odds are pretty good that the mormons have a lot of your family records sorted out. i think there's a website.
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familysearch.org is the Mormons' website. I was shocked how much info they had
familysearch.org is great. Once you have your grandparents entered it will pretty much fill in the rest of your tree. I was shocked.
Also they tell you during the registration that it doesn't come with any religious baggage, and they aren't lying. I have been on there for awhile and haven't gotten any sort of proselytizing emails or anything.
I couldn't remember my grandmother's maiden name and it told me to call my mom lol
Why the fuck do the Mormons have a picture of my great-great-great grandma who died in 1901 in a rural Kentucky town she never left?
Edit: holy shit it goes back to 1527 on my father's side.
I got back to the teens in terms of years on my great grandmother's side
Like the 1910s?
My mom's side only goes back one generation before immigrating out of Poland, but I did some more poking around and on my Dad's side I was able to go back to 1455. How much info they have probably varies a lot based on where your family is from. My dad's side is all southern German and swiss so it makes sense that the Mormons would have a lot of that information.
No, like the year 15.
To be fair, it's really in the weeds as far as a direct line to me, but still neat. I found out just how much of a colonizer my family used to be. If you go back far enough, I'm related to a Mayflower passenger, pretty directly. Go back even further, but a bit afield of my direct line and I can find royalty from France and England before they were France and England, respectively
Obviously record keeping can be dodgy, but it's still pretty neat that people can find connections that far back.
I think I beat the game lol
I'm surprised there isn't a "God" entry
I tried to add god and it wouldn't let me
That's weird since Adam and eve are speculative at best
This inspired me to look at mine and see how far back it went, and I've gotten past Henry I and into triple-digit years and it's still going 😳
Edit: this sucked away my entire afternoon, but I found out I'm descended from fuckin Boudicca, so it was worth it
that's the one i was thinking of
Interesting! I'll check it out
I think they own Ancestry.com ?
Yeah it's wild how much the Mormons have, there's something about their religion and knowing genealogy so it's all tied together.
It is free, though, and useful. They also have deals with a lot of local library systems to provide even better access to the actual (digitized) documents that they just hint at through the regular free version. Like if I go to my library I can get copies of the actual images of the records for free instead of relying on the text only (which can sometimes have errors)
Yeah it's wild how much the Mormons have, there's something about their religion and knowing genealogy so it's all tied together.
They believe in Baptism of the dead. So if your great great great great great great ancestor was a Native American, you can make them an honorary Mormon.