Family History

Good stuff. So, Bill, at your core you're a red neck, huh?   

I've traced my family back to the 1630's in Germany. They came from a town called Jungingen -- the basis for my surname. My great-great grandfather, Johan Jakob Junginger, came over in 1852. He was a farmer and blacksmith.

Well it has been a while since the sun hit my neck   

I imagine I would be a bit different if gramps had stayed back east and I was born in the sticks of NW North Carolina   

Instead I am a city guy that lives in the country.........sort of.

We didn't get named after a town like you were.

So your family didn't come here until 1852?

My Dad used to say we were German but if we were they moved to England in the 1500's

Something tells me none of my N.C. family of the past would have voted for Hussein Obama   

And back in the early days when they were still in Virginia he would have been one of their "employees"   

Gramps never told me but I have a feeling he was never a Yankee fan either   

His farm over in Woodinville WA where my Dad grew up is now a winery

Great Thread!!!!!!

Yesterday the Mrs along with Drew and his fiance traveled to St Augustine, the oldest founded city in america, we stopped into a coat of arms shop, The catolog we went through was 3ft long and a good foot thick, I found our name but with a slight different spelling, it was spelled Biasuzzi..

Yeah that is one of the first things you learn when you look up old family history and look around and see those names had different spellings especially when they moved here to North America.

Can't go back any farther than my great-grandmother on my Moms side but can go back over 400 years so far on Dads side.

This is going to take some research. My aunt was offended when I told her of the spelling and that he came over with the Spanish fleet in the 1600's. She kept insisting that were Italian. I told her yes we are, it the Spanish fleet accepted any one that believed in the Catholic religion.