re: #231 thedopefishlives

My family has all been here since before the Revolutionary War. Many of them served in it, and yes, I have a little Hessian blood in me, too.

The only major brick wall I hit is the one around the aforementioned relative. The documentary trace actually ends with him, and I have to rely heavily on informed speculation to guess at his ancestors. On every other branch of my family tree, I have managed to trace all the way back to the European roots.

Earliest war I got documentation for a vet is War of 1812. Shocked the hell outta me since I swore my earliest was Civil War. It’s easy to see which side was more well off. My German-American side is by far the most documented in photographs. We have photos of all four my dad’s dad’s grandparents although with his maternal grandfather, we can’t identify which man is him since it’s a group photo.