The math of how you got here

[fairdinkem]

The math here is easy, absorbing it is tougher for me. That's a lotta' people.

Don’t Waste It

Many folks have no idea where their familial line came from. England? Germany? Sweden? Denmark? Russia? Many folks don’t know the names of their ancestors back even three generations. If you …

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Through efforts of multiple family members I know who the 4 most recent generations are in my family are.

Chief Left Hand is one of my direct ancestors. He was killed at the battle of Sand Creek in 1864.

If you're interested:

Sand Creek

The Civil War Trust's summary of the Battle of Sand Creek

www.battlefields.org

Buffalo Woman is also in my lineage & escaped the carnage at Sand Creek

If you're interested:

Oklahoma descendant of Colorado massacre ponders forgiveness, healing

Several Oklahomans recently participated in a Sand Creek Massacre Pilgrimage in Eads, Colo, hosted by the Rocky Mountain Conference of the United Methodist Church.

www.oklahoman.com

 

[Sunburnt Indian]

My maternal side is UK, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. My paternal side is East Asia, Germany, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. All American Indians have East Asian DNA with Cherokee having the most. Cherokee are believed to have walked across the Bering Strait to North America 13,000 years ago.

50% of all US Nationals have some Indigenous American DNA. Many, many of us have Neanderthal DNA including me.

My DNA documents come from Genelex Labs in Seattle 2008. I paid $600.

 

[2012Bearcat]

Hard for my family to do that. My mother was adopted from the Edna Gladney home in Fort Worth. About all we know about her parents is she was the product of a injured WWII solider and a nurse that were stationed in Galveston. She searched for two decades and this is about all she knows. I'm just glad abortion wasn't legal back then.

 

[fairdinkem]

My maternal side is UK, Ireland, Scotland, Wales. My paternal side is East Asia, Germany, Angola and the Democratic Republic of Congo. All American Indians have East Asian DNA with Cherokee having the most. Cherokee are believed to have walked across the Bering Strait to North America 13,000 years ago.

50% of all US Nationals have some Indigenous American DNA. Many, many of us have Neanderthal DNA including me.

My DNA documents come from Genelex Labs in Seattle 2008. I paid $600.

My paternal side is Danish, via Ellis Island & Cheyenne Arapaho
Maternal side is European

Grandmother's family had the first automobile in Muskogee county (Porum)

 

[GunsOfFrankEaton]

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[OUSOONER67]

Mine is German, Irish, English and Cherokee. Lots of my relatives settled in Florida, Alabama and Mississippi. I know my great great great grandfather fought in the Civil War and survived, died at 60 yrs old. He served in
TRP C
9
REGT
MISS CAV
CSA
1833
1893

 

[fairdinkem]

Spent my whole life not knowing one wit about my ancestors, but, over the last few years, I've been making up for it all I can, using Ancestry.com, etc. I'm meeting and speaking with first cousins I never knew I had.

My great great great grandfather and grandmother were Anselm and Betsy Darneal who came to what is now Oklahoma on The Trail of Tears from Mississippi. They had a son named James. James became one of the foremost sheriffs and Choctaw Court attaches in that period. James had a son named Stephen Calvin. Stephen, with wife Mary who is featured in the online interview, had my grandfather named Henry Darneal. Henry and his wife Emma had my father, Leonard (some called him John). My father Leonard had five sisters and three brothers. That's on my father's side.

On my mother's side, I'm hooked in tight with the Stamper clan of Kentucky, many of whom were bootleggers. There's a one Art Stamper who was a noted bluegrass artist. Just hard-working farmers, laborers, moonshiners and guitar pickers pretty much on both sides of the family.
No royalty, no presidents, no millionaires as far as i know and that's fine with me.

I have heard of Art before. Is this him?

The Bullitt County History Museum - Memories

bullittcountyhistory.org

 

[GunsOfFrankEaton]

I have heard of Art before. Is this him?

The Bullitt County History Museum - Memories

bullittcountyhistory.org

That's him.