Arts & Humanities: Genealogy: “Question: How any generations need to pass before you consider someone to be an ancestor?” plus 2 more |
- Question: How any generations need to pass before you consider someone to be an ancestor?
- Question: Surname Yates?
- Question: Genealogy help please?
| Question: How any generations need to pass before you consider someone to be an ancestor? Posted: 15 Sep 2016 07:57 PM PDT Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel Report AbuseAdditional DetailsIf you believe your intellectual property has been infringed and would like to file a complaint, please see our Copyright/IP Policy Report Abuse Cancel  |
| Posted: 15 Sep 2016 03:23 PM PDT You are making too much of a surname, it is just a word and all words come from language origins not countries and all surnames exactly the same as first names were chosen, so a name tells you zero about anyone ancestry...... The term Teviotdale was used in the past ( and now) to define an area which was drained by the River Teviot, the River Tweed and their tributaries, the Town of Hawick and the surrounding villages. It is not "modern day South Scotland" All you need to do is check the map for Harwick or River Teviot and you will see exactly where it is. The word Yates is of pre 9th century Anglo-Saxon origin and it is a word used as a surname for someone who lived by a prominent 'geat' (gate), and probably the gate of a walled city or town, so even a 'gate keeper' and mainly West country, so Somerset which is south west England, just abut as far as you can get from Scotland..... but ENGLISH was spoken across the whole of the British isles and that is where surnames were taken from, the language, NOT a country. I would be very interested to know what "archives" you have found records in for the 1500s for Scotland and exactly what records they were. ADD: English language was spoken, heard and influenced three quarters of the Worlds countries, in any one of those countries is where the surname could have originated, so no English doesn't just mean England. I may be being cynical, maybe it is because I know British records very well, have sat for many months (not hours) in National Archives and records offices across the UK finding records and sat for many many months trying to translate many from Latin as that for many records is the language they are written in ( some in French) and my Latin is rubbish, French is OK, so I would be skeptical of anything "the scottish genealogist" told you, it would all have to be copies of real records before I believed anything at all...which is why I said I would be interested to know what the records were and where they were archived ......and I think your English is excellent |
| Question: Genealogy help please? Posted: 14 Sep 2016 10:01 PM PDT The ONLY way to know who and where your ancestors came from us to research and that ONLY means real record research, it is nothing at all to do with surnames which when taken were a choice like first names, so it is like thinking that all people named John are related and all come from the same country which is simply not true. So your task is to follow the real records which the individual generated during their lifetime, that way you will not be surname hunting, making guesses or assuming anything you will be researching the real records |
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