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Help me trace my grandfather's ancestry please
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Just to save anyone else from having to follow two threads on here, I have closed Debra's first thread on here -this is the link:
She also posted the same initial question on RootsChat as well, so there are at least four threads to keep track of if you are still trying to help her out.
Caroline
Caroline's Family History Pages
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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Originally posted by Olde Crone Holden View PostEDIT to my post #29 above - more recent parts of the tree are sourced but nothing before about 1660. The more recent parts are all of people living in the USA. Difficult to understand why Debra thinks this is her family.
OCRick
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So confused
Ok, so a few days ago I discovered I had Jewish ancestry on my mother's side (her dad) but what I read online about this specific family line confused me, because it said that the family started in England when a Spanish Jew came to England in the Early 1500's. He had a Hebrew surname and his surname was altered on the immigration record. Well another Jew told me I must be a liar because there are no records of Jews entering England during that period. I looked up my surname and it said it could be Jewish, then it said the surname was of Ashkenazi origin. Ashkenazi Jews came from Germany not Spain and this Jewish ancestor of mine came from Spain (a ''marrano''), so how does that work? This guy I was arguing with said I was making things up because he knows everything about Jews and said no Ashkenazi Jews or crypto-Jews would have entered England in those periods as they are banned from entering England. One of my cousins (who researches my family history) said that my family was originally from Germany and came to England in Elizabethan times.
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To avoid confusing anyone trying to help, or to follow the conversation, Debra's new thread has been merged with this one.
Caroline
Caroline's Family History Pages
Meddle not in the affairs of Dragons, for you are crunchy and good with ketchup.
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Sorry Debra but you need proof going all the way back before you can consider it your tree.
Researching family is a methodical process proving each step which you have to do otherwise what is the point.
Researching Irish families: FARMER, McBRIDE McQUADE, McQUAID, KIRK, SANDS/SANAHAN (Cork), BARR,
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