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.
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.