Kat, it's like CRACK, isn't it???

By the way, I'm somewhere in 11th Century Wales. Bless their hearts for being such great genealogists.

Cash, if you've found anyone in Kent, holy CRAP, those people are thorough. I got back to the 12th century with that branch.

Yeah, I never looked into genealogy stuff because I know my records go back only so far; they were destroyed in the atomic bomb attack on Hiroshima. But with social media versions of genealogy, it may be possible to find information if people had individual records held elsewhere. But it's a long shot, so I haven't been willing to spend any money on it. My great aunt went to Japan and did some extensive research, but yeah, everything ended at the bomb.

I suspect my family would defy ancestry.com, what with my mother being adopted (and my not remembering her birth father's name) and my father's family having fled Russia.

whoa, okay Liese beats me when it comes to lack of genealogy records.

If this keeps up, we're going to need a genealogy thread (and somewhere ita twitches without really knowing why).

My folks are in southwestern Pennsylvania, Revolutionary era New Jersey, and Colonial New York and New England. From there it's various spots in England, Scotland, Wales, Germany. And, of course, Netherlands and Morocco, when the Jansens are sailing with the Sallee Rovers and sacking towns in Ireland.

Cash, if you've found anyone in Kent, holy CRAP, those people are thorough. I got back to the 12th century with that branch.

LOTS of people in Kent. Mom's side is strictly Welsh and English. Dad's I've found some Scots and some unexpected French back to the 16th Century.

Liese, that sucks.

Burrell, my husband's grandfather was adopted under the table so they're not really sure about anything. I'm going to see what I can find on his paternal grandmother's side, though--she seems to have kept some really good records.

Liese, if you're willing to go to the local LDS family center near you, you can do a lot of that research for free. I wish I could afford Ancestry's rates, but I can't. As far as the records being destroyed, it's true there are sometimes off-site caches just due to weird things humans do sometimes.

My mom's mom was adopted so for that side of things we're hoping for a little genealogical DNA luck. We've tested at both FamilyDNA and 23andme. It's sparse right now but as DNA testing becomes more affordable, there will be more people to match against. And hopefully the good matches will have some names to give that can send us to regular genealogical research.

The cake I'm baking. Only I'm using Valrhona instead of Scharffenberger. [link]