How old were you when....?

[waterboy]

I never had to register for the draft either. There were just two years there, I think it was '76 and '77, that had no draft for 18-year olds. Then draft registration was reinstated.

I did a bunch of genealogy and discovered that all the men on both sides of my family were at an age between wars. I had to go all the way back to the American revolution to find ancestors involved in a war. And they fought on the wrong side, lol. They were Americans but loyalists. After the revolution the US booted the loyalists out and made them go to Canada.

I've done a little Genealogy too.  Where were your ancestors located.  If it was northeastern Massachusetts in the late 1600s or early 1700s we are probably distantly related.

[wallace]

I wouldn't be at all surprised if we are related from that time. It wasn't that heavily populated. My ancestors started coming to the Rowley and Ipswich area (northeast MA) in 1628 and intermarried with newcomers there for the next 100 years. One ancestor was hung for witchcraft in 1692. That was kind of dramatic. Other than that they were unremarkable puritans, deacons and farmers. One group had some sort of religious falling out, left and formed a new settlement in New Brunswick, so there are people from both places.

[Mugwump]

..me neither..........we have folk from up that way too....

[BillT]

22

I think I was during the last year of the draft. I had a very high number and just missed getting drafted.