[WVNan]

I started researching my husband's family and found that someone had already done a lot of the work. Then one of his cousins furnished the rest of it. We now have every family member going back to 1625 in Donegal, Ireland. There was a son in every generation to pass the family name down. Large families too.

My family, however, I've never found anything beyond my great grandparents. They are Scots, so needless to say I refuse to pay Ancestor.com for the use of their not so good research. :o)

[goat granny]

The Mormon site lets you search for free. I was able on my mothers side to trace back one branch of the family tree to the 1700's....easy to trace if your grandparents were not born in American. Lots of info from foreign born....my grandparents (maternal) went from Ireland to Canada to America.....

I learned one ancestors death was recorded as the Atlantic Ocean, must have been on a ship that went down....

Searching my fathers side was more difficult, his family had been here since before the civil war...getting information from the states is quite difficult....

Someone sent my father a copy of his genealogy because his name was on one of the branches of the family tree they searched....The only way for me to get any info was to go to the county seat where he was born and microfiche the records....