Who are my ancestors?
Ancestry.com has the following information about your last name: Rodas: 1. Catalan: variant of Rodes. 2. Galician and Portuguese: habitational name from any of three places in Galicia named Rodas (in Lugo, Ourense, and Pontevedro), from the plural of roda ‘wheel’. 3. Occupational name for a wheelwright from roda ‘wheel’. New York Passenger Lists give the following Places of Origin for Rodas: Germany 3 Sweden 2 Spain 1 Russia 1 Austria 1 Admittedly, that narrows its down to Europe. Also, through Ancestry.com a message board for those searching for Roda ancestors is available. Of course, trying to determine your ancestry by researching your last name really isn’t very accurate because 1) quite often immigrants change their last names; 2) your last name doesn’t reflect your mother’s side of the family or your paternal grandmother’s for that matter. Determining your ancestry means that you need to discover a paper trail of documents (birth certificates, death certificates, marriage license
