How far back have you.....

So they're trying to fill up Heaven with their kind? Genius.

I'm a mutt. Purebred.

More roots to England than anywhere else, but not anywhere near a majority of bloodlines. Oh, and Samuel Clemons, AKA Mark Twain, is in the family tree.

I spent a few hours on the site last night. I knew my mothers family got here a long time ago. It seems that Grandpa times whatever got here in the 1650's from England. First born on this soil was born here a few years later. Grandma times whatever was a dead end. No clues where she came from. Same name all through the years until my mom married my dad. There were tons and tons of kids born to the family for about 250 years so I'm pretty sure the name lives on somewhere. I'm too lazy to look.

My Fathers side of the family is a mystery. I have his brothers and sisters names but Grandma and Grandpa are dead ends. Story goes that he came over on the boat from Germany but that's all I know. I never knew anything about my Grandmother.

Kind of neat to find out this stuff though.

Ray

I have heard (but not verified myself) that ancestry.com is similar to wikipedia in that people can post things and create family connections that may or may not be accurate. In other words, just because it's on there doesn't mean it's 100% true

That's true, no resource in this world is 100% accurate. They're all the product of man and therefore fallible.

Fortunately, there's minimal incentive these days for people to lie about their whether great granddad was Otto the Tinker or Ivan the Terrible. I'd be pretty confident with ancestry.com.

I think they are trying to record every person that ever lived on planet earth. I'm saying that monies paid to the website go towards the mormon church and maybe some people might not want to support it monetarily.(full disclosure).Mormons don't believe in heaven in the traditional christian sense.

I would generally agree with this but as you say there are always exceptions.

I have a great aunt that was much into geneology and wrote several books on the history of North and central Texas and the influence the stick of a tree that is our family had on it's developement. I know of quite a bit that she embelished or just plain made up to make our family seem more important than it really was.