We have more Czech peasants?
:: raises hand ::
I could be in the DAR courtesy of one Lt. Ezra Tucker, who was a fourth-generation American. It's never seemed worth the trouble, except when I have the urge to snoot it over some of these anti-immigration people and point out how much better things would be if my ancestors had restricted immigration before their ancestors came over. One problem with this argument is that the Bushes are Mayflower descendants and the Tuckers arrived about 15 years later.
too many newbies in my family, no revolutionary war fighters here
On my mother's side, my grandfather always claimed we were descended from *those* Scottish Stewarts, but he was kind of crazy.
We're Stuarts (Scottish) on my mother's side.
The Halloweenie will be eligible to joint the D.A.R. as Johan Schmeh fought in the Revolutionary War
I'm totally going to call you David Schmay from now on.
Wait, maybe it was that spelling of Stuart...?
Oh crap. The Ick has eaten my brain. Someone pass the Fernet...
They spell it both ways, Amy.
I have no Revolutionary War relatives that I know of. The Humes branch of my family fought on both sides of the Civil War (courtesy of living in different counties in Tennessee at the time), and one of my ancestors had the distinction of being the youngest Confederate General. Yay?
[And, oddly tangential to this conversation, E and I just finished watching The Americanization of Emily, which was produced by a relative on the other side of my family.]
I have Revolutionary War AND Mayflower people on my dad's side of the family.
Plus, my tail-male ancestor was in North America because he was transported to Boston as a prisoner of war.
[And, oddly tangential to this conversation, E and I just finished watching The Americanization of Emily, which was produced by a relative on the other side of my family.]
How was it? I received a whole box of "controversial classics" for Christmas and have yet to watch any of them.
...one of my ancestors had the distinction of being the youngest Confederate General. Yay?
Stephen Dodson Ramseur?
They said nice things about him: [link]
