Your ancestors

[RhettVito]

I'm related to StoneWall Jackson http://www.warofrightsforum.com/show...e-wall-Jackson

[JubbacusMaximus]

According to ancestry.com (which I'm not sure if it's a reliable source), my earliest known ancestors from my dad's side of the family landed in Virginia from England in 1704. I don't know anything from my mom's side though. Anyway, I had a few great relatives who had served in both world wars. My grandfather wanted to enlist during the Korean War, but he was rejected due to an inadequate level of schooling or something like that. He got his hand cut off at the furniture factory where he worked a few years later and continued to work there until he retired a while back. Most of my paternal ancestors settled in Watauga in North Carolina and most of my living relatives still live there to this day.


My grandfather had two great- or great-great- uncles who had deserted from the Confederate army during the civil war. One was caught and executed, and the other one was never found. I don't know any more details other than that, so it may just be a family legend that was made up to entertain people.

My dad's cousin was killed in Vietnam in 1970 and I traced his name on the Vietnam Wall during a school trip to Washington DC. I looked him up on the Vietnam Wall's website, and found out that he was in the 101st Airborne Division.

[Legion]

According to ancestry.com (which I'm not sure if it's a reliable source), my earliest known ancestors from my dad's side of the family landed in Virginia from England in 1704. I don't know anything from my mom's side though. Anyway, I had a few great relatives who had served in both world wars. My grandfather wanted to enlist during the Korean War, but he was rejected due to an inadequate level of schooling or something like that. He got his hand cut off at the furniture factory where he worked a few years later and continued to work there until he retired a while back. Most of my paternal ancestors settled in Watauga in North Carolina and most of my living relatives still live there to this day.


My grandfather had two great- or great-great- uncles who had deserted from the Confederate army during the civil war. One was caught and executed, and the other one was never found. I don't know any more details other than that, so it may just be a family legend that was made up to entertain people.

My dad's cousin was killed in Vietnam in 1970 and I traced his name on the Vietnam Wall during a school trip to Washington DC. I looked him up on the Vietnam Wall's website, and found out that he was in the 101st Airborne Division.

Interesting history. Ancestry is reliable, it used actual documents and other things, you just have to be careful and make sure everything adds up in the family line. You can also send in your dna so they can test it, it's a good way to make sure it's correct and to find out even more. My family history was pretty easy to trace sense we've been in the US from around the late 1600s to early 1700s, but some families are harder and it can be difficult, especially sense Europe has been devastated by two world wars alot of documents and information has been lost.

[JubbacusMaximus]

I forgot to mention that I'm adopted, so I don't know much about my biological family. All of the family history in my last post is about my adoptive family who I consider to be my real family. It would be tricky to get a lot of relevant information from my biological family, because I recently found out that my biological father was adopted too. I was born with the surname "Hancock", and I always assumed that I was related to John Hancock in some way, but this new information kind of throws a wrench in the case. Oh, and my grandfather from my biological mother's side of the family had done a tour in Vietnam.

[Irish Soldier]

Ancestor in the Irish brigade, 88th NY. To make a long story short, in total 5 people who were family ore close family died in the civil war, none made it out alive, i think some died at fredericksburg and some at antietam, last one died on the 2nd day of gettysburg? (think so, i have no letter from afther the 2nd day)

[Locke1740]

Ancestor in the Irish brigade, 88th NY. To make a long story short, in total 5 people who were family ore close family died in the civil war, none made it out alive, i think some died at fredericksburg and some at antietam, last one died on the 2nd day of gettysburg? (think so, i have no letter from afther the 2nd day)

Then our ancestor fought eachother, or were pretty close!

[Irish Soldier]

M8, i have a friend on steam, who i also have as friend on fb, we are good friends and a family member of him even fought not a mile away from my last ancestor, bennings brigade, i think they were deployed at devils den, i wish i am older and have money to visit the battlefield or even just go and live in the US since i live in Belgium.

[Legion]

M8, i have a friend on steam, who i also have as friend on fb, we are good friends and a family member of him even fought not a mile away from my last ancestor, bennings brigade, i think they were deployed at devils den, i wish i am older and have money to visit the battlefield or even just go and live in the US since i live in Belgium.

Gettysburg is a great battlefield to visit, it's very well preserved (except for all the undergrowth).
My ancestor also fought in Bennings brigade, He was in the 20th Georgia and was wounded at devils den. Does your friend know what regiment of Bennings brigade his ancestor fought in?

[Snowy Owl]

As of right now I only know about my father's side from his research on Ancestry, my mother's side is still unknown to me.
But my dad's side has a pretty interesting history mostly made up of French-Canadian and Lithuanian decent.

Starting with the French-Canadian part as they were the first to go to the U.S.:
Frank Rouleau moved from Montreal to Mississippi shortly before the civil war. We don't know his reasons why. When the war broke out he joined the 2nd Battalion, Mississippi Infantry in Jackson as a Private. He would fight with the 2nd up to 1863, becoming a Corporal along the way. Shortly before the Battle of Chancellorsville he deserted and was captured by the Union. While in captivity he took an oath of allegiance to the North and moved to Philadelphia once he was released. As a side note, on almost all of his muster cards his last name was spelled wrong until he was in Union hands. Ex: Rolo

The Lithuanian side came to the U.S. under the last name of shortly before WW1 where they went from New York to Philadelphia, eventually meeting one of the descendants of Frank Rouleau. The Lithuanian last name is what would live on, going from Gricunas to the name I now have of Gritz.

[Irish Soldier]

Gettysburg is a great battlefield to visit, it's very well preserved (except for all the undergrowth).
My ancestor also fought in Bennings brigade, He was in the 20th Georgia and was wounded at devils den. Does your friend know what regiment of Bennings brigade his ancestor fought in?

I haven't talked to him for a while since he wasn't online but i think he only knew he was a Georgian