Moo.

[twilight33]

Ancestry.com has been offering a free-for-all the past 3 days, and after homework & family time I've been cramming in nonstop genealogy work. I haven't touched it in months, and am quite glad to leave it again now because I'll vomit if I have to review any more family trees or download and carefully catalog census and WWI draft card images anytime soon.

I always catalog first, then dig into just who all these people are. There is a rather snooty-sounding society for descendants of those sailing as part of the Winthrop fleet (1630 to Massachusetts Bay) that I could probably make a case for with some better source docs for a few generations.

We are very proud that our membership by some coincidence includes mainly persons of high achievement and honor. Hmm. Just too lofty for a Boston cowkeeper's 10th-great granddaughter.

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I might have to go check that out.

Then again, all the adoptions in the family (on both sides, with the adoptees not remembering or saying who the birth parents were) makes things a bit more complicated! I tried to look up some of my grandma's still-living relatives when I was in Italy, and discovered when I opened the Rome telephone directory that Valeri apparently means "Smith" in Italian. :)

[twilight33]

Hey A, didn't know you still came over here! My grandpa was adopted but we think there is a shady story where the wrong husband knocked up someone so I track the adopted family anyway ;) Ancestry.com is still going free for me today but I have to get cracking on schoolwork again.