[NormsRevenge]

Agreed.. It's a good way to spend time and connect to the past.

In my dad's last few years , he and my step-mother spent a lot of time working on the family trees. They had the families traced back to the 1700s or thereabouts, I believe.

My step-sister has the records and all the documents they accumulated and had a couple of binders of stuff.

I remember looking through them but I can;t recall how many scoundrels and scalywags we had in our families. From talkin' to my dad, it sounds like a little liquor got dispensed of along the way .. in more ways then one ;-)

[Ancesthntr]

I am also fascinated by studying my family history (check out my handle, if you doubt it). I've been doing it since 1994, when my Dad's uncle (then 87) immigrated from the Ukraine (I figured that it was now or never).

Anyway, I found a branch of my family that had gone to Mexico, and was later introduced to my wife by one of my Mexican cousins (NO, she's not a blood relative, and NO, I don't go to family reunions to find a date).

I now have over 1900 names on my tree, going back to the mid 1800's on all lines, and the late 1700's on one branch. No one famous (yet), but lots of interesting stories. I have hit a number of brick walls (owing to name changes and previously unavailable records in Russia and Poland), but the Internet has enabled me to continue to progress. Now, if I can only get some distant cousins to provide information....