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I took the test and I am a Rebel.
46% Dixie. Barely in Yankeedom. Sounds just about right being from the midwest (Missouri\Kansas)
David
uhmm 100% dixie, what else would ah be ;)
:D
48% Dixie in one and 46% Dixie in the other... Just a bit over the Yankee edge. Yup, that's me alright.
74% dixie on one 79% dixie on the other one 8)
My scores...... :)
63% Dixie.Well under the Mason-Dixon Line
84% Dixie. Do you still use Confederate money?
Teresa, reckon we're long lost cousins? I scored 60% Dixie and 84% Dixie
Hmmm....only 39% Dixie on the first and 36% Dixie on the second...I knew I was an unrepenting Northerner (albeit a lifelong Kansan) but this was an eye-opener!
catwomen, :o you mean (cateye-opener) lol ;D
45% and 49%
took the second one too. 100% General Lee is still my great grandpa :D
Steve my Great Aunt on my dad's side Virginia Lee Couchman was related to Robert E. Lee directly. I just started expanding that side of my family tree past my great grandpa. I don't understand all that 3rd cousin twice removed stuff yet but it seems that our family trees cross not all that far back. I'd have to do the math but I think Gen. Robert E. Lee would have been your great-great grandpa. I bet his son Robert E. Lee Jr (his youngest son and old living child with kids) who died in 1914 is your great grandpa.
David
Steve here is my guess without looking up records.
Great Great grandpa General Robert E. Lee
Great Grandpa is Robert E Lee Jr (Rob)
Grandparents Anne Carter Lee or Mary Custis Lee from Junior's second marriage.
Just off the top of my head so I may be wrong I will check my facts.
Many of Gen Lee's kids did not have children. Since I don't know your age but figure you are 50 to 60 by your picture I used Rob because he was oldest living child of Gen Lee with kids. If you know more info let me know and maybe we can trade family tree info.
Good one, Heather! You wouldn't happen to be related to Christy Tyler, would you?
yes that would be my mom, why ?????
Because that means that I know and greatly admire your mother, that's why...you were also a good student, if I remember correctly! lol
Quote from: dnalexander on August 13, 2008, 06:28:07 PM
Steve my Great Aunt on my dad's side Virginia Lee Couchman was related to Robert E. Lee directly. I just started expanding that side of my family tree past my great grandpa. I don't understand all that 3rd cousin twice removed stuff yet but it seems that our family trees cross not all that far back. I'd have to do the math but I think Gen. Robert E. Lee would have been your great-great grandpa. I bet his son Robert E. Lee Jr (his youngest son and old living child with kids) who died in 1914 is your great grandpa.
David
Steve here is my guess without looking up records.
Great Great grandpa General Robert E. Lee
Great Grandpa is Robert E Lee Jr (Rob)
Grandparents Anne Carter Lee or Mary Custis Lee from Junior's second marriage.
Just off the top of my head so I may be wrong I will check my facts.
Many of Gen Lee's kids did not have children. Since I don't know your age but figure you are 50 to 60 by your picture I used Rob because he was oldest living child of Gen Lee with kids. If you know more info let me know and maybe we can trade family tree info.
LOL Umm sorry bout that, he wasn't my gg grandpa :) I was referring to the quiz. it says if your 100% gen lee was your gg grandpa ;)
But
I do have a captain and a seargent in the CSA in my family tree. I have to look em up though. Not sure of their names.
I can trace my family all the way to the alegonquin tribe in the 1600's on one side. The other side of my family was from croatia and we have traced back to 1536 i believe. :)
Then theres my moms side of the family and i am direct deciendants of the mccoys of the hatfields and mccoys and of president taylor.
:)