Can someone help me trace my ancestry back to see if I'm a descendant of a Confederate soldier?

Question

Can someone help me trace my ancestry back to see if I'm a descendant of a Confederate soldier?

Answer 1

Sure. We need information on the line that goes back to the 1920s at least. We can't pick up your line after 1930 so we'll need people who were adults before 1930. Tell us as much as you know and we'll be happy to pick up the trail. Names, dates, places and spouses or parents will help.

Answer 2

You will need to know your granparents names, dates of birth, location perhaps.....But if you know gr gr or however many greats there are, names possibly someone might be able to find them.  Right now ancestry has a free search until May 31.

http://landing.ancestry.com/military/col...

Answer 3

http://www.scv.org/index.php

Sons of Confederate Veterans are always helpful to locate records of the soldiers (of course, hoping you will join).

You need to provide the starting points... meaning, using home documents such as birth and death certs, so forth, go 'back' to grandparents or gr grandparents.  Once you have the name and details for someone born pre 1930, we encourage you to post the name(s), and someone will help with lookups, normally in census records.  Those will most often be workable back another 50-60 yrs, to the 1870s or 1880s (etc).

NOW you will have some names and dates to investigate. Remember.. 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 greats, 16 gr greats..by this time (depending on your age/ their age) you might have 8 gr gr grandfathers who are candidates.

Answer 4

Find the names of some of your ancestors born no later than 1850, this would probably be your great (x2-3) grandfather's generation. Talk to your parents and grandparents to get as much possible info about what they remember of their grandparents. Names, places where lived, ages, etc. If you need you can locate them in the census' and trace back to the appropriate time frame. Check out whatever names you come up with in The Civil War soldiers and sailors system. This has some basic regiment information for both union and confederate.

Answer 5

Sure, but we need names and dates of your grandparents at least (for instance, my grandfather was born in 1909, and his father in about 1868), and a possible location. I have traced my great-grandfather back to a Revolutionary War soldier and beyond him  to England. So, dates and location are very important as well as names.