Genealogy Chat

Please don't let GC ever become like this. See below

I found the following on a US mailing list, talk about Adam and Eve!!!!!!! Success Story I have been doing my family's genealogy research for all of my adult life (over 40 years now), and have identified over 20,000 ancestors all the way back to Cerdic, King of the West Saxons, in 534 A.D. So, when my son-in-law asked for help in building his family tree, I thought it would be easy. Everything went well, as I identified about 4,000 ancestors for him in a month. There were rumors that his family was related to General Robert E. Lee, but one key ancestor could not be found. I went to Genealogy.com, attempting to find the connection in someone else's tree. I found twelve promising links, acquired the contributors' snail-mail addresses and wrote requesting further information. One of them did indeed have the missing link! Once this link was found, I was able to take my son's family all the way back to about 1,000 A.D. At the same time, the wife of a distant cousin contacted me for further information. Once we traded family information, the link between her family and mine added a German and Italian branch to our Anglo-French family tree, and even included a link to movie star Anne Bancroft. World Family Tree is indeed connecting the whole world, and providing an invaluable service to genealogists the world over! William Thomas Tucker, III

I don't believe a word of it. Crista

how on earth do people think that they are gonna be believed!!!! like crista,i dont beleive a single word of it if its only taken him a month to find 4,000 ancestors,why has it taken me over a year to find 1???? am i doing summat wrong:( susie

It has taken me 6 years to find about 300, and not all of them are confirmed. If I could have worked it like that, I should have been able to find what I have in about 2 days. I want some of what they were taking!!!!!!! Paul

was this on April 1st maybe! sandra

Huh!

Hey, Susan, I have a Welsh Jones side I keep putting off researching too. Could it be, do you think? .... nah. Just to prove how common the name is my Grandma Jones married my Grandfather Jones, so I don't even get away with following the female side.

He must of been standing up while he said all that, cos if he was sitting down he would of been a bit muffled and hard to hear. "Many of the Chieftans, both Irish and Scottish, date back far beyond the beginnings of peerage titles. The O'neills originate in the 5th century which makes them the oldest traceable family in western europe. True, evidence for their earliest origins is oral tradition" (Your Family Tree, Issue 10, April 2004, page 27.) So I do believe that he is talking out of his a***

I remember seeing this same message on another list several years ago. Nobody believed it then either. If it were that easy there would be no need for GC.

WOW!! don't beleive a word! how do you get back that far?? there were no records then were there? it's taken me 12mths.to find what i've got now!!and i can tell you it's not 4000!!!!!! blimey! i'd have nothing to do now! there is always someone who has to be bigger and better than anyone else!! Chris.

What is his address. I can get him to find William Woodruff for me. Only be looking for about 6 years now!!!!!***** Balderdash**!! Margaret

Does this mean that Anne Bancroft can now trace her family back to 534 AD? So if I can establish a link to Anne Bancroft or Mel Brooks I've got 20,000 more people I can add to my tree? I can't keep tabs on the ones I've already got ... What a load of Blazing Saddles. Ann

Trying not to be too rude - another word for SHOEMAKERS Liz

A Robert de Clayton came over with William the Conqueror in 1066. I think I will put him in my tree and not bother with the links. It's bullshit. Bob

You may snear and mock me but ask the Easter Bunny, it is all true! It is ALL true!!

Har har Russell, I DID ask the Easter Bunny and he said he was having problems with his own ancestors! All called Fluffy and Tinkerbell and living in adjacent warrens. xx A xx

He says he's is William Thomas Tucker the Third - more like three hundredth!! As if.

Reckon he must have got everyone with his name and added them all up - surely he can't have bdm's too. Nah -

Hi All. Oh and William the III too. I was in need of a good laugh when I got up this morning! Thank you William No.III. I could have done the same if I'd adopted a phone book! Your declared info goes back PRE-records time so you must have a pile of stone tablets in your filing system. UNBelievable! There's someone from the Guiness Book of Records on their way to you right now. Jim