My uncle is still MIA from WWII. I have his Purple Heart and his metal SS card and photos of him in my living room.
I am 12th cousin of George Washington.
I am descendant of King John, and so was G. Washington.
I had an ancestor who was a freed slave Rufus Hargrove.
My cousin Isaac Ryan died on the north wall near Travis at the Alamo. His name is on a plaque there.
My great-grandfather's grandfather was General James Wilkinson, who was Jefferson's hand-picked governor of the Louisiana Territory; I'm also descended from Col. John Stark, who commanded a huge regiment for Washington in New Hampshire during the revoloution.
(Obviously, my branch of the family is from the "woodpile"...[g])
WOW!!!!!!!!
You certainly have an ancestry. That is wonderful you know all of that history of it.
Nathan Hale's walking stick sits atop my desk. He was a great (5 times) uncle of my husband's. We also have the family bible.
"I'm 12th cousin of George Washington"
I'm 13th cousin of George W Bush. I would imagine alot of FReepers are related to the Bush family if their ancestors have been in the US since the 1700's.