Your ancestors

[Johann Günderson]

Ole A. Lee
15th Wisconsin "Scandinavian Regiment" Company D "Norway Wolf Hunters"
My 4x Great Uncle
Was Killed at Stone River at 17 years old
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[JRob]

I know I had a confederate in the family, but I forgot his name. I need to find out.

[Hiram Lee]

I had many ancestors who fought in the civil war one is Jeff Davis but the one i know the most about is my great grandfather who fought in ww2 as a medic had multiple purple hearts and many many awards for valor

[JRob]

Okay, dang.
My great great great grandpa was Jefferson Walls, who was in the 6th Kentucky Calvary company B. He then became a POW after being captured June 1st 1863 in Columbia, Kentucky. Jefferson enlisted with my great great great uncle as brothers at the same time. they enlisted September 8th, 1862. 9 days before Sharpsburg.

[Wildcat]

Sorry if this is my second post on this thread I might have already and forgot but here is mine:

My direct I am of Scottish ancestry, My Great Great Grandfather is who I know the most about, He was born probably as a farmers son, He then went on to join the British army during the 1890s at the age of 16 years old, He joined the Gordon Highlander's, Probably 1st or 2nd battalion, He then went to serve in the Boer war where acording to family legend he lost his leg, It is confirmed that he lost his leg but no one knows how, However family legend says he lost it in the war, After research we found he was medically discharged for a very bad illness, Since he had only one leg he could not serve in anymore wars so during WW1 he joined the Merchant Navy, When in 1920 his ship he was on sunk in the channel, Where sadly he died.

My maternal Great Grandfather was an Irish from county Mayo, He moved to Yorkshire during WW2 where he joined the York and Lancaster regiment, He served in Italy, I don't have pictures of him because all his stuff is with my great aunt, However my Grandmother who I see maybe every couple months (She lives in Yorkshire I moved down south due to my fathers job) is in possession of stuff including, A Christmas card from the 40's, British/American newspapers about the campaign in Italy, Postcards, A list of some of his kit, And some other bits and bobs.


Cool story about my Grandmothers father, He was in Sri-Lanka during WW2 when he was in the Navy, He got bombed and survived, However the flash and fire burnt his hands and face, He also probably got blinded for a few seconds, Also this is a good time to mention he could NOT swim, But he knew the ship was going down so he jumped overboard and survived after treading water for 7 HOURS!

[M. Johnson]

I don't really have too many stories to share myself about my ancestors. But two WW2 related stories I can share:

One, for instance, is that my grandfather had to serve (how surprising ) with the German "Wehrmacht" in WW2 and ended up at the Eastern front in the Baltic countries, where he took a grazing shot to his right leg in/near Riga. And I recall my grandma telling me that he was super happy about it because the wound wasn't too dangerous, but enough to take him out of the "game" forever, so he didn't have to go back to the front ever again (if he would have, he would have ended up at Stalingrad with his division and probably have never returned home). He then ended up at various military hospitals between Riga and Western Germany and eventually came home.
What I remember about this is that, as a kid (my granpa died when I was like 9 or so) I was always "fascinated" with the actual bullet hole in his leg that was never closed and one could always see when he wore shorts. Also he was kinda dragging his leg behind a bit ever since as he couldn't properly bend it anymore, nor do things like riding a bicycle. Which I recall being very funny when he once tried and used the bike's pedals only with the left foot - which worked but looked super funny and we all laughed bad


Also another "fascinating" story about my other grandpa, who died before I was born, is that during the war, he didn't have to serve as he was an Architect of some sorts. However, when bombing got worse he was a very lucky guy. There was one! day when he didn't go to the office, for I don't remember what reason. And just that very one day, the office was bombed to rubble and pretty much everyone of his colleagues died, except of him as he didn't go that very one day.

[Wildcat]

I don't really have too many stories to share myself about my ancestors. But two WW2 related stories I can share:

One, for instance, is that my grandfather had to serve (how surprising ) with the German "Wehrmacht" in WW2 and ended up at the Eastern front in the Baltic countries, where he took a grazing shot to his right leg in/near Riga. And I recall my grandma telling me that he was super happy about it because the wound wasn't too dangerous, but enough to take him out of the "game" forever, so he didn't have to go back to the front ever again (if he would have, he would have ended up at Stalingrad with his division and probably have never returned home). He then ended up at various military hospitals between Riga and Western Germany and eventually came home.
What I remember about this is that, as a kid (my granpa died when I was like 9 or so) I was always "fascinated" with the actual bullet hole in his leg that was never closed and one could always see when he wore shorts. Also he was kinda dragging his leg behind a bit ever since as he couldn't properly bend it anymore, nor do things like riding a bicycle. Which I recall being very funny when he once tried and used the bike's pedals only with the left foot - which worked but looked super funny and we all laughed bad


Also another "fascinating" story about my other grandpa, who died before I was born, is that during the war, he didn't have to serve as he was an Architect of some sorts. However, when bombing got worse he was a very lucky guy. There was one! day when he didn't go to the office, for I don't remember what reason. And just that very one day, the office was bombed to rubble and pretty much everyone of his colleagues died, except of him as he didn't go that very one day.

Those are two pretty cool stories, You don't hear of many WW2 stories from the German side here so nice to see some, I feel like people need to realise during WW2 most German Soldiers didn't want to be their or know what was going on behind the scenes.

[Wildcat]

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[JRob]

Here's my Great x3 grandfather, from the 6th Kentucky Calvary (CSA) Credits to MillitantMonkey for finding it for me :P

Also, my x3 great uncle enlisted with Jefferson, (above) and His name was Thomas, no picture

[Willy The Walrus]

Well, one of my siblings managed to trace my lineage quite a far way to I believe Eleanor of Aquitaine... > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine and then farther back to Richard the Lionheart. Of course those were pretty distant connections. Closer to modern day, I am related to this fella > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Peden who's last name actually shared my grandmother's maiden name so I guess I'm a straight shot from either Alexander Peden or one of his close family members.

On a side note, the same sibling mentioned before apparently discovered that we could murder something like, 320 people and inherit the throne of Britain XD

My first ancestor in America arrived in the early 1600s. I don't recall his name :/ He grew tobacco in town and was murdered during a Native raid within a few years. His three sons then decided to come to America from Britain to inherit what the father had left, and to move the rest of the family eventually to America. Some how or another one of their descendants ended up in Georgia I believe because he failed to pay some sort of tax, or held debt with someone. So he was either sent to Georgia legally because of tax evasion, or he fled to Georgia because of money he owed someone. Not quite sure on that one.

The other side of my family popped up somewhere up north and received land in the same county I currently live in for service in the Revolutionary War.

During the Civil War, most of my family served for the Confederacy. I'm sure some might have hopped on over to the Union, but most were pro-south. I don't know a whole lot about them. I know one was partial native American and had survived the war. He was later shot in the back by carpet baggers for his former service in the war.

I know I have Cherokee a few generations back, and thats about it. I guess thats just your average American ancestry.

I had a great grandfather who served in the 1st Infantry Division during World War 2, Korea, and later in Vietnam as a military advisor to some of the mountain natives who fought the Vietcong. He left as a master sergeant I believe, with three bronze stars, two purple hearts, and countless other campaign medals and awards. He passed away in 2004

I have a grandfather who is still with us who served on the USS Gilbert Islands during World War 2 in the Pacific. Prior to that, he was part of the detail that went into the unusable ships after Pearl Harbor and retrieved anything of value (as well as dozens of corpses :/ ). I also know that he was part of the first wave of experimental radarmen during the war.

Another grandfather served for a few years in the marines leading up to Vietnam.

I also have at least three members of my extended family in active duty.

my family is realated to the spencers which include Diana, Princess of wales and I am distantly related through the spencers marriages and births to some kings such as charles ii, edward the ii, james the ii, henry the IV of france, and emperor ferdinand I of the Holy roman Empire so I basically have a legal claim to the caladrian throne, I mean I am like what 5000th in line to the throne of england?

My first ancestor that I know of in america was a tabacco farmer in virginia in the late 1600s early 1700s.The British Marched across my family's farm towards yorktown.

another one of my ancestors between 1800-1840 was hanged for some reason it says that in his will he gave his slaves to his children.

I have 3 x3 great grandfathers who fought in the civil war all union cavalry their regiments being the 10th illinois cavalry, 5th kansas cavalry, and 1st missouri, I also remember hearing that they had some brothers who fought in the war too.

My great grandfather was in the army during ww1.

my grandpas brothers served in ww2 1 pilot who flew a b17 in the pacific and a pilot in europe who was a gunner on a b29 and another brother who was in the 102nd ozark.

Grandpa was a corporal and a clerk in the 5th armored division during the korean war *his clerking skills were noted by higher ranking soldiers*.

Uncle by marriage was in the army during 'nam.

dad was in airforce for 26 years and was a lieutenant colonel.

my aunt was also in the military.

2 of my cousins are in the army.

Also rithal I will bite your ankles for the english throne. I am greedy I have a claim to the french and holy roman empire thrones.