Fascinating to find out so much of your family history! Some crazy stuff happened back then, being born on a ship on the way to the US wasn't uncommon believe it or not! I had family from my mother's side who fought in the Revolutionary War as well. Five brothers all joined the fight but only four returned. Back then if you died in the field no letters home to the family, you were buried where you fell...

Interesting history going back to France and Germany, and a great great grandfather that just vanished. There must be records in Algeria if he went, but you know how things are in that part of the world. And finding records would be a very daunting task involving months of searching through old records in Algeria.

On my mother's side we did have one tie into a royal line that traces back to Charlemagne which was pretty cool. That was in England where records were pretty meticulously kept. But my family from Scotland on my dad's side hits a brick wall, records weren't nearly as good and were the one's in Sweden.

Interesting to study genealogy, so much to learn!
!BBH
!PIZZA