Genealogy

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by ella

LOL I'll let you take it from here then since you got a subscription. I saw the name change to, quite a few different spellings. Every line of mine that I have researched changed the spelling of their name around the time they immigrated, and I'm also sure that some of the spellings were just mistakes made by the men who made the ship lists etc. You should be able to find your ancestor's ship passenger list. I also noticed a lot of people with your surname documented in Ukraine. Probably a lot of your great grandpa's relatives migrated there.

I found a picture of my great-great grandparent's gravestone

so far i've found romanian and austrian on my dad's side and hungarian and austrian on my mom's

i had to ask my mom her grandparents names and i seem to have a shitload from there. my great grandparens came in the mid 1800s to california via hawaii, it looks like

[yo soy el mejor]

is that why ella asked that disrespectful question, cause i'm just a person, not a god?

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

they don't need to be gods for me to have some respect.

how is not looking them up respecting them?

it's a web site, do you see a difference between ella doing it and you doing it or do think the entire concept of the documents all being in one place disrespectful?

[reprise85]

just wondering, no disrespect

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

is that why ella asked that disrespectful question, cause i'm just a person, not a god?

i just don't see it as disrespectful... she was trying to help. if you find it distasteful that doesn't mean it was disrespectful, but that's not for me to judge

[yo soy el mejor]

god, you're so annoying. you two just want excuses to talk about yourselves.

[reprise85]

this is the kind of thread where that's the point

[yo soy el mejor]

of course, as a white person, you wouldn't understand how that's disrespectful. like i said, mexican culture has a high respect for family (even the dead ones) and some gringa asking to "look it up yo!" on a website is downright rude.

[ella]

Yo soy, whatever I was just trying to be nice. Anyways, stop being silly and trying to pick a fight.

Reprise, I've found a lot of my ancestor's graves on findagrave.com. It's pretty cool that there are people all over the world who just go to cemeteries to take photos and document all the graves so they can be archived on the Internet!

[yo soy el mejor]

it's not silly to have respect for something you don't. it's my family, not yours.

[yo soy el mejor]

fake bitch.

[ella]

Yeah but calling me "some Gringa" isn't disrespectful or rude....no.....

[Sonic Johnny]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

you said it, BUT i would be interested to know my own.

Oh for sure, everybody is naturally curious about that stuff, myself included. I just know that netphoria doesn't give as fuck and shouldn't be expected to.

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

it's not silly to have respect for something you don't. it's my family, not yours.

don't you think it's kind of respectful to want to know about them and do research?

i'm really not being hostile so i don't know why you seem to be

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

of course, as a white person, you wouldn't understand how that's disrespectful. like i said, mexican culture has a high respect for family (even the dead ones) and some gringa asking to "look it up yo!" on a website is downright rude.

fair enough you think it's disrespectful, but me thinking it's not doesn't mean i don't respect my family heritage

[reprise85]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

it's not silly to have respect for something you don't. it's my family, not yours.

she's saying it's silly to pick a fight about

[killtrocity]

[null123]

i know the basic gist of mine but the genealogy that i actually really want to know, that of my maternal grandmother, is a mystery because she was adopted.

[hnibos]

Originally Posted by yo soy el mejor

of course, as a white person, you wouldn't understand how that's disrespectful. like i said, mexican culture has a high respect for family (even the dead ones) and some gringa asking to "look it up yo!" on a website is downright rude.

Wow.

[hnibos]

I'm as hispanic as hispanic can get and that makes no sense whatsoever.

[hnibos]

Anyways, my last name is Soto but it's fairly common. I don't know how that website works at all so I don't know how you would even begin to try to look stuff up. You can try Honduras - Obregon, though I'm not sure how much that would help you.

[reprise85]

im just a whitey with no respect

[ella]

Originally Posted by hnibos

Anyways, my last name is Soto but it's fairly common. I don't know how that website works at all so I don't know how you would even begin to try to look stuff up. You can try Honduras - Obregon, though I'm not sure how much that would help you.

Ok I'll take a look tomorrow. It would make it a lot easier if I knew your parent's and grandparent's names, and maiden names if possible... Or at least your mother's married name if anything. Also birth dates if you know any. PM me with the info if you don't want to make it public.

I just did a real quick search on Soto...there are a lot of different Soto lines! Also, ancestry.com has all Border Crossings 1895-1957 documented, so that should probably help.

[mxzombie]

my mother's side of the family claimed strong irish heritage for as long as i can remember, but my older sister did research on my grandfather's line and found that it's mostly welsh. my family didn't care.