convict ship that was caught in a storm of Cape Hatteras and settled in NC.
Mothers side has a set of books tracing the family back into the 1500s, I'm the last entry as a newborn.
 
dseag2 said:
I have never done Ancestry.com or 23 and Me, but when I was much younger I sent off for my Coat of Arms and it indicated my ancestry was German. I know it was accurate, since my grandfather and father had first and last names that were clearly Jewish but were altered to become more Gentile. I have seen records of where they were changed.

I think my mother was of Irish decent, since her mother's maiden name was clearly Irish. I'm not really interested in anything beyond that.
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I hope the one you received was real. I haven't noticed anything on the www (haven't looked), but a long time ago there were ads for Coats of Arms that sold fake products.. as well as books people could buy about their surnames that weren't legitimate, either.
 
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