Have you ever done a geneology search for your family roots?

OK, you made me run and dig for my info! ha ha My family is not one for giving much information on our family history. It was mainly because my Grandmother had beat into her head to not talk about it because otherwise they would be looked ill upon. So, she did not tell us any history of the family. BUT...given the names that I have...BRANT was my great grandfather's name. Herbert Brant from Mohawks of the Bay of Quinte. But from what I understand...he changed his last name from Green to Brant when he came into the states. That was how he was able to join the military. But that is all I know. Grandma did not like sharing. ha ha

This is how I learned of it from my mother. I don't know where she got her information...but it was something she had found after my grandmother passed. http://www.tyendinaga.net/volunteer/kanhiote/bbs/messages/106.html Like I said, she has since received her card from Canada..but the US Government says we have no rights. *sigh*

Oh--don't get me going about "rights" native people have in America...My father was born in 1929 too..and no there wouldn't be good records from 1890 since records were burned or some weird thing...so no census records or anything...Know a bit of Mohawk history per se...since you're people went to Canada it would have been the group long time ago who left the states with Joseph Brant?? Since dear sweet Washington wanted to massacre all Natives who participated with the British during the Revolutionary War...You must be tied with or know of Awkwensasne?? Remember all the problems going on and still are since developers wanted to build yet another golf course on sacred ground...

My goodness...13 brothers and sisters...she came from a large family...it's still nice to know one's roots though..right?

Wow..you were able to trace all the way back to 1329--I'd love to be able to trace my European roots...lets see, there's the German side, French, Irish, Spanish, English, Welsh, Scottish..hehehe...The English side of the family were the Jetts and came to America in the early 1600s..mmm...hey, you're not related to me, are you?? LOL

pribably, somewhere diwn the line, stranger things happen lol

You sure do! That is a really cool idea you've got going on there :) I wish you all the luck with it.

Well don't expect my great American novel to hit the stores too soon..this could be a years in the making project--LOL

Actually one of the things I want to do, and did start some years ago, is to write a multi-volumed novel based on my family tree..I did actually start a fictitous version of my actual ancestors using made up names..after all couldn't very well use the real names unless I want to be sued left and right by descendants --but it involves a LOT of reading up..not just American history but European as well..to give background of say why my Palatine Germans left..that area of Europe had been devastated due to the Thirty Years war...People left in droves and settled in England..and they weren't exactly welcomed...so the idea was to inspire these immigrants to go to America and settle in the Hudson Valley area of NY--the original idea too, was to get these people once they were in America to work in obtaining "naval stores"--the raw materials that made up the ships for the English fleet...however, the surveyors did a real major goof...they assumed that the pine trees that yielded pitch and tar that were found in the southern states of America were the same type in the Hudson RIver valley area..nope...not..so here you had thousands of re-settled Germans in the area and no work to do..uh...lets just say there were a lot of uprisings...Ah Hah...do know my history don't I?--Hehehe

Yes...it's always nice to have a history of both sides..still want to do a really good search on my maternal great-grandparents line