Posts from 'Fun'

Genealogy, as you all know, can be a complicated thing, especially when it comes to cycle relationships, in other words, when a person appears more than once in the family tree (Don’t know what to do if this is the case in your tree? Then have a look here: Cycle relationship help).

If our epoch-making ( ) tutorial can’t help you, you can as well go the whole hog to complete your confusion and watch the following video that was made to visualize a hilarious song by the American country singer and novelty song artist Ray Stevens: “I’m my own Grandpa”. Enjoy!

In a German cave, fourty 3,000-year-old skeletons were found last week. Uwe Lange (48) and Manfred Huchthausen (58) live only a few miles away from the cave and have been identified as direct offsprings of the cavemen by means of a DNA test. This fact makes their family tree the oldest in the world and the two men famous in the media, as there are 100-120 generations between their ancestors from Bronze age and them.

As you all know, itsourtree.com is not only your favourite family tree site for the UK and the US but also for all the rest of the English-speaking world.

Some days ago, Shamek wrote a blogpost about us and it looked like this:

Of course, we were curious about what the writer thought about us. We let Google’s translator do the work for us and found out that itsourtree.com has arabic fans as well! (If you’re interested in the grammatically “interesting” results of the translation, click here.)

However, you might find the feature helpful for the international communication with your relatives from abroad…

All of you spend at least some time on their family tree, some spend quite much time on it and a few spend very much of their free time on genealogy.

Whichever the group may be that you consider yourself a part of, here’s a page for you that has something for everyone:

The Genealogy Gifts Blog keeps you up to date with the latest gadgets and gifts for genealogists (from mugs to bags and dog’s t-shirts (!!!), you’ll find pretty much everything).

Although some of our competitors want your money for their services, we’d like to underline once again that all the services available on itsourtree.com so far are and will always be free of any charge! However, our receipt could look like the one below. 

We’d like to introduce you to some new members of our “Avatars-family”: Rastaman, the Babies and our blonde woman have just been added to our avatar collection. To add them to a person’s profile, click “Edit portrait” and choose your favourite avatar.

New England Genealogical Society has found out that Barack Obama is Brad Pitt’ ninth cousin!

And if that wasn’t enough for a Hollywood story: His democratic rival Hillary Clinton is Pitt’s wife Angelina Jolie’s ninth cousin, too! The two women’s family lines crossed in the early 18th century in Quebec. Edwin Hickman, the connector of both lines, died in 1769 in Virginia.

Hope that this doesn’t mean trouble in Brangelina’s mansion…

They don’t come often, but in many families they come regularly: Family reunions. Some say they’re fun but I bet there’s a lot of people who hate them and the stress around such an event. Tired of eating too much, drinking too much and chatting about nonsense with distant relatives you hardly know? Here’s an idea for your next family reunion. All you need is a camera, some rows of chairs, some coloured shirts and relatives, quite a few relatives.

(Tip: Don’t forget to turn on your speakers!)

Your Mom’s upset, refuses to wash your socks, your primary source of food has become the local Burger Hut? You’re even worried about your legal estate? Or you just want to show your love more than once a year?

No problem! Grab your Mom and fly to Paraguay, they’re celebrating Mother’s Day on May 15th! Your Filofax says no to such plans? Still no problem! Have a look here and pick a country.

The equivalent for Dad can be found here.

Christmas comes knocking on our door. Everyone’s preparing a wishlist and so can you! Write down what you would like us to add to the site, any features, any changes, just write us an email and we’ll do our very best to change or add your wishes to the site (But we won’t assume any liability if we don’t make it until Christmas! We’re not Santa Claus ).

By the way: If you fancy that tree in the picture, have a look here.