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[WhatsGoingOnBigGuy]

Henry Paxton
1584-1616
Marriage: 24 October 1613
Lauton, Bucks, England

[Grace O'Malley]

Wow, he served in the US army! Very cool. I'm surprised to hear that. My Irish-American grandfather was an officer in the Marines during WWII. A great man. For some reason Glasgow and Edinburgh were 2 and 3 for my English matches on 23andMe but I suspect this is because they are larger cities. The Scot highlander you have seems more authentically Scottish. Have you tried using the AncestryDNA database to search your surname with old records? Church documents often tracked people in the middle ages, esp,. births.

Yes I think it is cool as well. He served 4 years. It was a cousin who found this out because they are interested in genealogy as well. This grandfather died years ago and my father was quite young when he died so my father wasn't even aware. His first family were all in the US. My father was from his second marriage.

I will look into it over the next few weeks and will most likely get a subscription so that I can research more thoroughly. I'm sure a lot of Irish have some Scots ancestry back in time. Most Irish chieftains employed Gallowglass mercenaries from Scotland and of course a lot of Scots went to the northern part of Ireland. If people researched further back I'm sure there would be English in there as well. It's just statistically likely if you look at history.

[Daco Celtic]

Yes I think it is cool as well. He served 4 years. It was a cousin who found this out because they are interested in genealogy as well. This grandfather died years ago and my father was quite young when he died so my father wasn't even aware. His first family were all in the US. My father was from his second marriage.

I will look into it over the next few weeks and will most likely get a subscription so that I can research more thoroughly. I'm sure a lot of Irish have some Scots ancestry back in time. Most Irish chieftains employed Gallowglass mercenaries from Scotland and of course a lot of Scots went to the northern part of Ireland. If people researched further back I'm sure there would be English in there as well. It's just statistically likely if you look at history.

The subscription is worth it. You can fill in a lot of gaps if you are willing to put in the time to research. It's tedious and filled with trial and error but worth it if you really want to go far back in your family's history. Some people just get lucky and others have to do a lot of digging. I found it gratifying.

[gixajo]

(Pedro) Alonso Nabarro Bastiáin, born in Elciego(Álava), 28 September 1578,married with María (Ysabel) de Vergara Sáenz de San Bartolomé born in Elciego (Álava) 4 May 1591

Pedro de Medrano Matheo , born in Elciego (Álava) 8 August 1593 married with Ana de Losilla González de (???), born in Laguardia (Álava) 10 October 1578.

I know their fathers and grandfathers names and first surnames, but I don know in one cases where and in another ones when they were born, so I could that I know at least the names of ancestors form aroun 1490-1500.

[Rokhan]

Jacques Marchenay, born in Puiseaux (Loiret, France) 30 december 1599, married with Madeleine Brissard born in Puiseaux (Loiret, France) 7 February 1603.

[HelloGuys]

(Pedro) Alonso Nabarro Bastiáin, born in Elciego(Álava), 28 September 1578,married with María (Ysabel) de Vergara Sáenz de San Bartolomé born in Elciego (Álava) 4 May 1591

Pedro de Medrano Matheo , born in Elciego (Álava) 8 August 1593 married with Ana de Losilla González de (???), born in Laguardia (Álava) 10 October 1578.

I know their fathers and grandfathers names and first surnames, but I don know in one cases where and in another ones when they were born, so I could that I know at least the names of ancestors form aroun 1490-1500.

Cómo le hacen para tener registros (y conseguirlos) de sus ancestros de los siglos XV y XVI? Yo a lo máximo que he llegado son a los papás de mis tatarabuelos y sólo de un lado de la familia

[Mixdguy17]

Luciano Sgambatti Appa from the 1800s, he was an imigrant from Rome, who arrived to Venezuela and married a local girl, apperantly his brother was Giovanni Sgambati Appa, the famous pianist from Italy, making him my 2nd great uncle, the only problem is that our surname is Sgambatti with two T's and his offcial surname is with one, so we cant figure that one out, and weirdly enough there is no information about my last name just the one with 1 T, so I theorize that maybe when my Grandpa came to Venezuela they messed his last name up with the documentation (which still happens, apparently is a very hard name for people to spell, we have to correct them all the time) and changed the last name, but it's just a theory of mine, we don't really know.

[Mixdguy17]

Cómo le hacen para tener registros (y conseguirlos) de sus ancestros de los siglos XV y XVI? Yo a lo máximo que he llegado son a los papás de mis tatarabuelos y sólo de un lado de la familia

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[dududud]

Very cool. How did you generate that family tree?

Geneatique, software.

[gixajo]

Cómo le hacen para tener registros (y conseguirlos) de sus ancestros de los siglos XV y XVI? Yo a lo máximo que he llegado son a los papás de mis tatarabuelos y sólo de un lado de la familia

Yendo al registro parroquial donde fueron registrados tu padre o tu madre, ver quienes fueron sus padres, e ir a la anotación de ellos, y así sucesivamente hasta lo más lejos que puedas.

En muchos sitios de España no se puede hacer eso, porque muchos registros paroquiales fueron quemados durante muchas guerras, así que es cuestión de suerte poder llegar tan lejos.

Los registros civiles también sirven, pero apenas llegan hasta el siglo XIX, los parroquiales son obligatorios desde el concilio de Trento, a mediados del siglo XVI, y en algunas parroquias llevaban registros desde fechas anteriores.

En mi caso tengo la suerte de que algunos historiadores locales indexaron registros parroquiales y pude mirarlo por internet.