My 10th generation ancestor received a land grant in NC from Lord Granville.
I think I'm good.
Not if he was a Tory you ain’t.
Just to “brag” about ancestors (on my wife/father’s side), they came from Charlemagne’s brother Pepin the Short (they have a French family crest/name, a family bible that starts in the 1620’s, a statute with 16 members of the Pennsylvania Regiment from Sykesville and DuBois (towns the family founded) at Gettysburg, and were related to Gov. Bliss of Pennsylvania.
My late father-in-law’s sister was a Mormon and a genealogist who traced the family tree on their side. My wife’s mother came from a Confederacy family in So. Carolina who might have been from German aristocracy, perhaps the Hapsburgs. We don’t know but it’s worth talking about at the dinner table, for about 5 seconds.
The husband of one of my sisters-in-law has a family record going back to two signers of the Declaration of Independence (one being Rodney Caesar or Caesar Rodney), they still own a town in Maine which their ancestors created, and have ancestral homes in France.
Just for giggles and grins, his father, a late Army General, was a US Army Military Governor in post-war Germany (OMGUS command).
More history. My late father-in-law made 4 amphibious assault landing in the Pacific ending up at Iwo Jima with the 75th (Army) JASCO, Joint Assault Signal Company, where he got his third Purple Heart.
The rest of his military career is still classified TOP SECRET or ABOVE.
I go back to Moses and my son is named Joshua. My father’s name in Hebrew was Moses and my grandfather was “Samuel”. We just don’t get much more biblical than that.
Oh, and some distant relative in Baltimore was involved with helping the Exodus get to Israel.
I went to Hebrew School with film director Barry Levinson. That won’t get me a stale bagel or a day-old Knishe, but I like to tell it anyway.
I do have “Seven Degrees of Kevin Bacon” to his film “Diner”, but that’s for another day.