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Genealogy? Any of you traced your family history?
I've been working one side and I'm down to the 1400s and have hit a dead end. Been pretty cool.
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When I did mine, all it said was "Assorted Crackers".
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My folk came here from Germany in the 1850's and a few survived the yankee barn burning and livestock killing in the civil war and then produced the rest of us.
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Yes, and confirmed I come from a line of moonshiners, adulterers, tavern keepers and a murderer. You can learn some crazy stuff and it can be fun and enlightening - especially if you happen to able to find real info about the lives your ancestors led.
My 4x great grandfather was one of the first white settlers in what is now Union County, Georgia. He was there before Cherokee Removal and the 1830s land lotteries that gave away their land. His cabin is still standing in Blairsville. One of his sons moved to Missouri after serving in the Mexican War. Before serving under Quantrill and riding with the James and Younger brothers in the CW, he bought a farm. That farm was literally next door to property my wife's grandparents bought in the 1970s after they moved to Missouri from Kansas. I found this out after we were married (I'm from GA, my wife is from MO and went to the W, we met in MS).
Last edited by BrunswickDawg; 01-15-2022 at 08:56 AM.
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Yes, on my dad's side, started back in 1743, Scottish.
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Have traced back on my Mom's side all the way back to the 1600's. Two of my great grandfathers signed The Declaration of Independence. On my Dad's side, it's been more difficult to track due to all of the Native American ancestors.
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Originally Posted by
trob115
Have traced back on my Mom's side all the way back to the 1600's. Two of my great grandfathers signed The Declaration of Independence. On my Dad's side, it's been more difficult to track due to all of the Native American ancestors.
Are you related to Elizabeth Warren?
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Have done a good bit on both sides but more on maternal side. Paternal side immigrated from Germany in mid nineteenth century so more difficult to trace. By the way, if you're going to "brag" on some of your relations you also need to own up to the horse traders and horse thieves as well.
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I got kinda obsessed with it for a while. Maternally, was fascinating. My great grandfather, who actually died the year I was born, actually killed his father. He apparently walked in the house one day and his mom was in the floor beaten up really bad. So he went out to the wood pile where his dad was and said “you will never touch her again” and then proceeded to axe him! And his grandfather came here from Germany stowed away on a boat which landed in Galveston. He lived to be 109 years old.
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Traced my paternal grandfather's side back to Ayton, Scotland in the 1500's. Found that my first ancestor from this side came to the new world in 1622. My paternal grandmother was a McLeod who traces back to the Isle of Skye and supposedly the McLeod's are of Nordic origin.
ETA: I started this search looking for Confederate veterans (Yes, if I were from the north I would have been looking for Union veterans) and found several dozen. I then kept digging further back to find any Revolutionary War soldiers. So far I have found a grandfather who was a Colonel in the Georgia Militia and whose brother-in-law was a signer of the U.S. Constitution for the state of Georgia. My grandfather with my surname is listed in the database as a Patriot. He was too old to fight but is listed as a patriot because he "furnished a horse and wagon to the war effort in Lancaster County, VA". My surname grandfather from the next generation was too young to fight but his older brother was in the 3rd Continental Dragoons under George Washington's cousin, William Washington, and fought at the Cowpens and Guilford Courthouse. I am currently putting together all of my documentation to join the Sons of the American Revolution. https://www.sar.org/
I think some of my relatives from my mother's side wore red during the rev war. Her side is almost exclusively English where my father's is Scottish and Irish.
Last edited by Mjoelner34; 01-15-2022 at 06:14 PM.
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Great-Great Grandmother came over on a boat from Sicily in the 1800's and landed in Nola. Mom's side is German/Sicilian mutts
Dad was adopted so tracing that is much tougher
Walk like the King or walk like you don't care who the King is
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Shit no!!! Don't want pawpaw to go to prison for all those Sullivan Hollow crimes!!
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Originally Posted by
DownwardDawg
Shit no!!! Don't want pawpaw to go to prison for all those Sullivan Hollow crimes!!
You not kin to the Sullivan's too are you? Pappy Tom's youngest was my great-great grandpa. His fourth oldest is also my great-great-great grandpa.
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Originally Posted by
Mjoelner34
You not kin to the Sullivan's too are you? Pappy Tom's youngest was my great-great grandpa. His fourth oldest is also my great-great-great grandpa.
Did you spend your summers at Eagle River?**
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Originally Posted by
Mjoelner34
You not kin to the Sullivan's too are you? Pappy Tom's youngest was my great-great grandpa. His fourth oldest is also my great-great-great grandpa.
I sure am. My grandfather on mothers side is a direct descendant of Wild Bill Sullivan. Wild Bill's great grandson.
I have a ring shaped mark across my nose from drinking moonshine from a mason jar. Thing is, I don't think I've ever drank anything out of a jar and I certainly don't drink moonshine. My mother has it too.
Last edited by DownwardDawg; 01-15-2022 at 01:15 PM.
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Originally Posted by
DownwardDawg
I sure am. My grandfather on mothers side is a direct descendant of Wild Bill Sullivan. Wild Bill's great grandson.
I have a ring shaped mark across my nose from drinking moonshine from a mason jar. Thing is, I don't think I've ever drank anything out of a jar and I certainly don't drink moonshine. My mother has it too.
My grandma told me when my dad was 4 or 5 and acting up, all she had to do was look out the window and say "There comes Wild Bill" and he would run hide under the bed.
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Originally Posted by
Mjoelner34
My grandma told me when my dad was 4 or 5 and acting up, all she had to do was look out the window and say "There comes Wild Bill" and he would run hide under the bed.
Yep!! He was wild and crazy!!
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Originally Posted by
Mjoelner34
You not kin to the Sullivan's too are you? Pappy Tom's youngest was my great-great grandpa. His fourth oldest is also my great-great-great grandpa.
Looks like I've got a couple of uncles or cousins or both on here. My paternal grandmother was a Sullivan twice over: her mother was a Sullivan who also married a Sullivan. Thus, I'm afraid my family tree doesn't fork as often as it should.
I've been to a few funerals at Sardis Church near Mize. At the last one I went to about five years ago, the preacher (not a Sullivan) was about 30 years old. He told a story about his mother warning him as a child not to be caught in the Hollow after dark.
Went to a family reunion a few years ago and enjoyed seeing the long sheets of butcher paper listing the descendants from each of Pappy Tom's wives.
For those unfamiliar with the lore of Sullivan's Hollow, the family patriarch had 11 children with his wife. He had another 11 or so with his common law wife at the opposite end of the Hollow.
https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/miss...ans-hollow-ms/
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"It is not courage to resist TUSK; It is courage to accept TUSK."
No.
Easy there buddy. Tusk is...well Tusk is Tusk. Tireddawg 12.20.17
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