Ancestry/Genealogy

to the 1400s and another to the 1200s. Once in the American colonies, a couple ancestors in one of those lines married colonial descendants who trace back to the Normans, who in turn had ancestral lines in France and Spain. But that was so long ago (1500+ years ago), with so many generations since then, that it's genetically insignificant today. There are some Scots and Welsh who made it into the family tree, too, but most were Anglo-Saxon and Norman English.

I found those people at Ancestry about 25 years ago, when Ancestry was fairly new and the trees were better researched and documented, not so muddled like they are today. Still, I had to verify what I found to be sure that the information was accurate.

The fun part was finding out as much as I could about some of those people in records from their communities. There are some good tales about a few of them.