Sharie Sommerville: I did, and I found out some things not previously aware of, but no skeletons.
Georgia Dees: My cousin and i have been researching our family for a few years,we found that our great great grandmother stood trial for murder in the 1840's, her 4th husband died,and poison was discovered in his stomach, arsenic, but she got off,she married again,and after 2 years he was dead as well! i think we have a serial killer in the family,i have a very old photo of her,she looked lovely,she lived to be 96 and would never talk about her trial or her other husbands.
Hwa Waterford: I had a great aunt who got back to 1599 on her side. I started in the late 70 and copied hers, one of my brothers worked on it now one of his granddaughters is working on it.
Elva Batie: My brother-in-law has been into genealogy for 40+ years.n He traced my family's tree since people in the family kept records. Nothing tremendously interesting and nothing new. And he's st! ill tracing his own but has gotten stumped by the woman who came over to the US, she married several times so figuring out who she was and where she went has gotten him bogged down, and I think he said he suspects that some of those "marriages" were not legit so there are no records for some of them....Show more
Antonia Boomershine: A second cousin got as far as 1600.
Bernie Cerra: Most people will have a skeleton, even if they don't admit to it.
Sunshine Holets: I did some genealogy on the Barlow and Clayton side of my family history.No skeletons of note. They were all quite poor mill workers and weaversin 1870's, Yorkshire. I seem to descend from good old fashioned peasantstock on my Mother's side. Some emigrated to Utah after the LDS missionsbecame established in England.Still have a lot to do on my Dad's side of the family who were all from Scotland....Show more
Indira Wassell: I have for about 40 years and have documented back to the 1600's in S! alem, Mass and the 1400's in Great Britain. Of course I found! interesting facts about people. Some about the families they married into, some of the things I found interesting were how closely connected different branches were the further back I went.
Doreatha Kjellsen: My older brother.
Reyes Brunell: I started but now live too far from my best source of information. In visiting the cemetery where most of my older relatives are buried, I found and unkept grave of a fifteen year old with the last name....that is very rare here. I wondered if he was part of the family but my aunt says no....I still wonder.
Sherri Drakos: All our skeletons were let out of their closets years ago, no big things, no mass murderers or big criminals.I have visited the small village in SE Poland where my father was born, met relations there, had a huge family reunion there 2 years ago.All very interesting, smart people on that side, many doctors and teachers as well as small business owners. Not what I expected at all, I thought people ! from a small town would be allot more simple, they did allot with their lives.Wish I could find out more on my mother's side, Mohawks and Germans....Show more
Barrett Zheng: I have an uncle from my mother's side who has completed researching our genealogy and has actually published a family history. On my father's side I have tried to do some research but have not been successful simply because the root is Asian. Genealogy on Asian impossible simply because births, marriage, and deaths are not as used like the Europeans.
Clement Viscarro: I'm my family's genealogist and so far haven't found any "skeletons" in any closets. Spend hours on ancestry.com. Before I became a member of ancestry I had written away (which cost me a small fortune btw) for birth, marriage and death records from all over the eastern and midwestern states.I did find out that George H. W. Bush is my 10th cousin (George Bush is my 10th cousin, once removed) which is a hoot since I'm a dyed-! in-the-wool Democrat. Our common ancestor is my 9th great-grandmother.! I like how ancestry.com tells you your relationship to others in the family tree.I've also spent a fortune on having copies made of the many photos I've collected from all of my relatives as well as distant relatives I've met through ancestry. I'm putting everything together in five different scrapbooks/albums for my sisters to pass on down to their children. Altogether that's twenty-five albums/scrapbooks (five albums per sister covering different branches of the family).I'm following through on the four branches but one branch has so much material that I need to do two albums for it. That one branch is what got me started on genealogy - when my grandmother showed me what was called a "birthday" book which was begun in the early 1860s in which an ancestor included marriage and death records and obituary's and listed the names and ages of relatives - along with a few photos and pages taken out of a family bible and glued into the book. It also included the Dayton OH n! ewspaper account of President Lincoln's assassination. Wish I owned the book but it was given to my grandmother's only daughter. My grandmother was quite the pack rat; she left me letters from the early to mid 1860s and all the documents she had in her possession; including a seven year apprenticeship agreement from the 1800s between an employer and a great-great grandfather....Show more
Alise Rutgers: I haven't done much digging but I'm highly fascinated by it. It turned out to be a lot more time consuming than I thought it would be. Later on, I'd like to do more. Tell us more about the skeleton! :)
Donte Liversedge: my mom
Sylvie Snetting: Just an uncle. he had a big book on it and I only got a fraction of it.
Dewey Heersink: I have. Found my Great, Great Grandad was a fullblooded Indian. His family disowned him when hemarried a White woman.
Cordia Fivecoat: My grandmother which my aunt continued. Her daughter works on it now. My brother! has worked on our father's side. I have copies of everything people h! ave documented so far. I love getting it out ad reading it from time to time.I ended up with a "household diary" from a long ago relative with posts from the 1860's. It's a bit hard to read but great fun to look at....Show more
Providencia Jalbert: I've spent the past 15 years with my nose to the grindstone doing genealogy for my family, all 4 sides. No family tree would ever be finished or completed but I did what I could and ended up with 13 trees plus the main one (that had all 4 sides). The program changed on Ancestry.com and got too frustrating for me to compete with that so my research has ended. I didn't find any skeletons, nothing really surprising except maybe how many children died in their early years.
Ervin Overbee: my sister-in-law, somewhat older than me researched their family tree back to the 14th century in england - she lives in canada! apparently my husbands surname was used in the duchy of cornwall but a polite note from there brought th! e family to a dead end.
Carli Watterson: Great Aunt did my Father's side of the family.Mom's cousin did her side.MIL did spouses family.....had a horse thief hung way in the past.
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