Family Ancestors

Every family is rich with interesting facts and stories and the fun in researching a family tree is learning about who your ancestors were and not just finding dates and names.  This page will be filled with all the interesting information I was able to find out about our family.  Since some of this information was not written, some of this information are logical assumption derived from facts or stories passed down.

The Totland name is of Norwegian decent but in researching over 4000 family members, our blood line is mixed with Norwegian, Italian, English, French, German, Polish, Austria, Belgium, Scottish, Irish, Holland, Swedish ancestors.  Only in America can a family be so rich in heritage.  The early Totland's were Vikings and probably took place in the early invasions of England looking for land to grow crops and graze their animals.

Our ancestors are from Europe and the family tree stops around the 3 century (about 60 generations) since the records tend to be less accurate past this point.  There is royalty in the bloodline starting around the 15 century and going back about 1000 years (List of English, Scottish, French, and Great Britian Monarchs) and we are most recently descendent from the house of York and Lancaster.  Since they were royals, history recorded their details pretty well and Wikipedia has a very good summary of their lives.  Having royal blood is very common for Americans if a family can trace its heritage back to the early New England colonies.  All information about the history of this family is still being researched and all the information on this website should be considered a work in progress.

	This page holds the family history from around the year 1700 to present day.  These pages cover the Totland, Reide, Cappadona, Gregoli, Rydzinski, Murry, Ziedler, Stutz, Stringham and Cece families.  Research is still being done to get records for these families past the 1800's.
	This page holds the family history from around the year 1700 to 1300.  It goes into the family life back in the early colonies and what life was like in Europe.  It also covers the Totland Bay and the HMS Totland.  There are a few famous cousins mentioned like Queen Elizabeth and George Washington as well as other famous people who signed the Declaration of Independance.
	This page holds the family history from the around the year 1000 to 1300.  These records tend to cover only the royal families and details about their lives were researched using common Internet resources and not recounted through personal family stories.  The story starts with Sir Reginald Scott and goes to William I of England (William the Conqueror) who was the King of England around 1066.
	This page holds the family history from around the year 500 to 1000 AD.  These records also tend to cover only members of the royal family and it is a very large area of the tree due to the inter marrying of royals from different countries.  This time period covers the lives of over 50 kings and 3 Saints plus many other members of the royal families.  These records tend to be well researched and displayed on many websites on the Internet.