Forum: Genealogy

This could be useful to some of those who've German heritage, to see how common your name is in Germany. List of most common German family names: Map of most common German family names:

Guard closely the history of your family... Today I learned that a piece of my family's heritage has been either lost or stolen (it sounds like it has been stolen). My great-uncle was moved from his farm (the family's homestead farm) a couple years ago. He was moved to an assisted living...

I've been trying to trace my ancestry, however I've had little success and I need some help. To start of with, I'm doing the obvious, I'm taking my name, and the names of my ancestors, and I'm trying to discover their origins. If anyone can help me with this, either by providing links where I can...

Just finished reading Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes, quite an interesting book, but nothing glaringly different from what is fast looking like a consensus on the genetics of the British Isles. Anyway his research team offer services in tracing your genetic ancestry: ...

Hi My last name is really German, and I've always known what it meant, but never REALLY thought about what it MEANS. My Dad, joyous old pagan that he is, pointed this out for me. My last name is "von der Heyde." It's a historical corruption of "von der Heide," meaning "Of the meadow," or,...

I don't know if there is any call for this. I thought it might be an idea to create a thread for those of us reasearching their family history. Ancestry is, of course, important to us Heathens. I will start with a query of my own. My great grand mothers maiden name was Lawless. From what I can...

Now, I have done plenty reasearch on my last name (Buan).I have had a few french people say its french, but how do they see this, its not said Bu-wan, its reads like the U is like the "ea" of "beau-tiful", like it rymes with "view". Well thats how we say, I guess we could be wrong. Okay so not...

I’m researching my family tree and thought I’d post a couple of links to some sources that I’ve found very useful. http://www.genwed.com/UK/england.htm Contains details of many English marriages. It’s incomplete, but I’ve found the records of two of my ancestors marriages and as the...

Anybody got any decent ones? Where you can, like, search for any name and it will find it. Cause, come on, normal ones can't even find the better known people from my family!!!! :mad: So, anybody got any decent ones??? That is for Austria and Germany?