Posted on 10/02/2010 3:39:37 PM PDT by epithermal
That is interesting. Some of the gravestones in my family’s cemetery are so covered with algae and worn that you can barely make them out.
I found several of my ancestors in the pension rolls. They were from North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Something really interesting is several of them mentioned among their military actions, “The Florida Campaign”, yet I have never heard of any actions in Florida during the Revolution.
can you give more info on this/ I post on other boards and would love to share that?
I don’t believe it is a “so what”. I think it shows that someone cares enough about themselves and their family’s contributions to our country. Just the fact you spent time to look it up says a lot. I never have. The first person carrying my family name came in 1790, but I never thought to look how I was link to the revolution through marriages.
Check out the links in #12
Thanks. Sarah and or christie are the only ones with guts enough to take on the communists. The rest are patsies.
Right, I would say it should be a source of personal pride, not necessarily something to boast about publicly. There are many families who have no connection to the Rev. War, but I’ll bet many have members who fought and died in WWI, WWII, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, etc., and I am in awe of all of them.
I have spent a lot of time doing my family genealogy which my mother started. When she would share information about it when I was younger I would just nod my head and half listen. Then I started trying to catalog what she did before she dies and I caught the bug. It is not so much linking the family together, but putting them in the framework of history and the growth of the USA. It fascinates me how historical events shaped my family and this nation.
Would an Arab sheik and Idi Amin count?
Genealogy is all based on the dubious assumption that over hundreds of years not one of the wives “jumped the fence.”
Statistically speaking, that is highly unlikely.
Genealogy is all based on the dubious assumption that over hundreds of years not one of the wives “jumped the fence.”
Statistically speaking, that is highly unlikely.
Wives were a lot truer than most think. I noticed a while back that several members of my Mothers Clan had some kind of DNA tests done which trace ancestry back through the male lineage only.
I remember thinking that if any of the Fathers were not really the Father then the tests would not agree with the genealogical data. It turned out that they all were related exactly how they thought they were.
It doesn’t mean a whole lot but I think it’s a bit interesting that Sarah Palin is my 8th cousin (3 times removed) and George W. Bush is my 9th cousin (2 times removed). Two of my 4th Great Grandfathers served in the Revolution....Boyce Kimball who was in the 2nd Massachusetts Regiment and Peter Wagner who was a Lt Col in the Tryon NY Militia and who survived the Battle of Oriskany NY.
I agree in general. But tracing one’s ancestry back many hundreds of years thru the male line has some fairly obvious pitfalls. The exponential increase of number of wives with each generation makes it likely that at some point one of those children is not the child of the wife’s husband.
There are numerous cases in European royal history where it was pretty obvious to all concerned that the King was not the bio-dad of the crown prince. Luckily for the already sufficiently screwed up genetics of the European royals.
I hope Obama doesn’t join the SAR. He may be eligible on the basis of his ancestry, but he doesn’t share the values of the organization (respect for our Constitutional system of government and for our patriot ancestors who gave it to us). The fact that the men who played political roles in the American Revolution were all white (although some of the soldiers were black), and that the great majority of present-day members of the SAR are white, are probably sufficient reasons for him not to be interested in joining.
According to medieval Scottish genealogies, the McDonalds, McDougalls, and McAllisters are all descended from Somerled. Someone a few years ago got the current heads of Clan Donald, Clan Dougall, and Clan Allister (maybe spelled a little differently) to take a DNA test for the Y-chromosome and they agreed to—it confirmed the genealogical sources. If anywhere along the lines of descent a boy had not been the son of his putative father (his mother’s husband) the DNA would not have matched.
I am a DAR member. I have 14 ancestors who served in the Rev War. They were from VA and MD.
My fourth great grandfather was a dragoon and fought at King's Mountain and Guilford Courthouse. His father, my fifth great, provided aid, materiel, horses and muskets. His youngest brother and my fifth great uncle, 14 at the time, was a "teamster," meaning he drove supply wagons. They were neighbors of Colonel Joseph Winston and served under him. Any descendant of the three would be eligible to the DAR or SAR, provided descent can be proved.
Well aren’t you the fortunate one, I’ve got Jimmah as a distant cousin, lol. There are Carter men where I grew up who look a lot like him, going back to whomever, Robert “King” Carter I suppose.
Gates is also undertaking a joint project with SAR to identify other descendants of the approximately 5,000 African Americans who served in the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.As you say, if their descendants share the common goals of the SAR, then I would welcome them as my compatriots; Obama not so much.
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