The joy of genealogy and family history

[distractionxx]

some really good stuff here

[simysimss]

some sweet info here

[MrJonkelp]

good work here

[calgeni]

Excellent video.

[xtrme99]

I can't wait to do this with my family. I wish others would take initiative into doing so as well, especially the prejudice. :)

[workout22p]

One of my ancestors(10th great grandfather) was the first Italian Immigrant in the New World(USA) Thanks Ancestry.com

[NoseyGenealogist]

Family History is so addictive. Our ancestors lives are fascinating and often can be inspirational. I have ancestors who toiled on the land as agricultural labourers in Devon, England and those who lived in castles in Scotland as Lords. They are all important to me and it makes me shiver when I think that their genes have been passed down to me.

[Gryphon502]

@NoseyGenealogist

Tell me about it. Two years ago I said "Well I'll just do my grandma." Well that turned into my great grandma and my great-great grandma and back more. One person turned into over 500 people...one one side.

[DelTevynes]

How do I find out mine if I'm from Lithuania and my surname is changed a bit ?

[LenGarc]

I have traced my line back to 1200+ BC

[enclavebrandon3]

@LenGarc whats the websiteyou used?

[Boulavogue]

Got my mothers side going back to 52BC to the old kings of Ireland.....I only live 100miles away from there now! Have to get working on my dads side now. I'm at 1800 at the mo :)

[AustinWorthington]

I go back to the 300s.

[salisburyquakers]

@AustinWorthington Actually, we all go back to Adam and Eve, which was thousands of years before the 300s.

[SanTelmo1981]

@salisburyquakers

Give me a break...

[shatros]

Genealogy is one way people connect with the past and helps them relate to history, a worthy pursuit for any individual. I had absolutely no interest in history until I started to look up my family tree and discovered many of my ancesters participated, for better or worse, in many historical events.

[kadetsuna]

My family tree goes back to a Norman knight who lived in the 11th century.

[trader0108]

These two book titles give documentation that the LDS genealogical records were used by the Nazi's in WWII to find out who were jewish in Europe: (1) "Mormonism in Germany; a history of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Germany between 1840 and 1970", by Gilbert W. Scharffs , and (2)"The Nazi State and the New Religions" by Christine Elizabeth King. This documentation is implied from letters of praise to the LDS from the Nazi's, and recovered LDS jewish files stolen by Nazi's.

[shatros]

Exactly what is your point? As I said, the nazis used a lot of resources to kill jews and others. If you do a good deed and some evil person twists that into murder than thanks you for your good deed, does that turn your good deed into evil making you evil? In effect you are implying that the LDS and IBM are guilty of assisting the nazis. VW and Mercedes were used by the nazis to kill jews. Does this mean that people who drive those vehicles today are guilty of helping the nazis?

[shatros]

I would like to point out that many German companies that deliberately helped to kill jews, owned by the same families today are selling their products to the United States. Does this mean that the people who own such products share in the guilt of murdering Jews?

[alfredo6243]

Man who cares they are all DEAD DEAD dEAD gone.

[OpeningDoors2ThePast]

Wow! David's ancestor was a scribe for Martin Luther? That's a great find! This is a very good presentation on how genealogy makes you feel and how exciting it is.

[trader0108]

Did the Nazi's use LDS genealogy data, to help find out who were the Jewish in WWII ? Did the LDS genealogy library use IBM card sorting machines in the 1930's to process genealogical data, the same way that the Nazi's used IBM card sorting machines to find the Jews in Europe, as referenced in the book "IBM and the Holocaust" ? Did the LDS genealogy library give to the Nazi's, Jewish genealogical data already punched onto IBM punch cards, to help the Nazi's locate and persecute Jews in Europe ?

[bigbuggie5]

no! There was no genealogy computer database back then!

[supertrinko]

i thought they just asked who the jews were, as before the war started, they acted like friendly soldiers that the people could trust, after they actually got the jew's into the trains that head to the camps, that's when things changed

[caroleinmn]

Really, really stupid post from a really, really ignorant (in more ways than one) person.

[shatros]

trader0108, the nazis used a lot of resources to do their evil deeds. I do not know the answer to your questions though if I am reading between the lines correctly, it seems you are really asking did IBM conspire with the LDS to help the nazis kill jews. I doubt either would be true. I also would say that is is a meaningless pursuit. If you went after everyone or everything that the nazis used, you would be going after most of the world.

[MORT2316]

I enjoyed it! ljm Morthorst, Maul,Smith, Sudbrink, Skorupska..etc.

[fancifelle]

One helpful thing is to realize people may have mispelled their name on ship records, or changed their name on the arrival/ship for various reasons. This happened with one of mine. Another dead line was reawakened when I saw that a census had their names mispelled.

[Beatles0223]

@fancifelle The census was notorious for that, especially if people were immigrants in gthe early-1900s (like my ancestors).

[kenyahsas]

Wonderful watch!

[EcKoWR]

i have a family tree that goes back 200 years ago but i havent been ablke to read it because its in another language.my father knows and i will soon find a way to decipher what it says.

[nukunonu]

my family tree goes back 500 years

[AustinWorthington]

@EcKoWR Is it in tree form, as in just names connected by lines? Because names stay the same in all languages.

[Elyse90505]

I also have alot of videos on genealogy and I am making more!

[kneedownbrown]

I'm planning to research my family tree over the summer and currently know very little about how to do it. Can you recommend a software package that helps you to organise all your photos and information?

[7yvette7]

These are real stories by real people! I especially like Harvey's way of tying together the whole purpose of genealogy and family history at the end of the video.