Anonymous #1 5d

earliest verifiable document i can find is the marriage of my 4th great grandparents in 1826 after that, some baptismal records of their children i have a faint idea who might be the parents of my 4th great grandparent, but ultimately i can’t prove anything

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Anonymous #2 5d

i’ve seen family trees who can trace my dutch side back to the 1100s, but i don’t think it’s been fully double checked

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Anonymous OP 5d

but yeah, most of the europeans came to maine/massachusetts in the 1600s-1700s, and my french side came to modern day quebec/new brunswick/nova scotia in the mid 1600s-1700s pretty sure the earliest north american ancestor (barring my like 1% indigenous that showed up on my dna test lol) was born in the 1640s

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Anonymous #3 5d

depending on their ethnicity, it might be possible with sheer luck and cross referencing from DNA matches. my uncle was adopted out at birth, for instance. found him on ancestry my great grandmother (73 back then, she’s nearly 77 now) never knew her bio dad until i bought her a test, to which she matched with her aunt on her dad’s side.

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Anonymous OP 5d

My French side came to Quebec in the 1620s/30s! We might be distantly related haha

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Anonymous #2 5d

I read somewhere that like 30% of modern quebeckers are related to the same ancestor

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Anonymous #2 5d

we probably are, tbh. there was also so much endogamy in french canada that we might be related in several different ways. i’m thankful that i’m about half french canadian (paternal grandmother and maternal grandfather). people have traced french canadian ancestry farrrrrrrr back, and have done so a long time ago my paternal grandfather is half irish and half swedish. finding the swedish documentation isn’t an issue, the irish one is basically impossible.

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Anonymous OP 5d

what *also* sucks is that the irish one is where i get my last name from, so it’s literally the most interesting part of my family tree to me

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Anonymous OP 5d

That does really suck. I wonder if you could travel to the towns in Ireland they were born and check if the local libraries or governments have files on them

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Anonymous #2 5d

What are some of the surnames on your Quebec side if I may ask? Some of mine are Lalonde, Barbant, Cartier, Celle, Daze, Gervais, Brunet and Bouvais

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Anonymous #2 5d

All of these people died in the 1600s/1700s so I'm comfortable posting them without anyone being able to identify me 😂

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Anonymous #2 5d

it’s possible. i also am literally right next to the familysearch library, so that’s another option unless i can find some miracle document which can tie my 4ggf to his parents (unlikely, since the parish record keeping around there only started in the 1810s/1820s), i might be out of luck. as of recently, i’ve been trying to sort through lease agreements to circumstantially get an idea who the parents might be. sure, the irish naming scheme is a thing (like the son being named after his grf)

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Anonymous OP 5d

but when there’s *so many* different variations of how my last name was spelled paired with a common first name, it makes everything so much harder. if i was rich, i’d pay a genealogist but i do not have thousands to shell out atm LOL

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Anonymous #2 5d

Albert, Michaud, Cyr, Carrier If you go further back? Gagnon, Picard, Dubey, Lebel

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Anonymous OP 5d

I'm related to a Picard too!!

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Anonymous OP 5d

and as far as my 4ggf goes, i found a baptismal record from 1795 with the same name (with a slight, normal variation) as him and very close to the area. the problem is, the names are just so common that i can’t prove i’m even looking at the right guy

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Anonymous #1 5d

that’s where your ancestor was conceived

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Anonymous #2 5d

The numbers are ahnentafel numbers btw. "1b" = the base, me, and each 0 is a father and each 1 is a mother. It corresponds exactly to the binary system, and it makes numbering really easy

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Anonymous #2 5d

yeah, i have an ahnentafel pdf i have on hand haha. genealogy is very rewarding but it can be so frustrating too

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Anonymous OP 5d

my ancestryDNA results are veryyyy accurate, basically matching the percentages i’d see on paper (with slight variations, like i’d expect more swedish than what’s here) 23andme? not so much, but it’s relatively similar

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Anonymous #5 5d

only polish ancestors i can find were a few born in the 1500s/1600s and moved to canada back then lol

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