Sons of the Union

[Willy The Walrus]

Reply with you ancestors unit and where they are from and rank

10th illinois cavalry Company E, Quartermaster Sergeant,England and Illinois.

5th kansas cavalry company D, Private,England and Kansas.

I have serveral ancestors who served in the civil war whom I probably have not found.

[Johann Günderson]

That moment when all of your family moved to the U.S. in the 1900's :(

[Locke1740]

Do American Revolution units count?

[Willy The Walrus]

sure I guess

[Willy The Walrus]

Lol my last name is Huson my family has been here since the late 1600s early 1700s but the rest of my family was still in europe.

[BloodBeag]

I don't understand how people in the US can trace their family back to the 16/1700s when Europeans can barely get into the 1800s sometimes.

[Locke1740]

So my family arrived sometime near 1735-1736 and we started the first cotton plantation and I know of a couple that were in the American Revolution but I only know of one regiment which was the Camden District Regiment, which was in the Snow Campaign, fun fact one of my ancestors was the only patriot in the wounded in the Snow Campaign!

[Willy The Walrus]

So my family arrived sometime near 1735-1736 and we started the first cotton plantation and I know of a couple that were in the American Revolution but I only know of one regiment which was the Camden District Regiment, which was in the Snow Campaign, fun fact one of my ancestors was the only patriot in the wounded in the Snow Campaign!

I need to look deeper around the revolution I remember hearing that we owned a tabacco plantation in virginia around that time

[thomas aagaard]

I don't understand how people in the US can trace their family back to the 16/1700s when Europeans can barely get into the 1800s sometimes.

Depend on where you live. In some areas the state have been better at keeping tack on their population than in others.

Here in denmark our churchbooks is a very good source for the last 2-300 yearsor more. And the government did surveys every 5 years during the 1800s
I can track one line back the the 1300th century. but it help when they are part of the church or nobles...

And then i simply think americans even 200years ago cared way more about it than most commoners in Europe.


And finally one issue can be that records was destroyed. By accidental fires or by warfare.
Most Prussian/german military records from the 19th century and WW1 was destroyed during WWII...

[A. P. Hill]

I don't understand how people in the US can trace their family back to the 16/1700s when Europeans can barely get into the 1800s sometimes.

There are also websites like ancestry.com where people go and fill in their family lineage. There are other ancestry sites as well but I can't name them all currently. Also lineage happens to be a big thing with many families here in the states.

Rumor has it in my family on my father's side they have traced my ancestry back to Mary Queen of Scotts. ... My family name is also on the rolls of the Clan Graham for as far back as you can find records of the Graham clan. My last name isn't Graham, but my last name is a sept of the Graham clan.

My mother's family can trace their ancestry back to the McGillicuddy clan of Ireland.

[Locke1740]

I can trace my lineage to Henry Joy McCracken, one of the founders of the United Irishmen Society and an Irish Nationlist leader

[Mi'kmaq]

I don't understand how people in the US can trace their family back to the 16/1700s when Europeans can barely get into the 1800s sometimes.

Its easy for us old stock Americans. It's about status, pedigree, remembering where we came from, etc. Not saying that to sound all high and mighty, but its true.

My paternal line goes back to the 1300s to Mulhouse. Father's side came over in 1718 and were apart of the Second Germanna Colony. My like 9th great-grandpa had lived in Russia and moved back to Germany prior to immigration. They migrated to Tennessee and fought in the Revolution.

Haven't traced my mother's family all the way back, but they may have been apart of the same Germanna colony. There are two other theories. One tracing them back to an Antiguan slave master and a Hindu servant and another tracing them back to a frontiersman and Indian. Truth be told, its probably the Antiguan. I have a baptismal record from Surrey that has my 6th great-grandpa's name on it. His father (The Antiguan) would have died in Box, Wiltshire, England, a county away if I recall.

If you would like some help tracing your family back, Id be willing. :)

[Mi'kmaq]

Here are some of mine: :)

Private Alfred Agan, 24th Regiment of Indiana Infantry.

Private Samuel Rutherford Bullington, 10th Kansas Infantry.

Private Calloway Hodges, 1st Arkansas Infantry.

Arthur Rankin Sisk, 3rd Arkansas Cavalry.

Reuben Brown, Unionist guerilla, Killed by Confederate bushwhackers.

[JaegerCoyote]

Corporal Daniel Henry Tracy, 28th Iowa Infantry

[Pvt.Scott]

That moment when all of your family moved to the U.S. in the 1900's :(

That moment when your family moved to the U.S in the 1890's. :(
I must go to my IRISH people!
No. Im not a red head.

[Mi'kmaq]

That moment when your family moved to the U.S in the 1890's. :(
I must go to my IRISH people!
No. Im not a red head.

Lies

[Willy The Walrus]

Its easy for us old stock Americans. It's about status, pedigree, remembering where we came from, etc. Not saying that to sound all high and mighty, but its true.

My paternal line goes back to the 1300s to Mulhouse. Father's side came over in 1718 and were apart of the Second Germanna Colony. My like 9th great-grandpa had lived in Russia and moved back to Germany prior to immigration. They migrated to Tennessee and fought in the Revolution.

Haven't traced my mother's family all the way back, but they may have been apart of the same Germanna colony. There are two other theories. One tracing them back to an Antiguan slave master and a Hindu servant and another tracing them back to a frontiersman and Indian. Truth be told, its probably the Antiguan. I have a baptismal record from Surrey that has my 6th great-grandpa's name on it. His father (The Antiguan) would have died in Box, Wiltshire, England, a county away if I recall.

If you would like some help tracing your family back, Id be willing. :)

Plox help me

[Mi'kmaq]

Plox help me

No prob, mang. Just shoot me a message with whatever you want me to look into. :)