28 Oct 2011, 11:58 pm
29 Oct 2011, 12:06 am
Ancestry.com's data comes mainly from the LDS church. The church is quite reliable when it comes to genealogy.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful. 
29 Oct 2011, 12:14 am
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Ancestry.com's data comes mainly from the LDS church. The church is quite reliable when it comes to genealogy.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
Oh, they're mormons... so that's why all the people in their commercials have that eerily-white vibe
29 Oct 2011, 12:19 am
Obres wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Ancestry.com's data comes mainly from the LDS church. The church is quite reliable when it comes to genealogy.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
Oh, they're mormons... so that's why all the people in their commercials have that eerily-white vibe
ha! Actually, Ancestry.com is not run by the church. The church just happens to supply the most data that checks out.
29 Oct 2011, 12:23 am
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Ancestry.com's data comes mainly from the LDS church. The church is quite reliable when it comes to genealogy.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
I didn't know that. To be honest, we've been suspecting that my great-grandfather was Jewish for a while. When I saw that record on Ancestry, it pretty much confirmed my suspicions. My mom was very excited with the news, and even mentioned that we should buy a menorah and celebrate Hanukkah this year.
29 Oct 2011, 12:28 am
Descartes wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Ancestry.com's data comes mainly from the LDS church. The church is quite reliable when it comes to genealogy.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
I didn't know that. To be honest, we've been suspecting that my great-grandfather was Jewish for a while. When I saw that record on Ancestry, it pretty much confirmed my suspicions. My mom was very excited with the news, and even mentioned that we should buy a menorah and celebrate Hanukkah this year.
Sounds exciting. I'm not one for celebrating holidays, but I hope y'all have fun.
29 Oct 2011, 12:30 am
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Obres wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Ancestry.com's data comes mainly from the LDS church. The church is quite reliable when it comes to genealogy.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
Oh, they're mormons... so that's why all the people in their commercials have that eerily-white vibe
ha! Actually, Ancestry.com is not run by the church. The church just happens to supply the most data that checks out.
Still, the people on the ancestry.com commercials are freaky-white. I mean, they're so white they make me uncomfortable, and I'm white! Hell, I even just went to "stuff white people like", and found this:
See the 6th guy from the left? That's me!
29 Oct 2011, 12:41 am
I don't fit any of those! 
29 Oct 2011, 12:45 am
They're white urban stereotypes. I think this makes me a hipster 
29 Oct 2011, 6:01 am
Obres wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Obres wrote:
TeaEarlGreyHot wrote:
Ancestry.com's data comes mainly from the LDS church. The church is quite reliable when it comes to genealogy.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
I don't have a membership at the site, though. I come from an LDS family, so it was never helpful.
Oh, they're mormons... so that's why all the people in their commercials have that eerily-white vibe
ha! Actually, Ancestry.com is not run by the church. The church just happens to supply the most data that checks out.
Still, the people on the ancestry.com commercials are freaky-white. I mean, they're so white they make me uncomfortable, and I'm white! Hell, I even just went to "stuff white people like", and found this:
See the 6th guy from the left? That's me!
OMG, the the 6th guy from the left looks so much like me it's scary - all the way down to the "man-purse"
What does it mean?
Back to the OP, I had a similar experience, I am adopted, but I was able to find out the surnames of my biological parents on the Internet. My mother's surname was "Davidson", which of course is a common Jewish surname. I thought it was pretty cool, maybe it explains my talent for business.
29 Oct 2011, 10:54 am
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29 Oct 2011, 11:48 am
Descartes wrote:
I searched my maternal great-grandfather's name on the Jewish page for ancestry.com, and his census form came up under Jewish records. If Ancestry is at all reliable, I guess that would mean that I have Jewish ancestry?
Has anybody ever experienced anything similar? Are the records on Ancestry reliable? I couldn't find out for sure since I don't have a membership.
Has anybody ever experienced anything similar? Are the records on Ancestry reliable? I couldn't find out for sure since I don't have a membership.
Congrats Descartes! I do too.
I don't use Ancestry.com that much because I enjoy researching on my own so, I can't really say. I did find one man on there who is a distant relative who had some details about some of my family members wrong. I think someone in his family had the wrong information about them and he had just entered what they had without checking it out.
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29 Oct 2011, 12:14 pm
Dang, I'm from Portland. Thankfully I don't look like any of them.
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29 Oct 2011, 12:41 pm
I love that "Keeping Austin Weird" guy!
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