Part of the Revolution
I may not have been blogging lately (I've been pretty busy with my business) but I have been working on my tree. Recently a distant cousin from Kansas (who still spells his name Hiegert) contacted me and we spent weeks trying to connect our trees. I have connected two other branches...not his yet, but it's there!! Today, though, I'm going to talk a little about my Maternal side. I work really hard on the paternal side of my tree, because it's a challenge. They're the immigrants, only being in the US for a few generations of several surnames. But my maternal side, the Wellers, have been here for a very long time. Recently I've been watching the show "Who Do You Think You Are" on TLC, and last night's episode was mainly based on the Revolutionary War. Which got me thinking, I have MANY Revolutionary War Veterans on the Weller side of the tree. In fact, one was almost fresh off the boat....so we're going to look at some of them today. ...