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[Mr Woodchuck]

Picture of my great great Grandfather when he joined the South in the war between the states   The civil war   William Henry Bishop.

[RoaringBull]

Double pistols for a cross draw, huh? 

Pretty cool shot!  Got some old pics like that at my folks place, gonna try and findem over Labor Day

[Ranger]

That's really cool to have a piece of family history like that.

[Mr Woodchuck]

Got alot of handwritten stuff an aunt put together ... she was very old in the 70's
like 97    Got copies of everything.
Pop Bishop made it thru the war after becoming a POW for a short while in Georgia.
He died from being struck by a train in Selma Ok.
  Family roots be important if ya want too withstand the winds of time.
lol

[karwelis]

  Family roots be important if ya want too withstand the winds of time.
lol

i couldnt agree with you more! ive been pretty lucky fining out about the family tree stuff. un fortunatly no cool pics like the one you shared woodchuck

karwelis

[fd-ems-emt]

Family roots are very important..

Mine are from the other side.  Italy...
I'm 2nd generation in this Great Country..

My grandparents came over around 1915...

[Doug]

No intentions of taking anything away from the picture but ACW soldiers we quite often shown armed to the teeth with pistols, big knives, swords, and muskets that were props owned by the photographer.  Sure made them look ferocious though.

[Lady of the Woods]

stand proud mr. groundhog, that's one fine piece of history there. you are very fortunate that someone took the time to write your family history and even passed down photographs, get yer self somewhere n make copies and give em to yer whole family - even if they don't seem to want them at the moment...
Z

[RoaringBull]

My wife and I do a little geneology stuff.  Got some of my folks back to Scotland in the late 1600's and Germany in the early 1500's.  Got the non-Indian side of my wife's back to Germany in the early 1600's, too.  Some where in my files I have the original "pay stub" for one of my relatives from his service with the North Carolina 25th Infantry Regiment.  Also, have some info on where a couple of my however-many-great uncles fought and died in the Rev War.

[Mr Woodchuck]

My late Uncle Frank was able to put together a first and 2 nd edition family tree book... very interesstun    indeed.
lol

[mongrel]

I know very little about my blood family, outside a few stories. On my mom's side, so it's said, two brothers of Irish and French blood came over with the English army during the Revolution. The one from whom she (and thus I) allegedly descended, through her mom, first deserted and then later was hanged for horse theft.

On my dad's side -- Jack Craner and Jenny ?, both Presbyterian Irish, came over in the 1930's. Jack allegedly needed to leave Ireland NOW -- some misunderstanding with the powers-that-be. Jack got Jenny pregnant at some point in their relationship, which produced my dad, who was adopted by the Langes, which is where I get a German last name. Jack supposedly died on Skid Row in Los Angeles sometime in the 1950's and Jenny was killed in a motorcycle accident during that same period.

Distinguished stock. Oddly enough, after I'd sent my dad a copy of James Webb's book "Born Fighting: How The Scots-Irish Shaped America", he filled me in on something about his dad that I hadn't known -- that he had family of some sort already established in Ohio. Which, if true, means I very likely am living within no more than a couple of hundred miles of not-too-distant relatives I most likely will never meet.

Best keep any dating close to home.... Or it might wind up being too close to home :D:-[.

[Chaffa Hosa]

Wish I knew what my fore fathers did

[Mr Woodchuck]

Chaffa  bet they were blacksmiths  and hunters.
lol

[Ironwood]

The man that started our family was sent to the Colonies from England.  He was sent here for stealing some coins wrapped in a neckerchief belonging to a Lady.  He had 10 sons.  So there are 10 branchs to our family.  I think I'm supposed to belong to the #4 branch. :)