On my Mother' s side my Great and Greatgrandparents came over on a boat.

[Demtexan]

They came looking for a better life.

Their grandchildren served in the in WW1, WW2 and Korea.

F**k you Trump in the name of my family members I never knew who were brave enough to get on that boat.

[spooky3]

1. Gotcha beat. Most of my parents' ancestors were here in the 18th century or before.

The native Americans may not have considered them as being from s***hole countries, but surely would have been happier if they never arrived.

[Demtexan]

2. My Father's side is like yours.

Came early or were native americans.

Look up the Battle of the Cowpens.

My cousin did a family tree search and found this out.

My Father' side came very early and were shooting from behind the rocks and trees at the British in the south.

I have a really mixed family tree.

[spooky3]

6. interesting!

[shraby]

3. Both mine and Mr. Shraby's ancestors were here in 1662.

His in Salem, mine in New York.
I had 23 ancestors in the revolutionary war. Don't know about his.

Why oh why did they let those republicans in.

[Demtexan]

4. Yeah.

I wonder what all those people would think now.

We give you country and this happens.

Good family tree there.

[spooky3]

5. One amazing thing about researching genealogy is to imagine

that all it would have taken would have been for one of those ancestors to have perished just a bit earlier, had the misfortune of being a war fatality, etc., and you/I would not be here.

[Demtexan]

7. My Grandfather almost got killed WW1.

He was shot in leg and almost died.

His buddies patched him up and captured two German soldiers to carry him back on a rifle.

He spent almost a year in hospitals.

His family was told he had died.

He kept his leg and walked with a limp.

Came close to no mother being born.