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Bann

Bann

Doris Day meets Lady Gaga
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GregV814 said:
So they settled in what's now West by Gawd Vorginya, Ohio and Pa. My father's clan ended up in S/W Virginia.
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We're probably related way, way, way, way back, too! :jet:

I forgot to mention that I am also a DAR on my father's side, as his paternal lineage goes all the way back to Revolutionary War. :yay:

My Mom and dad met when they were both in California - dad with the Navy and mom's dad was in the Navy at the time, too. In the Navy, they first lived in Beeville, TX and then got transferred to the east coast after I was born and dad finished his cruise.
 
Kyle

Kyle

Beloved Misanthrope
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GregV814 said:
At the end of the Revolutionary War, the Brits hired on a ton of German mercenaries to beat the insurrectionists here in America under the promise of free land, color TV and a volkswagen or some chit.... (I made up the color TV and a car). Anyway, the mercenaries lost, but the Brits of course, didn't bring them back. So they settled in ...
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Small world. :yay:
 
RareBreed

RareBreed

Throwing the deuces
Born in Kansas but moved to Alexandria, VA when I was less than a year old. Stayed there until 1997 when I met a man who was moving to SoMD in a couple months. Decided to hitch my wagon to his and move with him.
 
Kinnakeet

Kinnakeet

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Parents from PA came to DC after graduating high school I was born in DC lived in Holly Hill until 1972 moved to St.Charles in 1985,Married a girl i met at a party a couple times had 2 children still married 30 years
 
Gilligan

Gilligan

#*! boat!
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stgislander said:
Because I knew the pointy end from the flat/round end of a boat, I wound up getting a job in LP City working with Gilligan. And the rest is (sighhhhh) history.
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..and what a long and productive professional relationship that has been, marked by so much mutual respect and admiration. Such levels of financial success and job satisfaction seldom seen anywhere else.
 
stgislander

stgislander

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Gilligan said:
..and what a long and productive professional relationship that has been, marked by so much mutual respect and admiration. Such levels of financial success and job satisfaction seldom seen anywhere else.
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(sighhhhhh) As usual, he's not wearing pants.
 
spr1975wshs

spr1975wshs

Mostly settled in...
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Bann said:
I forgot to mention that I am also a DAR on my father's side, as his paternal lineage goes all the way back to Revolutionary War.
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I have a several time great grandfather, Mathias Bruchs, who got to America a little before the Revolution by way of a stop in Ireland. George III's government had been recruiting Palatine Germans to emigrate to Ireland with the hopes that the Protestant Germans would outbreed the Irish Catholics. He had his own family, did not like Ireland and moved to America. He joined the Northampton County, PA militia to fight the British.

His son Peter stayed in Ireland and wed Mary Brady. After she died in childbirth, he left the boy with the maternal grandparents and also went to Pennsylvania. The son, Philip, grew up, adopted by the grandparents, which is where the Brady part of my lineage started. Philip emigrated to Connecticut just after the Civil War to work for the railroad.

Peter did start a new family and the name morphed to Bridges.
 
Gilligan

Gilligan

#*! boat!
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Bann said:
I forgot to mention that I am also a DAR on my father's side, as his paternal lineage goes all the way back to Revolutionary War. :yay:
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No kidding? My grandmother was a member of the DAR but it was her sister who was very active in the organization at one period in her life. She was also a proud member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She lived to be only weeks shy of her 101st birthday.

And all three of her great uncles died in the War of Northern Aggression with only her grandfather surviving. ;-p

I can trace my mother's side of the family to their arrival here in MD in the 1650s (and well back from there actually, in England), but I can also trace my Dad's side back to the early 1600s as well, but they landed elsewhere.
 
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stgislander

stgislander

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Gilligan said:
No kidding? My grandmother was a member of the DAR but it was her sister who was very active in the organization at one period in her life. She was also a proud member of the Daughters of the Confederacy. She lived to be only weeks shy of her 101st birthday.

And all three of her great uncles died in the War of Northern Aggression with only her grandfather surviving. ;-p

I can trace my mother's side of the family to their arrival in the 1650s (and well back from there actually, in England), but I can also trace my Dad's side back to the early 1600s as well.
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How many slaves did your family own?
 
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1stGenSMIB

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OK, I'll bite since most of y'all seem to sorta already know each other from early forum days (and I have been on somd.com for over 10 years and still feel like a newbie from some stories on here.)
I call myself a first gen SMIB, but in reality I am probably an only gen SMIB, since my only offspring moved out of SMIBville for college and never came back. My Dad moved here from FL when he got a job as a EE for RTPS (I think) in the late 60's, and I was born at the old SMH soon after, and spent grade school in SMC. HS years were Calvert (no PHS yet!), offspring raised in SMC, and moved back to Calvert recently. Cal Co. is closer to my 45-yr old sailboat, that I cannot seem to complete the re-fitting of nor manage to sink the money pit either. Mostly, we just use that to bang around PAX on weekends.
Farther back then that, English (Dad) and German (Mom) that I think came over on boats in the 19th century. My mom's family was spread around the Balto area.
 
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