Southern Appeal linked to The Yankee or Dixie Quiz, and like Joel L, I scored:
83% (Dixie). Did you have any Confederate ancestors?
Well... not that I know of. A Tennessee ancestor served in the Confederate Army, but switched sides and joined the Union army in 1863. He died at Andersonville. Does he count as a Confederate ancestor? I think not. The other two ancestors whose Civil War activities I can verify lived in Alabama and both fought for the Union.
Of the possible 24 ancestors I have who might have been the right age to fight in that war, almost half (mostly the older of the two possible generations) are unidentified, a third of the rest resided in Indiana, Illinois, Pennsyvania, or Ohio. If I ever find a record of their service, I expect it to be for the Union. I could be wrong, as I expected the Alabama ancestors to have worn gray. The ages of the rest of them could have kept them home on either side because they were too young or too old. Some died young who might have fought had they lived.
Though our family's history is far from complete, several lines are well-documented back to their arrival on the east coast. There are two documented Revolutionary War soldiers. Two-thirds of the identified ancestors followed a similar migration pattern - Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Alabama, Texas/Arkansas. The Tennessee ancestors went there from South Carolina, then to Arkansas and Texas.
When my daughters and I first started digging for family roots over 12 years ago, it never occurred to me that we would not find ancestors on both sides of the conflict. I already knew that some on my father's side were Dutch from Pennsylvania and that my mother's folks had come from Tennessee and Alabama.
Is it unusual to have so many Southern ancestors, yet not a bona fide Confederate in the whole bunch?
