I am one of the lucky people whose family settled somewhere and stayed. My family has been in Sumner County TN since the 1780's, both sides. On 1/15/08, f/fgeorge <ffgeorge@yourplace.com> wrote: > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 14:15:15 -0600, "brenda parker" > <fairplay1951@gmail.com> wrote: > > >What amazes me the most about genealogists is EVERYBODY from Missouri is > >related to one of Jesse James outlaws or Jesse or Frank James. EVERYBODY > >from Tennessee has Cherokee Indian blood or is related to Andrew Jackson. > >ALL southerners of course fought for the South. > > > >And NOBODY"s ancestors were just plain every day people who worked hard > for > >a living. > > > That's because most of those people did live long enough to have > descendants that made any of the books. If you were not on the winning > side of a battle you were either killed or assimilated. Those "every > day people" you speak of were the cannon fodder for battles and didn't > live very long. Now obviously after the middle ages this would not be > true. And lots of us have ancestors that just trudged thru life doing > whatever it is they did having kids along way and those kids > eventually leading down to you and I. But that is after the major land > battles were long over, excepting of course the World Wars. > Lots of people can trace their lineage to Charlemagne and anyone that > thinks the Bible is a true and accurate record can get themselves from > the Romans to Jesus and God. For those of us that tend to not believe > as much in its historical accuracy as others, it is a bit more > difficult. Genealogy is about facts and "every day people" just didn't > leave many for us to follow. Their lives were normal, mundane and > "every day". That is part of the fun of Genealogy, the searching for > that one person, actually there are thousands, that can make that > connection to someone else's genealogy that can extend our own line > for many generations. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALT-GENEALOGY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Proud member of IBSSG