The ancestors who were veterans did not surprise me. I always check every ancestor for military service and find their records if they had served. The number of immigrant ancestors I have found did surprise me, though. I did not realize that I had found as many of my immigrant ancestors as I have until I did this little exercise.
Something else I did with my double trouble direct line list was that next to the names, I wrote whether the ancestor was a veteran and what war he served in and I marked any of the ancestors who were immigrant ancestors and where they immigrated from.
The ancestors who were veterans did not surprise me. I always check every ancestor for military service and find their records if they had served. The number of immigrant ancestors I have found did surprise me, though. I did not realize that I had found as many of my immigrant ancestors as I have until I did this little exercise.
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