An extracurricular that should add some diversity to the campus

[DoesntMatter]

Sons of Confederate Veterans. I think I am going to join after I talk to my grandma this Saturday to ask her questions that will make it easier for the genealogist to identify my ancestor

[vashti]

I thought you were a Yank.

[Junket]

He is a yank, but he also like pissing people off.

Which is very yankish of him.

[DoesntMatter]

My moms side of the family is southern

[vashti]

Ahh, so THAT'S where you get it.

[Junket]

My moms side of the family is southern

Where, Pennsylvania?

[DoesntMatter]

Where, Pennsylvania?

I didn't say the Deep South

[Gribble]

My grandfather has a portrait of my great, great, great granduncle (or something like that) in full confederate uniform.

He was supposedly a landowner and had many slaves, though I think that's wishful thinking on the part of my distant redneck relatives. Were that the case where did the money go?

[IndiReloaded]

My grandfather has a portrait of my great, great, great granduncle (or something like that) in full confederate uniform.

He was supposedly a landowner and had many slaves, though I think that's wishful thinking on the part of my distant redneck relatives. Were that the case where did the money go?

Apparently most families like this lose their wealth in < 3 generations. There's some term for this, but I forgot.

[Junket]

I didn't say the Deep South

My bad, you must've meant Corn Hill, NY.

[DoesntMatter]

Not that far south either. Just south of the county line

But in all seriousness, it was my great great (maybe one more) grandfather who fought, he was a cavalry officer. He was from either Kentucky or Tennessee, cannot remember but I'll find out tomorrow

[DoesntMatter]

In a few short days I will have more information on my lineal ancestor. Apparently he was captured toward the end of the war and nearly starved to death in the prison camp