For those family history researchers that use Ancestry.com (or any of their other international sites), you will no doubt be familiar with the "hints" that appear automatically in your family tree. This is one of many features that Ancestry offers in order to help people find new information about their ancestors. For the most part these "hints" can be quite helpful, but you still have to be very careful to research the hint and confirm that it applies to the person in your t

In the world of genealogy, discoveries are often not only surprising, but accidental. So is the case with my discovery of yet another famous distant relative, actor & activist, Glenn Close. I was watching a TV show last night called "Finding Your Roots". I've watched the show a few times, and although I don't find it quite as captivating as "Who Do You Think You Are?", I was interested in discovering more about the ancestral pasts of Glenn Close and director John Walters (Hai