Genealogy sources?

[neo71665]

So when someone boasts that their ancestors came over on the Mayflower, I can reply that mine met the boat.

Guess since I'm 1/4 native american mine met yours, lol.

Good luck on traceing them back. According to the US governement my grandmother on my fathers side (where the native american comes from) was never born due to the fact of her being born on a reservation and not having any birth records. I tease my dad about being hatched. The rest of the family we has traced back to 1600s-ish depending on the family.

[Cawdorian]

The more you work with rootsweb the easier it will become to find information on their site. There are many search options available, if you have some names, spouse's names and birth or death dates it is very easy to fine tune your search. I think it is one of the best sites out there and best of all It's free!

The ship passenger lists are a wonderful source of information, there are some other websites that have information on cemeteries. I have several cemetery lists I have found on the net, they are a great source of birth and death dates.

If you have ancestors that settled at Jamestown VA, there is a website called "Society of Ancient Planters" that has a list of all the original settlers of the Jamestown colony. These settlers were English.

Study the migration patterns in the US back in the 1700's, many of our Scottish and Scots-Irish ancestors originally settled in Pennsylvania, from there they migrated down the "Great Wagon Trail" to Virginia, North and South Carolina,Tennessee, Kentucky and Georgia.

The longer and deeper you search the more Scottish ancestors you will find.