Found some family history

[oneluckymonkey]

At my wife's suggestion I perused through an old family history book we have on my Grandmother's side of the family...This thing is massive and was always a little confusing for me to figure out but this time we made good headway. Turns out, my first ancestor to come across the pond came over in 1679 from England!!! Landed in Jamestown and over the generations they moved south through the Carolinas and Georgia and finally into Florida. It's got records showing his descendant's service in NC militia companies in 1754 and militia's and the Continental Army in the Revolution and later on more descendants service including my GrGrGrandfather in the FL Cav during the War of Northern Aggression. Pretty cool! I'm a real American I reckon!

I too have ancestors from Jamestown who worked their way down through the Carolinas, Georgia,  and Alabama, on down to Florida. Interestingly though he joined the 1st Regiment U.S. cavalry during the Civil War. I found out through more research and talking with a great aunt that they tried to form up Regiments on both sides in all of the southern states and a good portion of the northern states including out west in California in the  Stockton area of the central valley area where I grew up they tried to form up a Confederate Regiment.

I think of my parents marriage as the perfect storm, dads side was Pennsylvania Dutch from Lancaster County who came out the Oregon trail, homesteaded, got into gold mining for three generation and worked their way down to the Stockton area. Moms side was all southern, and my Grandfather who raised me was from Jones County, Mississippi. I sometimes have a little bit of an accent, that's why I sometimes confuse people as to where I'm from. I describe myself as having grown up in Northern California on Southern cookin, and oh yeah.......Skynyrd rocks.....

I joined the SAR a few years ago and am president of my Chapter.  If you have your Rev War Ancestor documented, I'm sure the local SAR chapter where you live would love to have you, not to mention Sons of Confederate Veterans.

By the way good job on the research, It's not easy, but it's worth it.

[greggholmes]

I have found info on my family to, its pretty cool

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Henry Holmes, an Irishman by birth, cane into this section and first located in what is now Donegal township, near the side of West Alexander.  Afterwards, he was granted a Virginia certicate, dated 24 February 1780, for a tract of land called "Burnt Fiedls" situated on a branch of Robinson's Run, in this township, which was surveyed to him 21 January 1785.  William, a son of Henry Holmes, married Elizabeth Davidson, and afterwards died upon the homestead, which is now owned by his grandson, Robert Holmes.  Mrs. Martin and Mrs. Davidson were daughters of William Holmes.

[Voyageur]

Horse thieves    in our beloved TMA. Boy you sure are now open to the PC police for getting racked in the next revolution. I am glad to see moonshiners, I have a lot of respect for them---they've stuck it in the governments face for years and they're still at it it----Huzzah!!!!!     "Doc"  

[mario]

"So stick to the craythur, the best thing in nature
for sinking your sorrows and raising your joys.
For there's nothing like whiskey to make the girls frisky
and it truly separates the men from the boys..."

Mario

[Hank in WV]

Gregg, West Alexander is about 10 miles east of me on Rte 40. I know I've seen a plaque along the road about McGuffeys Reader but can't remember where.

[greggholmes]

moved

[greggholmes]

i don't want to highjack so im posting my stuff on my post
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[Woodrock]

New to the forum here, but me, a long time Pacific Northwestener, was born on Nantucket. My mother, was a long time member of the DAR. One of my ancestors (Joseph Brown) stood on the line at concord, 19 April 1775.  My mother often helped other women get their acceptance documents in order for the DAR.  Pre computer, this involved a lot of work, and travel.

BTW to those that are shocked at finding cousins marrying in their ancestry, and new to ancestry.....if your family has been here since the Revolution, or before there a some pretty close relationships.  My first ancestor came to this country in 1632, and we have served in every conflict on both sides since then up to WWII.

Woody