[de Buillion]

Engage your oldest relatives asap, while they are still lucid. Learn everything that they have to tell you about your own heiritage.

[MamaB]

Very good. It is so true. I got interested in genealogy many years after my dad died and never knew who his grandmother was on his dad's side of the family. We have her name but no parents or siblings. We are still searching. But, I now have about 9800 names in my file, the oldest date is in the 800's but in a family mine married into, the average age is nearly 61 years and 39 generations. I am still searching. It helped months ago when my dh bought me 2 flat screen monitors so I can have my FTM on one and the internet site on the other. I have saved tons of paper from not having to print info I found.

Merry Christmas.