Of course, if you sign up with these guys, you'll now be on these guys radar.

https://www.mi5.gov.uk/

...and now we can write Irish ballad songs about you:haha:

example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mbPXGOHKAvc

GoldenMcRivet

Daniel Boone is a distant cousin to our family on my father's side, which is completely irish, I have a record but it's really not that interesting.

My mother's side...my grandmother is full-blooded swedish, and my grandfather was full-blooded italian, from what I know, my italian last name (marciorato) goes back to the 16th century as a group of traveling musicians. my great-great grandmother sailed here during the first world war from far northern italy, they were forced into the lifeboats because they thought they were going to be attacked by a u-boat, and that's actually what started my interest in submarines. my grandfather stayed in italy and lived in Venice until he too emigrated to the Rockford, IL area, which is where he met my grandmother and they had my mom.

I think it is great that people have the ability to trace back their families.

Personally, I have never had any interest in my family history, but I know a lot of people who do enjoy learning about their past families.

I never got into the geneology thing either. Some people are very interested in those things and travel the world to see the graves of relatives. It seems cool, but I spend enough time poring over old books.

I run along the same line TS. :yep: I'm more concerned where I'm headed than, what a relative did or didn't do at this time of my life. :DL

I want to break my own trail as to follow some unknown relative's path.

We have gone back to the 1600s in Finland from both mothers and fathers side but research is needed in Sweden and Germany about the lines that come from there. Sweden, Västergötland, could be easy as its the same countrys records at that time. Germany, could be a more difficult project.

Farmers, soldiers, traders and priests mostly but from mothers side were three brothers that made a fortune during prohibition, two where shot in turf wars or by police.:D

While the largest portion of my blood, 37.5%, is Russian, it's hard to get much history on it - one of my grandfathers came from a village near Demyansk where his family probably lived for hundreds of years, but little if any records exist of it.

More is known about my other ancestors - 25% are Karel-Pomor, more or less Finnish blood, from the White Sea coast; 25% are German and Nordic nobles of various breeds; and the rest are a mish-mash of everyone else possible, notably including Ukrainians, Tartars, Gypsies, Jews and Turks. The oldest ancestors we'd managed to track down were from 10th century sweden; and much of the German nobility is easily traced to the 16th century at least.

My family history suffers from this. There's not much to go on except for a few listings in southern Scotland a few hundred years back.

Close relation on my father's side was a merchant gunner, torpedoed in 1918 by U-90, ship was the SS Normandie. Same sub that sank the SS President Lincoln, over 30,000 GRT.

I've got links back to Hungarian gypsies apparently, but also to Scandinavia (thank you Vikings), Scotland, and Lithuania. I wouldn't be surprised at all if there were some Irish in there too. :hmmm: It's all rather sketchy though, research done by my grandfather and we're not one hundred percent sure he was right, but if he was...then there's some interesting bits in my family.

Gee, and I thought everybody was related to the Wright brothers.

Not me, but I'm told that my grandfather, who was a furniture maker, once supplied a load of lumber to Glenn Curtiss.

Don't know anyone past my father and mother, Grandparents died either before I was born or when I was too young to remember them much. All I know is something about the Mayflower.

Miller is such a common last name anyways I can't wait till I get married and can get rid of it. :O:

i can trace my family genealogy on my fathers side only to about the early 1800s. just a bunch of farmers on the Rhine. my great grandfather served in both WWI and WWII on the German side. lucky for him he was an electrician so they pulled him off the front right after the polish campaign and had him putting up power lines soon after. and survived the war also had an uncle in the U-286. he was a OMechMt. sunk 2 weeks before the war ended off Murmansk...:shifty: got lucky enough to get some pics of him from relatives in germany on his sub.
my grandfather was only 9 years old when the war ended so he didn't do much except watch a B-17 crash and see the local police running around looking for the crew and he also tells meabout how he and a friend got shot at by US soldiers while walking home from school after taking a shortcut tough a field (and this was a few days after VE day)
on my grandfathers mothers side i had one uncle on the east front who lost an arm and another in the afrikakorps who was attached to Rommel's HQ and knew him personal. both survived.

On my mothers fathers side of the family i can trace linage back to about the 1600's
turns out i'm family of the arch duke of Osuna in Spain. somehow he got kicked-out of spain on accounts of adultery;) and ended up in mexico. One of the key defenders of Mexico during the french intervention was my Great-great grandfather
on my mothers mother i am somehow related to a cherokee princesses