tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826248344207578284.post5378642658061301523..comments2024-03-03T11:33:31.376-05:00Comments on Family Sleuther: The Fragility of Family HistoryFamily Sleutherhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11584864778317578299noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826248344207578284.post-75445961942617254192016-11-27T16:31:47.450-05:002016-11-27T16:31:47.450-05:00We're like-minded genealogists. I agree 100% t...We're like-minded genealogists. I agree 100% that there's great responsibility in uncovering the "real" people who make up our ancestry, and honoring them by restoring them to their rightful place in our family trees. Good luck with your continued research. Family Sleutherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584864778317578299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826248344207578284.post-57906343224483155942016-11-27T16:26:45.935-05:002016-11-27T16:26:45.935-05:00Indeed your ancestors were fortunate to escape the...Indeed your ancestors were fortunate to escape the horror of the famine. What a prize to have your 18th century immigrant ancestor pinpointing his own homeland. That has to be mighty helpful for your research (at least something to direct future genealogy). Have you identified patrilineal Givens cousins in Antrim or Scotland? It would be interesting to see what part of the story DNA tells. Y-DNA is playing a big role in my own Kirk line research and even helping to confirm, like you, deep Irish heritage (but that's for another blog post!).Family Sleutherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11584864778317578299noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826248344207578284.post-10474146045433015622016-11-27T13:13:25.928-05:002016-11-27T13:13:25.928-05:00Because of a very common Surname and no ancestors ...Because of a very common Surname and no ancestors to bring my husband's origins, after 40 years we discovered that my husbands ancestry lies all the way back to the colonies in the 1600s. During the Revolutionary war, a lot of records were lost or misplaced, So our quest is to find the actual people who were his ancestors not recorded during that missing period of time.They might not have been as famous as the mistaken ones that are usually listed, in family trees of these surnames, but they have a right to be honored as true the ancestors in the family tree. Family Rootshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07549805927996707927noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5826248344207578284.post-34569145871996357062016-11-27T12:06:49.331-05:002016-11-27T12:06:49.331-05:00Very interesting! It is so interesting that my Gi...Very interesting! It is so interesting that my Givens ancestors were described by part of the family as Irish (as the immigrant himself said he was from Antrim, Ireland and by others as French Huguenots who came through Scotland.) In any case my Y-DNA says I am from deep Irish stock. So my Givens came to America in early 1739 and settled in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and thus missed by months the great Irish famine of 1739-1740 that killed 38% of the Irish population. I probably wouldn't be here if they had waited one year to come. Robert Givenshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09857995733460375400noreply@blogger.com