I am62 . I have health issues (factor V Leiden).
Grew up amongst my Acadie/Quebecois/Massachusetts family. They told me that if i wanted to learn the truth , i needed to learn French because the Truth cannot be told in english.
from my mom i received a book hand compiled by my cousin 60 years ago. she attached that ancient irish handwritten page that sinks the hook. , then i find out her people were also Quakers
lots of stuff to read.
fille de mariers , fille du roi
mind blown.
im not going to have kids. my family cant be bothered with any of this.
so i decided to create the one tree over at family search. i made a mess. i cleaned it up.
i eventually got stuck, subbed two months of ancestry and bought rootsmagic.. and then subbed and got dna from myheritage (76% insular celt)
but what am i even doing? why care about cheshire or nottingham in 1110? how did bro get a wiki? why?
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Only you can answer the why on researching your family. We can help you here with the RM specific questions on using the program.
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thank you. i have been hitting in pretty hard about two years. havent worried about cousins or inlaws too much, just direct ancestors.. ive got everyone back to around 1800 and many to 1700 when us and canada were getting started…the english ancients were real people. cross checked on three databases(and grok)… but is the info just slop?
so what im looking for its a cutoff point. did you go all the way? can you? is that part even real?
first i wanted to source my FVL i did. then who settled the new world, who stayed which way in most wars. my two family sides are genetacally identical and have spent 1000 years hating on each other
This has become a bit off topic, but I would test my DNA on Ancestry, upload a gedcom file from RM to Ancestry and attach it to that DNA. I am not promoting one DNA company over the other except that Ancestry has a much larger database of connections for comparison. Print out a pedigree chart from RM and watch for DNA matches that appear to indicate that your line as you have determined is mostly correct.
I had a couple lines I was able to substantiate using this approach. It will take time, but in my case the few years it took were all worth it in the long run. In my case a large family genealogy volume indicated a female in my line was designated as havingdied early in life without children. Using matches over time I was able to prove that theory wrong and find one of my direct lines. Don’t worry about using TreeShare. A regular database created using your current RM database is what you need to begin finding DNA matches, which may lead you to some directions you were unaware of.
Why do we do this? I do it for the pleasure of finding my ancestors and the fun of the chase. I don’t worry that my children and grandchildren are not terribly interested. Your work may turn out to help others you do not even know.
I have added some names to my original database created from RM to make the Ancestry one, but i do not make additions regularly. The original one is still creating matches some 10 or 15 years later.
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