Well, let's put it this way. Since you can only go back 5 or 6 DNA connections on Ancestry.com, I've used other online genealogy sources to extend my family tree. I've mostly used Geni.com to go farther back through the generations. Sometimes I've found more than one file on the same person, so I've made note of them in my Family Tree program. I have no idea how accurate the connections are, but I go back as far as I can in them. I have Welsh and English DNA, and have gone back pretty far on some of the lines. I take it with a grain of salt since I can't really prove any of it.
My father was born in Norway. His mother claimed her family on her father’s side was descended from Eric the Red and said that a symbol on the family “crest” proved it. I remember as a kid being excited by this until my father told me “you know just about everyone in Norway makes this same claim”. : )
Yeah England was pretty good at keeping records. There’s a dead end once I got to the originator of the line that came to England from Hungary. Yeah it’s true you can only get so far just using ancestry.