I come from a large extended family descended from central European immigrants who mostly came over between 1900 and 1930. My great-grandmother had 3 husbands, my grandfather had 2 wives, and planting flowers on their graves every year was my introduction to the great fun of figuring out who was related to whom, and how they got that way It intrigued me enough that I've been a genealogy buff since my teens. I love the chance to confirm, over and over, that we are all really far more connected than we realize.

I come from a large extended family descended from central European immigrants who mostly came over between 1900 and 1930. My great-grandmother had 3 husbands, my grandfather had 2 wives, and planting flowers on their graves every year was my introduction to the great fun of figuring out who was related to whom, and how they got that way It intrigued me enough that I've been a genealogy buff since my teens. I love the chance to confirm, over and over, that we are all really far more connected than we realize.