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I don't want to hijack Mojjax's thread, so I'll say separately a little bit of my own tree.
Mom got into genealogy probably 30 years ago and wrote a book on us selling at the local library, or it was - didn't see it there last visit.
She did both sides of the family. We're multiple Sons and Daughters of the Revolution and the Civil War.
Dad's side landed here in 1650 from Edinburgh, Scotland. They came up the James River and then down to this area. Shadrack Turner opened up this section of counties, he settled in Henry, Virginia, and then his descendants spread further into the mountains here - King's Grants.
As mentioned in the opening thread from Jeff on Mom's side, Abram H. Robertson was wounded in Chancellorsville and captured near Norfolk. Here's his POW release:

On Mom's side, the Robertson's, they arrived in 1690 from Edinburgh (I'm a red headed Scot!), we were the original settlers of this farm I live on now. I really don't know when, the Patrick County courthouse burned in about 1832 - maybe I should finally read Mom's book, just never had as much interest in this stuff. Now that I live here maybe I should know more. However, it never meant much to me about where I came from, versus where I was going.
Mom got into genealogy probably 30 years ago and wrote a book on us selling at the local library, or it was - didn't see it there last visit.
She did both sides of the family. We're multiple Sons and Daughters of the Revolution and the Civil War.
Dad's side landed here in 1650 from Edinburgh, Scotland. They came up the James River and then down to this area. Shadrack Turner opened up this section of counties, he settled in Henry, Virginia, and then his descendants spread further into the mountains here - King's Grants.
As mentioned in the opening thread from Jeff on Mom's side, Abram H. Robertson was wounded in Chancellorsville and captured near Norfolk. Here's his POW release:

On Mom's side, the Robertson's, they arrived in 1690 from Edinburgh (I'm a red headed Scot!), we were the original settlers of this farm I live on now. I really don't know when, the Patrick County courthouse burned in about 1832 - maybe I should finally read Mom's book, just never had as much interest in this stuff. Now that I live here maybe I should know more. However, it never meant much to me about where I came from, versus where I was going.