Ancestry (was Syock)

I can't be sure. Why do women who believe in reincarnation think they were Cleopatra in a previous life?

I'm convinced I was a Chinese peasant in a previous life, just on the statistics.

I probably do, too. My mother is into genealogy, but I really have no interest in it.

Cindy Hamilton

I was not really that interested myself until I actually started looking and found out how much I "knew" that was wrong. The assumption always was that a significant number of us were fairly recent immigrants (100-150 years ago) but the reality is every one I have tracked came here in the 1700s or before. One of the lines I thought would be easy, turned out to dead end in 1827 but virtually every other branch I have been able to get back to a boat. (The oldest couple in the late 1600s) They pretty much all are British Isles people (England, Scotland Ireland). The German is the one I can't get to a boat and I still have my Indian who just falls out of the sky. She either eloped with a white guy and was banished by her family or something else strange happened. I am waiting for the DNA. If it doesn't come back 94% UK, a splash of German and maybe some Indian, somebody was seeing a pony express rider on the side ;-)

I am sure that of the 35 or so English names I have identified I am sure most of them would have a coat of arms on a web site somewhere, particularly if you pay them to get it ;-) Something tells me these people were not that rich or they would have sat tight in their castle in England.

I bet they have a mug with your authentic coat of arms on it ... in stock, they promise.

That looks right.

snipped-for-privacy@aol.com posted for all of us...

My coat of arms is a ripped, scruffy, used WWII battle jacket with a surprise under it.

Oren posted for all of us...

HAAA sorta...