I’ve had a tough time researching my family tree. Too many ancestors had no siblings and died childless.
“I’ve had a tough time researching my family tree. Too many ancestors had no siblings and died childless.”
A first cousin got me into the basics with the ancestors on our mother’s side. The data was well documented as our lead
ancestor was well documented from the UK to the N.Carolina.
I was able to trace that clan directly to my maternal grandfather, grand mother, my mother and her sisters, their offspring and mine down to the 1950 census and other ancestor documentation.
My Dad’s documentation from 1619 ancestors to him/me and close relatives was really time consuming to trace.
I wasted a lot of time trying to document native American ancestors on my Dad’s sidebased on “oral history”.
Then, based on standard genealogy paper data, my mother’s untold but paper documented Indian ancestors has showed up in several books.
I have just under 30,000 so called documented ancestors and living relatives in Ancestor.com.
My wife isn’t really interested past a couple of generations. Some distant cousins did a good book on her Mother’s and Dad’s side a couple of decades ago.