Just one question.. what side did your people fight on in the War of Northern Aggression?
My people did'nt get here until the 1870's. The subject never really came up in my family.
Although I will say, I must had some idiots for ancestors -- they left Scandanavia, and picked out places to live as cold and nasty as the ones they left. Chicago for my father's side, and Minnesota for my mom's people.
If it helps any, I had an uncle die in his 50's because of his generally poor health and malaria that he contracted fighting against the Japanese with the USMC for two years on Bouganville.