Questions for genealogists?
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10/12/18 12:54 AM
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KeithC
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Are most of the people that come up when researching your family tree, emperors, royalty, nobility, knights or sheriffs?
My older, traceable ancestors are almost entirely of those professions. I am guessing it is because better records were kept by or on those professions. I am guessing that most regular people had no records kept and that's why there is no record of anyone else having other occupations.
I have always heard that people died early in the middle ages. Most of my relatives, who did not die violently, lived long lives, many into their nineties and lots over 100. I am guessing the average life expectancy was brought down by deaths of infants and children and that adults typically lived at least as long as they do now. Is that accurate?
I always thought people mostly lived and died in a small area in the past. Many of my older ancestors moved a lot, from country to country. Did people move frequently from the eleven hundreds on?
Keith
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Re: Questions for genealogists?
[Re: KeithC]
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10/12/18 11:30 PM
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Yep … you are right keithC …. I have been doing genealogy research for about 36 years now and right at 47,000 people in my database. If you are fortune enough to get back to Europe and into a noble or royal family most all of them were of notable titles. BUT … one of the strange things is if you follow them back down towards us or when the came to this country, especially in 16, 17 & 1800s, many of them became common folks again. Then again, I had many from various countries that were no one import in Europe and they came over here a they were still no one important. If you get into Quakers, they kept very good records and there are some places that have accumulated many of them. The Welsh Quakers were required to bring with them (So said the English Quakers) 10 generations of their genealogy … that is very helpful to those of us that have that attachment. Genealogy can be very enlightening, but also very frustrating. I started the year with 7 brick walls I have been working on for years and have now only 3 of those left standing … and I may never get a whole punch in any of the 3.
Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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Re: Questions for genealogists?
[Re: KeithC]
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10/13/18 01:11 AM
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Striperfred
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My Aunt has us traced back to Gaul, they where looking over there shoulder to much to keep very good records, lol.
life is good......
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Re: Questions for genealogists?
[Re: KeithC]
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10/13/18 08:24 AM
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Larry Baer
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Sounds like you are lucky to have the records you do. My first one here was a Hessian Soldier. I'm assuming he was a deserter or captured and turned but now records as of yet. Some people came here to start over and didn't want records.
Just passin through
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Re: Questions for genealogists?
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10/13/18 11:20 AM
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Sounds like you are lucky to have the records you do. My first one here was a Hessian Soldier. I'm assuming he was a deserter or captured and turned but now records as of yet. Some people came here to start over and didn't want records. Yep and I think that may be the case with one of my brick walls …
Garry-
“Don't pick a fight with an old man. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.”
Have been trapping 77 years…
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