Reply #89: I spent far too much time on this over the holidays...

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We were both pretty obsessed New Year's Day and through last weekend. Work sort of took over temporarily, but I'm looking forward to getting back to it.

My partner and I haven't combined our trees...she's got somewhere around 120 people on her tree. I think that I'm around 470 on mine...but I'll qualify that response. Part of my family has been here since around the 1500's, and other people on Ancestry.com have public family trees that intersect with mine. At first, I would look, and if the names and places seemed like they matched, I just added the data to my tree. When I got back to around the 1600's, I think the accuracy dropped a bit. So I'm going back and double-checking the information. The other thing is that my family...well, they seem to believe in having a *lot* of kids. My mother is one of nine, her father was one of 12, his father was one of 11 or so...and so on. I haven't even really done anything with my dad's parents or my mom's mother--they were all first-generation Americans, so I'll be seeking out Lebanese, Polish, and Irish records. It's pretty amazing to be able to find all of this information.

I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one influenced by DU that night!