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A surfeit of lampreys (lampreys=relatives)
Okay, so yesterday on a whim, I decided to start a family tree on Ancestry.com. Soon after that, I signed up for the 14-day free trial.
A few hours after that I had a family tree for my paternal grandmother's line going back 12 generations to the 1500s.
Holy crap am I OCDing over this site, but it's fascinating.
I have ancestors named Zillah and Hieronymus.
My dad, whom I've always thought of as simply English, German, and a bit Scotch-Irish, has heritage including Swiss, Dutch, and Alsatian. A lot of Alsatian, actually. I wonder if my father's family is distantly related to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
mrteapot.
I suspect this is how I'm going to be spending a lot of my time in the near future. :-P
A few hours after that I had a family tree for my paternal grandmother's line going back 12 generations to the 1500s.
Holy crap am I OCDing over this site, but it's fascinating.
I have ancestors named Zillah and Hieronymus.
My dad, whom I've always thought of as simply English, German, and a bit Scotch-Irish, has heritage including Swiss, Dutch, and Alsatian. A lot of Alsatian, actually. I wonder if my father's family is distantly related to
mrteapot.I suspect this is how I'm going to be spending a lot of my time in the near future. :-P