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Oh hello there! Good morning and I hope you're enjoying your coffee or tea. I was thinking maybe we could share some stories about our ancestors: quote:On June 6, 1810 it was a dry summer and the Barton River, which supplied the power for grist mills in Glover and northward, was running very low. At the request of Arron Wilson, the local Glover gristmill owner, 60 men and boys attempted to create a new north outlet from Long Pond to the Barton River, but instead, they unintentionally caused the banks of the pond to give way. This resulted in a flood throughout the Barton River Valley. My ggggg and gggg grandfathers were both part of the people involved in the digging of the fateful trench that caused an environmental catastrophe in northern Vermont. I actually got to visit the site a few years ago and saw what was left of their homestead, Maplewood. My grandfather used to tell us stories and it was very rewarding to finally put the pieces together as well as identify people in the old pictures his mom had labeled and left in an old trunk. |
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This happened to my gggggg grandfather and I went last year to finally see the place:quote:One evening in the spring of 1747, some eight months afer Wallingford's death, JB's cows strayed from the clearing into the thick woods on the west side of the meadow, not far from where my barn is now located, and while searching for them he was felled by an Indian bullet, but not being seriously wounded was taken away into the wilderness instead of being summarily killed, and was eventually taken to Canada.
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 15:16 |
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my grandfather (who is 93) invented the best kind of reflective plastic. my 10th great grandmother was tried and acquitted for witchcraft. |
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Portable Staplefrog posted:my grandfather (who is 93) invented the best kind of reflective plastic. my 10th great grandmother was tried and acquitted for witchcraft. Oh poo poo, I had a lot of ancestors involved in the Salem witch trials.
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 15:48 |
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my ancestors were incas
https://twitter.com/sallymiakki |
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my ancestor was somewhere in connecticut. the salem ones were probably less fair. |
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the white part of my family were lighthouse keepers. one of them was murdered violently on the ice, which is a very finnish way to die
https://twitter.com/sallymiakki |
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Salmiakki posted:my ancestors were incas Whoa, some of mine were Abenaki, what do you know of yours if anything? Portable Staplefrog posted:my ancestor was somewhere in connecticut. the salem ones were probably less fair. Trying to dig up the info for better clarity but basically my gggggggg grandfather helped his daughter escape Salem and was one if the people to say "guys this is all bullshit". I'm related to the Browne, Cole, Conant and Putnam families that were all involved.
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 15:57 |
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my family tree starts with a scottish indentured servant and his boss's daughter. he was shipped over here because he broke a window while playing ball on a sunday he worked on a tobacco farm in virginia and most of his kids died in the revolutionary war |
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Luvcow posted:Whoa, some of mine were Abenaki, what do you know of yours if anything? i dont know too much about them sadly. i plan on going to peru soon to see a different side of my family, i think they can tell me more about them i know that my grandma is fluent in quechua though https://twitter.com/sallymiakki |
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they were subjugated by the spanish, and later the americans.
Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan |
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conquistadors can suck my diiiiiick
https://twitter.com/sallymiakki |
# ? Apr 10, 2015 16:07 |
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i was born on the day when columbus stumbled into america thinking it was india
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Salmiakki posted:i dont know too much about them sadly. i plan on going to peru soon to see a different side of my family, i think they can tell me more about them That's amazing, keeping language alive. VWVWV posted:my family tree starts with a scottish indentured servant and his boss's daughter. he was shipped over here because he broke a window while playing ball on a sunday Have one ancestor that came during the 1700s as an indentured servant, was noted as a lazy kid who lied a lot, eventually got his own land and built a cabin, got married and was known as an rear end in a top hat and a recluse Another was born in Barbados in the late 1600s, his father was a white slave/indentured servant, and he eventually joined a pirate crew and ended up in Massachusetts. My grandfather used to tell us stories that his great grandmother had shared of her pirate ancestor. It was kind if cool to finally find out she was right.
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 16:08 |
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I like to imagine my ancestor was the guy who threw the spear that killed magellan
Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan |
# ? Apr 10, 2015 16:11 |
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my great grandfather helped electrify railways and also worked some on the atom smasher in pittsburgh also one of my german ancestors was a doctor who got in trouble for refusing to sign bogus death warrants for hitler
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 16:16 |
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My grandpa helped to build the St. Louis Arch. He's even in the video they show when you go to the museum |
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Chill la Chill posted:I like to imagine my ancestor was the guy who threw the spear that killed magellan quote:
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alnilam posted:my great grandfather helped electrify railways and also worked some on the atom smasher in pittsburgh My great grandfather's company built oak ridge
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Yeah it's a good story Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan |
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my ancestors were mayflower pilgrims and invented Thanksgiving, which is a cool holiday |
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my ancestors cowered in a barn in rural austria until coming to canada in the 1950s my other ancestors were run out of scotland for stealing horses my other other ancestors probably ate potatos and were sensitive to UV rays
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 17:14 |
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My ancestor fired the last (artillery) shot of world war one. |
# ? Apr 10, 2015 17:22 |
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One guy wrote a book about turning into a cockroach. |
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my great great grandfather killed my other great great grandfather in a disagreement over ownership of a bag of onions. he shot him with a shotgun in the family home and for some reason the family left the buckshot in the door. when my father was growing up his cousins used to taunt him with "that's where your grandpa killed my grandpa" in our family tree on ancestry.com that grandpa's picture is his mugshot the family is so proud
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 17:35 |
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FluffieDuckie posted:my great great grandfather killed my other great great grandfather in a disagreement over ownership of a bag of onions. This is incredibly texan |
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FluffieDuckie posted:my great great grandfather killed my other great great grandfather in a disagreement over ownership of a bag of onions. sexual nightmare posted:This is incredibly texan https://twitter.com/sallymiakki |
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sexual nightmare posted:This is incredibly texan
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 17:38 |
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my parents did the no pants dants at least once. does this count?
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sexual nightmare posted:One guy wrote a book about turning into a cockroach. let me guess: was overshadows by the metamorphosis? Apparently I'm #1 Kotori fan |
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FluffieDuckie posted:my great great grandfather killed my other great great grandfather in a disagreement over ownership of a bag of onions. This is exactly what this thread is about
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 18:25 |
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my great great great great great great grandfather died in la conquista he fell off of the pile of dead aztecs |
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Survived a potato famine and then GTFOO Ireland |
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They died |
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They died |
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Well I would hope they did a lot more than that, especially any shared ancestors we may have. I highly recommend people actually talk with their aging relatives before they too die and maybe figure out what family history you have, if it's even still possible.
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# ? Apr 10, 2015 20:54 |
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Luvcow posted:Well I would hope they did a lot more than that |
# ? Apr 10, 2015 23:25 |
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my uncle has an old sword with dried blood on it that he says is from a relative of ours who used it in the civil war |
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one of my multiple-great grandfathers was named Gabriel Franchere. he was a French Canadian clerk on the Astor expedition. he wrote a book about it, so I can read about all the times he almost died. it's good to have LDS cousins deep into genealogy |
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killed by alcoholism, died of drug overdose, died of cancer, beat my grandmother as a child, extreme racism (ther'es mexicans next door now )
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