"The John Harrington who was the husband of Etheldreda is my ancestor. :) Queen Elizabeth I was the godmother to his son John--she called him her "saucy godson." Elizabeth was imprisoned in the Tower of London along with John Harrington Sr. and his second wife Isabella Markham, who was one of Elizabeth's maids of honor."

"Hi Conyle,
Haha! ;-) I like your user avatar btw. I have found that a lot of people, if they research their genealogy far back enough, will find some cool links to royalty/nobility! "

"I also have an ancestor--my great great great great grandfather--who was from Ireland who we just haven't been able to trace any further back. If we only knew! Maybe one day we both will. It is very cool that your great grandpa came from Ireland! Maybe since he was a more recent emigrant there could be more records somewhere."

"I found some ancestors! lol

I was able to trace (actually someone else already did it and I just followed the path) my Father's paternal line all the way back to early 1600's in England! Very cool, eh? There is also a maternal line in the same family that came from England in the early 1600's.

I haven't been able to find more than a death record for my maternal g-grandfather on my Dad's side who came from Ireland. My Dad thinks he has some info. and he's looking. So fingers crossed!

My Mom's side is a complete no-go at this point and she's passed, but I'm waiting to see if I can get some info. from my cousins to get me started.

Wish me luck!"

"I always wanted to do some genealogy on my family, but it would be hard on both my maternal and paternal. Especially paternal side since my dad's a Mexican- and sadly our family, as far as I know, wasn't exactly well off.... But I'm pretty certain though that there's some Italian on that side (paternal) since my last name is Lucio. On my maternal side there's a mixture of German, English, Scottish and possibly Irish.... But it's hard to know where my ancestors came from or where. To do that Ancestry.com (?) isn't it a lot of money?"

"Yay!
When you get some names, try ancestry.com and also sites like rootsweb. The great thing is there is so much info online now--you just have to try and confirm it by going to several sites and doing a little bit of research yourself as well. I have found that when you get back to the early 1800's, you can put your ancestors' names into search along with perhaps their birthdate and stuff will start popping up! It's amazing how many cousins we have out there that we don't know about (because unlike in the Tudor days, we don't marry them---haha!) Have fun!"