I became interested in Genealogy when I started doing research on my Father's Family. I'm currently adding to Loughlin, Hancammon, and Young Family Members who were born in Southeast North Carolina and who lived primarily in the Carolina's, Nevada, Florida, New York and Illinois. My Father only had one sibling by Willie and Lula Hancammon, a sister. Currently we know of no living male Hancammons other than my Son and me.

I also add friends who have passed on.

Developing a Family Tree is a little difficult on my Father's side because he was adopted soon after birth in 1907 and had no idea who his birth parents were. Records back then were almost non-existent, and his adoption record has no names either. He found a newspaper article once about a baby who might have been him, but, again, no names.

We do know from an Ancestry.com DNA test my Son had that there's a 45% chance our roots are from Great Britain. My own Ancestry.com DNA test indicates a 63% England and Wales and 27% Ireland and Scotland. But, again, with no names, actual birth parents and grandparents, and others, the trail, as Tom Mix probably said, has grown cold.
Update: I had another DNA testing site, Family Tree DNA, test only Paternal matches. The Results were similar to Ancestry's. Roots are from England, Ireland, Germany, Scotland, and a small amount for other European countries. There were actual names associated with some of these matches, and I have contacted some of them to inquire if any of their ancestors ever came to Southeastern North Carolina and Wilmington in particular. But, there again the trail seems to have grown cold. I still enjoy looking though.

I became interested in Genealogy when I started doing research on my Father's Family. I'm currently adding to Loughlin, Hancammon, and Young Family Members who were born in Southeast North Carolina and who lived primarily in the Carolina's, Nevada, Florida, New York and Illinois. My Father only had one sibling by Willie and Lula Hancammon, a sister. Currently we know of no living male Hancammons other than my Son and me.

I also add friends who have passed on.

Developing a Family Tree is a little difficult on my Father's side because he was adopted soon after birth in 1907 and had no idea who his birth parents were. Records back then were almost non-existent, and his adoption record has no names either. He found a newspaper article once about a baby who might have been him, but, again, no names.

We do know from an Ancestry.com DNA test my Son had that there's a 45% chance our roots are from Great Britain. My own Ancestry.com DNA test indicates a 63% England and Wales and 27% Ireland and Scotland. But, again, with no names, actual birth parents and grandparents, and others, the trail, as Tom Mix probably said, has grown cold.
Update: I had another DNA testing site, Family Tree DNA, test only Paternal matches. The Results were similar to Ancestry's. Roots are from England, Ireland, Germany, Scotland, and a small amount for other European countries. There were actual names associated with some of these matches, and I have contacted some of them to inquire if any of their ancestors ever came to Southeastern North Carolina and Wilmington in particular. But, there again the trail seems to have grown cold. I still enjoy looking though.