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Genealogy - Getting to Know your Heritage
sneakypete:
--- Quote from: Bigun on August 30, 2022, 01:03:07 pm ---Human nature being what it is, I'm sure that "woodpile" events didn't just start recently. I'm sure they are more common than once imagined and DNA is uncovering them.
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--- Quote ---My wife and I have been married for 54 years. Until about 4 years ago we had no reason to suspect that the man listed on her birth certificate as her father was not her biological father, but it turns out he isn't.
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@Bigun
Well,yeah,he was. In FACT,he was the only father she knew. The other man was just a sperm donor.
BTW,do NOT belittle the term "sperm donor". Who knows how many families would have never existed if it hadn't been for their secret "interventions"?
The woman and the man had a child and a family to raise.
While I am sure that some of these donors were local neighbors,I SUSPECT that more than a few of them were the traveling salesmen that took their wagons to remote locations to sell their goods.
While there,alone with the wife because the man was out working the fields or hunting for game,the salesman happened to make an anonymous "donation" that created a family.
And let's face it,frontier families would have never survived without the help of children.
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catfish1957:
Those guys from SP have become legends.... :silly:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g5M7A5j5W7U
mountaineer:
I've been planning a little vacation for later this year that would take in a Civil War site or two in eastern WV and western VA where my ancestors fought. All this time, I've been thinking all the Civil War participants in my family tree had served the confederacy, as they all were from what is now southern W.Va.
Imagine my surprise to learn that there were Union loyalists in parts of southern WV, and it's possible one of the great-great-grandfathers served with and possibly commanded a W.Va. militia unit alongside US forces. His daughter married the son of a CSA veteran, as it turns out. West Virginians apparently don't hold grudges!
Timber Rattler:
--- Quote from: mountaineer on April 26, 2025, 01:51:23 pm ---I've been planning a little vacation for later this year that would take in a Civil War site or two in eastern WV and western VA where my ancestors fought. All this time, I've been thinking all the Civil War participants in my family tree had served the confederacy, as they all were from what is now southern W.Va.
Imagine my surprise to learn that there were Union loyalists in parts of southern WV, and it's possible one of the great-great-grandfathers served with and possibly commanded a W.Va. militia unit alongside US forces. His daughter married the son of a CSA veteran, as it turns out. West Virginians apparently don't hold grudges!
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The 3rd West Virginia (Loyal) Infantry and Cavalry Regiments were actually recruited in modern day West Virginia. There were indeed lots of loyalists in those mountains!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_West_Virginia_Infantry_Regiment
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3rd_West_Virginia_Cavalry_Regiment
Also the 1st and 7th WV Cavalry Regiments...
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/articles/1st_West_Virginia_Volunteer_Cavalry_Regiment
https://7wvcavalry.com/history/
Bigun:
The entire state of WV was unconstitutionally stolen from the state of Virginia to begin with.
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