I know! There's nothing like it in my own family tree... about a third of my ancestors were already here when people started coming over from Europe (which leads to a whole lot of dead ends when doing genealogy), and the others mostly came from Scotland and Ireland during some of the major influxes into North America and we have very little info on where, exactly, they were from in those countries.
So, the idea of being able to point at a particular thing that's nearly 600 years old and say "my ancestors did that!" is just so incredibly nifty. Even if they're only ancestors by marriage!
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Date: 02/04/2006 06:57 pm (UTC)So, the idea of being able to point at a particular thing that's nearly 600 years old and say "my ancestors did that!" is just so incredibly nifty. Even if they're only ancestors by marriage!