Ancestry.com has helped fill my spare time as a hobby lately. I've found relatives back to 1100 AD and from places that show how varied my genealogical background is. If I'm to believe what I've found, I'm mostly English with a mix of Irish and Scottish as well as German. I even found Dutch, and American Indian in there too.
I found relatives from both sides of my kids' family are buried in a cemetery right across the highway from where they were born. Their grandma on their mom's side had a half sister and half brother who died as infants buried there. She didn't even know she had a half sister.
My relatives have lived in at least a dozen Ohio counties over the years, including living in Ohio counties at the earliest points in those counties' history.
George W. Bush was quoted as mislabeling the world wide web "the Internets." I think ancestry.com has made good use of the Internets to connect with our past.
That's ok. George is my ninth cousin. Ancestry.com helped me find that out.
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