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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: I'm trying to find documents of my great grandfather and can't find any passed 1880 or so?” plus 5 more

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Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: I'm trying to find documents of my great grandfather and can't find any passed 1880 or so?” plus 5 more

Question: I'm trying to find documents of my great grandfather and can't find any passed 1880 or so?

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 03:35 PM PDT

I feel you mean passed 1880 going back. Ask another question giving us his name and about when and where he lived and say you can't find records before 1880. There just might be someone on Yahoo Answers that can come up with information. Not everything is online. I understand in Salt Lake City they have many records that are not on FamilySearch.org. We have people here that sometimes can pull rabbits out of hats. Have you been to a Family History Center at a Mormon Church. I have never had them to try and convert me nor have I heard of them doing that to anyone else that has used their resource. A lot of their volunteers are not Mormon. Use the following link to find the nearest Mormon FHC.

https://familysearch.org/locations/cente...

Question: Is Gentile an Italian surname or a British surname?

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 02:47 PM PDT

This is what the Dictionary of American Family Names has

Gentile Name Meaning Italian: from the personal name Gentile, a continuation of Late Latin Gentilis meaning 'of the same stock (Latin gens)' and then 'non-Christian', 'pagan'; as a medieval name it was an omen name with the sense 'noble', 'courteous', also 'delicate', 'charming', 'graceful' (Italian gentile). In some cases the surname may have arisen from a nickname, sometimes possibly ironical, from the same word.English: variant of Gentle.

Source: Dictionary of American Family Names ©2013,

In English the Italian pronunciation would be sounded Gen til lae.

The origin of any family with whatever name depends on the ancestry of the family which can only be proven by documents/records, not the origin of their name.

Question: I'm looking for info on Baderon who came from Brittany. Before 1066. I'm looking for ancestors for my family tree. Thanks?

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 02:45 PM PDT

"Baderon had a brother named Wythenoc, they both came to England with William the conqueror in 1066 from Brittany" and what original documentation do you have to prove that....... 1535 is when parish records started to be written,even then most don't survive, most PRs prior to 1750 are simply not suitable with enough information contained to prove anything, so you have PROVED 500 yrs beyond then, I don't think so and online too, I don't think so!
I spent 3 months in TNA researching original documents which are of course in Latin and French, I know they are not online as they have not been transcribed or scanned and I know they don't have family history details and that was 300 yrs after the date that you are asking about.
Even the Domesday bookS which were written 20 yrs later in 1089 and then transcribed do not give family information they were an audit of property/value, not people...so John of Essex or William of Norfolk doesn't give you any information about who John or William was or what family they belonged to

Question: Last name of meaning? Help?

Posted: 04 Sep 2015 12:31 AM PDT

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