Amazing family history there. A connection to something that pretty much was a game changer for a few nations in the Lusatania story is special.
So much of the lore has been lost because it wasn't written down or they stopped speaking of it. We cannot let that happen to those we research here. Gotta keep their story going. For what they did, they deserve to be remembered.
When I got my Grandmothers Bible a number of years ago, I found where she had written a notation on a guy she said they'd 'adopted' but not in the legal sense. Just took him into the family fold. He was lost when the Akron went down in the Atlantic. I probably wouldn't have known that if she hadn't written it. Then I had to look up the Akron do see what she was talking about. Life is a circle, just like they said in The Lion King. It really is.

If we who do geneology research were to have the time to write the story of each person we've found, we'd have no time to do anything else. It's boards like this that help us learn so many things we'd never have known. Steve Stacy on the Alabama site is kin to my hubby. He gave me info on hubby's GGGrandfather I never would have found because it was family lore handed down by mouth. Hubby had no clue his ancestor had stared down the Yankee soldiers who were trying to take the family cow around Monroeville, Alabama. He was all of 13 and had an old shotgun in his hand. They seemed to admire his spirit and left. Good thing cause his older brother was inside the house recovering from wounds he recieved in battle. Of course, the brother was in the Confederate Army but they didn't look in the house. whew!

I know I've sort of spouted off and probably been off topic more times than not but without the help of those here who really know the place to get details or even know the history themselves, I'd never truly understand the big picture and the role so many of my ancestors played in it during the Civil War. Learning those facts made me more determined to not let their effort disappear. Those are the stories I've written up and I've given my family copies. I can only hope they keep on digging after I'm gone.

Pam