Learning About Me

I watched a show called "Who Do You Think You Are?" and watched Matthew Broderick trace his family back through the civial war and help finally put a name to a soldiers grave that for over 150 years had just had a number stamped on it. It really got me interested about where My various families came from and what they were up to in their time. I started out by poking around on Ancestry.com (info from this website is in blue and green, . I found some fantastic meanings about the various last names in my family history:

Quinn (Paternal Line)
Irish: reduced Angliziced form of Gaelic O Coinn 'Decendant of Conn'. This is the name of several families in Ulster and counties Clare, Longford, and Mayo.

Pewitt (Maternal Line)
Welsh: Patronymic from ap 'son of' + Hewitt
Hewitt
1 - English, Welsh and Scottish: from the medieval personal name Huet, a diminutive of Hugh (also, Hew) The surname has also been long established in Ireland.
2 - English: Topographig name for someone who lived in a newly made clearing in a wood, Middle English hewitt (Old Engish Hiewet, a derivative of heawan 'to chop', 'to hew')

Seay (Maternal Line)
This Surname is turning out to be varied in spelling and there are two prominate families that could be this line's beginning, one from England one from Ireland, I have not gotten far enough back to determine which is my ancestry.

Booze (Maternal Line)
Dutch: variant of Boos. Debrabandere suggests it may also be habitational name for someone from Booze in Trembleur in the Belgain province of Liege South German and Swiss German regional (Alemannic) nicname from Middle High German boese 'ridiculous person','low-standing servant' or from a Germanic personal name Bozo.

Pitts (Married Line)
English: variant of Pitt. From Middle English pytte, pitte 'pit', 'hollow', hence a topographic name for someone who loved by a pit or hollow, or a habitational name from a place named with his word, as for example, Pitt in Hampsire.
German: Americanized spelling of Pitz. North German: from a short form of the personal name Petrus. South German: southern variant of Butz, a pet form of the personal name Burkhard.

I have also traced some of my family lines back to the 1600's already.
Not bad for a single day, huh?

I plan on asking my dad for some information on his family, I don't seem to know much. I think I might have a piece of paper somewhere (in a box! ;-) ) that has a lot of information on it, but since I just moved, the location of that box is anyone's guess.