[ckilmer]

Yeah, I’m in the SAR in Northern VA but I’m not active. I get their email all the time.

My mothers side came later. they came in time for the civil war.

I think that a lot of American history is being buried and covered over. The geneologies serve as portals to the older america that is gone and not really remembered much. Sadly the reason is that fewer and fewer american have ancestors from those ages. so stories pf those ages are not also family stories for many if not— most americans.

[Verginius Rufus]

My Revolutionary War ancestor was in what is now Patrick County at the time of the Revolution--his father and brothers were in what is now Nelson County. A different line of my mother's ancestors were in Frederick County near Winchester (at least they were in the early 1800s--hard to find them before 1800 and the missing census records don't help).

My mother's mother's grandparents were immigrants before the Civil War. But the only relatives that I know actually served in the war were descended from the colonial era Americans. Some were on one side, some on the other, depending on where they lived.