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 Mar 10 2009, 08:28 AM
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 Amberific.  Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772  |
Have you ever been interested in tracing your family back to an ancestral homeland? Or for those of you who know where your ancestors come from, have you ever been to that country or are you interested in visiting?
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Mar 10 2009, 09:51 AM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 2,936 Joined: Sep 2008 Member No: 683,235 |
I've always wanted to do it, but it usually costs a lot of money
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Mar 10 2009, 11:01 AM
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Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
I know, right? I can do part of it by myself as I can trace it to a couple of generations past my great grandmothers, but I need a DNA test to pinpoint what area(s) of Africa my people are from.
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Mar 10 2009, 11:17 AM
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Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
^ Whoa... at least y'all can trace back to the 1400s(!).
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Mar 10 2009, 05:12 PM
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 DDR \\ I'm Dee :) Group: Mentor Posts: 8,662 Joined: Mar 2006 Member No: 384,020 |
I found a website in Germany that has a lot of my family information on it. I'm on there too and so are my brothers and cousins. I can trace my fathers side of the family back to 1475, but my mothers family is hard to trace because she was adopted and only knows her biological mother.
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Mar 10 2009, 05:14 PM
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 I'm Jc Group: Mentor Posts: 13,619 Joined: Jul 2006 Member No: 437,556 |
i used to feel left out in school whenever we had to talk about ancestors and culture and tradition and all that kinda stuff.
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Mar 10 2009, 05:21 PM
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 /人◕‿‿◕人\ Group: Official Member Posts: 8,283 Joined: Dec 2007 Member No: 602,927 |
My family history on my mother's side can be traced back a few hundred years. But only a few generations on my father's side.
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Mar 10 2009, 05:32 PM
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 yan lin♥ Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 14,129 Joined: Apr 2004 Member No: 13,627 |
not that hard for me. all of dem from china.
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Mar 10 2009, 06:04 PM
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 COFFEE!!! >_O Group: Member Posts: 48 Joined: Mar 2009 Member No: 717,618 |
OH! I know ALL about Genealogy! It's where you rub the lamp and get three wishes! =D
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Mar 10 2009, 06:42 PM
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Amberific. Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 12,913 Joined: Jul 2004 Member No: 29,772 |
QUOTE(brooklyneast05 @ Mar 10 2009, 06:14 PM)  i used to feel left out in school whenever we had to talk about ancestors and culture and tradition and all that kinda stuff. You're not the only one.QUOTE(divergent @ Mar 10 2009, 06:24 PM) Yeah, the bad thing is, the research, and printing is cumbersome, they have combined over a million pages of printed information. Holy crap.
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Mar 10 2009, 07:00 PM
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 kthxbai Group: Official Designer Posts: 2,832 Joined: Feb 2008 Member No: 621,203 |
No.
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Mar 10 2009, 10:58 PM
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 in a matter of time Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,151 Joined: Aug 2005 Member No: 191,357 |
Yes, but it's difficult because I don't live in Hong Kong/China. So when people talk about family trees, I'm totally lost.
But like Yanlin, there's not really much to know in terms of location because they're all gonna be from Southern China. |
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Mar 10 2009, 11:00 PM
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 Group: Staff Alumni Posts: 7,155 Joined: Feb 2005 Member No: 95,404 |
^ Yeah pretty much what Gigi and Yan Lin said. But I have visited the village where my dad grew up... it was pretty interesting and sad to see how the living conditions there haven't changed much at all.
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Mar 11 2009, 02:27 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 6,349 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 455,274 |
The country, Montenegro. Been there... pretty nice actually. But that's not the only country, also Turkey, Greece, Italy, and Sicily.
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Mar 11 2009, 02:50 PM
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 Senior Member Group: Head Staff Posts: 18,173 Joined: Mar 2005 Member No: 108,478 |
I know my family's all from Hong Kong and Guangzhou, and yes, I've been back to both places a few times. I miss vacationing there.
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Mar 12 2009, 01:02 AM
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yeah, my roots stem from the spartans and hercules
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Mar 12 2009, 11:52 AM
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Senior Member Group: Official Member Posts: 6,349 Joined: Aug 2006 Member No: 455,274 |
QUOTE(divergent @ Mar 11 2009, 03:27 PM) Can you give me $1000  Nope buying this car, literally: |
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Mar 12 2009, 11:56 AM
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 Coming from Illinois Group: Member Posts: 319 Joined: Mar 2009 Member No: 718,627 |
Turkey, been there many times.
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