Ancestry?

[BlueStreak]

For some reason, I was just struck with the desire to know everones ancestry; If you don't mind.

I'll go first;

My fathers family came from Scotland to the US in the 1880's settling first in Sacketts Harbor, NY. My grandfather married a Norwegian immigrant (Grandma Alice) in Sacketts Harbor and for whatever reason, moved to Washburn, Wisconsin where my Dad was born, then later Duluth, Minnesota.

My mothers family (Wyndham) has been here in the US so long we searched back nearly 300 years until there were no more records to be found. Although my mom had a rocking chair, made of English Oak, now in the possession of my brother John, that has an inscribed plaque on it that reads "For my cousin John Wyndham, in the American Colonies, 1728." Grandma Wyndhams maiden name was Adams, and she claimed that we were descendants of Presidents John and John Q. Adams.

The earliest records we could find of the Wyndhams are here in Norfolk, VA.
They slowly worked their way north through W.V. until my Great Grandfather, a Methodist Minister and ardent Abolishionist, moved the family into Ohio, joined the Union Army as an Officer and fought in the war. He had a twin brother who fought for the Confederacy.

Anyhow,

Scotch/English/Norwegian, here.

You?

Dave