Smiling at you...
It wasn’t until a funeral that I found out my grandfather’s name was really “Poe.”
Enough said.
I understand what you mean about computers.
My dear departed step-mother used to say when I tried to tell he about real events in the news, “Cindy, where do you get these things?”
It wasn’t a compliment, but then, she listened to Brian Williams for the news because “he’s such a nice young man — good looking and soft-spoken.”
As I said upthread, a huge part of genealogy is learning about the great scoundrels in one's blood (and believe me...there are plenty to go around).
Seems folks are much more interested in the great stories of the bloodlines than just the noble veins (and there isn't a mutually exclusive quality to scoundrels and nobility, is there).
People love stories...and when such stories involve their own family, all the better.
That's why I think there is a great opportunity for Freepers to make a decent living doing a little archaeological digging into the past.
It's kinda like being the National Enquirer of genealogy!