[Right2BareArms]

Grandfather? Great-grandfather?

My grandpa was born in 1920, and his father was born around 1890.

HIS father would have been about 1 when the Civil War started, so it would be my great-great-great grandfather who would have been around before the war.

That is, if any of my ancestors had been in the US before the war, which they weren’t.

[peteyd]

Try this one on for size.
My grandfather was born in 1876.My great grandfather was born in 1841.My great grandfather along with his brother, fought in the Civil War 110 th Regiment out of Penna.
I reel at how old my family was.My grandmother died in the 1930’s at the age of 56yrs and grandfather died in the early 1950’s. I remember going to my grandfathers funeral and I was about 3yrs old.My mom just recently passed at the age of 98yrs.

[COBOL2Java]

Grandfather? Great-grandfather?

My grandpa was born in 1920, and his father was born around 1890.

HIS father would have been about 1 when the Civil War started, so it would be my great-great-great grandfather who would have been around before the war.

That is, if any of my ancestors had been in the US before the war, which they weren’t.

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Same here. My grandfather came to this country around 1900 from Santander, Spain. His ancestors were sheepherders eking out a living in the north Cantabrian mountains.

Go away, Azealia.