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[onewhiteSparrow]

I am not being bad by saying this....but I ponder to think logical about life and how humans are.....geneology is not always correct.  Reason is that just because a female is married does not mean all of her kids came from the same father.....the family name in geneology.   I wonder that a lot  of people are not that family line.  You understand what I am saying?   Does anyone ever think about such things when they do research?   Now keep this same thought and travel hundreds of years.....there is no way anyone can be really that family tree.   Wild right?  People do geneology as if all those grannies when they were young never explored around and got into other things and had a child outside the tree.   

Such is life in the whole world.  Now how do we go about doing geneology with that information?   Maybe this should be handle another way.  Our DNA testing is not good enough right now....well not really good enough...but we will get better in the future.   

[debcakes]

The Ellis Island site also has free information. You can enter a name and it will do a search for people with that name. Then you can see their passage tickets, when they entered, who came with them, etc. It took me about 30 seconds to find the records from my children's great grandmother.

[Lila Belle]

OoooH ! Vikings blood would be cool. My nan ( mother's side ) is from Devon and my dad is Scot-Irish- Virginian, Shenandoah area. I'm hoping for something exotic though, not too white bread.

[Lovethesea]

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@MyGirlsMom wrote:

@Lovethesea

http://www.archives.gov/contact/inquire-form.html

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Thank you so much, MGM!!

[MyGirlsMom]

There are several archive sites located in various regions of the U.S.  I've visited NYC, Boston, Philadelphia and of course Washington D.C.  

http://www.archives.gov/locations/

I actually got to hold in my hands the war records of my gg grandfather who fought in the U.S. Civil War.

My husband got to see and read the debriefing written in long hand by my father in law after he was shot down over France and managed to escape the Nazis in WWll

Both records were in the National Archives in Washington.

[Lila Belle]

My oldest brother is Vietnamese-French-American asked for the test as well. I hope he's not the most diverse in our family.

[Lovethesea]

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@MyGirlsMom wrote:

There are several archive sites located in various regions of the U.S.  I've visited NYC, Boston, Philadelphia and of course Washington D.C.  

http://www.archives.gov/locations/

I actually got to hold in my hands the war records of my gg grandfather who fought in the U.S. Civil War.

My husband got to see and read the debriefing written in long hand by my father in law after he was shot down over France and managed to escape the Nazis in WWll

Both records were in the National Archives in Washington.

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How exciting for both you and your husband!  How do the archive site locations differ?

[MyGirlsMom]

@Lovethesea

The different sites are regional and located throughout the country.  They have the same data bases as the main U.S. site and may have records for that particular area.  

This is the link for the different Federal sites in different states:

http://www.archives.gov/locations/

[Lovethesea]

@MyGirlsMom  Thank you!

[MyGirlsMom]

@Lovethesea, you're welcome!