I apologize for going a little off subject, but I was recently sworn into the SUVCW and that got me curious about the Society of the War of 1812. Is anyone here a part of the GS of the War of 1812? I am currently filling out my lineage paper. Thanks!
Hello, everyone. I’ll preface this by saying that I know that labels aren’t everything; I guess this post is more about if anyone has ever felt like I do. I’m a 40-year-old straight male (or mostly straight, maybe), and I’ve been wondering why I am the way I am. 25 years ago when I first made out with my then girlfriend, I remember the first time was weird and I wasn’t into it, but after I became closer to her and our bond grew, then we made out all of the time. Fast forward to when I became sexually active, I was the friend that never cared much for hookups. I’ll admit I had a few, but it felt like something was lacking. With my last girlfriend, the first few times we had sex, I couldn’t do much, to be honest; however, after our emotional bond grew, then the sex was great. Has anyone that’s demisexual ever experienced this, or is it possibly just anxiety? It has also grown with age. If I do not have an emotional attraction now, then we probably aren’t going to date. When I was younger, I thought there was something wrong with me because I didn't feel like sleeping with every attractive woman I saw, when all my friends were into hookups. Thanks.
I have run into a family history roadblock that has stumped me for about ten years now. My 4^(th) great-grandfather was from Italy and docked in NYC in 1857. I know this because I have the passenger list with his name. He then went to Chicago and lived with his older brother, Guiseppe. Here is where it gets really confusing: when the American Civil War broke out, I was told that he and his brother joined a company out of Cook County, Illinois, and ended up in northern Tennessee in Fentress County. This makes sense because Fentress County was pro-Union, and records show a lot of soldiers from Cook County were there. This is where he met what would become my 4^(th) great-grandmother, and they moved back to Chicago. The 1870 census verifies this. My problem is that I cannot find his name anywhere in the muster rolls. Did he Americanize his name? His brother changed his name to Joseph, so I guess he could have changed his surname, which was Perie. As he got older and his wife died, he moved from Chicago to Fentress County and is buried there. I just want to find out if he was in the Civil War. I mean, why else would he be in northern Tennessee then? There is something here and I am missing it. His name was Philip Perie, but there are a variety of ways I've seen it spelled.
Sorry to post again so soon, but as I was doing research on my 2^(nd) great-grandfather, I looked at my 2^(nd) great-grandmother's family. Her dad, my 3^(rd) great-grandfather, signed up for the Confederacy at the age of 16, per the muster roll. The enlistment was in August 1861. In November 1861, he was discharged because he was under 18. I have the discharge paper, and it explicitly states that. A year later he joined the Union Army with Beatty’s Independent Scouts, and I have the muster roll on that. In the remarks, it says he was in the rebel army before joining the Union. I know a person cannot join the Sons of Union Veterans if their ancestor borne arms against the USA, but since he was 16 and never fought and was discharged 3 months later from the CSA, does this still eliminate this ancestor?
I’ve run into a bit of a wall with my proof of genealogy. My 3^(rd) great-grandfather is confirmed to have been a Union soldier. I have probably twelve documents confirming that. So, I am good there. However, his son, my 2^(nd) great-grandfather, died when he was only 28 in 1912, and my great-grandmother was 1 at the time. Since this was a very rural part of Tennessee, there are no birth or death records on my 2^(nd) great-grandfather. However, I do have the marriage license between him and my 2^(nd) great-grandmother from 1905, but it does not list parents’ names. The only evidence I have connecting my 2^(nd) and 3^(rd) great-grandfathers is through census records and that they are buried in the same cemetery about 10 yards apart. I have no idea what to do.