Ancestry/Genealogy

I renewed my membership there for a month after a hiatus of a few years and found a smidgen of information, but not enough to justify keeping the account active.

Anyway, I was getting all excited looking at the hints and entering what I thought was fascinating family info until I realized that one branch of the family having alleged roots back to British royalty (Eleanor of Aquitaine, etc) was a bunch of bullshit.

One of my ancestors got attached to a guy who ended up being the Bishop of the Church, and for whom there were no substantiated descendants. Yes, he was a descendant of royalty, but there were no actual records of him having any children himself. Sometimes in working backward through time, you also have to turn around and work forward.

another annoying thing I found was people entering ancestors who, on investigation, have birth dates some years AFTER the children they supposedly had. There was one I found whose "children" were born in the 16th Century while he himself was born in the 19th Century. Ummmm....yeah.

Anyway, I had entered a whole bunch of information, then sadly had to go back and delete it all. But it was fun being related to royalty for a while.