Well, I am not. I don't even know where that is and have never heard of it before.

I was recently in touch with a relative that traced us back to 15th century Tewkesbury England.

I'll have to google that some time and see what that area looks like.

I also found that my great great grandmother was half Cherokee. I suppose my folks came
over on the ship from England and began having affairs with the Cherokee.

thank You, I will think about Your presupposition

I know that place. It's in Gloucestershire where the River Avon meets the other river I can't think of the name of off the top of my head.

My step-father comes from round there.

So your a bit of a English snob...explains a lot

My roots seem to be in Germany in the Bavaria region. A great excuse as why I ike beer...me thinks.

Well, i'm Brasília and my roots are indians. From Macapá in Amapá state. Yanomami trib.

BouldRake wrote: I know that place. It's in Gloucestershire where the River Avon meets the other river I can't think of the name of off the top of my head.

My step-father comes from round there.

Maybe we are cousins! Long lost cousins!

I have known for some time that at least part of me descended from the English.
It's interesting to have some confirmation of a location.

I will google it.

Well, after looking at the town, I do come more to realize how my name, may have come to be.
Looks like a lovely place but appears they had a bad flood in 2007.

There is even a bed n breakfast that I guess is there or nearby and it's called the Underhill House bed and breakfast....and get this......it's on 'Hill' road!
Address: 4 Hill Rd, Dursley GL11 4JQ, UK

Fun and interesting stuff when you find your roots.

To think of it we can all trace our roots back, I don't know how far it is possible because most of our fore fathers and fore mothers are not alive any more. So we can trace back to only a few generations on either side. The father's side and the mother's side. But just imagine if we could trace very far into the past then we will definitely find out that we are all born from the children of Adam and Eve. So we are all cousins, far-far-far-far cousins, but still cousins! Let us celebrate Christmas this year with this thought, that we are all related to each other. Happy Christmas, Merry Christmas! Today is the 1st of December so let us begin the season with this unique thought

Well there is a very cool website online that is recognized by the national geographic.

It cost money for the DNA kit. They send it to you, you swab your cheek and send it back.

You can then log in and you can see anyone else that is in your DNA string, so to speak.

The only problem with that right now is, not everyone in the world is a member. Some
day I suspect, if not that website, another, will have everyone in a DNA database so that
everyone can match up to their ancestors.

I think it gets very confusing after going back several generations because so many things
change. Take me for example. I am adopted. However I know who my parents are but
IF someone was to look up my birth certificate, the original is locked, even to me, and all
they would get is my grandparents names as my parents. So there is the adoption factor.
Also, people get married and divorced and remarried, and some marry and divorce multiple
times.....to top that off, they have children often from more than one marriage. People tend
to follow the paternal side since that is the name that carries onward but just as much is to
be taken into the history on the maternal side.

I agree, any way you look at it, we are all related.

Hello cousins!

valerie wrote:

BouldRake wrote: I know that place. It's in Gloucestershire where the River Avon meets the other river I can't think of the name of off the top of my head.

My step-father comes from round there.

Maybe we are cousins! Long lost cousins!

I have known for some time that at least part of me descended from the English.
It's interesting to have some confirmation of a location.

I will google it.

Well, he was Welsh, he just grew up there.

Not Tewkesbury, but Ashchurch. I know Tewkesbury. because the train station is called "Ashchurch for Tewkesbury"..

Is that pronounced

TooKeysBurie?

Or perhaps:

TookUsBurrEE?

In short You are Tewkesburyan Cherokee Indians

Tooksbrie.

'oo' as in moon, bree as in brie. (Well, mostly as in brie. I can't think of another word - not as long on the E. bri as in brie, but without the E).

Cheese. Brie Cheese. Brie as in Brian. Long on the i a tad.

Oh well.

anymore folk from tooksbury?

me from Oxford,,well born in Nottingham shifted here when i was a wee lassie

I am from Jokesbury

I think you're from Wallabebury