Taylor Heretige Line?? PLEASE try and help me?

Question

my last name is Taylor - or Tailleur.

but i am really curious to know what Generation Scottish, Irish or Viking i am.

i know i have all those as my heretige, but i dont know exactly how much of each one i am.

like if i am mainly Scottish or Viking...

whatever.

cause my friend said he was 3rd generation Viking.

but couldnt remember where about he found that information out.

pretty much i want to know my Heretige Generation line??

please. i have been looking for hurs all over google. but have not found anything the least bit usefull...

Answer 1

Was your mom a Scot with fair skin and red hair who used to dance on a table top in a Cafe down by the bay where the Royal Viking Cruise ships came in? Had a fling with the second officer, Lars Larsen, who left her alone and pregnant with you? If so, you are a second generation Viking, and Irish on his mother's side. I found it all on the Internet.

I'm kidding. If you want to spend a month or two, you can make a start at tracing your heritage. You would have to get back  to people living in 1930 in the USA or 1900 in the UK by yourself, with paper records and what your family knows. Most of the genealogical data on the Internet is about people who are dead.

http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-b...

has people who died in the USA in the last 50 years. It has 235,698 entries for the surname "Taylor". Is one of them your grandfather?

Answer 2

I would take the 3rd generation Viking with a "pinch of salt";

there isn't anyone alive today who is 3rd generation Viking since a generation is roughly 25 years.

You can be DNA tested which will take you back to traces of Viking and much earlier ancestry - mine goes back some 17,000 years to a Clan Mother who has been called "Una" in the area East of present day Moscow.

Taylor, which has several variations, is a pretty common surname.

You need to start working back, generation by generation.

Ask your parents, grandparents, Aunts and Uncles to help you draw up a Tree chart, adding all the information you can.

Family Bibles if there is one are a great help as are Birth Marriage and Death Certificates to get you back another step.

Useful sites are:www.familysearch.org  (which is free) and www.Ancestry.co  (you need a subscription for the latter)

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