It's now been almost 20 years since I started piecing together my family tree. In that time I have uncovered a lot of information about past and present relatives, both close and distant. The discoveries are still continuing, and I highly doubt that I will ever be able to uncover all of the people with whom I share a common bloodline. This year I turn 55. I'm not quite sure that I've come to terms with that number just yet, and probably won't until I take advantage of my firs

I've heard variations of this question a million times, but since I started discovering well-known people in my family tree, I hear it even more frequently. It's a question that is almost impossible for me to answer, given the extraordinary number of famous family members that are in my lineage: "Which family member, living or dead, would you like to spend some time with?" When I started my family tree, I never in my wildest dreams thought that I would find anyone famous hidi

2021 has started off much the same as where 2020 ended - COVID, quarantines, social distancing, etc. However, rather than focusing on negative challenges, I have been tackling some old, and some new family mysteries. I was surprised to receive a number of messages from other Ancestry members over the holidays, each reaching out to me in hopes of finding a missing piece of their family history puzzle, and in one instance, a really kind lady trying to locate the descendants of