Have any of your ancestors played a role?

Question

in american history?

Answer 1

Yes. My paternal grandfather was the first Black attorney admitted to the bar in the state of N.C. He was also part of the original 'founding fathers' of Howard University.

My maternal grandmother [as a child] came over to the US during Ireland's potato famine.

My father was one of the most highly decorated infantry officers in the US Army during WWII and the Korean War and one of the early first Black super grade government appointees who served under both Republican and Democratic Presidents.

Both sides of my family were originally members of Native American tribes who later married both Caucasians and American Blacks

Answer 2

I had a ancestor who came over on the Mayflower, others
fought in the American Revolution. Some blazed the trail
on the Wilderness Road into Kentucky in the 1700's. My dad helped develop the G.I. Bill of Rights. Parts of my family have been here since the 1720s. Not bragging, just fact.

Answer 3

Yes, I have ancestors that have been in America since before the Revolution. Mark Twain married into one branch of the family, but he's not in a direct line for me.

Then I have a scout for General Custer who was killed at Little Bighorn. Before that time, though, he fought in the Civil War, he survived as guide to game hunters, and he was the rider who carried the message of gold discovered in the Black Hills.

Answer 4

My ancesters came to the U.S. while it was still under British rule. They settled in Gloucester Mass. (Folly Cove) and fought at the battle of Bunker Hill during the Revolution and also during the War of 1812.
Village at Lane's Cove by Barbara Erkilla includes a lot of their history.

Answer 5

Yes, my dad helped develop the atomic bomb and the missile recovery systems for the New Frontier when Kennedy was in office He also devised away to take caffeine out of coffee and sold the caffeine Coca Cola.

He retired in 1963 then became as assistant to the chief of police in the town we lived in in FL

Answer 6

Family stories say my great, great, grandfather marched out of Atlanta with the Home Guard to fight Sherman during the Civil War.

Answer 7

Nope. My ancestors were from England. My Granddad fell in a moat once.

Answer 8

yes, my ansestor was George Soele (last name misspelled). He came over on the mayflower and is one of the men who signed the mayflower proclamation. He lost his first wife during that harsh first winter, then married another woman and had several children. One of whom was given a public beating for refusing to marry a man she was caught fornacating with. That as on my mother's side, On my father's side I am a distant relative to Crazy Horse.

Answer 9

My ggggggggggggg-father was Thomas Nash (Indian) who followed the Trail of Tears and settled in Nachodoches, LA and was one of the progenitors of the Louisiana Redbones. 2D

Answer 10

My grandfather and some uncles fought in WWII.
An aunt of mine is into geneology and has been for 30 years or more. She claims to have traced us back to a biblical person whose name I can't remember.