I thought this was neat when I found it:This was my many great grandfather:

James Parshall
BIRTH Sep 1754
Suffolk County, New York, USA
DEATH 24 Apr 1836 (aged 81)
Middlefield, Otsego County, New York, USA
BURIAL
Middlefield Baptist Church and Cemetery
Middlefield, Otsego County, New York, USA

James was a Sergeant in the Revolutionary War in Capt. Sackett's Company 4th regiment of the New York line, under Col. Livingston. He was captured and kept prisoner for seven months on the ship HMS Falmouth in New York harbor. He was in the battles of Saratoga and Monmouth. He spent the winter at Valley Forge where he was secretary to George Washington.

My mother was born a Hatfield. Yes, a descendant of those Hatfields.

the farm i'm working on rebuilding came into the family in the late 1880's,been a labor of love.

I just wanted to trace my last name. I also did a straight line search on my mothers side. Have a many great grandfather on her side that immigrated in the 1600's from Holland. My name is English in origin. Have direct line relatives that fought in every conflict this country has been in except Grenada.

My mom has traced alot of the family
On her side several native peoples but most refused to be part of the tribe, somehow we are related to judge Parker in Texas and the girl that had the face tattoos who was captured by Indians.

On my stepdad side we go back to captain Cook

To make a long story short, I tell folks I come from a long line of Gypsies and horsethieves…

Moosetrot

This was my grandpa’s farm
Sale. He died in 1945 from complications of typhoid fever they believe. My dad’s grandparents from both sides came from Germany. Grandma never remarried and raised the 4 kids at the farm they kept renting. Dad was 15 pounds when born and they thought grandma was gonna pass from injuries during the birth (in the farmhouse) so they put dad in the warming oven of the cookstove to work on grandma. Both came out okay except dad has a bit of a deficiency in his right arm from the birth.

Parts of my family have been in this county forever others arrived as early as 1557 with a Spanish expedition so here are a lot of story’s but some of the interesting points are things like the first of my family name landed in Brownsville TX in 1860 and was paid to join up with the confederates for him it wasn’t about any kind of ideology for him it was his profession, politely he was a professional soldier some would say mercenary, later he served in the 7th calvery, funny thing is I have 2 different ancestors that served in the 7th one servived because he was on leave and the other was with Reno, one settled in MN the other in WI somehow their grand kids meet and married

My dad and his 5 brothers all served in WW2, 2 of them didn’t make it back ma had 7 brothers who served only 1 made it back, dad was wounded twice, declared dead 3 time twice after his position was overrun and he ended up behind Japanese lines and another because of a mixup in names he died at 55 from service related disability’s

According to my aunt who is really into the ancestry thing there has been someone from my family who has been in every war this country has been in from the revolution on often on both sides

Lots of holes in my history... not real sure on moms side...mostly Dutch and German. Her grandparents were cattle ranchers in Joseph Oregon. Joe and Opal. Opal was half souix. I didn’t know them well, went out to visit many times....but kids didn’t speak unless spoken to. They were Mormon.
Dads side I can track by paper back to Tennessee and Georgia.. got my great Grampa’s ticket book and .38, Memphis police. Apparently I have a whole LOTTA family back there I’ve never met. Most I’ve heard are hillbillies with a few learned folk mixed in...explains a lot. My dads parents moved all the way out to Oregon in the 40s to be hillbillies there. Before that I hear we come from Scotland and Russia? Roomers I say.

Hey nvwrangler, you know Bill and Betty Heintz, Steve Heintz, Wayne Marston or Hank and Maxine(I forget their last name)Hank and Maxine had a couple cattle ranches. One in Ely and one near moapa.

both sides of my family came to canada from 1620 to 1630 then came to usa around 1900 have been in nh all the rest of the time

A good portion of my family came from the area centered around where Georgia, the Carolina's and Tennessee come together. We came to NE Oklahoma about 1838-1839 and have been here ever since. My siblings and I and a few first cousins are the first generation not born and raised in that area.

Have a couple of "locally" famous folks in our lineage but nobody big. The interesting part is that since our recorded history (ca. 1751) my family has served in every conflict, war or "police action", sometimes on the losing side but always for what we believed. Needless to say Memorial Day and Veterans Day are pretty important holidays for me and my family.

The ship my ancestors came over on missed Manhattan Island and ended up landing in Canada somewhere. They came from Holland.
My Dad was on a ship headed for Pearl Harbor when the Japanese surrendered.