Visiting the home town cemetery.

[TNNurse]

I went to my hometown last weekend to a high school class reunion.....50 years, yes, 50. My sister and I walked through the town cemetery looking for graves of relatives, which we did not locate. I did see on grave of a man who died in 1921.
It said World War Vet. As if there would only ever be one. He died thinking he fought to bring an end to war.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

1. I recently became interested in my family history after receiving the results of my DNA test.

Fortunately a great number of my paternal relatives are buried in one cemetery. With few details about my father's ancestors, using the little information I had such as his mother's maiden name I've been able to trace his family back to 1825.

Here is a site I used to get started:

https://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi

[rurallib]

2. I had heard that WWI became referred to as a world war after #II started

before that is was referred to as "The Great War" or "The war To End All Wars."

So what I read must have not been quite totally true.

[TNNurse]

3. I believe it was called both.

[Rhiannon12866]

4. It was called "the war to end all wars."

Both of my grandfathers fought. Fortunately, they both came home. My paternal grandfather joined up with his brother. My grandmother said he never talked about it. My maternal grandfather emigrated from Poland at 18. They made him a citizen and sent him to France. I never met either of them, they died in the '40s.

The War to End All Wars? Hardly. But It Did Change Them Forever.
https://www.nytimes.com/2014/06/27/world/europe/world-war-i-brought-fundamental-changes-to-the-world.html?_r=0