Norwegian roots! Wonder what the odds are that we're related? My dad had one grandfather and one great grandfather from Norway.
What a neat story. I hope you can solidify that link. You know, I love old silent movies. Like the Shakespearean stage, they make your brain imagine more of the action and surroundings.
Eva, you have the most enthralling family history! I love your LOs and how much of their stories you capture on them.Buzz Aldrin!
I have many pastors/priests that are important in Swedish history
That's especially true when it comes to Johannes Rudbeckius. Huge impact on Swedish history
Translations are available in the gallery. I'm on the tablet & cutting/pasting is %€=# on it,
Oh, fantastic story. Who was your ancestor?
How fun is that?!?
How true that is! My sons are Mayflower descendants through John Alden and Priscilla Mullins and they have tons of famous kin - Marilyn Monroe, Orson Welles, and Martha Graham to name a few. I have an unproven Mayflower link, so I don't claim any yet.Those of us in the U.S. with early New England ancestors are usually related to a ton of other Americans including many famous/infamous ones. Also many U.S. presidents, most recently Barack Obama (though I've forgotten the long lines that link us). The most famous of my ancestors was a fifth great grandmother, "Mad" Anne Bailey, who was a heroine of post-Revolutionary fighting around what is today Charleston, WV. Looks like the only scrapped page here about her is this one:
Celebrities were just ordinary folks off their public podium back in the day. My mother tells a story of sharing a day at the public swimming pool in Palm Springs, California. Said she was the nicest person and they had a wonderful chat. I'm named for her. Reckon that had anything to do with it?
Now that would be really cool!
What fun you will have when you get there. Amanda, who are your Revolutionary ancestors and where are they from?
I can't remember his first name, but his last name was Lathrop, sometimes spelled Lothropp. My Dad said "Pastor Lathrop" when he told me the story. I'm re-watching "Finding Your Roots" to see who it is. Unfortunately, all my Dad's side has passed and I can't ask anyone.
Yes, things were sure different back then, that's for sure. I just looked at the James Whitcombe Rile site and it's expensive and they've parlayed it into about 3 different venues - one of them you need reservations to get into. We played, freely, all over his home and on the grounds. They've moved most of it into Indianapolis.
I suspect that has a lot more to do with her being Jewish, than anything. You are born Jewish if your mother is Jewish - and hers is. She grew up firmly rooted in Judaism, so her Christian roots might conflict with that. Funny she would want to be 100% European. If her mother is Jewish by birth ad infinitem, that side is not European but Middle Eastern. Interesting!I can't remember his first name, but his last name was Lathrop, sometimes spelled Lothropp. My Dad said "Pastor Lathrop" when he told me the story. I'm re-watching "Finding Your Roots" to see who it is. Unfortunately, all my Dad's side has passed and I can't ask anyone.
ETA I just found the Facebook message my mom had sent me to watch it. This is him!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lothropp
Its Maggie Gyllenhaal. I remembered it much worse than it was. She kept saying "I don't identify with that part of me..."
Mickey Mantle played in the baseball park 2 blocks from my house in Santa Ana, California.
I can't remember his first name, but his last name was Lathrop, sometimes spelled Lothropp. My Dad said "Pastor Lathrop" when he told me the story. I'm re-watching "Finding Your Roots" to see who it is. Unfortunately, all my Dad's side has passed and I can't ask anyone.
ETA I just found the Facebook message my mom had sent me to watch it. This is him!!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lothropp
TFS this video, going to watch it now with my morning coffee. Gyllenhaalnis a Swedish family name, I'm hoping they say something about that.
We lived in Santa Ana in 1964-65. I went to Wilson Elementary. I loved our house there and our neighborhood. I think it's still there - or at least it was when a looked a handful of years ago.
@scrap-genie and @pachimac Jean and Susie, do either of your lines cross into the John Alden/Priscilla? MullinsHow cool....cousin!!!!!!
I DO know that eventually our line ended up in Minnesota.
