Sharing Family Trees

[Angantyr]

Having discovered that Psychonaut and I are related, I wondered how many other people on this site are related.

Perhaps, if we had family trees available online we could find these commonalities. We should be building bridges between ourselves. The time when we will really need to stand together is coming.

I ask anyone with French-Canadian or Quebecois ancestry to stand forward. Aemma, that means you!

[Æmeric]

Since the French Canadian & Acadians of Lousiana descent from a small founder group from the mid 17th century, it makes sense that you, Aemma & Psychonaut would be related within the last 10-15 generations.

I have many ancestors among the Great Migration To New England, 1630-1640, along with the founders of New Netherlands in 1620. So I probably share ancestors with most Old Stock Americans from that era.

[Gooding]

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-...expecot&id=I45
This covers my maternal grandmother's parents, focussing on my great grandmother, Marie Elodie Pecot. I clicked on granny's name and my cousin Alex incorrectly called my grandfather Miller Louis McDonald instead of Newton Boyd McDonald.I had a great-uncle Miller and my great grandfather was called M.L., but that was Melva Lawson.Alex got confused.Bah.

[Loddfafner]

According to a very distant cousin, people with my surname are of haploytpe r1a1. Those who came to America left from Bristol, and that area is still the highest concentration of my surname. I take it that r1a1 in England indicates ancestry from a Viking's Sorbian slave?

More recent possible common ancestry is with those of you from 1600s central Connecticut.

[Jägerstaffel]

Hawkr and I think we might be, but I'm not proud of that.

[Loyalist]

It's been established that Dalton and I are related through a common ancestor, that being a Norwegian who settled in New Netherland in the 17th century.

[Gooding]

Hmmm..seems like my distant relations around here are all French.Surprised?Not really.

[Angharad]

I didn't see any ancestors of mine among Gooding's tree. I am probably related to Aemeric though.

Also I am likely related to anyone with colonial Dutch ancestry, descendants of the Mayflower Brewsters, and Robert "King" Carter (through his grandfather). Basically anyone related to WASP presidents.

[Psychonaut]

I'll try and gather my resources tomorrow, Angantyr. I'm willing to bet that we've got a common ancestor much closer than Anne (who Æmeric is also descended from if I remember correctly).

I take it that r1a1 in England indicates ancestry from a Viking's Sorbian slave?

A lot of the R1a1 in England is from the Vikings themselves. Most of the Scandinavian nations have roughly even levels of R1a1, I1a and R1b and the specific subclades of R1a1 found in the Norman settlements of both England and France have definitely been connected to the Viking settlers themselves.

[Electronic God-Man]

Drakkar (don't know what his name is now or if he is here) and I are related through the Mayflower pilgrim Francis Cooke. There was another member from Skadi I was distantly related to as well, but I can't remember her name or which ancestor.

I was thinking that if the point is to find connections with other people perhaps it would make more sense to post your early immigrant ancestors rather than make people look through your entire family tree. We could just list the "patriarchs" of these families in America or Canada or wherever. Of course, this would make sense only with the original settlers. Posting the name of your great-great-grandfather who came from Europe will most likely not do any good, unless of course you happen to have a 2nd cousin posting here and didn't know it.

As an example here is a handful of mine with their names, year of birth/death, place of birth, and place of settlement.

Topping, Thomas (1608 Totternhoe, England – 1687 Branford, CT)
Smith, Richard "the Bullrider" (1613 England – 1692 Smithtown, NY)
Tuthill, Henry (1612 England – 1644 Southold, NY)
Kinge, William (1595 Weymouth, England – 1650 Beverly, MA)
Wells, William (1604 Norwich, England – 1671 Southold, NY)
Brown, Richard (1599 Suffolk, England – 1655 Southold, NY)
Salmon, William (1610 England – 1657 Southold, NY)
Horton, Barnabas (1600 Mowsley, England – 1680 Southold, NY)

If I were to post a bunch I would likely list them in alphabetical order. I might also provide a link for as many as possible to a website that talks about that person, so that we can learn something interesting and hopefully confirm whether or not we are talking about the same people. I am actually trying to put together an accurate list of my immigrant ancestors anyway, trying to make sure I have the dates and locations correct. I wonder just how many I have and how long a list it would make.