[Lauratealeaf]

I had ancestors who fought for the North and for the South. Two of them didn't survive the war. One died in a Yankee prison camp and the other died right after the war ended of malaria while part of the occupation troops in Little Rock. We know where my Yankee ancestor is buried but don't know where 2nd LT John R. Bowling is resting. The attacks and burnings of so many courthouses in the south had the effect of ethnic cleansing. Talk to any southerner who works on their ancestry. It is very hard to discover information on southern ancestors and much easier to find documentation on Yankee ancestors.

[wardaddy]

Heck...that's all ok. We were evil don't ya know....equivocable with Nazis at a minimum...lol


The noble Yankee saviors should have smote every white man, woman, and child south of Cincinnati simply on good principle. The Old South was far and away the worst thing that has every happened in the human experiment.

Sarcastic Rant/off

[sweetliberty]

"Talk to any southerner who works on their ancestry. It is very hard to discover information on southern ancestors and much easier to find documentation on Yankee ancestors."

I have experienced this in searching records in Virginia, North Carolina and Tennessee. Fortunately, my daddy's side was rooted in a county in Kentucky that escaped many of the burnings so I have found a wealth of information centered there.