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    Old 10-27-2011, 03:47 AM
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    Originally Posted by Hosta
    my mom's family were moonshiners
    My dad was the "revenuer" lookin for your ancestors.
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    Old 10-27-2011, 03:48 AM
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    On my mother's side, we're decendents of Robert E. Lee
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    Old 10-27-2011, 03:49 AM
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    WOW,so interesting. my grandmas people were from Scotland,Skenes rumored to be Druids. One of my grandfathers was raised by Tecumseh's tribe they scalped my grandma,killed 3 boys & kept Peter Waggoner for 20 years. When his father found out he was alive he went after him & begged him to come home for a visit. They wouldn't let him go back to his Indian family,kept him locked up & drunk, then started sending a pretty young widow to feed him & he married her & stayed with the family. my grandma that was scalped was a cousin to Lewis Wetzel the Indian killer. Maybe we can find some relatives on this board ?
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    Old 10-27-2011, 03:49 AM
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    My paternal grandparents worked for the bishop in Venice as housekeeper and chauffeur.
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    Old 10-27-2011, 03:50 AM
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    My Kentucky family ran around with Daniel Boone and one grandfather, 2 of his sons and one of Daniel's sons were killed in the last Revolutionary battle at Blue Lick.
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    Old 10-27-2011, 03:52 AM
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    Originally Posted by bodie358
    Im related to Peregrine White, the first male child born in the New World.
    I am related to him too. My g grandmother was a White. She was born in 1888 and lived to be 101. I remember going to her house as a child and had homemade noodles and chicken, fresh raspberries in the summer.I still make the noodles. She was a quilter, I have several of her quilts-one unfinished, one of the last ones she made was for my son when he was born in 1980, I have her quilting frames, and a rocking chair which she carried from the store, took a bus home and carried it up a hill to her home.Always thought she was widowed with 2 daughters, but he left her and remarried someone in the mid-west.
    My maternal grandfather's family lived on their piece of property since the 1600's in SW Pa.
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    Old 10-27-2011, 03:58 AM
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    I go back to Salem, MA and have 2 of the girls in the Towne family that were "accused" witches-one hung, the other was imprisoned in Boston for a while (both are Gr Gr..grandmothers from different family lines). One of their brothers I just discovered was a gr ..grandfather of my husband so we are 10th cousins!!
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    Old 10-27-2011, 04:00 AM
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    My 7th grandfather back arrived at Plymouth on the first ship after the Mayflower, "The Good Ship Fortune" in November of 1621.
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    Old 10-27-2011, 04:04 AM
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    When my daughter started researching my father's family in England she found a lot of working class ancestors -- many were domestic servants-- and then great excitement-- in one census she found that the family had a servant themselves! (They had temporarily moved up in the world)
    On my mother's side we found a few convicts sent out to Australia from England -- but that is a source of pride for anyone in Australia studying their ancestry.
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    My 8th generation past was in the Tribunal for Martin Luther at the Council of Worms.
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