FOF genealogy guru, Rhonda Earley, is giving away 3 of her Pocket Trees. To enter, answer this question in the comments below: Where are your ancestors from?
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When FOF Rhonda Earley turned 50 she realized she didn't have long to learn about her family. "I thought I better do research now while I still have my parents here to answer questions."
Each day that year, after she dropped her son off at elementary school, she would head to the library to begin work on her family tree.
She was fascinated with her findings. "I found one of the letters my ancestor wrote home to Germany. I also learned that there had been a great deal of land in my family at one point, but, surprisingly, my father grew up poor," says Rhonda. "That's something I'm still piecing together."
Rhonda would carry her computer around the library as well as poster-sized sheets of paper. "It wasn't convenient," says Rhonda. "I was running upstairs and downstairs between files, microfilm and maps. You need to be mobile."
Sitting on the floor of the library next to a file cabinet, she had her
A-ha! moment. "There's got to be a way to transport all my research easily," thought Rhonda.
The result was Rhoda's
Pocket Tree, which folds up to the size of an index card and opens up to a family tree that can go back nine generations.
"Besides being a great research tool, it's a great keepsake to pass down to younger generations," says Rhonda. "Imagine how cool would it be to see your great, great grandfather's handwriting on a Pocket Tree."
Enter to win a Pocket Tree. 3 FOFs will win. Answer this question in the comments below: Where are your ancestors from?
(See all our past winners. See official rules. Three winners are chosen at random from all those commenters who answer the question. Contest closes June 2, 2011.)
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Almost all of my ancestors are from the area of Germany that borders France.
I have worked on my family tree a little bit, but I look forward to the time when I can work on it some more!
My ancestors are CRANTZDORF, from Alsace Lorraine France, KRUECK from Worms Germany, LINTON from Ireland, SEUM from Hesse Darmstadt Germany.
My ancestors came from the Alsace Lorraine area of France/Germany
My family is from County Meade, Ireland. My husband’s family id from County Cork, Ireland. Imagine that we met, three generations later, In NY!
My ancestors are from Scotland. We have been researching for years. We are related on the Glenn side of King Robert de Bruce. Its fascinating!
My father’s family came from Holland in the 1600s. My mother’s grandfather was German and her grandmother was English. I always wanted to claim Ireland in there somewhere – some of us have red hair – but I guess not.
My Father’s family settled in western Pennsylvania after arriving here from Hachenburg Germany. My Mother’s family settled in Russia Ohio after Alsace Lorraine France.
I believe England, but have never looked at my family tree and no nothing about my Father or his side of the family other than a name.
Prussia , England, and???
ones I know of are Ireland , Wales , – wish I knew more
My ancestors are mainly western European, English and Irish. Paternal gr-grandfather emigrated from Germany in the mid 1800s. He married into a family with a long American history dating to early 1600s as members of the Massachusetts Bay Colony from England. Paternal grandmother’s ancestry is also English settlers in 1620. My maternal ancestry has been harder to trace. Maternal grandmother was adopted at age 8 with birth records closed by the courts. Irish pride descends from my maternal grandfather via his Irish gr-grandparents arriving during the Great Potato Famine. It is a lineage of survivors, brave adventurers and hard working people.
I know that my father’s family is from Germany. My mother’s family is also from Germany but also from England, and maybe another country. I would really love to know all of it.
As far as I know, one side is from Ireland
My indigenous ancestors are from this continent, in what is now the United States of America.
My fathers ancestors came from England, Ireland and France. My mothers family came from Germany. My younger brothers have been trying to gather more information but it has been a bit of a challenge. We do know that three brothers came from England before the Revolutionary War and our family is descended from one of the brothers. They originally settled in Jamestown and eventually resettled in Florida, Tennessee and the Carolinas.
My ancestors are from Eastern Europe – Russia, Poland, Austria, Hungary and possibly Lithuania.
I do know on my dad’s side they were from England, the funny part is my great great grandfather was traded for a cow, he lived wih the farmer that now owned him “so to speak”, he fell in love with the farmers daughter, they married and inherited all the property. I am not sure on my moms side, although I believe they were from Ireland, my grandfather was a cousin of the Wright brothers. How cool would it be to win this, my Mom was chock full of information and when you get older you say,Darn how I wished I would have paid more attention to the stories she would tell, she knew the family history so well, she is is Heaven now with my Daddy so I am at a loss, this would be a gift to win, I want to know the history so bad and to hand it down to the little ones in my family would be awesome. Thank you for the chance of a lifetime.
I just received a huge packet full of names and pictures f my ancestors from before their trip from Norway, and after they settled into Minnesota.This is SO exciting!
My mom’s side is from Lithuania. My dad’s side is from Ireland and England.
My mothers family is from Virginia. My father was born in arkansas. Haven’t been able to find any farther back
My family’s ancestors came from Poland, Germany, Russia. Rumor has it that part of the family might have settled in Australia but I don’t know how to follow up on that.
As far as I’ve been able to trace them….most of mine are from Scotland & England, on both sides. With a bit of French & Native American Indian tossed in there!
Germany – my Grandfather Servatius was 100% German.
My family is from Latvia. One day I hope to visit in order to truly get at my roots.
I love reseaching, and have been tracing both sides of my family for awhile. My mother’s family came over from England to near where present day Raleigh, NC is located in the late 1600′s. My 6th g-grandfather was actually a Sir! He was one of the physicians for the court of King Charles II. Going on back through his mother’s family, it eventually goes up to my15th g-grandfather, John of Gaunt (and his father was King Edward III!) You never know what you’ll find with the family resarch!
Poland
My ancesters are from Ireland, Canada and I think England, too.