I'm enjoying the adventure to uncover my ancestry. I'm just beginning the cemetery portion of the adventure, and so much wonderful history is beginning to unfold. I've always been drawn to fictional/historical military books and movies; so I was so surprised to find all the heroes right in my own family. We've got something from every war clear back to the revolution. My maternal and paternal grandparents all completed the trek to the west coast, but I'm hoping to trace the trek backwards to the east coast with each stop our families made over the last 350 years. My German ancestors began in New York (mid 1800). The colonial ancestors hail from Virginia via S.C., Tenn, KS, and MO. If you happen to read this and know anything about the Heugonots in Manakin, VA (Goochland Co.) The Draper and Graves clan are my descendants from that area.

I'm enjoying the adventure to uncover my ancestry. I'm just beginning the cemetery portion of the adventure, and so much wonderful history is beginning to unfold. I've always been drawn to fictional/historical military books and movies; so I was so surprised to find all the heroes right in my own family. We've got something from every war clear back to the revolution. My maternal and paternal grandparents all completed the trek to the west coast, but I'm hoping to trace the trek backwards to the east coast with each stop our families made over the last 350 years. My German ancestors began in New York (mid 1800). The colonial ancestors hail from Virginia via S.C., Tenn, KS, and MO. If you happen to read this and know anything about the Heugonots in Manakin, VA (Goochland Co.) The Draper and Graves clan are my descendants from that area.