OT: Where we came from.....
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Ireland & Germany to North Carolina to Alabama to Mississippi/Louisiana on one side of the family. Yugoslavia to Biloxi on the other side of the family.
Sounds about right NC to AL to MS for me as far as I know. Sounds like a lot of us may be related.
Sound like mine
I spent a lot of time on ancestry. Came from France, and Scotland to MS via NC. I traced one direct lineage back to 1545 Switzerland. Found out that I had a great-great-great grandfather that was captured twice by Sam Grant. First in Feb '62 at Ft Donaldson TN, then released in a prisoner exchange. Then was caught July '63 at Vicksburg again by Grant. As Donaldson led Grant to Shiloh I guess that means losing MS falls on my shoulders. Strangely as my last name is Bryan, looks like I struck out on Luke, William Jennings, and the bologna (note: don't expect anyone in Denver to hear of Bryan meats or BC powders). That really is suprising as their aren't many Bryan's.
I spent a lot of time on ancestry. Came from France, and Scotland to MS via NC. I traced one direct lineage back to 1545 Switzerland. Found out that I had a great-great-great grandfather that was captured twice by Sam Grant. First in Feb '62 at Ft Donaldson TN, then released in a prisoner exchange. Then was caught July '63 at Vicksburg again by Grant. As Donaldson led Grant to Shiloh I guess that means losing MS falls on my shoulders. Strangely as my last name is Bryan, looks like I struck out on Luke, William Jennings, and the bologna (note: don't expect anyone in Denver to hear of Bryan meats or BC powders). That really is suprising as their aren't many Bryan's.
Exactly right. Landed at what is McKee's Rock PA, went south to NC, had a little dust up with the Brits, whipped their *** at Kings Mountain, went south to Aiken, SC, hung a right, fought some Yankees, ended up on the river.
Webb, former senator from VA wrote a decent book on the subject, "Born Fighting - The Scots Irish and How They Shaped America".
Most of what he pulled from was "The Scots Irish" by James G. Leyburn, former President of Washington and Lee University(where my grandfather and brother went to school).
Good book. Boring as hell. Typical academia stuff.
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pretty good find.
a story in our family (not sure if its true or not) prior to the english civil war, one of my ancestors was given (by the king of england) what is now north carolina all the land west and south of it following a parallel (in 1646, all that was wild and mostly uncharted). here is a map from 1685:
anywho, then came the english civil war, the monarchy had most of its power stripped, and that deal arranged with my ancestor was voided.
cromwell was such a dick.
more recently, my dad's people were from indiana and south carolina.
a story in our family (not sure if its true or not) prior to the english civil war, one of my ancestors was given (by the king of england) what is now north carolina all the land west and south of it following a parallel (in 1646, all that was wild and mostly uncharted). here is a map from 1685:
anywho, then came the english civil war, the monarchy had most of its power stripped, and that deal arranged with my ancestor was voided.
cromwell was such a dick.
more recently, my dad's people were from indiana and south carolina.
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Deep family tree traces on both sides... Solid Scotch on daddy's side; They landed in NC in the late 1790's and were established in Miss. long before the Civil War. Mom's side were carpetbaggers, they came south just after the war. Her Anglo-Celtic lineage is more impressive though; Signer of the Declaration, and one of the Louis kings.
I spent 18 months on Ancestry.com and traced my family to Northern Georgia in 1805 (parents from SC) and Tennessee in the 1830's but that was the dead end. There aren't any records prior to that in the census for the parents in the tree of my earliest documented family members. With common names like Miller, Kilpatrick, Hall etc that doesn't help much either.