Denise
try this link: http://www.geni.com/invite/choose_address_book
you should see a rectangle named "people you might know"
Edward Longshanks 21st GGF to:
Me (Gregory Fournerat)
→
Marjorie Fay Thompson Fournerat
your mother
John Oval Thompson
her father
→
John Woods "Woodie" Thompson
his father
→
Mary Jane Cowan Thompson
his mother
→
John Woods Cowan
her father
→
James Cowan, Jr.
his father
→
Hannah Woods Cowan
his mother
→
Archibald Woods
her father
→
Michael Woods, Sr.
his father
→
John Andrew Woods, Sir
his father
→
Isabella Bruce
his mother
→
Patrick Bruce
her father
→
William Bruce 1565
his father
→
Janet Bruce
his mother
→
Agnes Douglas of Morton
her mother
→
John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton
her father
→
Joan of Scotland (Stewart), Countess of Morton
his mother
→
Joan Beaufort, Queen consort of Scots
her mother
→
John Beaufort, 1st Earl of Somerset
her father
→
John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster
his father
→
Edward III of England
his father
→
Edward II of England
his father
→
Edward I Longshanks, King of England
his father
Interestingly, John of Gaunt, 1st Duke of Lancaster, 1st Earl of Richmond is my 19th great grandfather, but my path to Longshanks takes a different route.
I like this aspect. I discover new ancestors through the relationship path.
I find it hilarious that Robert the Bruce's decendants (my 20th GGF about the same time as Edward I and II) were in the line descended from Longshanks in the Douglas and Bruce family. Douglas the Black was the one who carried Robert the Bruce's heart on the way to the holy land and was mortally wounded in Spain. He cast the heart of Robert the Bruce forward in a little precious metalled or jeweleld container and shouted "Onward Braveheart!". Strange that the term is also applied to William Wallace who fought with Robert the Bruce vs England for Scotland.. Even crazier for me to be related to both families thru some GGF and GGM.
My Douglas line evolved (is the right word?) into Cunninghams of Virginia / West Virginia. I had always heard they fought on both sides of the Civil War. Through doing family research, I learned they fought on both sides of the American Revolutionary War. So why should we be surprised at historical precedence.
Thanks for the story about Douglas the Black.
Erica:
http://soldaten-genealogie.nl/
here you are Erica! also soldiers... 16th/17th/18th century .
but take a look and tell me when you find your family! Probably also mine..
:-)
Erica, keep up the good work ans I, sure you find Dutch ancestress among the hangmen.... I keep my fingers crossed for you (LOL Erica you know me quit well so you you know I have not only a morbide sense of humor
:-) ). But at the data base many names of soldiers from different european countries around the Netherlands...
William III count of Hainaut is my 20th great grandfather and Charlemagne my 33th (or something like that) ngreat grandfather....
I play along with you..... :-)
I think many Europeans are connected with royals and nobles :-) and so the Americans too... Not strange all the royals married each other and so did the nobles... so once you're in, chance is you have them all ;-).