I've enjoyed it for years but lately decided to try ancestry.com for a month or two and grave found a few neat tidbits.
I'm apparently a second cousin, eight times removed from some guy named George Washington. (My ten-time great-grandfather was his great-grandfather William Ball.)
Today I found that a second cousin twice removed was in the Marines snd died in action at Okinawa. One of my great uncles, from my mom's side was on a tank landing ship that was at Okinawa, but he survived.
A five-time great grandfather apparently was at the Battle of Fallen Timbers against Blue Jacket and his men in 1794. He got paid $1 per day and was in the service for 116 days.
I have found a couple if slave-holders including two here in Campbell County, where I have spent my whole life.
I haven't done the DNA test yet, but it seems like I'm mostly German snd English, at least according to paper records.
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