Anyone interested in geneology?

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

I haven't been really but my DH is so he joined FIND A GRAVE.COM and has been volunteering to go to cemetaries and take pictures then enter the picture and info we could find out onto the website. He started with his own family , then mine and as we have been working all summer on this we have gotten more and more interested. I have now joined Ancestry.com and our family tree is growing every day. My DH needs to start doing his family tree as well. We are really enjoying doing this together and tromping around the cemetaries looking for the graves is great exercise and it is out in the sunshine so 100% good to me.

I know some people go way over the top with this - go back to Europe etc looking for ancestors , but we won't be doing that. However, I have ancestors who have been in this country since before the revolutionary war so I can do quite a lot right here in the greater Pittsburgh area.

Many of the cemetaries here in the burgh are on hillsides overlooking the city so we are seeing some new and beautiful views of our birthplace as well. And since we have the camera in hand anyway....

MyGirlsMom · ‎03-09-2010

Yes. our family is very much interested in genealogy. My husband has traced his family tree back to the Mayflower. He has multiple photos of grave sites.

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BreezyBri89 · ‎08-24-2015

You can try familysearch.org. It is free and I have found some very interesting information on there!

CatsyCline · ‎07-24-2013

@151949 wrote:
I haven't been really but my DH is so he joined FIND A GRAVE.COM and has been volunteering to go to cemetaries and take pictures then enter the picture and info we could find out onto the website. He started with his own family , then mine and as we have been working all summer on this we have gotten more and more interested. I have now joined Ancestry.com and our family tree is growing every day. My DH needs to start doing his family tree as well. We are really enjoying doing this together and tromping around the cemetaries looking for the graves is great exercise and it is out in the sunshine so 100% good to me.
I know some people go way over the top with this - go back to Europe etc looking for ancestors , but we won't be doing that. However, I have ancestors who have been in this country since before the revolutionary war so I can do quite a lot right here in the greater Pittsburgh area.
Many of the cemetaries here in the burgh are on hillsides overlooking the city so we are seeing some new and beautiful views of our birthplace as well. And since we have the camera in hand anyway....

really, over the top?? some people only have first line ancestors from over in Europe. not everyone is a Daughter of the American Revolution

MariotaMurielle · ‎03-10-2010

I'm a novice, but very interested. I have been an ancestry.com member for a year or so. my dad was interested in tracing his family and did not use a computer. he did it the old fashioned way, writing letters, making phone calls and visiting the area of Tennessee where his great grandfather was from. he left all of his hand written research to me when he died last summer and I have been trying to carry on where he left off. I've gotten stuck at the proverbial brick wall, which is extremely frustrating. I recently had my brother submit a DNA specimen for the FamilyTree project specific to our paternal family name and can't wait to get the results. I'm hoping it will connect me with other people related to us who are also doing genealogy research.

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151949 · ‎03-09-2010

@BreezyBri89 wrote:
You can try familysearch.org. It is free and I have found some very interesting information on there!

Thanks, I'll look there.

MyGirlsMom · ‎03-09-2010

@MariotaMurielle, I did a dna test and the results were more than I expected! I hope you have the same expectations.

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tegrace · ‎03-20-2010

I am interested in my family history. My father has been working with findagrace.com in locating family cemetaries in Bulloch County, Ga where I live. In conjunction the Boy Scouts here locally help clean and cut away shrubs in those family cemetaries for their community service projects. My husband has rich family in Savannah, Ga. Funny story, his family has roots in Bulloch County as well as I......we had to do some tracing before we were married to make sure we were not related.

If your family has family reunions is another way to find out about family history.

151949 · ‎03-09-2010

People are now e mailing my DH on Find a grave asking him to go and find graves and post the pictures for them because they live out of town. So we will do as many as we can before we go back to Florida in the fall.