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Date Posted: Saturday, February 26, 04:46:11pm
Author: Lij
Author Host/IP: kntpin04-nas-01-s201.cinergycom.net / 216.135.24.201
Subject: All the dirt on my family.....

I've been working on it in two different websites. The first I found I had an affinity for is GeneaNet, which is a French-based website with also a following by some German and Swiss genealogists and, of course, Belgians. Well, that pretty much covers my family history - about half German speakers and half French speakers, though the French speakers were arrayed from northern Switzerland through eastern France (and Paris??) and into two locales in Belgium. Here's the GeneaNet site for my family:

http://en.geneanet.org/profil/lijdare/Lynn-Recker?lang=en

That's more or less nothing but a pedigree of mine with something like 130 or so persons. For more family I got talked into joining Ancestry.com. So I'm paying off the Mormons to use their online genealogy work. Well, there's something like 900 or more people in my tree so I guess I've added quite a few more people using Ancestry at:

http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/22827913/family

Want to know which one left his wife after trying to steal some of her mother's money? Which guy was a drunk who I have found records about being charged with public drunkenous? Which one took a shot at his wife! Which one let his son go to federal prison instead of him for the beer-making still they had in the barn (during the depression and prohibition). Which uncle of mine was a dead-ringer for Clark Gable, I mean so perfect they nicknamed him Clark!

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[> Blocked without logging in. -- AurraSing, Saturday, February 26, 05:31:52pm (d207-216-58-172.bchsia.telus.net/207.216.58.172)

I'd love to look but I don't use my real name very often on the inter-tubes, so not able to get into even the first site.

Sounds like your family was a lot more interesting than mine! Aside from the fact my mother's one set of grandparents immigrated to Canada over a political feud in rural Buckinghamshire, there isn't much of note going on for a few generations back. Oh well...


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[> [> On the Ancestry one? -- Lij, Saturday, February 26, 10:46:03pm (kntpin04-nas-01-s43.cinergycom.net/216.135.24.43)

Or both?

One reason I liked GeneaNet - besides all the European work there - was that it was free - but I guess you do have to register. But registration is free and then you can start searching through all the genealogies people have placed there.

Though I did sign up and pay for one 'higher' service because Geneanet started featuring old history/genealogy books and one of my ancestral surnames (DeBuisseret) kept popping up in them. So I paid them something like $25.60 (I think it was 20 Euros) for the service for a year (but my dang credit card charged me $1.60 for changing Euros into Dollars - or the other war around). But it was worth it to check out the books and I even copied a couple of DeBuisseret genealogies, though my ancestor wasn't in them.

Well darn it, I thought for sure you didn't have to sign up on GeneaNet, but I guess they changed things around. Though at least it's still free.

Well, some of my ancestors weren't the best. Most were were just fine, normal people. Two immigrants were real assholes who didn't leave a clue to where they came from!! Though I am starting to think that the story everyone told about the DeBuisseret is exactly right, that he was from Paris. Trouble was, most records from Paris were lost in the 1870 Prussian war when the commune arose against Napoleon III - sorta like Cairo and Mubarak I guess. Considering the work I put into finding him in Europe, I think the Paris angle seems more and more likely.

Well... sorry about that....

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