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Yeah, it’s pretty much all over for me! ;) I did find out that not only is a good portion of my grandmother’s side of the family from the South (Greeneville, TN was where they lived for much of the 19th Century), but my dad’s side of family had family that lived in Freeport, Illinois in the late 1850s. Strangely enough, Freeport was where one of the Lincoln-Douglas debates occurred.

But yeah, it’s pretty much all over for me, I’m now hooked. :)

I'm probably one of the few people on threads like these who cannot identify a relative who fought in the rebellion. My mother's people lived in eastern Tennessee during that period and while growing up she had told me that one of her relatives died during the war. At the time there were a couple of civil war programs on TV and I used to milk it for all it was worth among my peers, not only did I have a relative who fought in the Civil War but he was a Reb just like Johnny Yuma, and he died. Then about 17 or 18 years ago I attended a reunion of my mother's family and I had a chance to talk to someone who had the low-down on what had happened to my long, lost cousin. As it turned out, my relative wasn't a noble, Confederate warrior. He was a simple farmer in the Bristol area. He was also a Unionist, and in 1861 some of Isham Harris's men killed him for it.