Event will offer Villagers opportunity to discover family ties to Revolutionary War
 

Are you curious if your family tree connects you to someone who helped during the American Revolution? The Puc Puggy Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) is hosting a lineage workshop at the Belvedere Library this Saturday, March 18 from 9 a.m. until noon. Volunteers will be on site to help, and

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Does it matter if I may have helped the wrong side?

How could you have possibly helped either side?

My ancestors were probably busy mucking horse manure in King George's stables.

My maternal ancestors came to Massachusetts in 1670 or so from Great Britain and settled in Ipswich, MA. Ipswich, Massachusetts - Wikipedia

200 years later one of my father's ancestors was run over by a wagon in a small town in central Illinois. He was a recent arrival from Germany.

Not to me. Besides I doubt that you were around for the revolutionary war.

My ancestors were too busy running from the Cossacks in Eastern Europe...

He did not survive thus the date of his death in the genealogy records.

Several of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution and have been certified by the DAR. If you happen to already have a detailed family tree going back to your fifth or sixth great-grandfathers, they can look on the DAR list and see if you qualify as having an ancestor in the war. If you don’t have that, you certainly won’t know in an hour if you do. Ancestry studies is great fun, but it can easily consume hundreds of hours, and you need to know your way around a computer.

I would rather stay home and watch my grass grow.

Mine does. Thanks for the heads up. I do not have membership in D.A.R.

Read carefully: I said the OTHER side not EITHER side. Anyone who sided with the British or their state-side allies would qualify. In any event, it was a joke and not to be taken seriously.

Rather, Rider, read carefully what you wrote which was

To which
See, Kenswing commented that you [not your ancestors] could not have helped either side as you were not alive in 1776, making a joke which you didn't seem to get. Instead you chided him for lack of reading comprehension and not being able to tell someone is making an online joke. Hmm