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[QUOTE="Townie72, post: 2586861, member: 780"]
I have done a lot of work searching back into my family tree. I pretty much know who was who and what they were back to the early 1700's.

So when I got the 23AndMe kit results, it was really more of a confirmation of what I already knew. I'm pretty sure I know where these "odd and ends" got into the mix (1% Finnish??)

Without this Family Tree, I think I would just be staring at the results wondering.

When I started searching 20 years ago, I spent many nights at the Mormon Church Family History Center squinting at microfilms I had ordered from Salt Lake City. Now most things are online on line.

I visited relatives in Germany, France and Ireland and it was a blast. My experience is that Europeans are much more aware of their family history than Americans are, possibly because they aren't so complicated as ours are.

I took one of my sons to have dinner with one of my second cousins in Bayreuth, Germany, where he is a professor at the University. We share a great grandfather and my grandfather left Germany in 1872.

Afterwards my son told me, "Do you have any idea how freaky an experience that was? First the physical similarity between you and your cousin is shocking. But to connect and share across almost 150 years is mind-blowing".

You should start with your Family oral history. But keep in mind at lot of it will be wrong based on mis-communication, mis-interpretation or lies.

Then with Ancestry of FamilySearch, you can start peeling the onion.
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