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In reply to the discussion: I just found out that one of my great great grandfathers served on the Confederate side [View all]flamingdem
(39,313 posts)literally on the ancestry.com site - to direct you to more connections.
Then distant relatives pop up and share their tree. It's amazing.
Now I know about my relatives back to the 1400s due to the work of a distant relative.
Also, I found my gr gr grandfather and couldn't be more thrilled. He was a famous orator and lawyer in New York, a total progressive abolitionist, unitarian universalist, all round cool dude of his time and he campaigned and orated for Lincoln. I have found his speeches on the NYT's archive site. Those old digitized papers are amazing. No one in my family knew about him, that's the part that made this fun. I was able to resurrect his memory, though frankly no one cared as much as I do, most people are living too much in the now, sadly!