Sons of the Pioneers.

[robby]

My dad likes genealogy, and has me search on-line records for him. We come from a very old American family, and I'm finding some incredible stuff. Our family came over about 20 years after the Pilgrims, and I'm finding military records from militias that were formed in 1630 to fight the Massachusetts Indians. One ancestor was with Washington at Valley Forge, and one in the Civil War. My Grandfather was a boy in San Francisco during the 1906 Earthquake, and later fought in World War 1.

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[laughingsal.livejournal.com]

Wow. My family didn't come over until much later. I'm afraid there's an ocean between me and my history. I wouldn't know where to begin seraching.

[robby.livejournal.com]

In Italy, the churches keep marriage and baptismal records. At some point, they will be online. The Mormons did much of the database work in the US. As I recall, My first American ancestor came over about 1590, and listed his father and mother's vital statistics. They were from the Isle of Jersey, and I've e-mailed distant relatives, still there, that do genealogy. They haven't heard of him, but some of the old church records are missing or hard to research. The original name was Le Messurier, and that family did Crusades in the Middle Ages, and claims to trace it's origin to the Roman times.
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