Family History

[oneshot 1]

I already have a large book on my Family History but my wife brought me another book that I shall read. 

Talks of the Civil War. Lots of Records got lost in burning of the South. 

Family Records were hard to come by in France at the time because of the Revolution. 

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[Dutch]

At what time?  The French Revolution was over half a century before the Civil War.

[MOPanfisher]

My aunt did some family history stuff once.  Turns out if of my distant distant relatives was hung for being a horse thief.  Probably the only interesting person in my ancestory.

[oneshot 1]

46 minutes ago, Dutch said:

At what time?  The French Revolution was over half a century before the Civil War.

Our family came from France through England during the Revolution. 

Most fought for Confederacy during the Civil War. 

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[fishinwrench]

Everybody I know that's done the "ancestry.com" thing claims they are related to Jesse James 🙄 

Either the ancestry thing is BS ...... or old Jesse got a lot of poontang.   

[bfishn]

9 minutes ago, fishinwrench said:

Everybody I know that's done the "ancestry.com" thing claims they are related to Jesse James 🙄 

Either the ancestry thing is BS ...... or old Jesse got a lot of poontang.   

I bounced around NWMO a few years as a youth, every family had someone related to JJ... found it odd that the rest of the family wasn't.

[tjm]

Do the 23andMe thing and you might be surprised at who you really are related to.

[Terrierman]

14 hours ago, fishinwrench said:

Everybody I know that's done the "ancestry.com" thing claims they are related to Jesse James 🙄 

Either the ancestry thing is BS ...... or old Jesse got a lot of poontang.   

I lived in what was Frank James house in Nevada.  Lovey was talking to someone at an antique store the other day who told her the James boys grandmother lived where we live now.  Our house was built in 1900 so if there is any truth to it, had to be a different and older house.

[Terrierman]

17 hours ago, oneshot 1 said:

I already have a large book on my Family History but my wife brought me another book that I shall read. 

Talks of the Civil War. Lots of Records got lost in burning of the South. 

Family Records were hard to come by in France at the time because of the Revolution. 

oneshot 

There was a fire at the National Archives vet records center in St. Louis in 1973 that destroyed a LOT of records there.  We recently tried to get my father's WWII records but nope, up in smoke.  We know he was in the Army Air Corps and believe he flew on B-24 as navigator/bombardier.  But it would have been nice to see when and with what units.  My folks were divorced when I was young and there was basically no contact after that.  So there is very little to go on.  There is a flight jacket still around somewhere but not in my possession.

My mother was in the Navy in WWII.  All we could get from the archives was a copy of her separation papers.

[Johnsfolly]

9 hours ago, tjm said:

Do the 23andMe thing and you might be surprised at who you really are related to.

I'm a tin hatter on this one. Not that I would be likely to do anything that would warrant a DNA search. I still don't feel that I need a database having my DNA records.