it's July 1863, where is your family?

this is an interesting twist from the others going around.

my Dad's family is in Pennsylvania with one person fighting in Gettysburg.
My Mom's family is still in Italy.

Probably haven't converted to Catholicism yet, so most likely theyre still Jewish at this point. The Cuban side is practicing Judaism in Cuba.

Dads side, the great uncle is working aboard a whaling ship off the coast of New Bedford, Mass, trying to raise money to buy a farm in Iowa.

if you go back that many generations. Not sure but probably back in the old country before coming over here. That would be parts of Germany and Poland.

:)

My dad's family was in Hidalgo del Parral, Chihuahua, mom's was in Agua Leguas, Nuevo Leon. One to the west of you, the other to the east!

Of my mother's ancestors, one side is running a hotel outside of Königsberg, East Prussia.

The other side is living in a village in Latvia.

The other are wondering around Texas.

My father's family were in Italy and Lebanon.

My mother's family was mostly in Iowa, but one branch was in Maryland. They were northern sympathizers so the Confederate Army occupied thier house and used it as a military base! Not sure if this was in July 1863 specifically, but it was in 1863. My mother has the letters they wrote after the army left their house.

I have no idea what they were doing.

the NY 54th (I think. He was captured there and died at Andersonville. Mom's family, still in Italy. Dad's family came here in 1625, Mom's - in 1920. I always felt I got the best of both worlds.

My Fathers is in Italy and Georgia.

Working in various parts of the ship industry on the north bank of the river Humber.

Not sure about my father's side, probably in Lincolnshire.

All of this is in England, apart from a dash of Scots there's nothing to suggest we haven't been here for 1000 years.

Fifty-forth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, but I don't know that to be true. Family history is pretty incomplete until after the Civil War ended.

He was wounded in combat, and then decided to cut and run from the army field hospital. He was a Northerner.

On mom's side, one half is in Norway, one half in Sweden.
On dad's side one half in Slovakia, and the last bit (his father's tree is the complicated one) but there was somebody fighting on the Union side in the Civil war--however I don't know if it was before, during or after 1863.

I'd have to ask my grandparents, to be 100% sure.

They didn't emigrate to the U.S.A. until 1916.

farms in Poland - both sides. My husband's was already in California, working as blacksmiths in Big Oak Flat near Yosemite.

Which was Poland at the time

moderating the draft and in the thick of the riots. His house is getting burned to the ground and his family is barely escaping.

My mother's family are in Italy where they own vineyards in Avellino.

My Mom's maternal great-grandfather is a private in the Union army - The GAR...

My Dad's family is still in Italy, Scotland and France.

They were Greeks, trying not to get killed by the Turks.

According to the stories.

Others in Kentucky, Upstate new york, Scotland, and Wales.

Great-great Grandpa was a boatwright for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company. Another Great-great Grandpa, who served under Captain David Farragut at Mare Island, left his family in California to serve again under Farragut at the battle of Mobile Bay. Family folklore says that he was an old salt with a foul mouth and that he told his good buddy Vice-admiral Farragut "Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!". ;)

A large part of the American branch is about to return to the old world, though.

farming they were all here when the territory opened.

They were farmers in Ireland & Germany.

Must've been a pretty dull life. Unless there was some unusual hardship at the time that I don't know about.

17 years later, my paternal grandfather would be born. It's almost certain my greatgrandfather was already born and started going to school. But it's very possible my greatgrandmother didn't.

We are still trying to trace back where they were (exact location). We know they existed. We know most of them were in Virginia, but since a couple of them changed names after the Emancipation Proclamation, we don't have a straight story.

The US hadn't gotten us yet.

The Canadians were orignally from Ireland, but the British deported them for piracy. I think a few of them went down to New York a year later and enlisted. Mom's family is still peasants in Germany and Sweden.

Once is a captain in a PA Volunteer Regiment, the other is leading a Virginian division.

colonel?

He was my great-great-great uncle. His brother came up north after the war and married my great-great-great grandmother. Her brother was the one who fought as a captain at Gettysburg.

that's certianly something that never came up during the movie "gettysburg" that picket had a brother on the other side. learn something new everyday. :-)

I actually took a look at the enlistment rosters of NJ regiments during the Civil War and found some Emley's most of which deserted so taking in considerarion the reputation of the rest of his family they are probably my ancestors.

fighting for the CSA. i'm an authentic son of Confederate vets.

... but his army really took it out on S.C. (first state to secede).

a city he occupied and burned to the ground. There are photographs of him and his officers standing in front of the house they occupied while here. The war was all around us here.

in 1863, or 2003

in Serbia and Croatia (later Yugoslavia)

All 4 Grandparents came over a year or two before WWI.

Except they were in Galicia (now Ukraine).

he was being tortured to death by the indians.

(not sure of the exact date)
He lived through it.

My dad's side is primarily old time English that came over in Colonial times (even someone on the Mayflower).
My mom's side primarily came from Sweden in the 1870s, so I suppose back then, most were still back in the "old country".

Mom's family is somewhere in Ireland and Hungary.

Most of my dad's family was in America or in Ireland or Germany, and a distant relative had just been discharged from military service from the 123rd pennsylvania. My mom's family was in Slovakia and Slovenia.

except that they were all in Korea.

Devon, where one side has been prosperous farmers and merchants for generations and the other side of the family tree has sailors (merchant seamen, not Royal Navy) climbing the branches. I know my paternal ancestors back to around 1500.

One side of my mother's family is in Massachusetts (my great-grandfather, a young boy at the time) and possibly New York (my great-grandmother) -- possibly Ireland, possibly Canada. I'm working on these lines now, trying to get confirmation of their birthdates, which will help me know who their parents were.

The other side of my maternal ancestry includes a great-grandmother who married in December 1861, just before her husband left with the Confederate Army. She was widowed within six months, and in 1863 is almost certainly living on her father's farm in South Carolina. She is about 18 now, was a bride and a widow at 16.

The man who will eventually be her second husband, and my great-grandfather, is fighting with the Army of Tennessee. They left their parents and sisters on the family farm in middle Tennessee to enlist. He and his youngest brother are in the 35th Tennessee Infantry, the middle brother is in the 16th Tennessee Infantry. In July of 1863, my best guess is that they are marching from Hooper's Creek, TN, to Chickamauga, GA, not knowing that the youngest brother will be dead in the spring of 1864, still not 20 years old.

War is always full of sorrow.

in Co. Claire, Ireland, during the potato famine.

edit -- sp.

fought at Shiloh and Corinth...his later wife's family was in Illinois (previously in MD and earlier in PA and earlier still in Germany and Ireland)...father's grandfather's family had moved to IA from the Shenandoah Valley, so they had close relatives on the Confederate side.....that family had moved to VA (both father's and mother's sides) from PA and earlier from Germany and Switzerland to PA

on father's father's side--family still in Switzerland

one of my mother's father's ancestors was an 'irregular' fighting in NC....one of her ancestors on her mother's side fought from KY in the War of 1812

and the other half maybe in Spain but it's possible they are both in Mexico at that time.

I'm in MI now. Maybe I'll get the bloodline to Canada in the near future.
;)

on both sides of my family, we are in Texas and have been for quite some time.

Sad, I know.

my moms side came over from Italy in the 1910s

we've been in Texas since *1782* Texas wasn't even CLOSE to being a STATE then.

And we're still here.

my dads side
Torino, Italy...mom's side.

But that wasn't the question, was it?

Oh yeah, my PRESENT family: My father's family was in Pennsylvania; and my mother's family was in Italy and Pennsylvania.