lf1

Do you have one that you would recommend? I did look at some last year,but the Ancestry model seemed easier to navigate.

Thank you.

robin1234

To be honest I collect records (birth certs, print outs of census pages etc) but have never gotten around to actually drawing up any family trees! Just a character flaw on my part. So I don't know much about family tree makers, sorry!

anabella

This sounds fascinating, I wonder what the equivalent for Spain is if it exists

robin1234

Cyndi's List is the big classified list of genealogical resources on the web. Look up "Spain" under categories. Ancestry.com is an international resource, and has some Spanish data but not much... Ancestry is mostly strong in the English speaking world (North America, British Isles, Australia etc.) although I think Ancestry has a lot of German resources too.

Here's a useful looking introduction on Spanish resources from MyGenealogist.com

lansbury

SWMBO has now looked into my family. She found a lot of my fathers side already done, by someone living in Lancaster. Seems that person is related to my grandfathers' sister, a whole branch of the family I never knew existed.

Uncle Ebenezer

I bet they're pretty much pissed off you know about them now.

lansbury

We're viewed as the rich American cousins

avanutria

Wonder if you'll start getting emails saying "Since I have cousins in America does that mean I can get a green card?"

lansbury

Lord_GG_Byron

I am what you might call a ethnic mutt. :P

I'm 25% Japanese 25% Scottish 16% Cherokee, and Lord knows what else. My Great x8 uncle was Nathanael Greene, who commanded the Southern American Army towards the end of the Revolutionary War. My father's grandmother was a Cherokee. My mother's mother is from Japan. Apparently her family is very well to do. I'm not sure, but I believe there was a Samurai in the family, they have two sets of armour and my grandmother was willed some when her parents died. They also own a lot of land. Outside of that I have no idea about my family.

Scouse Express

I'm Half-Irish/Half-Scottish.......That means that half of me wants to buy you a drink, but, the other half doesn't want to pay for it.


Jim.

Lord_GG_Byron

robin1234

As you say, Lord knows what else... just to use your percentages as an example, you say 25% Scottish. But what if that Scottish person had one English grandparent, and that English person had a Jamaican, a Norwegian, an Irish and an English grandparent. In other words, even if one accurately establishes a family tree back several generations, our "ethnic makeup" can never meaningfully be expressed in percentages.

One example I often use is that I'll bet a high proportion of English people have American ancestry. (including an admixture of African, Native American, French etc.) After all, just as British people have steadily migrated to North America since about 1600, significant numbers of Americans have migrated from America to the British Isles every year since the early 1600s. In the period of severe US immigration restriction in the early to mid 20th century, the numbers who migrated US to UK was higher every year than UK to US.

Lord_GG_Byron

Those are some deep thoughts. My grandmother was born in the US to American parents, but she's from an enclave of Scottish-Americans, the small area in North Carolina is just about 100% Scottish. Pretty cool area. Streets named "Boyd" "Firth" and "Dundee"

robin1234

Not deep.. just being realistic!